
*DC: From the Midas Collection, Batman #105, featuring the second-ever appearance of the Batwoman – and her first showing in the Batman title, having made her debut in Detective Comics. Kathy Kane made quite a stylish Batwoman with her striking costume and shoulder bag utility case. This copy isn’t too bad and benefits from great cover colour and a rich, deep blue background. There are a couple of small chips out at top edge, a short upper and lower spine split and the front cover is off at the top staple. Staples are otherwise well-attached. Some wear and creasing at spine. Pages are supple off-white, with slight edge tanning.
PICTURED: BATMAN #105 GD/VG £130
30CC
American Comics Update: The Midas Collection: Superman 1956/57
*DC: Four more issues of Superman from 1956/57 from the Midas Collection, before distribution started in the UK, when the classic Silver Age mythos of the character and his cast was just developing.
PICTURED: SUPERMAN
#107 GD £50 In the cover story, Superman over exerts himself and falls into a coma, awakening 1,000 years into the future. Reasonable copy with some wear and tear, including small corners off cover at top and bottom right edges.
#109 FN- £140 An excellent copy with great colour and gloss, marred only by a couple of small creases towards bottom right edge.
#113 GD+ £55 Great ‘3 part novel’ by Bill Finger and Wayne Boring starring Jor-El as a Superman on Krypton, with the present day Superman resolving his father’s adventures. Creasing with some chips out bottom right corner and edge, upper staple off front cover.
#117 GD/VG £65 Includes Lex Luthor story. Okay copy, a bit worn and creased, small tear without loss top edge.





American Comics Update: Six Of The Best: My Greatest Adventure
*DC: My Greatest Adventure was one of a series of science fiction/weird mystery adventure titles from DC, which presented a consistent standard of story and art. At the time of the issues in this update (1960/61) it was edited by Jack Schiff. Six issues here in lowish to mid-grade.
IN THIS UPDATE: MY GREATEST ADVENTURE ALL SOLD
#44 FA £6 Tape inside covers
#47 FA/GD £8.75
#49 PR/FA £4.75 Ragged with heavily taped spine.
#50 VG £20.25 (PICTURED)
#51 FA+ £7.25
#52 VG- p £17.75
American Comics Update: The Holy Grail! First Appearance of the Amazing Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy #15
*Marvel: This is it! Right here, right now, the ultimate Spider-Mania/Mighty Marvel Firsts event — the first appearance of the Amazing Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy #15!
In the final issue of the mystery anthology Amazing Adult Fantasy, dated September 1962 and renamed Amazing Fantasy for that one issue, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created a character who was destined to change the then-nascent Marvel Comics’ fortunes, and the face of the comics industry. Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man, became Marvel Comics’ solo super-star, wisecracking his way through all the slings and arrows a capricious fate (and the imaginative writers) could throw at him, and, decades later, following thousands of comic books and multiple multi-million media adaptations, he remains one of the most recognized characters worldwide. His first appearance, pre-dating his own series, is one of the most sought-after comics ever, THE comic of the Silver Age, and on more wants lists than I’ve had hot dinners.
This is the first copy we’ve had through our hands since 2018 (when on one historic day, we were staggered to acquire TWO copies!). Just the one this time. This is a worn and lower-graded copy, pence printed, with an intact and largely undamaged cover image. There is a faint vertical crease that extends across Spidey’s left arm and leg, breaking colour faintly, like a subscription crease, but I don’t think it is one. A central spine tear of about 5 cm reaches from the spine across the lower word balloon, but there is no loss and it is hard to see. Corners are blunted, with a tiny diagonal loss where top spine is split (less than 1 cm). All edges have wear with small colour-breaking creases, the right edge more so. The spine is a little ragged, with stress wear around the staples with a 2 cm x 1 cm split centre spine which extends to the back cover (but not the front). The front cover has no graffiti, pen or pencil marks of any kind; small previous owner’s name in top margin of back cover. Despite stress around staples on front cover, these remain firmly attached there and at centrefold. Pages are a very decent and supple off-white to cream, with no defacements but one or two margin foxing spots. Inner covers are tanned at the edges, but are not brittle. The comic is a little tired, but complete, intact and unrestored.
We have included copious imagery below. High resolution images are available on request.
PICTURED: AMAZING FANTASY #15 GD- £12,500
American Comics Update: Mighty Marvel Firsts: Debut of Bullseye in Daredevil #131/132
*Marvel: In the Frank Miller era of Daredevil, Bullseye, the unfailing assassin, became firmly established as DD’s bête noire, causing the Man Without Fear endless grief and misery. But a lot of people, even today, aren’t aware that Bullseye wasn’t a Miller creation; step forward Marv Wolfman and Bob Brown, who presented The Assassin Who Never Misses for the first time in Daredevil #131, two years before the Miller regime kicked in!
PICTURED: DAREDEVIL
#131 VF+ p £190 1st Bullseye. Pence printed and in great shape, glossy, flat, great colour, white to off-white pages, staples tight at spine and centrefold, sharp corners. Just one faint stress mark bottom spine and very tiny and minor handling wear at bottom and right edges.
#132 VF+ p £40 2nd Bullseye. Pence printed. Glossy, flat, great colour, white to off-white pages, staples tight at spine and centrefold. Barely discernable dink at top of spine, where corner is a tiny bit blunted, but I’m being really picky here.


American Comics Update: A batch of non-UK distributed Captain America 1971/72
*Marvel: 8 issues of Captain America from 1971/72 when the title was not distributed here in the UK. Issues range from #143-156. Cap and the Falcon up against the Red Skull, Hydra and a fake Cap (?).
IN THIS UPDATE: CAPTAIN AMERICA ALL SOLD
#143 VG £8.25 Double size
#146 VG+ £5.75
#147 FA+ £1.75
#148 VG/FN £6.25 Extra staples
#153 VG- £7.25
#154 VG+ £9.25 with the Avengers
#155 VG+ £10.25 (PICTURED) Secret origin.
#156 FN £10
American Comics Update: The Bute Collection: Magnus Robot Fighter #2-5

*Gold Key/Whitman: From the Bute Collection, an update to our stocks of the Gold Key title Magnus Robot Fighter, issues #2-5. With superlative art by Russ Manning and gorgeous painted covers (#5 line drawn), this sci-fi extravaganza was a cut above anything else being published by Gold Key at the time and remains a timeless classic as Magnus takes on robots rebelling to overthrow mankind.
IN THIS UPDATE: MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER ALL SOLD
#2 FN £36 PICTURED
#3 GD £12.25
#4 GD/VG £10 Loose centrefold
#5 GD/VG £10
American Comics Update: The Bute Collection: Power Book & Record Set: The Monster Of Frankenstein

