*Marvel: Key issues don’t come much more key these days than Iron Man #55, wherein the cosmic arch-villain Thanos, nemesis of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, made his first appearance, the brainchild of fan favourite writer/artist Jim Starlin. Thanos has of course gone on to plague Marvel’s heroes in comics and movies ever since, but here is where it all started. This landmark issue also features the debuts of Drax the Destroyer, Mentor, Eros (later Starfox of the Avengers) and Kronos. We have a lovely clean pence printed copy fresh in this week, glossy with rich colour, staples firm and tight at spine and centrefold. Supple pages are off-white to cream. Minor corner blunting and a small number of very minor spine ticks just break colour. From an original owner collection and new to the marketplace.
PICTURED: IRON MAN #55 FN+ p £400
American Comics Update: The Good Doctor Collection: X-Men #36-40
*Marvel: From the Good Doctor Collection this week, a consecutive run of five X-Men issues from #36-40, featuring the menace of Mekano (was he a villain or a construction set?), the prolonged showdown with Factor Three (were they a villain group or a sun block?) and a clash with Frankenstein (I expect you know all about him).
IN THIS UPDATE: X-MEN
#36 FN+ p £80 (PICTURED) Pence printed, solid unmarked copy with nice pages and staples, just minor edge wear and very minor corner blunting.
#37 VG/FN p £55 (PICTURED) Pence printed, nice copy with minor edge and handling wear. Good pages and staples; long reading crease that breaks colour for about 4 cm.
#38 FA p £8.50 Pence stamped, ragged corner off bottom right cover, cover markings and creases.
#39 FA/GD p £10.25 New costumes. Pence stamped, heavy edge wear with small chips out, creases breaking colour.
#40 FN+ p £100 (PICTURED) Pence stamped, lovely presentable copy with great colour and gloss, great pages and staples, only very minor edge wear.
American Comics Update: Spider-Mania/Marvel #1’s: Spider-Man 1970s Double Bill
*Marvel: This week’s Marvel #1 feature is two 1970s #1 issues of ongoing Spider-Man series. First up. Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #1 (as it was then called) from 1976, which was launched as the second main Spidey title after Amazing; secondly, Spidey Super Stories #1 from 1974, aimed at younger readers and others learning to read.
PICTURED:
SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #1 VF+ p £35
SPIDEY SUPER STORIES #1 FN £35
American Comics Update: The Bute Collection: EC’s Frontline Combat x2
*EC: Two fairly ropey condition copies of the seldom seen Frontline Combat this week from the Bute Collection. The grades may be low, but the quality is high! War stories that packed a punch.
PICTURED: FRONTLINE COMBAT BOTH SOLD
#14 FA £12 Pre-code. Art by Wood, Kubert, Kurtzmann, Evans, Davis. Covers detached, spine almost totally split.
#15 PR £9 Final issue. Pre-code. Art by Wood, Evans, Kurtzmann, Davis, Severin. Covers detached and separated.
American Comics Update: The Bute Collection: Pre-Code Horror Fest: Worlds Of Fear #3
*Horror 1940-1959: Also from the Bute Collection this week, issue #3 of Fawcett’s Worlds Of Fear from 1952. Beneath a striking and garish cover, possibly by Shelley Moldoff, interior art is by George Evans, possibly Moldoff and others. Stories include monstrous life-forms, zombies and a ghost pirate and are quite intense. The black background cover has fine creases at spine and edges which break colour. The staples have a spot of two or rust with minor migration; the cover is off at top staple. There is a spot about the size of a small coin on the central head’s forehead that looks like it was a handwritten price, crudely covered over by green pen, but looks better than it sounds. Overall, not too bad.
