*Vintage UK/Australian Reprints of US Material: Len Miller was the premier UK publisher of ‘faux’ American-sized British comics in the 1950s and early 1960s. He published a wide range of material, both original and US reprint, perhaps most famously Marvelman and Young Marvelman. Although succeeded by Alan Class, there was a period in the early 1960s where both publishers overlapped and some of Miller’s titles (Mystic, Spellbound, Voodoo and Zombie) closely resembled the type of content also being used by Alan Class, reprinting Atlas, pre-hero Marvel and other early horror, with occasional forays into the Marvel Super-Hero Universe. We have examples of all this in this week’s selection of Mystic between issues #13 & #66 (the final issue). Notably there are lots of Jack Kirby Big Panty Monster covers and stories, plus some Marvel reprints (#42 reprints 1950s Captain America & Sub-Mariner stories from Young Men #24, #43 reprints the Doctor Strange story from Strange Tales #114, #53 reprints Tales Of Asgard from Journey Into Mystery #107) and #58 reprints the first ever published Ditko story: ‘Stretching Things’. Full details in our catalogue.
PICTURED: MYSTIC #42 FN £35 SOLD