*DC: Unlike its sibling title House Of Mystery, House of Secrets started in 1956 after the Comics Code Authority came in, and thus has no pre-code issues. What it does boast is clever horror/mystery/science fiction stories by some top artists and often classic covers. These early issues from the Midas Collection are not often seen on these shores and we have a quintet of consecutive issues in mixed grade issues available. Among these issues are the earliest appearances of Mark Merlin, later Prince Ra-Man.
PICTURED: HOUSE OF SECRETS
#22 VG+ £28 Cover by Dick Dillin. Interior art by Bill Ely, Lee Elias, Martin Naydel & Mort Meskin. Nice quality copy with a reading crease breaking colour at spine and a little wear at top of spine. SOLD
#23 GD- £15 Cover by Bernard Baily. Interior art by Mort Meskin, George Roussos, Bernard Baily. Debut of Mark Merlin, occult detective. large corner off back cover; small chunk off top spine. Some colour breaking cover creases.
#24 FA/GD £10 Cover by Dick Dillin. Interior art by Mort Meskin, Bill Ely, Nick Cardy. Spine split 2/3rd of the way down. SOLD
#25 VG+ £28 Cover by Dick Dillin. Interior art by Bernard Baily, Bill Ely, Mort Meskin. Nice quality copy with just very moderate edge wear. 
#26 FN £37 Cover by Dick Dillin. Interior art by Mort Meskin, Bob Brown, Nick Cardy. Nice clean, sharp copy with a couple of tiny stress marks at spine.

*Marvel: From the period before Captain America joined Tales Of Suspense, where Iron Man was virtually the solo star, we present four early issues featuring debuts and early appearances of famous villains. The long Iron Man stories were backed up by fantasy/science fiction shorts, including the Tales Of The Watcher series.
PICTURED: TALES OF SUSPENSE ALL SOLD
#51 VG- p £60 1st Scarecrow. Pence printed. Nice unmarked cover image with good colour. Corner blunting, minor to moderate edge wear with some chipping to right edge. Faint dust shadow to upper right edge. Cream coloured pages with some edge tanning, as is the case with inside covers. Decent tight staples. 
#53 GD/VG p £60 2nd Black Widow, following Natasha’s debut in the previous issue. Also features the Origin of the Watcher. Pence printed. Nice unmarked cover image with good colour. Corner blunting with fairly minor edge wear, except that there are two small chunks off back cover, one in bottom right corner, and one at the top of the spine, resulting in an upper spine split of about 3 cm. Cream coloured pages with some minor edge tanning, as is the case with inside covers. Decent tight staples at centrefold; lower a little loose at spine. A couple of faint creases across top right cover which do not break colour.
#54 VG p £50 2nd Mandarin. Pence printed. Nice unmarked cover image with good colour. Very narrow dust shadow along right edge. Only very minor edge wear. Cover and centrefold off lower staple. Upper spine split of less than 2 cm. Cream coloured pages. Slight tanning at edges of inside covers. 
#55 VG+ p £60 3rd Mandarin. Contains extra 5 page feature ‘Inside Info About Iron Man’. Pence printed. Nice unmarked cover image with good colour. Very narrow dust shadow along right edge. Only very minor edge wear. Decent tight staples. Off-white to cream pages, minor to moderate tanning to inside covers.

*Marvel: In the wake of other Marvel hits starring occult characters, and with the Exorcist movie taking big box-office, Stan Lee had originally proposed a series starring Satan himself, but Roy Thomas commuted it to Satan’s offspring, a demon/human hybrid who used his evil-spawned power for good, in rebellion against his father. Daimon Hellstrom duly appeared in Ghost Rider #2 as an antagonist before moving into his own solo series in Marvel Spotlight, and then progressing to his own book. Daimon remains a prominent character today in the Marvel Universe, though he doesn’t use the Son of Satan soubriquet any more, and in these more sensitive times his origins are usually politely glossed over. We have a superb copy of Ghost Rider #2 new in from an original owner collection, pence printed, with bright colours and high gloss. No wear or marks, except for the tiniest dink at top of spine. Staples are tight and firm at spine and centrefold, and supple pages are white to off-white.
PICTURED: GHOST RIDER #2 VF/NM p £120 SOLD