PICTURED: WORLDS OF FEAR #3 GD+ £140 SOLD
American Comics Update: 2 short series from ACG
*Horror/Mystery 1960-1980s: ACG had been one of the earliest publishers of Pre-Code Horror; after the code was imposed, their output took on a more whimsical quality; ghosts, witches and the like still abounded, but with a more understated horror (but no less quality). Such was the atmosphere in the two short-lived series offered this week: Gasp was four issues and Midnight Mystery seven. Selections from both new in as follows:
IN THIS UPDATE: ALL SOLD
GASP
#1 VG £8.25 (PICTURED)
#3 FN+ £10
MIDNIGHT MYSTERY
#4 VG- p £6.50 Off lower staple
#5 GD p £4 (PICTURED)
#6 GD £4
British Comics Update: Radar, The Man From The Unknown
*Boys’ Adventure & War Picture Libraries: This week, we have a super-hero with a difference – Radar, the Man From The Unknown! Launching in 1962, these English-language reprints of an Italian (we think) series featured a Strange Visitor From Another Planet, Radar, who exhibits mighty powers (flight, a ‘danger sense’, enhanced strength and the ability to turn into really oddly-drawn animals, among others). Taking the alias ‘Rock’, he lives a civilian life on Earth accompanied by his lovely girlfriend Brenda, who somehow fails to notice that Rock and Radar are one and the same despite the fact that they have identical features and even wear the same sweater! (Maybe she just thought Rock was a fanboy…) Radar’s, er, radar-sense enabled him not only to sense danger to himself, but also if anyone in the world needed his aid, so his adventures spanned a wide variety of locales. Radar is an oddity; it’s like a vague memory in the minds of a generation of Brits of a certain age, many of whom remember seeing one or two issues in their childhood, but without much recollection of details. We have 14 of the 26 issues in stock of this uncommon series. Of note are the striking and lovely painted covers on many issues – folks expecting the same high standard of interior artwork should, well, brace themselves for disillusionment. Oddly, from about the middle of the run, Radar’s costumed persona and super-feats were replaced on the cover by beautifully-executed but generic illustrations which could come from any number of spy/detective series, but he carried merrily on with his trademarked super-stunts within. Rare in any grade, and this collection is in astonishingly good nick, with only a few bringing down the VF average. Three examples pictured below; for full details, please see our catalogue.
PICTURED: RADAR
#4 VF £15
#11 VF £15
#12 VF £15 SOLD
British Comics Update: Free Gift Farrago/This Week’s #1 (& #2 & #3): Spellbound, the All Mystery Story Paper For Girls
*Girls’ Comics: Although ‘strange stories’, with a genteel supernatural element, had been a staple of girls’ weeklies since the mid-1960s, Spellbound was the first girls’ weekly to devote itself to the theme. While many of its series, including its best-remembered serial ‘Supercats’, with four young super-heroines dispensing justice throughout the galaxy, were science-fiction, the majority featured ghosts, witches, curses and mysterious creatures and apparitions to terrify its young audience. Launched by D.C. Thomson in 1976 – and lasting a mere 66 issues before yielding the field to its IPC-published successor and imitator, Misty – Spellbound is fondly remembered and keenly sought these days because of the quality of its scripts and artwork. We have the first three issues available this week, including the Free Gift with #2.
PICTURED: SPELLBOUND ALL SOLD
#1 VG £40
#2 VG £50 WITH FREE GIFT VF SUPERCATS SECRETS DIARY
#3 VG/FN £20
British Comics Update: True Life Library – 25 issues added from 1970
*Girls’ Picture Libraries: 25 issues of True Life Library fresh to our catalogue this week between #701 and #743, close to the end of this long-running series (it finished with #769). The standard of art by mainly European illustrators is very accomplished. These are lovely items, their appeal enhanced by the fact that they are from a newsagent’s reserve stock, never sold or circulated, with white pages, bright covers and very little if any rust in the staple areas. Full details as always in our catalogue.
