*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: Joe Simon and Jack Kirby famously produced a wealth of material in the 1940s and 1950s in a wide variety of genres. Headline Comics from Prize started out in 1943 as a boy super-hero/adventure series, but was reinvented by Simon & Kirby in 1947 as a crime series, in keeping with a popular trend of the time. We have five consecutive examples in this week, all with varying amounts of Simon & Kirby work present, and all with sleazy gun-moll covers, most of them wearing red dresses…
PICTURED: HEADLINE COMICS
#27 VG £55 Minor chipping top corner, partly-erased owner’s name above logo, but nice off-white pages, bright cover colour & gloss. SOLD
#28 GD £30 Staples weak, but attached. Lower back & front cover have diagonal creases, other fine front cover creases do not break cover colour; clean off-white interiors. Small ink mark upper cover edge, 1 cm tear mid-right cover edge. SOLD
#29 VG £55 Not glossy, but cover colours unfaded. 2 cm tear right front cover edge. Generally sound and attractive.
#30 VG+ £65 Clean sound copy, firm staples, no significant defects other than general age-related wear.
#31 GD- £25 Presentable, decent interiors, but some front cover chipping upper right and lower left. SOLD