*Miscellaneous 1960 Onwards: Frank Miller’s Sin City burst on to the comics scene in 1991, firmly establishing the neo-noir mood he had built on in his earlier classic run on Daredevil and the seminal Dark Knight Returns. The original Sin City series (later entitled The Hard Goodbye) originally appeared in serial form in Dark Horse Presents, and in-between the series of mini-series that followed, there were a number of one-shots and specials, chock-full of the dark, seedy characters that inhabit the city and the locations that form it. The film noir influence on the series’ artwork is seen in its use of shadow and stark backgrounds. Black and white are the sole colours most of the time, with other colour used sparingly to highlight certain characters. The writing style also draws heavily on detective and crime pulp fiction. We’re delighted to present all six one-shots and specials, of varying length, in pristine condition from an original owner collection.
PICTURED: SIN CITY:  ALL SIX SPECIALS NM £35 THE SET SOLD
THE BABE WORE RED
A DECADE OF DARK HORSE #1 (contains Sin City, plus Predator & Grendel)
JUST ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT
LOST, LONELY AND LETHAL
SEX AND VIOLENCE
SILENT NIGHT

*Alan Class Reprints: 10 issues of Alan Class’s premier title Creepy Worlds fresh in this week, both pre and post decimal. These will be found in the regular stock section of this category.
IN THIS UPDATE: CREEPY WORLDS
#44 GD/VG £4.75 1st Captain Atom by Ditko
#78 VG £5.25
#92 FN £7.25 (PICTURED) Fly Special by Simon & Kirby
#135 VG £1.75
#137 VG £2
#138 VG £2
#147 GD/VG £1.75
#151 GD £1.75
#153 VG/FN £2
#155 FN £3

*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for this books category, with an image for each book. This week, we reach authors from Kornbluth to Lafferty. C M Kornbluth is represented by a book of short stories and a collaboration with Frederik Pohl, with whom he wrote many books. Henry Kuttner, a cornerstone of the Golden Age of science fiction, died tragically young, and was another frequent collaborator, with his wife C L Moore; we have here four of his solo works, including three books of short stories and his famous novel Fury. Lastly, two novels of good reputation by R A Lafferty. More details, including condition notes, in our catalogue.
PICTURED:
C M KORNBLUTH: THE EXPLORERS Ballantine 1963 US PB GD £3 Short stories
C M KORNBLUTH & FREDERIK POHL: SEARCH THE SKY Digit 1959 1st UK PB VG £8 SOLD
HENRY KUTTNER: AHEAD OF TIME Four Square 1967 3rd UK PB GD/VG £4 Short stories
HENRY KUTTNER: FURY Mayflower Dell 1966 2nd UK PB GD £4 SOLD
HENRY KUTTNER: THE PROUD ROBOT Hamlyn 1983 1st UK PB GD/VG £5 The complete Galloway Gallagher short stories
HENRY KUTTNER: RETURN TO OTHERNESS Mayflower Dell 1965 1st UK PB GD £3 Short stories
R A LAFFERTY: FOURTH MANSIONS Ace 1969 1st US PB VG/FN £15
R A LAFFERTY: PAST MASTER Ace 1977 US PB 1st thus VG £12

*DC: Leading our Midas Collection updates this week, two encapsulated issues of Batman from 1955.
PICTURED: BATMAN
#89 CGC 3.5 VG- £175 Cream to off-white pages. Universal blue label (unrestored). CGC Serial Code 1018102025 Strong colour cover. NB this case has the Newton’s Rings aspect, where an apparent rainbow oily visual effect is caused between the outer and inner holder due to the refractive processes of two pieces of plastic coming together. The comic itself is, of course, unaffected. This is not considered to be a holder defect by CGC; more information is available on the internet. Nevertheless, for some people, this effect is unappealing and we have priced this issue to reflect that. Cover by Win Mortimer, interiors by Dick Sprang and Sheldon Moloff. Stories by Bill Finger. River Rogues – a Prof Nichols time travel story; The Seven Wonders Of The Underworld – criminal inventions; Bruce Wayne’s Aunt Agatha – Bruce’s aunt unmasks Batman. 
#93 CGC 5.0 VG/FN £200 Off-white pages, case perfect. Universal blue label (unrestored). CGC Serial Code 0792847002 Cover by Win Mortimer, all interiors by Dick Sprang. Stories by Bill Finger and Edmond Hamilton. Journey To The Top Of The World – Batman & Robin must recover a valuable microfilm from a mountain top; Batman, Baby-Sitter – Bruce’s cousin Jane drops off her child for Bruce to care for, whilst fighting crime; The Caveman Batman – Prof Nichols (again) sends Batman and Robin back in time to investigate evidence of man co-existing with dinosaurs (!).  
 