PICTURED: TRUE LIFE LIBRARY #739 FN/VF £5.50
Books Update: Re-Working our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Category: The Fantasy of James Branch Cabell
*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror category for the singular works of the American fantasist James Branch Cabell. Cabell, active from 1904 until his death in 1958 wrote aristocratic, whimsical, profane fantasies perfectly suited to the mood of the 1920s; his most famous book Jurgen was the subject of a famous obscenity trial. Cabell’s inventive witticisms, sardonic irreverence and habit of the gently bawdy are delivered with panache. A very prolific author, most of his works are devoted to the saga of the mythic land of Poictesme and its lineage; each volume is complete in itself, yet has common characters and themes down the ages. His work fell out of fashion and out of print with the second World War, but was revived by Pan Ballantine in their Adult Fantasy series in the 1970s and other publishers, and it is these volumes that form the basis of our stock.
PICTURED: ALL BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL
THE CREAM OF THE JEST Pan Ballantine 1972 1st UK PB GD £3
FIGURES OF EARTH Tandem 1971 UK PB VG £6
THE HIGH PLACE Del Rey 1979 2nd US PB VG £5
JURGEN Tandem 1971 UK PB VG £6 SOLD
THE SILVER STALLION Tandem 1971 UK PB VG £6
Books Update: Re-Working our Crime, Spies & Sleaze Category: Dibner to Duperrault
*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our Crime, Spies & Sleaze category for authors between Dibner & Duperrault. Martin Dibner’s Showcase tag-line is ‘bedroom and boardroom scenes alternate in this outspoken novel of department store life.’ There are two classic mysteries from Carter Dickson (a pseudonym of John Dickson Carr) featuring Sir Henry Merrivale: A Graveyard To Let and She Died A Lady. Something For Nothing by H Vernor Dixon is about a ruthless gambler. Stick or Bust by Ricky Drayton is one of those classic British gangster pulps of the 1950s with a typical good girl cover by Roger Davis. Finally, two sleazy volumes in one edition: Backwoods Shack and Spotlight On Sin, with heroines who would ‘stop at nothing’.
PICTURED:
MARTIN DIBNER: SHOWCASE Pan 1961 1st UK PB VG £4
CARTER DICKSON: A GRAVEYARD TO LET Berkley Medallion 1968 US PB GD/VG £5 (new in) SOLD
CARTER DICKSON: SHE DIED A LADY Penguin 1959 3rd UK PB VG £6 SOLD
H VERNOR DIXON: SOMETHING FOR NOTHING Hamish Hamilton 1953 1st UK PB GD £4
RICKY DRAYTON: STICK OR BUST Scion 1953 1st UK PB GD/VG £40
DOUG DUPERRAULT – SPOTLIGHT ON SIN / HARRY WHITTINGTON – BACKWOODS SHACK Lancer 2 for 1 1950s US PB VG/FN £20
American Comics Update: Batmania: Brave & Bold #75, Batman and the Spectre
*DC: One of the earliest appearances of the Spectre in his Silver Age revival came in Brave & Bold #75, in which he teamed up with Batman to take on a mystical menace in a tale set in Chinatown against the backdrop of the Chinese New Year. Beneath a spectacular Neal Adams cover, the story by Bob Haney, illustrated by Andru and Esposito, unfolds. A sharp copy with great colour and gloss, tight, firm staples, supple white to off-white pages. Virtually no wear except a tiny amount top right corner and a little bit of handling along the right edge.
PICTURED: BRAVE AND BOLD #75 VF £45 SOLD
American Comics Update: Six Of The Best: Three phases of House Of Mystery
*DC: The prestigious DC title House Of Mystery went through many changes in its 321 issue history. This week, we’re concentrating on just three distinct phases, all from the Silver Age. Issues #120 & #123 feature horror/mystery tales typical of Jack Schiff’s editorship, #148 & #154 star the Martian Manhunter in the middle of his transfer run from Detective Comics, and #156 & #160 feature Dial H For Hero, #156 being the first of those stories, and #160 with Robby Reed in the role of Plastic Man, sort of as that hero’s first DC appearance.
PICTURED: HOUSE OF MYSTERY ALL SOLD
#120 FA £4 Worn spine and small erosion upper right.
