*IW/Super: We continue with our series of updates from that most esoteric publisher IW/Super. IW Publications was a short-lived comic book publisher in the late 1950s and early 1960s, named for the company’s owner Israel Waldman. Comics were published under both the IW and Super imprints and were notable for publishing unauthorised Golden Age reprints of other company’s properties. Usually these companies were out of business, but not always. Basically, it seemed to be whatever they could get their hands on that determined the esoteric nature of their output. Thus you get super-heroes, war, romance, western, funny animals, crime, horror, science fiction and just about every genre within their pages. Full details of what was reprinted in what are listed in our website catalogue. NB usually with newly-drawn covers. Over the next few months, we’ll be presenting a series of issues from this publisher. This week, seven of the eight issues published of Strange Planets, presenting a wide range of science-fiction comics from the Atomic Age. NB These (and #15) are the only numbers published. 
PICTURED: STRANGE PLANETS
#1 VG £40 Reprints Incredible Science Fiction #30, EC 1955. Cover by Kinstler from Strange Worlds #3.
#9 VG+ £40 Reprints Strange Worlds #4, Avon 1951. Cover by Fawcette from Flying Saucers.
#10 VG+ £40 Reprints Space Detective #1, Avon 1951. Cover by Fawcette from Attack On Planet Mars.
#11 FN £40 Reprints An Earth Man On Venus, Avon 1951. New cover by Ross Andru.
#12 VG £30 Reprints Rocket To The Moon, Avon 1951. New cover by Joe Simon.
#16 VG+ £20 Reprints Strange Worlds #6, Avon 1952. New cover by Ross Andru.
#18 FN £25 Reprints Approved Comics #6, St John 1954. New cover by Ross Andru.