*DC: Some loose ends of favourite titles this week in very affordable, lowish grades.
IN THIS UPDATE: ALL SOLD
ADVENTURE COMICS #354 GD £6 The Adult Legion; small cover scuff
GREEN LANTERN #31 GD- p £7.25 Power Rings For Sale
INFERIOR FIVE #5 GD p £2.50 The French Revolution
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #40 GD- p £6.50 Indestructible Creatures Of Nightmare Island
TEEN TITANS #10 FA/GD p £4 Scramble! The Scorcher Is Making The Scene

*Marvel: This week from the Bute Collection, we feature two excellent issues of the Fantastic Four from their heyday. #27 features another clash with the Sub-Mariner, which also features the first Dr Strange crossover. #35 has the dynamic debut of Dragon Man, as manipulated by the dastardly Diablo. Lee and Kirby at their best, in the opinion of this commentator.
PICTURED: FANTASTIC FOUR
#27 VG+ £110 Bright cover with good colour. Some crease marks over Sue’s legs don’t break colour. Edge wear at top and bottom. Staples firm at spine, lower off at centrefold. Off-white to cream pages.
#35 FN- P £75 Pence stamped. Strong colours with minimal edge wear. Tiny chipping at right edge of a couple of pages. Firm staples and white to off-white pages.

*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. Full details of what was reprinted in what are listed in our website catalogue. NB usually with newly-drawn covers. Over the next few months, we’ll be presenting a series of issues from this publisher. This week, quite a package in Eerie #1 from 1958. The cover is by Wally Wood, and although originally from Avon’s Strange World’s #6, the cover monster and some backgrounds were redrawn. Inside, the content is from Baily’s Spook Comics #1 (1945), often regarded as the first horror comic. Of the four stories, two are horror/suspense (inc. a Mr Lucifer story), two are horror/humour. 
PICTURED: EERIE #1 VG+ £80 Nice clean copy with striking cover image. Solid spine with minor wear. A little creasing, just breaking colour at corners and edges. Firm staples and supple white to off-white pages. SOLD

*Romance: Finally from the Midas Collection this week, six 1950s issues of DC’s Falling In Love. Although mostly drawn by unknown artists, DC’s romance comics from this period featured a good standard of appealing art, and often very well composed and executed covers. Having said that, you’ll find the work of Forte, Sekowsky, Colletta and even Matt Baker in these pages (Baker in #21). Seldom seen, particularly over here in the UK, the Midas Collection is quite rich in this genre, with many more to follow.
PICTURED: FALLING IN LOVE
#11 GD £13
#12 GD+ £16
#14 VG £26
#21 GD/VG £17
#23 GD+ £14
#30 GD- £10

*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: After the conclusion of the Marvelman series (himself a copy of the American Captain Marvel), British artist Mick Anglo moved on to give us just nine issues of Captain Miracle from 1960, who was really just Marvelman with a costume symbol change). There was even a Miracle Junior too. (Of course, we know of a later context where the words Marvel & Miracle were interchangeable, don’t we, kiddies?) Anyway, in the same format as Marvelman, accompanied to varying degrees by American back-up strips, we present three of the nine issues, including #1. We haven’t seen issues of these before, and believe them to be uncommon.
PICTURED: CAPTAIN MIRACLE
#1 FN £40 Bright, fresh copy.
#5 GD £10 Worn spine; book shop stamps SOLD
#7 GD/VG £15 Small tear at right edge (no loss); sealed by tape inside cover.