#123 VG p £11
#148 GD- £5.25
#154 VG- p £6.50 Loose centrefold
#156 GD/VG p £11 1st Dial H For Hero
#160 GD p £6.75 1st Silver Age Plastic Man; loose centrefold, bookshop stamps
American Comics Update: The Bute Collection: Mighty Marvel Firsts: Fantastic Four #11, with the debuts of the Impossible Man and Willie Lumpkin
*Marvel: From the Bute Collection this week: Unusually, Fantastic Four #11 featured two stories rather than a book-lengther. In ‘A Visit With The Fantastic Four’, a change-of-pace ‘day in the life’ story, we hear more about how the FF are seen by the regular citizens of the Marvel Universe at large, courtesy of their fan mail – brought to them by mailman Willie Lumpkin, later portrayed on the big screen by Smilin’ Stan Lee himself! The second story was the premiere of the perplexing person from Poppup, as the Impossible Man, shape-shifting mischief-maker from outer space, plagued Marvel’s First Family for the first of what were to be many, many occasions. This is one of the more off-beat and charming issues of the FF’s early run, demonstrating that Stan & Jack were as at home with warmth and whimsy as they were with cosmic drama. Not a bad pence-priced copy, with good colour cover; most wear and colour-breaking marks are restricted to the edges or near the spine; there are a few insignificant cover grubby marks and the very slight suggestion of a subscription crease which does not break colour. Staples are firm and reasonably tight. Pages are a nice supple off-white.
PICTURED: FANTASTIC FOUR #11 GD/VG p £195
American Comics Update: The Good Doctor Collection: Mighty Marvel Firsts: Debut of Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD in Strange Tales #135
*Marvel: Although the ‘modern’ Nick Fury had appeared in Fantastic Four as a CIA Agent, giving readers of Sgt. Fury their first clue that he’d survived World War II (and ‘spoiling’ the rest of the series for them…) the height of the spy craze in 1965 meant that when Nick took over the second slot in Strange Tales, he had his very own acronymic agency in SHIELD, which made its debut in Nick’s second starring series. ‘Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD’ brought the character firmly into the Swingin’ Sixties, with fantastic gadgets, high-stakes melodrama, megalomaniacal villains, and lovely lethal ladies who switched from kissing to killing at the drop of a plot twist. Contrasted with the stunning Lee & Ditko Doctor Strange, this spies & sorcery mishmash delighted the readership. This Good Doctor Collection copy of Strange Tales #135 is a cents copy with an unmarked rich colour cover with residual gloss. There is minor wear at corners and top edge, but nothing really breaks colour. There are a couple of very soft creases in the masthead area. Staples are tight and firm; pages are supple and white to off-white.
PICTURED: STRANGE TALES #135 FN- £125
American Comics Update: Marvel #1’s: Hanna-Barbera at Marvel 1977
*Marvel: This week’s Marvel #1 slot is dedicated to the four on-going series published in 1977 based on animated properties from Hanna-Barbera cartoons. These eternal characters have stayed with us since their inception, and I’m sure we’ve all grown up with them. All four #1 issues are featured here, almost all in near-pristine condition.
PICTURED:
DYNO-MUTT #1 VF/NM £60 Glossy and colourful, great staples and white to off-white pages. Only the tiniest amounts of handling wear.
THE FLINSTONES #1 VF £55 Glossy and colourful, great staples and white to off-white pages. Just tiny amounts of handling wear with very minor waviness at spine.
SCOOBY-DOO #1 FN/VF £95 Glossy and colourful, great staples and white to off-white pages. Tiny amounts of handling wear and a very tiny corner off at top right, which brings it down to this grade.
YOGI BEAR #1 NM £65 Pristine. Glossy and colourful, great staples and white to off-white pages.
American Comics Update: Tabloid Headlines: The Mighty Thor
*Marvel: We continue our recurring feature on tabloid-sized comics with two more Marvel Treasury editions starring the Mighty Thor, both in high grade (which is uncommon for these over-sized items). #3 reprints a complete six-issue saga guest-starring Hercules and introducing the Greek/Roman pantheon, as chronicled by Stan & Jack. #10 has reprints of the original Mangog story, an epic masterpiece from Thor #154-157, with Stan & Jack at the height of their grandeur.
