*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: A nice offering from the Bute Collection this week, with two early issues of the classic character Plastic Man: #3 & #6 from 1946 and 1947 respectively. Plastic Man debuted of course in Police Comics #1 (1941) and was granted his own series in 1943. These issues are wall to wall Jack Cole, Plastic Man’s creator, writer and artist, and feature four main stories of adventure, comedy and super-heroics. His adventures were known for their quirky, offbeat structure and surreal slapstick humour.
PICTURED: PLASTIC MAN BOTH SOLD
#3 FA £50 Cover detached with spine split up to bottom staple, small upper spine split and torn at upper staple area with small chip loss. Tears and chips at edges, but main cover image intact. Staples firm apart from spine and nice page quality, but for one long tear with no loss.
#6 VG- £85 Nice solid copy with minimal wear. Spine intact, staples tight and secure, nice page quality. There is one hard crease of about 8 cm across the bottom right cover corner which does not break colour; neither does a much smaller and slighter crease at that corner’s extremity. There is a small light brown stain at the bottom of the spine of the comic, slightly discolouring very small parts of front and back covers, but nothing horrible.