*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: We’ve been fortunate enough to acquire a selection of British Library Crime Classics, a contemporary series which reprints classic novels from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, bound in attractive uniform editions which feature period paintings as their covers. A celebration of famous and forgotten authors and a milestone in publishing for the British Library. All books are in like new, unread condition at a uniform price of £5 each. Further information is shown in our catalogue. Here’s four more of them:
BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSICS ALL SOLD
FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS: THE HOG’S BACK MYSTERY British Library Crime Classics 2015 UK PB Originally published 1933 Like New £5
MARTIN EDWARDS (Ed): SERPENTS IN EDEN British Library Crime Classics 2016 1st UK PB Like New £5 Countryside Crimes: Conan Doyle, Chesteron, Allingham, Gladys Mitchell, many more.
ALAN MELVILLE: DEATH OF ANTON British Library Crime Classics 2015 UK PB
Originally published 1936 Like New £5
RAYMOND POSTGATE: VERDICT OF TWELVE British Library Crime Classics 2017 UK PB Originally published 1940 Like New £5

*DC: The Midas Collection: Batman #8 from 1941/42 leads off this week’s updates. This is an issue with strong, quality content, four excellent Batman stories, all by Bill Finger and Bob Kane. In the first, Batman has to infiltrate a prison and ends up facing the gas chamber. In the second, The Strange Case Of Professor Radium, a scientist finds a way to use radium to bring the dead back to life, and he uses himself as a guinea pig; it doesn’t end well. The third story involves a murder mystery set at a stage production where superstitious practices are carried out. The Joker stars in the fourth story, as Batman and Robin pursue him cross country. All this within an outstanding infinity cover by Fred Ray and Jerry Robinson.
This copy, sadly, is a wreck. HANDLE WITH CARE! The front cover is completely, and raggedly, detached, with a strip 1-2 cm wide by 10 cm deep missing in from the spine on the lower half. The upper half of that side of the cover has several tears with some loss, including a long diagonal tear right across the top of Robin’s head (small piece of tape partially covering that inside cover). Top and bottom edges have wear, nicks and creases and the right edge of the whole comic is ragged, uneven and torn. There is a long crease down the right side of the cover about 4 cm in from the edge which deepens to a tear at its most severe. The back cover is also detached and in a similar state, with losses at spine and ragged corners off at top and bottom left. The staples hold everything firm except the centrefold which is loose. The pages are not too bad (apart from the ragged right edge) and are a creamy colour with some tanning at edges. Apart from the missing parts of cover, the comic is complete and perfectly readable, but I don’t think you’d want to handle it too much. Still, the condition does bring the price down! High resolution images are available on request.
PICTURED: BATMAN #8 PR £500 SOLD

*DC: From the Bute Collection this week, an issue of Sensation Comics from 1944. The home of Wonder Woman from #1 onwards, Sensation was an excellent anthology series, featuring at this time not only Diana, but also Sargon the Sorceror, Mr Terrific and Wildcat. The Wonder Woman story is by her creators, writer William Moulton Marston (pen name: Charles Moulton), and artist Harry G. Peter and involves Wonder Woman with the giant female warriors of Atlantis under the sea. This is a very decent copy, marred only by a 3 cm by 1 cm strip off top right cover. The cover has vivid colour and some gloss, a solid spine and minimal wear and corner blunting; small nick centre right with no loss. Printed without a lower staple, the upper is tight and firm and the page quality is an excellent flexible off-white. Small, faint name in pencil below logo. A nice example.
PICTURED: SENSATION COMICS #35 GD+ £225 SOLD

*Marvel: A Lee/Ditko trio of three consecutive Amazing Spider-Man issues from the Good Doctor Collection this week. Issues #26 & #27 are a two-parter, with the debut of the Crime- Master, a familiar face in a new disguise, tangling both with Spidey and the Green Goblin in a gangland war. In #28, Spidey comes up against a new foe, the Molten Man, featuring a dazzling black cover.
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
#26 VG+ p £110 Pence stamped. Nice solid copy with strong colours and a virtually unmarked cover. A little soft creasing around lower spine, and some wear along bottom edge, with very short creases breaking colour at bottom right corner. Small scuff mark at Spidey’s groin. Tight, firm staples and supple off-white pages.
#27 VG p £90 Pence stamped. Soft creasing/handling wear around mast-head, logo and upper spine. Small colour-breaking creases across bottom right cover and tick marks at spine. Great cover colour, tight, firm staples and supple off-white pages. 
#28 VG+ p £150 Pence printed; a ‘Marvel Pop Art Production.’ Stunning black cover shows every mark; fortunately, there aren’t too many. Minor edge and handling wear; soft creasing around lower spine with tick marks and a spidery reading crease breaking colour. Tight, firm staples and near white pages. 