PICTURED: MARVEL TREASURY EDITION BOTH SOLD
#3 VF+ p £20
#10 VF/NM p £25
American Comics Update: The Bute Collection: Pre-Code Horror Fest: Black Cat Mystery x 2
*Horror 1940-1959: The Bute Collection delivers more thrills and chills this week. Harvey’s Black Cat started out in 1946 as a super-heroine comic, before later becoming Black Cat Western, then Black Cat Mystery, ending its life in the early 60s with Giant reprints of the original titular character. Here we are concerned with the pre-code horror phase, with two well-executed horror anthologies with lurid covers. This series featured some of the most infamous covers of the genre and the content was full of gore, graphic violence and supernatural themes. (Sidebar: We share our home with three black cats (among others), so are well acquainted with black cat mysteries such as ‘Who was sick on the carpet?’, ‘Who brought in that mouse?’, ‘Who scoffed all the nobbles?’ etc, but I guess that’s a whole different show…)
PICTURED: BLACK CAT MYSTERY BOTH SOLD
#37 PR £35 Pre-Code. Classic Warren Kremer cover: six ghouls crawl and rise up out of their graves as a sleep walking blonde stumbles through their graveyard. Interior art by Kramer, Perlin, Certa and Palais. Cover sadly faded, covers detached and separated. Small chips out at cover edges; pages are okay.
#44 VG- £600 Pre-Code. Classic cover by Lee Elias: a madman laughs at the conflagration that engulfs him. Interior art by Powell, Sparling, Certa and Nostrand. Calendar for 1953 bound-in. Solid copy with rich, lurid colour cover scene, unmarked. Staples firm at spine and centrefold. Some corner blunting and wear at edges and spine only; page quality is an excellent, supple off-white to cream. Minor colour bleed through to inside front cover. High resolution images are available on request.
British Comics Update: Spider-Mania: Spider-Man Comics Weekly #2-10 in high grade
*Marvel UK: We hop across the Pond for this week’s dose of Spider-Mania, with issues #2-10 of Spider-Man Comics weekly from 1973, the second series from Marvel UK. The early issues of Amazing Spidey were reprinted in Mighty World Of Marvel, so the reprints in this series start with #9 i.e. #2 reprints Amazing #10. Spidey’s co-star, the Mighty Thor, starts here from his second story from Journey Into Mystery #84. These are the nicest copies we’ve ever seen, with no creases, tears or marks; you never see this with white pages, but the slight creamy pages are, we believe, as nice as when they were printed. Carefully read once by the original owner and then stored away for 50 years; just what look like printing marks on the spine margin of #9. Complete with all coupons intact to enable you to send off for the Free Gift, but I doubt you’d have much success trying that now.
IN THIS UPDATE: SPIDER-MAN COMICS WEEKLY ALL SOLD
#2 VF £25 (PICTURED)
#3 VF £15
#4 VF £12
#5 VF £12
#6 VF £5
#7 VF £5
#8 VF £5
#9 FN/VF £4
#10 VF £5
British Comics Update: This Week’s #1/Quirky Corner: True West from L Miller 1959
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: More a magazine than a comic, this 31 x 28 cm curiosity from 1959 features a full colour cover and black and white photo interiors and illustrations enhancing what purport to be true stories of the American west in text form. 32 pages plus covers on this #1 issue (was there ever a #2?). Solid enough condition and page quality with some foxing; 3 cm lower spine split and some spine wear, but unmarked apart from handwritten date on first page. Published by the famous British publisher Len Miller.
PICTURED: TRUE WEST #1 GD £12.50 SOLD
British Comics Update: Super-Detective Library #11-19
*Boys’ Adventure & War Picture Libraries: Super-Detective Library (Told In Pictures), originally published by Amalgamated (later Fleetway) from 1953, concentrated in its early issues on stories of established detectives from across literature, radio and film. We have added issues #11 to #19 this week, mostly in low to mid grades, with rusty staples to varying degrees, but okay conditions with a couple with loose covers.
