American Comics Update: The Midas Collection/Slab Happy: 2 Supermans 1949 and 1951
*DC: From the Midas Collection this week, two lower-graded slabbed issues of Superman spanning the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s.
PICTURED: SUPERMAN
#60 CGC 2.0 GD £215 SOLD Superman tries to pretend he’s Perry White (Toyman, Prankster and Luthor cameos), the Secret Service protect Clark when he is told a secret formula, the Toyman builds a super-computer to plot crimes for him. Cover by Al Plastino, stories by Bill Finger, Don C Cameron, art by Wayne Boring and Al Plastino. This CGC encapsulated copy is unrestored blue label, case perfect, off-white pages. CGC Serial number 1255942009. NB small Newton’s rings central cover area.
#68 CBCS 1.8 GD- £160 Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by Edmond Hamilton and Al Schwarz, art by Al Plastino and Wayne Boring. Luthor cover and lead story. This CBCS encapsulated copy is unrestored, case perfect, cream to off-white pages. CBCS Serial number 17244BEBC062. There appears to be water-staining on and around the logo area.