 

*Horror 1940/1959: Astonishing #38-40 from Atlas were the first three post code issues, but the Atlas standards of quality didn’t drop despite the new restrictions on content. Carl Burgos, Robert Q Sale, Ross Andru, Bob Forgione, John Forte, Doug Wildey, Dick Ayers, Bob Powell and many others will be found within the pages of these three issues from the Bute Collection.
PICTURED: ASTONISHING
#38 GD £28 Small upper spine split with chip out, short tear at top margin throughout comic. Decent pages; staples firm but lower rusty with minimal migration. SOLD
#39 GD £28 Three long colour-breaking creases across cover; edge wear minimal. Nice pages and staples. SOLD
#40 VG £55 Solid copy with little wear apart from reading crease bottom spine. Good pages and staples; very slight spine roll.  

*War: Marvel’s flagship Silver Age war title was Sgt Fury (& His Howling Commandos) which had a long life throughout the Silver Age, with Nick Fury emerging later as head of SHIELD and becoming a cornerstone of the MU. Sgt Fury was popular enough to cause a spin-off title, Captain Savage (& His Leatherneck Raiders), which despite a much shorter run, produced a similar standard of war stories. Savage had been a supporting character in Sgt Fury prior to this. We have the first issue of Captain Savage fresh in in nice shape, plus a couple of early Sgt Fury issues, including the debut of Baron Strucker’s Blitzkrieg Squad, who were a Nazi version of the Howlers.
ALL SOLD
PICTURED: CAPTAIN SAVAGE #1 VF- p £30 Pence stamped
SGT FURY
#10 VG- p £25 Pence printed
#14 FN p £22 Pence stamped. 1st Blitzkrieg Squad

*Humour Comics: 3 Dandy issues of a true vintage this week. The Dandy commenced right at the end of 1937, so these three issues from 1938 are from the first full year of its publication. Famous for its comedy picture strips, the comic was split in those days between these (often several per page) and text and picture adventure stories. Korky the Cat was on the cover, of course, and the ever present Desperate Dan within. Alongside them were Keyhole Kate, Jimmy & His Grockle, Our Gang, Invisible Dick and many more features crammed into 28 packed pages. 
PICTURED: DANDY 1938
#9 FA/GD £125 Good cover colours. Lowish grade, with narrow clear tape reinforcement along the spine and a couple of interior pages. Foxing stains to cover and some interiors. Several small tears and nicks throughout, but nothing horrible. SOLD
#19 GD £90 Solid enough copy with short incipient tears at spine and bright cover colours.  Decent quality pages with some margin staining and a bit of page edge clear tape reinforcement. Small chunk out of page edge margin on one page. SOLD
#45 GD £50 Solid enough and fairly clean copy with bright cover colours. One short chunk off top spine (margin only) and a small piece of tape around bottom spine. Mostly good quality pages with some margin clear tape reinforcement. SOLD

*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: This week, we return to the famous and long-running Sexton Blake Library. Often dubbed ‘the poor man Sherlock Holmes’, there’s still no doubting the popularity of Sexton Blake, who has probably had far more fiction written of him than the world’s greatest detective. Six consecutive issues new in this week from the 1950s. These are picture library sized, but mainly text. The series ran from 1915 to 1968, These issues follow the 1956 revamp by W Howard Baker when the covers took on a more gangster/sleazy mode and were drawn by notable artists such as David Wright (#359 here). Written by a ‘harem’ of notable writers including Wilfred McNeilly, W Howard Baker, Michael Moorcock (one of many moonlighting as house name Desmond Reid), Peter Saxon and Jack Trevor Story, the longevity of the series is testament to the quality of the plotting and writing. And a factoid: one of Sexton Blake’s arch-enemies was Zenith the Albino – who is widely acknowledged to have inspired Moorcock’s morose hero Elric.
PICTURED: SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY: ALL AMALGAMATED 1950s ALL SOLD
#359: FRIGHTENED LADY: W HOWARD BAKER GD £5
#360: FLIGHT INTO FEAR: PETER SAXON GD/VG £6
#361: DARK MAMBO: W HOWARD BAKER GD/VG £6
#362: BROKEN TOY: ARTHUR MACLEAN GD/VG £6
#363: FRONT PAGE WOMAN: PETER SAXON GD £5
#364: INCLINING TO CRIME: ARTHUR KENT GD £5