*Miscellaneous 1960 Onwards: In the mid-1970s, Power Records launched the Book and Record Set, in which a comic book was reprinted (sometimes with some heavy editing, to remove continuity and references to other issues), along with a 45 RPM record in which the comic’s story was voiced-over with staggering ineptitude! This example from the Bute Collection features the Monster of Frankenstein, reprinted from the Marvel original, complete with record.
PICTURED: POWER BOOK & RECORD SET PR14 THE MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN VG/FN £25
American Comics Update: Complete set of Marvel’s Worlds Unknown 1973/74
*Horror/Mystery 1960-1980s: This week’s complete set is Worlds Unknown from Marvel. Despite being obstensibly a science fiction title, it focused on the monster/alien side of that genre and very much had the look of Marvel’s horror line of the time (although the final two issues featured an adaptation of the Golden Voyage of Sinbad film). All 8 issues complete, averaging an excellent FN/FN+ complete.
IN THIS UPDATE: WORLDS UNKNOWN Complete Set #1-8 Av FN/FN+ £75; #1 FN pictured. SOLD
British Comics Update: Quirky Corner: Prang Comic 1948
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: Right then, it doesn’t get much rarer and more esoteric than this. The one and only issue of Prang Comic, published in 1948 by Hotspur. It has the dimensions of an American comic and features three strips in its eight pages: Maxwell the Mighty, the 1000 HP Human, super-hero with flight, super strength, super speed and invulnerability; Daredevil Kent Carew, Crime-Breaker of the Air – test pilot and ‘tec; Peter Puck and the Wishing Ring, a boy whose wishes come true with the aid of a magic ring, all illustrated in red, white and navy blue. I’ve not been able to track down any details of writers or artists. This is a lovely copy, virtually as good as you would want or expect, with clean near white pages, little wear and no markings; just a tiny nick at the very margin edge of one internal page. You may not see another!
PICTURED: PRANG COMIC VG/FN £75 SOLD
Books Update: The works of C L Moore
*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: Catherine Lucille Moore was one of the earliest female writers in this genre, coming to prominence in the 1930s, the Golden Age of Science Fiction, first in her own name, then from 1940 in collaboration with her husband Henry Kuttner, both in their own names and under serval pseudonyms. Her early work was as much fantasy and horror as it was science fiction, and featured her most famous creations, the rogue adventurer Northwest Smith wandering through the Solar System and the swordswoman/warrior Jirel of Joiry, one of the first female protagonists in sword and sorcery fiction. Two of the books in this update feature short stories of these characters (Shambleau is the most famous Northwest Smith story, notable for its horror and sexual overtones). Our third book is a sci-fi time travel romp about Earth’s final days by Moore and her hubby.
PICTURED:
C L MOORE: JIREL OF JOIRY Ace 1982 1st US PB FN £20
C L MOORE: SHAMBLEAU Sphere 1976 1st UK PB FN £20
C L MOORE & HENRY KUTTNER: EARTH’S LAST CITADEL Ace 1964 1st US PB FN/VF £6



Books Update: Queens Of Crime: Dorothy L Sayers: The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club: Penguin 1936 Edition
*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: The Golden Age Of Detective Fiction was surely between the 1920s and the 1950s, and in this period several women dominated the genre. Agatha Christie remains the most famous, but several of her contemporaries produced equally absorbing work. Like all her fellow ‘Queens’, Dorothy L Sayers moved detective fiction away from pure puzzles and towards works of characterisation and depth. Between 1923 and 1939, Sayers wrote 11 novels featuring the upper-class amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. In 1930, she introduced a leading female character, Harriet Vane, the object of Wimsey’s love. Just one new Sayers in this week, but it’s a good one. From 1936, the classic Penguin paperback edition of The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, one of Wimsey’s most memorable cases. It says something of the popularity of this novel that it was first published in 1928, then published in Penguin in 1935; by the time of this seventh impression, it was still only 1936. For those of you who collect Penguins by numbers, this is in fact Number 5, the fifth Penguin book.
PICTURED: DOROTHY L SAYERS: THE UNPLEASANTNESS AT THE BELLONA CLUB Penguin 1936 7th UK PB thus GD £30 SOLD Lord Peter Wimsey. Some small stains and discolorations. Top cm of spine missing. Small spine split at bottom. Minor creasing bottom right corner.
Books Update: Two Malcolm Saville Paperbacks

*Children’s Books: We’re delighted to add to our Malcolm Saville listings, a favourite author for many. Saville wrote from 1943 until his death in 1982, primarily about different groups of adventuring children. His work emphasises location, particularly in Shropshire and Sussex, with which he was familiar; the books include many vivid descriptions of English countryside, villages and sometimes towns. We have two nice paperbacks in this update, the first from the Jillies series and the second a Lone Pine adventure. Condition notes as always in our catalogue.
PICTURED: BOTH BY MALCOLM SAVILLE
THE AMBERMERE TREASURE Armada 1963 1st UK PB thus FA/GD £5
MYSTERY MINE Hamlyn 1968 1st UK PB thus GD £8
American Comics Update: The Midas Collection/Batmania: Batman #42 & #43 1947 Catwoman and the Penguin
*DC: Leading this week’s releases from the Midas Collection come two adjacent issues of Batman from 1947, cover featuring Catwoman (#42) and the Penguin (#43).
PICTURED: BATMAN
#42 VG- £750 Classic trompe l’oeil cover by Jack Burnley with Batman pulling back the corner to reveal Catwoman within. This is the first cover in the Batman title to feature Catwoman, and only the second anywhere. Three long Batman stories written by Bill Finger with art by Charles Paris. Catwoman performs crimes inspired by fictitious felines, Batman is blinded for 72 hours and a scientist provides robot robbers to take the place of aged criminals. This is a very nice copy with rich cover colours. There is a reading crease and other small creases at spine breaking colour, which do not intrude. Slight wear along right edge and some spine roll, visible on the back. Small wear around staples at spine, but they are firmly attached there and at centrefold. Flexible pages are a nice off-white. High resolution images are available on request.
#43 GD- £200 Nice ‘Pirate Penguin’ cover by Jim Mooney. Three long Batman stories written by Bill Finger with art by Mooney. The Penguin commits crimes inspired by birds in literature, murder stalks the Gotham subway and Batman & Robin come up against The Four Horsemen of Crime (Captain Kidd, Jesse James, John Dillinger and Genghis Khan) or do they? Nice cover colour, spoilt by a rat or insect chew at the right edge (see scan) which carries on into the first few pages, where it only impacts on the margin. Some spine wear with small holes and a small piece of tape below the bottom staple and a further piece around the top of the spine. An extra central staple has been inserted. Small pencilled writing at logo. Lower staple off at front cover only. Pages are okay (except as noted above) and off-white.



