*DC: A quartet of beauties that are among the closest to our collective hearts here at 30th Century – in Justice League of America #21 & #22, the ground-breaking ‘Crisis On Earth-One’ and ‘Crisis On Earth-Two’, the heroes of the Justice League met their parallel-world counterparts, the Justice Society of America, for the first time, and an annual tradition was formed. Superbly created by Gardner Fox, Mike Sekowsky and Bernard Sachs, the multiple heroes and villains of these stories were expertly juggled, with everyone getting their moment to shine. Reader response was such that in issues #29 and #30, we were brought the two-part, ‘Crisis On Earth-Three’ and ‘The Most Dangerous Earth of All!’ respectively, which introduced the Justice League’s evil counterparts, the Crime Syndicate of America, from yet another parallel world. After a period in limbo, the CSA were revived in later decades, and have become major antagonists in subsequent DC Universes. The Justice Society went from strength to strength, and have starred in several ongoing series since. These are the issues that kicked it all off!
IN THIS UPDATE: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA:
#21 VG/FN p £200 (PICTURED) Nice flat, tight pence stamped copy with vibrant cover colour, staples firm at spine and centrefold, lovely off-white pages. Very tiny dink top right corner, minor edge wear and a little fine colour-breaking creasing along part of the spine.
#22 GD+ p £22
#29 VG+ p £85 (PICTURED) Flat, tight pence stamped copy with vibrant cover colour, staples firm at spine and centrefold, lovely off-white pages. Very tiny dink bottom right corner, quite a few spine ticks break colour at spine, with a little minor soft creasing.
#30 GD/VG p £20
Tag Archives: Vintage DC
American Update: Tales Of The Unexpected
*DC: A chunky update to this long-running title, which went through lots of changes. Here we are concerned with the 1960s, and issues between #62 & #99, the first half of which featured Space Ranger (last in #82) and went on to feature horror/mystery stories with some recurring characters (1st Automan in #91). Although not up to the apex of the very high bar set by Julius Schwartz in Mystery In Space and Strange Adventures, nevertheless the Jack Schiff edited Tales Of The Unexpected presented a consistent standard of story and art. Full details as always in our catalogue.
American Update: Their Name Is Legion: Adventure Comics #300, LSH series begins
*DC: The latest in our Legion of Super-Heroes event is Adventure Comics #300, in which Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes replaced Tales of the Bizarro World as the regular back-up feature to Superboy and starred on the cover. Although the Legion had been around as supporting characters for a few years, it was really here and in the 80 issue run that followed that the lore of the Legion, so beloved by its fans (of which I’m one) really started. This is a reasonable copy, pence stamped, good cover colour, decent pages and okay if slightly rusty staples. Rounded corners and some edge wear, not too bad but for a small chip out upper right edge and a small tear across the Comics Code Box.
PICTURED: ADVENTURE COMICS #300 GD/VG p £60