*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: A great offering from the Bute Collection this week, and a rare opportunity to obtain a Golden Age #1 of a major comics character. Plastic Man debuted of course in Police Comics #1 (1941) and was granted his own series in 1943. This premiere issue is wall to wall Jack Cole, Plastic Man’s creator, writer and artist, and features four stories of adventure, comedy and super-heroics. His adventures were known for their quirky, offbeat structure and surreal slapstick humour. All beneath a fabulous and iconic skull cover. NB: This comic is unnumbered but is the first in the series. This is a lowish graded copy that presents pretty well. The white background cover looks great with bright colours, despite a very faint book store stamp beneath the logo and a small piece of tape around the single staple (as printed and published). It looks like the staple would hold the comic together without the tape, despite being a little rusty at the centrefoid (with absolute minimum rust migration). There is a clean upper spine nsplit of 4.5 cm and a clean longer lower one of about 10 cm. Pages are a very decent off-white with some light blue ink staining to the last couple of page margins. All-in-all, a relatively affordable copy of a classic. High resolution images are available on request.
PICTURED: PLASTIC MAN #1 FA/GD £650 SOLD