American Comics Update: The Midas Collection: Wonder Woman #59 1953

*DC: Also from the Midas Collection this week, a 1953 vintage issue of Wonder Woman. In this issue, Wonder Woman encounters her invisible twin, attends the college of magical knowledge and is challenged to turn a penny into a million dollars. All written by Barkin’ Bob Kanigher with highly stylised art by Harry Peter and a cover by Irv Novick. This very presentable copy has a bright colour cover with minimal wear. There is a hint of a subscription crease down the top half centre cover, which doesn’t break colour unless you look really hard, and a small stamped code below the logo; no other cover defects. Back cover has a couple of small tears without loss. Pages are a supple off-white to cream and staples are tight and firm.
PICTURED: WONDER WOMAN #59 VG+ £275
American Comics Update: DC Debuts: 1st Silver Age Phantom Stranger in Showcase #80
*DC: Following on from his short-lived Golden Age run, which is itself rare and highly collectable, the Phantom Stranger joined the Silver Age relatively late in 1969 in Showcase #80. Under a spectacular Neal Adams cover, a new Phantom Stranger story lurks by Mike Friedrich/Jerry Grandenetti, mashing into a reprint from the first series by Broome and Infantino and a reprint of the first Dr Thirteen story by Leonard Starr. A tremendous package. This is a nice pence stamped copy with great colour, some gloss and a small amount of handling wear with a few tiny creases and corner blunting. Excellent near white pages and tight, firm staples.
PICTURED: SHOWCASE #80 FN p £65 SOLD
American Comics Update: Slab Happy/Spider-Mania: Amazing #32 CGC 7.0
*Marvel: Another slabbed issue of your friendly neighbourhood guy this week. Amazing Spider-Man #32 featured the middle part of the Master Planner trilogy, which is many people’s favourite Spidey tale. I don’t think it’s much of a spoiler to reveal that the Master Planner turned out to be Dr Octopus. This is a CGC blue label (unrestored) copy with a perfect case, graded at 7.0 (FN/VF). Cream to off-white pages. CGC serial number 2031405021.
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #32 7.0 FN/VF £140
American Comics Update: Marvel Tales Annual #1 1964
*Marvel: This seldom seen Marvel Annual from 1964 boasts ‘Six big, thrilling, uncut origin tales of your Mighty Marvel Super-Heroes!’ plus ‘An actual unretouched photo of virtually every member of our Merry Marvel Bullpen!” This is fine as long as you can get your head round their definition of uncut and bear in mind that there’s no photo of Steve Ditko! The origins of Spider-Man, the Hulk, Ant-Man/Giant-Man & the Wasp, Thor, Sgt Fury and his Howling Doo-dads and Iron Man are all featured, with the full stories or sometimes the relevant pages from their origin tales. As far as I know, this is the first reprint of these stories. This is a reasonable pence stamped copy with a small upper spine split, edge wear with small, unobtrusive creasing and a small strip off the top of the last page, which affects mostly the margin and encroaches into one word in the Thor story, which appears to be ‘the’. We haven’t had a copy of this through our hands for many years.
PICTURED: MARVEL TALES ANNUAL #1 GD p £40 SOLD
American Comics Update: Mighty Marvel Firsts in the Uncanny X-Men – Mr. Sinister & Jubilee 1st Appearances