IN THIS UPDATE: SUPER-DETECTIVE LIBRARY
#11 VG £15 The Saint: The Menace Of The Poison Pen (PICTURED)
#12 FA/GD £11 Dick Barton: City Under The Sea
#13 FA £10 Bulldog Drummond: The Final Count
#14 FA/GD £11 Rod Collins, Special Agent In Space: The Men From The Stars (PICTURED)
#15 VG/FN £17.50 The Saint & The Vanishing Policeman (PICTURED)
#16 FA/GD £11 Lesley Shane: The Riddle Of The Race Gang
#17 GD/VG £13.50 The Phantom Of The Fun-Fair (PICTURED)
#18 FA £10 Ernest Dudley, the Armchair Detective: The Mystery Of The Hooded Man
#19 FA/GD £11 Lesley Shane: The Last Jest Of Angelo Yates
Books Update: Re-Working our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Category: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Master of Adventure: Final Part
*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror category for the final of several updates spotlighting the Master of Adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs was very prolific, and wrote in several series, in addition to his most famous creation Tarzan of the Apes. His style and settings set the tone for a whole library full of imitators/homagists in jungle, interplanetary and exotic locales. We have covered our ERB stock in a number of updates over the past weeks, concluding this week with a handful of his novels that don’t fit into extended series. The Eternal Savage (which features Tarzan) is a tale of love between a modern girl and a Stone Age warrior; The Monster Men (new in) is a tale reminiscent of Frankenstein and the Island Of Dr Moreau and features Frank Frazetta cover and interior art; The Moon Men is one of two tales of lunar adventure and a sequel to The Moon Maid. I hope you’ve enjoyed this trip through the worlds of ERB and I’m sure we’ll have more to add in the near future.
PICTURED: ALL BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
THE ETERNAL SAVAGE Ace US PB VF £3
THE MONSTER MEN Ace 1st US PB VG £6
THE MOON MEN Horwitz 1970 Aus PB GD £4
Books Update: Re-Working our TV/Film Tie-Ins Category: The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
*TV/FIlm Tie-Ins: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our TV/Film Tie-Iins category for the Man from UNCLE. I wrote an appreciation of the Man (and Girl) from UNCLE novels during lockdown, which says (I think) everything you need to know about them. You can read that here. Our Man from UNCLE stock comprises eight of the sixteen UK novels, including #9 The Vampire Affair, my personal favourite.
PICTURED: THE MAN FROM UNCLE ALL SOLD
#4 THE STONE-COLD DEAD IN THE MARKET AFFAIR by JOHN ORAM Souvenir Press/Four Square 1966 1st UK PB GD £3
#5 THE FINGER IN THE SKY AFFAIR by PETER LESLIE Souvenir Press/Four Square 1966 1st UK PB GD £7
#8 THE MAD SCIENTIST AFFAIR by JOHN T PHILLIFENT Souvenir Press/Four Square 1966 1st UK PB GD £5
#9 THE VAMPIRE AFFAIR by DAVID McDANIEL Souvenir Press/Four Square 1966 1st UK PB GD/VG £5
#10 THE DIVING DAMES AFFAIR by PETER LESLIE Souvenir Press/Four Square 1967 1st UK PB VG £8
#11 THE THINKING MACHINE AFFAIR by JOEL BERNARD Souvenir Press/Four Square 1967 1st UK PB GD/VG £7
#13 THE CORFU AFFAIR by JOHN T PHILLIFENT Souvenir Press/Four Square 1967 1st UK PB VG £17 Scarce
#14 THE SPLINTERED SUNGLASSES AFFAIR by PETER LESLIE Souvenir Press/Four Square 1967 1st UK PB GD £4
American Comics Update: DC Debuts: Flash #139, 1st Professor Zoom
*DC: After #123 (‘Flash of Two Worlds’, as if you need telling), and the premier issue (#105), probably the most in-demand issue of the Silver Age Flash is #139, which featured the first appearance of Professor Zoom, the Reverse-Flash, Barry Allen’s super-swift nemesis from the far-flung future, whose appearances in the popular Flash television series caused his early appearances to zoom (sorry) upwards in value. We are delighted to welcome a nice mid-grade pence printed copy to our inventory this week. It has the rich colours that DC did so well, an unmarred cover scene, tight, firm staples and supple white to off-white pages. There are three very small colour-breaking creases across the bottom right cover corner, and some handling wear at spine and around bottom staple, but overall a sound copy that would be a joy to own.
