*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: Here’s an oddity. Technically a one-shot, Fox’s Variety Comics was made up of four coverless Fox comics. Since Fox often started their story on the inside cover, discarding the original cover removed the first page of the first story of each rebound book. Even more bizarre than the British rebound comics of the 1960s known as Double Double Comics which employed the same tactics (but with the stories complete). As with Double Doubles, the contents varied beneath the same cover and various combinations of content of this have been reported. I wonder (but doubt) whether anyone’s catalogued every possibility. Not too many of these on sale in the UK, we suspect, and probably the Bute Collection has cornered the market on them, with three copies, no less, all different, although sharing the common cover to all copies. Details below:
PICTURED: VARIETY COMICS
COPY A GD/VG £60 Contains My Secret Story, Crimes By Women, Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde, My Secret Affair. Bright copy with spine wear and small split at bottom. Good staples. SOLD
COPY B GD £50 Contains Crimes By Women (different issue to Copy A), My Love Memoirs, Jungle Lil, Romeo Tubbs. Bright copy with upper and lower spine wear/splits (bits of spine missing), Good staples. SOLD
COPY C FA/GD £40 Contains My Secret Story (same as Copy A), Blue Beetle, Black Tarantula, Jungle Lil (same as Copy A). Slight fade to cover colour. Spine wear with lower split. Good staples. SOLD