*Marvel: Two X-Men debuts this week. #221 features the first appearance of Mister Sinister, soon to become a thorn in the side of Marvel’s Merry Mutants and a major player from this point onwards… And #244 presents us with the premiere of Jubilation Lee, aka Jubilee, the pyrotechnic princess who was one of the team’s most popular members in the latter days of the 20th Century.
PICTURED: X-MEN
#221 VF- £27 Lovely fresh glossy copy with minor impact creasing towards bottom spine.
#244 VF+ £27 Lovely fresh glossy copy with very minor handling wear.
American Comics Update: The IW/Super Extravaganza: 3 different titles
*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. NB usually with newly-drawn covers. Three comics with very different subject matters this week.
IN THIS UPDATE:
DANGER IS OUR BUSINESS #9 VG- £12.50 SOLD Reprints Danger Is Our Business #1 Toby 1953. Reprint Kintsler cover. Includes Williamson/Frazetta Captain Comet story (not DC).
DARING ADVENTURES #17 VG £6.75 SOLD Reprints Green Lama #3 Spark 1945. New cover by Ross Andru. Includes Green Lama story by Mac Raboy
FANTASTIC TALES #1 GD/VG £40 (PICTURED) Reprints City of the Living Dead Avon 1952. New cover by Bernard Baily does not reflect the pre-code horror content.
American Comics Update: The Bute Collection: 3 Blue Bolt from 1940 inc 1st Simon & Kirby collaborations
*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: The super-hero Blue Bolt was created by Joe Simon and featured in over a hundred issues of his own title from the 1940s/50s from Novelty Press. By the second issue, Joe Simon had started his long collaboration with Jack Kirby, and the two worked together, sharing writing and drawing, up to issue #10, after which the strip passed into other hands. Simon & Kirby would go on to create Captain America and many more characters, and were very active in horror, western, crime and romance as well throughout the Golden Age of comics. Blue Bolt was Fred Parrish, a college football star who survived two lightning strikes and a plane crash, before being healed by a scientist’s radium treatment. This endowed him with the ability to project lightning bolts and for good measure he had a lightning gun as well. The newly named Blue Bolt set off to fight crime and Nazis (as you do) as well as his evil arch-nemesis the Green Sorceress. Other strips in the Blue Bolt title included Dick Cole, The Wonder Boy, Sub-Zero Man, Sgt. Spook, White Rider and Super Horse, Runaway Ronson and Phantom Sub, plus many others. Artists on these included Bill Everett, Bob Davis and Paul Gustavson. The Bute Collection features three issues of this Simon & Kirby team debut, including their first work together.
PICTURED: BLUE BOLT
VOL 1 #2 VG- £1,375 1st Simon & Kirby collaboration. Blue Bolt, Dick Cole, Sub-Zero Man and many others. A pretty nice copy with good colour cover image, unspoilt except for a couple of small tears (with tiny losses) towards the top of the spine. The rest of the spine is sound and intact. There is a soft crease at the bottom right corner, which goes to a lesser extent throughout the comic, but does not break cover colour. Nice supple off-white pages. Staples are tight and firm. High resolution images are available on request.
VOL 1 #3 VG £950 2nd Simon & Kirby collaboration. Blue Bolt, Dick Cole, Sub-Zero Man and many others. You can see the Green Sorceress on the splash page below and tell that she really is, um, green. A decent copy with good colour and an unspoilt cover image. Minor staining at top of spine and a little above the logo. A soft, barely noticeable crease horizontally across the cover centre does not break colour. Nice supple off-white pages. Staples are tight and firm. High resolution images are available on request.
VOL 1 #7 GD/VG £425 Simon & Kirby collaboration with the bonus of a Kirby cover. Blue Bolt, Dick Cole, Sub-Zero Man and many others. Overstreet describes this as scarce with a classic over. Clean and unspoilt cover image. Small upper and lower spine splits. There are small pieces of tape on inside covers at the staple area. Spine is a wee bit ragged. Nice supple off-white to cream pages. Staples are tight and firm.
American Comics Update: Cheaper than chips: Six (Guns) From The West: Charlton, Dell, Marvel
*Western: Six bargain basement priced Wild West goodies from various publishers this week.
IN THIS UPDATE: ALL SOLD
CHEYENNE (Dell) #20 PR/FA £2.25
GUNFIGHTERS (Charlton) #85 FN £3.25 Final issue. Reprints Bulls Eye by Simon & Kirby
KID COLT (Marvel) #153 GD+ £3.25
TEXAS RANGERS IN ACTION (Charlton) #40 GD- p £1.50
TEXAS RANGERS IN ACTION (Charlton) #79 VG £2.75 Final issue
TWO-GUN KID (Marvel) #90 GD p £4
American Comics Update: Complete Set of EC Vault Of Horror Annual reprints from Gemstone
*Modern Reprints: For my money, the Gemstone EC reprints of the early 1990s represent the best available reprint editions of the classic EC line. These stories have been reprinted countless times in various formats and paper qualities, but I think these versions are the best for ease of reading, colour reproduction and authentic paper quality, giving the closest experience to reading the originals, at, of course, a fraction of the cost. Gemstone got it right, reprinting everything in the correct format and running order. Their Annuals are a convenient way to get and enjoy them, with even the covers reproduced inside on the right quality stock. Vault Of Horror is one of EC’s premier trilogy of pre-code horror titles, and I shouldn’t have to tell you how EC set the standard for the genre and featured the very best artists working in comics at the time. This complete set of all six Annuals (all in lovely VF/NM virtually as new condition) features all 29 issues of Vault Of Horror.
IN THIS UPDATE:
COMPLETE SET OF ALL 6 VAULT OF HORROR ANNUALS VF/NM £120; #1 PICTURED
British Comics Update: War Picture Library: Large update from 1969-1972
*Boys’ Adventure & War Picture Libraries: Over 80 newly-listed issues of War Picture Library between #549 and #807, averaging Fine condition. These are from a newsagent’s unsold inventory, never read or circulated, and while some have a tinge of staple rust or minor edge and corner shelf wear from long-term storage, the vast majority are bright copies with firm, undamaged spines and no exterior markings. Superior examples of the vintage. An example below.
PICTURED: WAR PICTURE LIBRARY #549 FN £2
British Comics Update: Beano #98 (1940)
*Humour Comics: A rare chance to get an issue of Beano from the first hundred this week. Beano #98 is dated June 8th 1940, cover stars Big Eggo of course, and features Lord Snooty, Pansy Potter and very many others in the usual mix of short comic strips, longer adventure strips and text stories representative of the flagship D C Thomson comic at that time. This is a quite decent copy with bright colour cover and nice page quality. Wear and tear is minimal and restricted to a couple of short tears at spine margin without loss and a slightly ragged right edge.
PICTURED: BEANO #98 GD/VG £75 SOLD
Books Update: Hank Janson & Spike Morelli: Four gangster pulps with fabulous Heade covers
*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: Reginald Heade was certainly just the right artist for the gangster pulp era. His dynamic covers captured the mood and menace of the tough, uncompromising content as dished out by authors such as Hank Janson and Spike Morelli, featured here. Unusually, one of this week’s Jansons is more of an Arabian adventure, but is no less hard-hitting for it. The remaining three books in the update offer the more familiar fare of the American underworld. All four are first editions, two UK and two US. More information, including condition notes, may as always be found in our catalogue.
PICTURED:
HANK JANSON: AUCTIONED New Fiction 1950s 1st UK PB VG £60
HANK JANSON: KILL HER IF YOU CAN New Fiction 1950s 1st UK PB FA £15
SPIKE MORELLI: DEATH FOR A DOLL Leisure Library 1952 1st US PB FA/GD £15
SPIKE MORELLI: YOU’LL NEVER GET ME Archer/Kaywin 1952 1st US PB GD/VG £25




Books Update: Cool & Lam Mysteries by A A Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner)

*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of Perry Mason – at the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, one of the most ingenious plotters in the field, with stunning twists and reveals. Nowhere more so than the 30 novels he wrote of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, the most untypical pair of detectives, written under the pen name of A A Fair. A nice group here published by Corgi in 1960/61, all in matching covers featuring a sultry blonde posing in leotard and tights. Further information, including condition notes, may be found in our catalogue.
PICTURED: ALL BY A A FAIR (ERLE STANLEY GARDNER) ALL SOLD
BATS FLY AT DUSK Corgi 1960 1st UK PB VG £8
BEWARE THE CURVES Corgi 1960 2nd UK PB VG £8
CATS PROWL AT NIGHT Corgi 1961 1st UK PB VG/FN £9
THE COUNT OF NINE Corgi 1960 1st UK PB VG £8
CROWS CAN’T COUNT Corgi 1960 2bd UK PB FA/GD £5
OWLS DON’T BLINK Corgi 1960 2nd UK PB GD/VG £7
TOP OF THE HEAP Corgi 1960 2nd UK PB VG £8