PICTURED: FLASH #139 VG+ p £300
American Comics Update: Lois Lane #4, 1958
*DC: We present an early issue of Lois Lane from 1958 in the days before UK distribution of DC titles. Lois Lane #4 has three stories, as was common in those days, two by series regular Kurt Schaffenberger and a third by Wayne Boring, in which Lois portrays Annie Oakley. A decent mid-grade copy with strong colour, tight, firm staples and nice off-white pages. There is some edge wear, but relatively minor apart from at the spine where there is a colour-breaking reading crease and ticks. There is also a colour-breaking 13 cm crease across the logo at the top right corner, but this does not really spoil the cover image on this seldom-seen issue.
PICTURED: LOIS LANE #4 VG £75 SOLD
American Comics Update: Six Of The Best: Silver Age Superman
*DC: A sextet of the best of the Man Of Steel from the Silver Age this week, between #186 & #196. Krypton, new enemies and an 80 Page Giant issue featuring the Fortess of Solitude. Art by Swan, Boring and Plastino. Plenty to enjoy.
IN THIS UPDATE: SUPERMAN
#186 VG p £13.25
#187 FA p £4 Eighty Page Giant, Fortress of Solitude; long spine split
#189 VG+ p £12.25 Book-length Krypton’s Second Doom
#190 VG/FN p £14
#191 VG+ p £15
#196 GD p £6.75 Large red felt tip ‘6d’ centre cover
American Comics Update: Iconic Thor cover on Journey Into Mystery #89
*Marvel: Journey Into Mystery #89 is an issue we see less often than those around it; I don’t know why. Within the rather prosaically-titled The Thunder God and the Thug, the origin of Thor is masterfully re-told, as rendered by Jack Kirby. There’s also one of those wonderful Steve Ditko fantasy back-ups. But this issue is rightfully prized for the iconic Kirby Thor cover. This pence-printed copy has small colour-breaking creases at corners and edges, but the famous image is untouched. Some wear to spine and some chipping to right edge. Nice firm, tight staples and decent off-white, supple pages.
PICTURED: JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #89 VG- p £250 SOLD
American Comics Update: Spider-Mania: The Totally Amazing Spider-Man Collection: Classic Venom Cover on Amazing #316
*Marvel: If you’re looking for really nice copies of Amazing Spider-Man for your collection, then look no further than this Collection. All high grade; even the few that fall below VF (and most are above) are really good-looking copies – no duds here, and nearly all cents copies. Smack in the middle of Todd McFarlane’s run on Amazing Spider-Man comes issue #316, featuring the first cover appearance of Venom, the character that defined this period. The cover image portrays what the character is all about. There’s little doubt that Venom is one of the Marvel characters originating later than the Bronze Age who has gone on to become a cornerstone of the Marvel Universe. This is a beautiful high grade copy, great colour and gloss, tight and firm staples, white to off-white pages, square corners. Tiny handling marks at the right edge and the merest suggestion of a tiny dink at base of spine are the only defects.
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #316 VF+ £90 SOLD
American Comics Update: The Good Doctor Collection: Avengers #21 & #22, #26 & #27
*Marvel: Two marvelous two-parters from Cap’s Kooky Quartet in the Good Doctor releases this week. In that excellent spell when the Avengers were Cap, Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch and Hawkeye, four of the best issues ever. In #21 & #22, they come up against the threat of Power Man and the Enchantress. Power Man was created by Zemo’s machinery used earlier to create Wonder Man. Don Heck’s pencils had never looked so graceful as when inked by the wondrous Wally Wood, who lent and extra air of glamour to the Scarlet Witch and the Enchantress. #26 and #27 re-introduced the Wasp, and featured the menace of Attuma and his plans to flood the Earth. All nice copies.