*DC: Also from the Bute Collection this week, two early issues of the try-out series Showcase from 1957/58. Issues #11 & #12 feature the Challengers Of The Unknown in their 3rd and 4th appearances, the last before they got their own series. Both issues have great covers and interior art by Jack Kirby in long multi-chapter stories. #11 is a story of alien invasion. #12 centres on the sinister magical effects of the opening of ancient vials. 
PICTURED: SHOWCASE
#11 VG+ £220 Clean copy with small stamped digits below logo (arrival date?). Centrefold loose, but otherwise staples are okay. Some edge wear, mainly at spine, within spidery creases breaking colour there. Cover image virtually unharmed. Nice white to off-white pages.
#12 VG+ £220 Bright copy with vivid colour. A couple of faint creases break colour diagonally across logo and upper image, but do not soil the cover scene. There is a further crease that breaks colour across bottom right cover corner. Little other wear. Staples firm at spine and centrefold. Nice white to off-white pages.

*DC: Nine months before the debut of Supergirl in Action Comics #252, an earlier Supergirl appeared in Superman #123 in 1958. Now, despite a strong resemblance to Kara Zor-El, this wasn’t her, although we don’t want to spoil the enjoyment of the story by revealing her true nature. Suffice it to say that this must have been a try-out for the real thing! Story by Orto Binder, cover by Curt Swan and art by Dick Sprang; unusual as far as I’m aware to see the Sprangster draw an entire issue of Superman, and he seems to have adjusted his famous Batman style to resemble more the classic Superman artists of the period. A three-part story both charming, poignant and thrilling. This Midas Collection copy is a lower graded copy with a good, strong cover image. There are spine splits from the top down to just above the upper staple and from the bottom up likewise to the bottom staple. However, both staples themselves are firmly attached at spine and centrefold. There is a tiny chip out bottom right cover and fairly minor edge wear apart from the spine as noted. Pages are off-white and supple.
PICTURED: SUPERMAN #123 GD- £100

*Marvel: We’re always thrilled when an early copy by the ‘real’ Spidey artist, Steve Ditko, comes into our possession, and seldom more so than by this week’s acquisition, the second issue of Amazing Spider-Man, featuring the debut of one of his most enduring enemies, the Vulture! Despite his physically frail appearance, the airborne pensioner has survived numerous deaths, remodels, and replacements by younger counterparts, and the character retains an infamous popularity. This issue also features the premier appearance of the Terrible Tinkerer – no, really – who while less persistent than the Vulture, is still an occasional player in the Spidey mythos. Only Spider-Man’s third-ever appearance anywhere! This is a CGC Blue Label (no restoration) 4.5 (VG+ equivalent), with off-white pages, strong colours and a perfect case. CGC Code: 1269328001. High resolution images are available on request.
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2 CGC 4.5 (VG+) £2,200

*Marvel: Five consecutive issues of the X-Men now available, from #216 to #220, all in a consistent VF+ grade. Lots of Storm, Rogue, Dazzler and Psylocke in these issues, and guest artists aplenty.
IN THIS UPDATE: X-MEN
#216 VF+ £4.50
#217 VF+ £4.50
#218 VF+ £4.50
#219 VF+ £4.50
#220 VF+ £4.50

*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. Full details of what was reprinted in what are listed in our website catalogue. NB usually with newly-drawn covers. Over the next few months, we’ll be presenting a series of issues from this publisher. This week, four issues of Daring Adventures with varying content including lots of super-heroes.
IN THIS UPDATE: DARING ADVENTURES ALL SOLD
#10 GD £3.50 Reprints Dynamic Comics #24, Superior 1947. New cover by Ross Andru.
#11 FN- £9.25 Reprints Dynamic Comics #16, Chesler 1945. New cover by Ross Andru.
#17 FN+ £13 Reprints Green Lama #3, Spark 1945. New cover by Ross Andru.
#18 VG/FN £15 (PICTURED) Not reprint. Believed to be the unpublished Atlas Comics #1. Cover by Ross Andru.