American Comics Update: The Bute Collection/Batmania: Batman #227 – ‘Demon of Gothos Mansion!’ Classic Adams Cover
*DC: In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there arose a craze for ‘Gothic Romances’, the covers of which depicted diaphanously-clad lovelies fleeing a darkened mansion/castle/palace at night, frequently pursued by beasts. Writer Denny O’Neil paid tribute to the genre in Batman #227’s ‘Demon of Gothos Mansion!’, casting Alfred’s niece Daphne as the ingenue and arranging a beautiful Neal Adams cover, which became one of the most sought-after iconic covers of the Silver Age – not least because it also ‘homaged’ a Golden Age cover, Detective #31. This is a beautiful condition copy from the Bute Collection, tight, flat, glossy and with strong colours. Staples are firm at spine and centrefold, and the supple pages are an excellent near-white. there is just the merest suggestion of handling wear at the top left edge and a hint of wear towards the bottom of the spine that preclude a NM or higher grade. A fairly unobtrusive small pence stamp is on the ‘N’ of the logo. High resolution images are available on request.
PICTURED: BATMAN #227 VF £1,075



American Comics Update: Six Of The Best: House Of Mystery 1959-60
*DC: House Of Mystery was DC’s premier horror title, starting in 1951. Science fiction and monsters aplenty as well. Six issues in this update, on the cusp of UK distribution.
IN THIS UPDATE: HOUSE OF MYSTERY
#85 GD/VG £30 (PICTURED) SOLD Great Jack Kirby cover. Interior art by Mooney, Ely, Kirby
#86 VG £24 SOLD Cover by Bob Brown. Interior art by Elias, Ely, Meskin
#88 VG- £21 Cover by Bob Brown. Interior art by Ely, Meskin, Brown
#91 GD- £10.75 Cover by Dick Dillin. Interior art by Roussos, Baily, Ely. Cover neatly detached
#94 GD/VG £18.75 SOLD Cover by Dick Dillin. Interior art by Ely, Cardy, Purcell
#95 GD+ p £14 SOLD Cover by Bob Brown. Interior art by Ely, Elias, Brown
American Comics Update: X-Men #50 – Jim Steranko art, and the first Lorna Dane (later Polaris) in costume
*Marvel: Lorna Dane had met up with the X-Men in the previous issue, rescued by Iceman after being caught up in one of the bouts of anti-mutant hysteria which sweep Marvel-Earth twice a week, but it wasn’t until issue #50 that she had her Big Reveal: she was the daughter of Magneto, Master of Evil Mutants and the heir to all his power! To say that Lorna’s history has been convoluted is an understatement – the ‘official’ position as to whether she’s Magneto’s offspring or not has changed many times, but – except when she’s had psychotic breaks and become a villain, as you do – she’s been a stalwart member of the X-Men and/or X-Factor for decades now. Fortuitously, this issue was one of a handful drawn by Jim Steranko, and his innovative layouts, cinematic storytelling and nifty costume design for Lorna (who, though generally known as Polaris, didn’t formally adopt that codename until years later) made this story a gripping read with stunning visuals. And that iconic Steranko green cover, one of the classics of the Marvel Age. This is a nice cents copy, with great colours, good gloss and only very slight handling wear. There is a 6 cm crease across the bottom right corner breaking colour. Tight, firm staples and white to off-white pages.
PICTURED: X-MEN #50 VG/FN £140
American Comics Update: Tales Of Suspense #61, #62, #64-66 with Iron Man & Cap

*Marvel: Tales Of Suspense was a comic packed with excellence just after Captain America joined Iron Man to share the title. Stan Lee presided over affairs, with Don Heck continuing on Iron Man and Jack Kirby chronicling both contemporary and war-time adventures of Cap. Five issues from that formative period freshly on sale this week:
IN THIS UPDATE: TALES OF SUSPENSE
#61 VG+ p £28 SOLD Pence stamped. Nice glossy copy with a little handling wear only. Tanned edges to inside covers.
#62 VG+ p £28 Pence stamped. Origin of the Mandarin. Nice glossy copy with minor spine creasing. Tanned edges to inside covers.
#64 VG+ p £30 Pence stamped. Hawkeye with Black Widow (1st in costume). Nice glossy copy with a small crease across top right corner not breaking colour. Tanned edges to inside covers.
#65 VG/FN p £65 (PICTURED) SOLD Pence stamped. 1st Silver Age app Red Skull. Sound glossy copy with great colours, staples and pages. There is a very soft crease at top left corner, which almost imperceptibly breaks colour. Slightly tanned inner cover edges.
#66 VG p £40 p (PICTURED) Pence stamped. Origin of Red Skull. Nice glossy copy with very slight top corner chipping and narrow dust shadow to right edge. Inside cover edges are tanned/browned.
American Comics Update: Take Five : A Marvel Silver/Bronze Grab Bag
*Marvel: Five very varied comics from the House of Ideas this time.
IN THIS UPDATE: ALL SOLD
DAREDEVIL #257 FN £10 Daredevil Vs the Punisher
KULL #7 FN p £4.75 Art by the Severins
INDIANA JONES, FURTHER ADVENTURES OF #1 FN £7.50 by Byrne and Austin
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #158 VG £6.75 with Doc Ock
TALES TO ASTONISH #95 GD/VG p £7.75 Subby & Hulk
American Comics Update: The Bute Collection Black Cat Giants from Harvey 1962
*Harvey: Also from the Bute Collection this week, two giant-size issues of Harvey’s Black Cat from 1962, reprinting the classic heroine’s adventures from the 1940s and 1950s. Back then, Linda Turner was the only Black Cat in comics, ‘Hollywood Star and America’s Sweetheart’ turned costumed crime-fighter and judo expert, alongside her teenage boy sidekick Black Kitten. Three 64 (plus covers) page issues were published and we have the first two of these in this week, crammed full of Linda’s adventures in a variety of settings (Hollywood, jungle, pirates etc) drawn by the underrated Lee Elias, plus many pages of the Black Cat’s judo tricks. Great packages!
PICTURED: BLACK CAT
#63 VG £45 Giant-Size. Solid issue with some spine wear and corner creasing.
#64 GD/VG £35 SOLD Giant-size. Faint book shop stamps over logo; small upper spine split and corner creasing.


