*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: We mosey on down to Quirky Corner this week for a super-rare oddity. Buster Comics (a one-shot as far as we know) from 1947 was published by the small Scottish publisher Cartoon Art Productions (there is no connection to the more famous Buster comic that started in the 1960s). We can find no recorded sales of this, nor virtually any information about it on the net. What we do know is that it is written and drawn by Dennis M Reader, a famous British creator of the 1940s and 50s. It stars the super-heroines Electro Girl (revived by 2000 AD in its Zenith phase and used by Alan Moore in the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and Phantom Maid (this appears to be her first appearance from the context of the story, although an internet source states this was in Super Duper #5 from the same publisher, a more famous and longer-lived title). There is also western adventure with Dusty Trale, a western text story with Dakota Dan and one page funny Daffy Notion; Reader sure packed a lot into 16 pages. Published in black and white and red and blue (with shading), Reader’s creations were inspired by his love of American comics, as evidenced by the settings of all the stories, particularly Electro Girl in Hollywood. Here we’re showing front cover, back cover (with the Electro Girl story which continues inside) and an interior page of the Phantom Maid story. The condition is okay, centrefold loose of its single staple, the odd edge tear, but unmarked and all perfectly legible. We expect this to be snapped up very quickly — you’ll look a long time before you find another!
PICTURED: BUSTER COMICS 1947 GD/VG £100 SOLD