British Update: Announcing Alan Class Reprints Redux – One-Offs and Short Runs
*Alan Class Reprints: As our regular customers will know, we have an exclusive arrangement with Alan Class to market the contents of his personal archives, and he has now released to us the final instalment of his file copies and Printing Plate sets, several hundred of the former and several dozen of the latter. Cataloguing these is a gargantuan task, which we shall be tackling in instalments over the months ahead. For the inaugural salvo of this procedure, which we’re terming ‘Alan Class Reprints Redux’, we have the publisher’s original file copies of a selection of short-run series – Tales of the Underworld (crime stories), Amazing Stories and Outer Space (classic sci-fi including some Ditko stories), and Just Dennis (the American ‘Dennis the Menace’, strategically renamed for the UK market). These are enhanced by a number of one-off publications – Astonishing Stories, Eerie Tales, Race Into Space, and Space Trip To The Moon, some of which were ‘pilot’ issues for later ongoing series (‘Astonishing’, for example, became the long-running ‘Astounding Stories’.). Each of these comes with a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity from Mr. Class himself, affirming its provenance as part of the publisher’s original archives, as shown below with some sample issues.