American Comics Update: Pre-Code Horror Fest: L B Cole Miasma: Startling Terror Tales #5
*Horror 1940-1959: L B Cole was one of the most famous of Golden/Atomic Age cover artists. He drew in a variety of genres, and was artistic director at Star, illustrating 95% of the company’s covers; his lurid, feverish style, almost hallucinogenic, graced horror, science-fiction, jungle and romance alike. The title Startling Terror Tales has a confusing history: starting at #10 in 1952, issues were published up to #14 in 1953, after which it started again at #4 later in 1953 and lasted until #11 in 1954. Thus the issue at hand here is #5 from the second run. Inside is a selection of Fox reprints from 1948, all crime-based with strong horror overtones. But, as with virtually all Star’s output, it’s the wonderful L B Cole cover for which this issue is prized, this one with a sinister leering demon surrounded by flames and skulls, tormenting several humans with its many limbs. This is quite a reasonable copy with strong colours and an unmarked cover image. There is very slight spine roll just to the bottom half and minor handling wear, with a faint reading crease at the spine, which just breaks colour. The most significant defect is a small chip out towards the top of the spine (see scan). This chip is present on the end of a small loose corner of the top back cover which is still hanging on to the comic. The staples are firmly attached and the page quality is a flexible off-white to cream. High resolution images are available on request.
PICTURED: STARTLING TERROR TALES #5 GD+ £500 SOLD



British Comics Update: Your Wish is our Commando: #14-17
*Boys’ Adventure & War Picture Libraries. Four of the earliest issues of the most famous and longest running Picture Library of them all this week, still going strong after nearly 65 years! This week, we’re pleased to present issues #14-17 from that very first year of publication in 1961. These are all from the same source, where a previous owner had added two extra staples near the spine, which have rusted to varying degrees over the years. They make the copies a little tight to open, but don’t impair the reading of them. The spines were also taped, and some tape remains on some issues, with a residue on others. Nevertheless, the cover colours remain vibrant, with little other wear or creasing (unless noted) and well-preserved pages. Previous owner’s name in biro and small lettering top of back covers. Highly collectable.
PICTURED: COMMANDO ALL SOLD
#14 FA £30 Extra staples, tape and residue at spine, including piece around spine, with moderate puckering. Vivid colour cover; clean, crisp pages.
#15 GD £40 Extra staples, no tape, minor puckering. Vivid colour cover; clean, crisp pages.
#16 GD £40 Extra staples, no tape, minor puckering. Vivid colour cover; clean, crisp pages.
#17 FA/GD £35 Extra staples, tape residue at spine, minor puckering. Vivid colour cover; clean, crisp pages.




Books Update: Re-Working our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Category: Michael Moorcock Part 4
*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for this books category, with an image for each book. Michael Moorcock is certainly one of the most productive and versatile Science Fiction and Fantasy authors around. I can fondly remember reading much of his output during my formative years. His characters, landscapes and scenarios are eccentric; haunting and memorable. Most of his work can be considered part of his Eternal Champion mythos (although I suspect some of it was retrospectively so declared). In this final part of a substantial re-working of our listing, we include the stories of Oswald Bastable, the complete trilogy of that Nomad of the Time Streams (and another aspect of the Eternal Champion), plus the stand alone science fiction novel, The Shores Of Death, a short story collection The Time Dweller and one of the anthologies edited by Moorcock collected from the pages of the UK’s most famous science fiction publication, New Worlds, which under his guidance, ushered in the New Wave of science fiction in the 1960s.
PICTURED: ALL BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK
OSWALD BASTABLE 1: THE WARLORD OF THE AIR Quartet 1976 UK PB FN £6
OSWALD BASTABLE 2: THE LAND LEVIATHAN Quartet 1974 1st UK PB VG £4
OSWALD BASTABLE 3: THE STEEL TSAR Mayflower 1982 UK PB VG £4
THE SHORES OF DEATH Mayflower 1974 1st UK PB thus GD £3 SOLD
THE TIME DWELLER Mayflower 1979 4th UK PB VG £4
(Ed) BEST SF STORIES FROM NEW WORLDS 7 Panther 1971 1st UK PB GD £6





Books Update: Chocks Away With Biggles!
*Children’s Books: This week, we return to the adventures of Biggles. Written by Captain W E Johns, the wartime (and later) stories of James Bigglesworth gave us an iconic British hero, a highly competent fighter pilot with a characteristic gentlemanly air, who has gone on to represent an archetypal figure. Nearly 100 Biggles books were written and published and reprinted many times over, and we have a new selection now available, four Armada paperbacks from the 1960s. And I wish Biggles, Algy, Ginger and Smyth were still up there now, looking out for us – we could do with them and their wizard prangs.
PICTURED: ALL BY W E JOHNS ALL SOLD
BIGGLES GETS HIS MEN Armada 1963 1st UK PB thus FA/GD £3
BIGGLES IN THE JUNGLE Armada 1966? UK PB GD £4
BIGGLES LEARNS TO FLY Armada 1963 1st UK PB thus GD/VG £5
NO REST FOR BIGGLES Armada 1963 1st UK PB thus GD £4




American Comics Update: The Midas Collection: 3 Low Grade Golden Age Supermans
*DC: We visit the Midas Collection this week for three Golden Age issues of Superman that have all seen better days: #28, #31 & #48. All have significant faults, which keeps their prices affordable for comics of this vintage. Useful only perhaps to fill gaps in your collection until you can get something better.
PICTURED: SUPERMAN ALL SOLD
#28 FA £90 Four stories, including Superman apparently accomplishing the twelve labours of Hercules and a Lois Lane solo. This would actually be in much better shape were it not for the fact that the statue of Hercules figure on the cover has been cut off and crudely reattached with tape on the inside cover. Small bottom corner of cover missing. Otherwise around VG with decent staples and nice pages.
#31 PR £40 Four stories, one featuring Lex Luthor, a Lois Lane solo and another where Lois’s dog discovers Superman’s secret identity (!). A pretty awful example, with covers detached and separated, with chunks missing from their edges. Pages are browning and brittle at spine and edges, but complete apart from two ad pages.
#48 PR £35 Three stories, including one Lex Luthor story. Covers detached and all but separated, Grubby cover, chipping to right edge with small losses. Most of spine and back cover edges missing. Complete with pages not too bad.




