*DC: From the Midas Collection, a classic war-time issue of Superman, #26 from 1944. The cover by Wayne Boring features Superman removing Joseph Goebbels (chief propagandist for the Nazi Party) from a Radio Berlin microphone and drowning him out by ringing the Liberty Bell. In the first story, Superman helps out a carnival daredevil stunt-man; in the second Clark and Lois investigate a closing movie company. In the third someone attempts to blackmail Superman, and in the final story Superman has his hands full trying to battle a group of gangsters and the shenanigans of Mercury, the winged messenger of the pagan gods and mischievous patron of thieves, who has been awakened from a 1000-year sleep. Stories by Bill Finger, Don C Cameron & Jerry Siegel; art by Joe Shuster, Ira Yarbrough & Pete Riss. This is a pretty sound copy, with a solid, intact spine, good colours and nice reflectivity. The staples are tight and firm and the pages supple and a very nice off-white to white. Its 56 internal pages (as published) means that a couple of ad pages were removed before publication and the cut edges of those can be seen within (NB these are NOT missing pages). Minor edge wear and corner blunting only. A very small tear centre front cover right has been sealed within. A back cover tear at the top edge has been similarly sealed. The main thing to note is that this is a mis-cut (not trimmed) copy, where the very top of the cover image has been cut off in the finishing process and the bottom cover edge has a corresponding blank sliver across it. I don’t think this spoils the copy at all, but we have graded it lower than we otherwise would have done. The bottom edges of some interior pages look as it they were the end of a paper roll as well with slight serrations, but aside from these few finishing problems in the production process, this is a superior copy. High resolution images are available on request. 
PICTURED: SUPERMAN #26 VG £1,100