American Comics Update: The Midas Collection: All-American Comics #11 1940

*DC: In keeping with a lot of early American comics, All-American Comics started out featuring a lot of Sunday newspaper colour strips, here such as Mutt & Jeff, Reg’lar Fellers and many more. But there were original comic strips too, such as Hop Harrigan, Adventure In The Unknown, Red, White & Blue and here, in his first cover appearance in #11, the Flash Gordon alike Ultra-Man. Thus the way was paved for the Golden Age of super-heroes, with the debut of the original Green Lantern just a few short issues away. This dead historic and bumper 68-page issue #11 of All-American is one of the earliest comics in the Midas Collection. Although lower grade, it has a colourful and unspoilt cover with good reflectivity. The spine is cleanly split halfway up from the bottom, while the upper spine is secured by small pieces of tape. The spine is quite worn, with minor chipping at right edge, but otherwise wear is minimal. Bottom staple is detached from front cover; top staple is just about holding on at the back. The staples are firm at centrefold and quite shiny; they may be replacements. The comic holds together surprisingly well and the pages are a supple off-white.
PICTURED: ALL-AMERICAN COMICS #11 FA/GD £250 SOLD
American Comics Update: Strange Adventures x 10 #182-200
*DC: After the departure of Julius Schwartz from editorial duties, the emphasis in Strange Adventures changed to more monster/horror related stories, although there was still for some recurring characters as often featured in this title. Star Hawkins (now drawn by Gil Kane) still featured and there were new characters such as Immortal Man, Animal Man and that Switcheroo-Witcheroo the Enchantress. Ten mostly Go-Go checked DCs!
IN THIS UPDATE: STRANGE ADVENTURES ALL SOLD
#182 VG+ p £10 Star Hawkins
#183 GD/VG £6.75
#185 GD+ p £5.75 Star Hawkins & Immortal Man
#186 VG £9.75 (PICTURED)
#188 GD- £4.50
#189 GD- p £4
#194 VG p £9
#195 GD £6.75 Animal Man
#196 GD £5
#200 GD £5 The Enchantress
American Update: Big Panty Monster Alert! Amazing Adult Fantasy #13 & #14
*Marvel: Although Amazing Adult Fantasy was a Steve Ditko title and denied the bombast of your Jack Kirby Panty Monster, there were still plenty of aliens and monsters at large within its pages, alongside the beloved little fantasy stories woven by Lee & Ditko. A couple of lower graded issues this week, #13 and #14 (and if you don’t know what happened in #15, what on Earth are you doing in this friendly neighbourhood?)
IN THIS UPDATE: AMAZING ADULT FANTASY
#13 GD+ p £70 (PICTURED) Pence printed. A worn copy with reasonable good cover image. Chipping to upper right edge, colour-breaking creases at edges, a small ink spot on logo. Staples are good and pages a decent off-white.
#14 PR p £25 Pence printed. A bit of a wreck. Half back cover missing, small corner off ad page, small graffiti below logo, heavy creasing breaking colour all over bottom right corner, tear across logo, small bits missing from spine which is just hanging on etc. But complete, except where noted.
American Comics Update: Spider-Mania: 3 classy John Romita issues: Amazing #40, #47, #58
*Marvel: Although Steve Ditko was a tough act to follow on the artistic chores on Amazing Spider-Man, John Romita soon settled in as his replacement and made the title his own. This update features his second assignment, with the downfall of the Green Goblin in #40, plus a classic adventure with Kraven the Hunter in #47 and a return engagement with the Spider Slayer in #58.

IN THIS UPDATE: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
#40 GD/VG p £75 (PICTURED) Pence printed. A copy with some wear and indentations, but nothing horrible. Great colours, firm staples and supple off-white to cream pages.
#47 VG+ p £48 (PICTURED) Pence printed. A very serviceable copy with good colour and residual gloss, no markings, edge wear and corner blunting, good staples (lower slightly loose), nice off-white pages. MJ and Gwen go-go dancing!
#58 VG £25 Solid copy with some edge and handling wear. Firm staples and off-white pages.
American Comics Update: Mighty Marvel Firsts: Complete set of Longshot #1-6 1985
*Marvel: Before he joined the X-Men, Longshot, the alien dimension super-hero with the ‘good luck’ powers first appeared in his own six-issue mini-series by creators Ann Nocenti and fan favourite artist Arthur Adams. Here he took on the villainous, monstrous Mojo and encountered various denizens of the MU, including Spider-Man, Dr Strange and She-Hulk. A complete set of all six issues (inc double-size #6) is now available in an average grade of FN/VF
IN THIS UPDATE: LONGSHOT #1-6 Complete Set £55 Av FN/VF; #1 PICTURED SOLD
American Comics Update: The Bute Collection: Thrilling Comics (1943/44) with Alex Schomburg covers
*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: Two war-time issues of Nedor’s anthology title Thrilling Comics from the Bute Collection this week, both graced with the era-defining covers of Alex Schomburg. As can be expected of this type of comic, many genres were covered in each issue: war, adventure, crime, super-hero, supernatural, detective, mystery etc.
PICTURED: THRILLING COMICS
#36 VG £450 SOLD Great Doc Strange, girl and gorilla cover. Stars super-hero Doc Strange, the debut of the Commando Cubs (think Boy Commandos) and many more. Nice glossy cover with strong colour and no markings. Printed with one central staple, which is slightly pulled but firmly attached. Some corner blunting, with minor wear at spine, tiny specks which break colour. Tiny crease across bottom right corner does not break colour. Decent page quality
#43 GD- £140 Commando Cubs cover inside Nazi sub. Stars Doc Strange, the Cubs and many more. Nice clean cover. Spine worn with small upper and lower splits and small holes. Front cover detached at central staple, but rear attached. Minor staining on spine margin on splash page (attempted repair?), otherwise decent page quality. Corner blunting and slight spine roll. Small piece of tape secures staple at centrefold.



American Comics Update: Ghoul Tales & Stark Terror
*Vintage Magazine-Sized Comics: Actually, British magazines this time, although Ghoul Tales and Stark Terror from 1979 reprinted pre-code horror from Stanley Morse. Portman, the UK publisher, had previously reprinted from the Marvel magazine range, but here delved back further into the age of infamous horror. Issues of both titles in this update, including both #1s.

IN THIS UPDATE: ALL SOLD
GHOUL TALES
#1 VG £7 (PICTURED)
#2 FN £8
#3 VG £7
#4 VG £7
STARK TERROR
#1 VG £7 (PICTURED)
#2 GD £6
American/British Comics Update: The Official Modesty Blaise
*Modesty Blaise: We’re re-launching our catalogue page dedicated to Modesty Blaise with most of the run of The Official Modesty Blaise comic. We’re often listing British reprints of American stuff (we even have a category devoted to it), so it’s nice to turn that round and feature an American reprint series of British material. In the late 1980s, Pioneer had a crack at Peter O’Donnell’s Modesty Blaise, featuring the earliest Modesty stories from the London Evening Standard and reformatting them into an American comic style. All the art is by Jim Holdaway, the first regular Modesty artist, and many peoples’ favourite. Stories featured are La Machine, The Long Lever and The Gabriel Set-Up (partly in this update), familiar ground for die-hard Modesty fans, but interesting to see the attempt to reformat them with different panel sizes and layouts, sometimes more successfully than others. And if you’re not already a die-hard fan, a great place to start the adventures of Modesty, so much more than just a female James Bond. Issues #1-7 of the ten issue series available in high grade. And don’t forget to check out our Modesty Blaise page for more goodies.
IN THIS UPDATE: THE OFFICIAL MODESTY BLAISE ALL SOLD
#1 VF/NM £5 (PICTURED)
#2 VF £4
#3 NM £4
#4 NM £4
#5 VF/NM £4
#6 VF/NM £4
#7 NM £4
British Comics Update: Calling Barracuda and Johnny Nero! Fleetway Super Libraries – Secret Agent Series
*Boys’ Adventure & War Picture Libraries: Originally published fortnightly, these extra-long digests provided 100+ pages of (as far as we know) all-new adventures, not reprinted from the weekly comics. Like its companion titles in the Fleetway Super Library family (Fantastic/Stupendous and Front Line), Secret Agent alternated its stars. One issue would feature Johnny Nero, debonair cosmopolitan who travelled the world thwarting wrongdoers with the aid of his amanuensis Jenny Bird, a resourceful maiden who once skied a bad guy to death (No, really). Alternate issues presented Barracuda, a code-named tough guy possessed of superhuman strength whose main vendetta was against the agents of WAM (War Against Mankind). His assistant was the rather less appealing (though YMMV, as the young folks say) man-brute Frollo, who must have been a bugger to keep under wraps on stealth missions. Much of this new stock is in nice grades considering its vintage (given the propensity of the card covers to attract creases and split or detach). 11 issues new in from #1.

FLEETWAY SUPER LIBRARY SECRET AGENT SERIES
#1 GD/VG £13.50 Meet Johnny Nero (PICTURED)
#2 GD £8 Code Name Barracuda
#6 VF £15 Barracuda: The Evil Ones (PICTURED)
#8 VG £10 Barracuda: The Death Merchants
#9 FN £12 Johnny Nero: The Murder Corporation
#12 FN/VF £13.50 Johnny Nero: The Vanishing Astronaut
#13 VG/FN £11 Johnny Nero: The Master Minds
#14 FN/VF £13.50 Barracuda: The Underground Jungle
#17 FN £12 Johnny Nero: Traitor’s Trail
#19 FN £12 Johnny Nero: The Evil Shadow
#20 GD/VG £9 Barracuda: Operation Flash-Point
Books Update: Re-Working our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Category: Michael Moorcock Part 3
*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for this books category, with an image for each book. Michael Moorcock is certainly one of the most productive and versatile Science Fiction and Fantasy authors around. I can fondly remember reading much of his output during my formative years. His characters, landscapes and scenarios are eccentric; haunting and memorable. Most of his work can be considered part of his Eternal Champion mythos (although I suspect some of it was retrospectively so declared). In this third and penultimate part of a substantial re-working of our listing, we include the stories of Jerry Cornelius and Michael Kane. Moorcock hints in many places that Cornelius may be an aspect of the Eternal Champion. Characters from the Cornelius novels show up in much of Moorcock’s other fiction. Cornelius himself is an urban adventurer, a hipster of ambiguous and occasionally polymorphous gender; certainly the most unorthodox of Moorcock’s heroes, starring in a quartet of books. Michael Kane is an Earthman who adventures on ancient Mars, in the manner of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s John Carter, whose stories are the source material to which Moorcock pays tribute. The Kane Martian trilogy was originally published under the pseudonym Edward P Bradbury. More information, including condition notes, can be found in our catalogue.
PICTURED: ALL BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK
JERRY CORNELIUS 2: A CURE FOR CANCER Penguin 1974 2nd UK PB VG £6 SOLD
JERRY CORNELIUS 3: THE ENGLISH ASSASSIN Fontana 1979 1st UK PB thus VG £5
JERRY CORNELIUS 4: THE CONDITION OF MUZAK Fontana 1980 2nd UK PB thus VG £5
MICHAEL KANE 2: LORD OF THE SPIDERS NEL 1971 1st UK PB thus FN £4 SOLD
MICHAEL KANE 3: MASTERS OF THE PIT NEL 1971 1st UK PB thus VG/FN £4 SOLD





Books Update: Take Five: The Name Is Bond
*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: Another visit this week to the dynamic world of James Bond. This week’s featured books need no introduction from me. Ian Fleming’s iconic creation is known worldwide thanks to the hugely successful movie franchise, but James Bond got his start in novels, so it is in this category that these books belong. And let me tell you, the books are darker and deeper than the films, less gadgety and more visceral. Five of the classic 1960s design covers from Raymond Hawkey this week, which are the ones I grew up with. More information, including condition notes, can be found in our catalogue.
PICTURED: ALL JAMES BOND BY IAN FLEMING ALL SOLD
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY Pan 1965 15th UK PB FN £5
LIVE AND LET DIE Pan 1965 18th UK PB FN £5
ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE Pan 1965 4th UK PB VG £6
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME Pan 1967 2nd UK PB FN £6
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE Pan 1966 3rd UK PB VG £6





Clearance Corner Special Offer! 8 collections from the pages of 2000 AD for just £30 Post free!
*Clearance Corner: Very occasionally, a lot comes our way which either does not justify its place in our catalogue (but is too good to discard), or is superfluous to our requirements. These lots are offered here on our What’s New page, but are not listed in our catalogue. Lots listed under Clearance Corner will be available for a short time only, and are offered post free to GB buyers only (i.e. England, Scotland, Wales). They are not normally bagged and boarded as our normal stock, but will be securely packaged for transit. If you order a Clearance Corner lot, it may not be combined with another order in the same package. This time, eight Collections/Graphic Novels from the pages of 2000 AD featuring many favourite characters/strips. All are in tip top condition, mostly pristine and unread. Previously on sale for over £125.
The whole lot below for £30 With free GB Postage & Packing
INVASION 1984 (Rebellion) Softcover Like New
JUDGE ANDERSON PSI DIVISION (Titan) Softcover Vol 1 VF
JUDGE ANDERSON PSI DIVISION (Titan) Softcover Vol 5 VF
JUDGE DREDD (Titan) JUDGEMENT DAY Softcover Like New 1995
JUDGE DREDD (Titan) THE PIT Softcover Like New (PICTURED)
SLAINE THE HORNED GOD Softcover Like New (PICTURED)
ZENITH PHASE ONE Hardcover Like New (PICTURED)
ZENITH PHASE TWO Hardcover Like New




