PICTURED: AVENGERS
#21 FN/VF £110 Tight and unmarked, with just a suggestion of a reading crease at the spine not breaking colour. Square corners, firm staples, nice supple white to off-white pages.
#22 FN- £50 Tight with bright colours, unmarked but for a colour-breaking crease along bottom of a right edge ending in a tiny chip out. Small dinks at bottom spine and top right corner. Firm staples and supple white to off-white pages.
#26 FN/VF p £55 Clean white background and strong colours. Unmarked, with very slight corner blunting. Only very minor edge wear. Firm staples and supple white to off-white pages.
#27 VF+ £110 Unmarked cover with strong colours. Square corners but for tiny amount of blunting at bottom of spine. Tight and flat with almost white, supple pages. Firm staples; a beauty.
American Comics Update: Marvel #1: Skull the Slayer Complete Set plus bonus
*Marvel: Not only is this week’s Marvel #1 (Skull the Slayer) accompanied by issues #2-8 to round out the complete set, but we’ve also added Marvel Two-In-One #35 & #36, in which the Thing comes on board to complete Skull’s story. Action! Dinosaurs!| Lost Lands! Cavemen! Aliens! This One’s Got It All! – as this series proudly proclaimed. Thus went the story of Skull the Slayer, a fugitive from a concrete jungle thrust into a world of prehistoric fury.
PICTURED: SKULL THE SLAYER #1 VG/FN; Complete Set #1-8 plus Marvel Two-In-One #35 & #36 Av. VF £50 SOLD
American Comics Update: Post Code Horror from ACG & Harvey
*Horror 1940-1959: Offerings this week from two distinguished publishers. From Harvey, two issues of the Alarming Tales series from 1957, featuring work from Severin, Kirby, Williamson and others. From ACG, four issues of the long-running Forbidden Worlds from the late 1950s, with Williamson art. Accomplished horror, mystery and fantasy stories throughout.
IN THIS UPDATE: ALL SOLD
ALARMING TALES
5 FA £7 (PICTURED) Severin cover. Kirby/Williamson and Wildey art. Trimmed, glued spine, colour touch.
6 FA+ £6.75 Severin cover, Williamson art. Trimmed, glued spine.
FORBIDDEN WORLDS
54 FA/GD £8.75 (PICTURED) Spine splits top and bottom.
57 VG £17
59 VG+ £19
69 FA/GD £9.25 Williamson/Krenkel art.
American Comics Update: The Bute Collection: Spirit 1940s and 1950s inc 2nd ever Spirit comic
*Spirit: Something rather special from the Bute Collection this week, some of the earliest Sprit comics ever published, following his debut as a newspaper strip character. The original series from 1944 was published by Vital/Quality and the second issue (unnumbered but entitled Crime Does Not Pay) was the second Spirit comic. We also have four other issues from this series. The second series from Fiction House in 1952 is represented by #1. Your chance to acquire a good sample of Will Eisner’s classic crime-fighter from his earliest comic appearances.
ALL SOLD
IN THIS UPDATE: SPIRIT 1944
NN (#2) VG/FN £115 (PICTURED) Solid unmarked copy with good staples and pages, just minor edge and handling wear. Art by Lou Fine. Unverified Eisner signature on splash.
#8 GD £30 Grubby copy with water-stains throughout, but flat. Staples solid but a little rusty with short horizontal tear at bottom staple. Art by Lou Fine and others.
#9 VG £60 (PICTURED) Decent copy with minor edge wear, good colour and a couple of soft vertical creases not breaking colour. Unverified Eisner signature on splash. Art by Lou Fine, Jack Cole, Robin King and others.
#17 FA+ £25 A bit grubby with some creasing at edges and along spine, breaking colour. Large corner off back cover. Art by Eisner, Lou Fine and others.
SPIRIT 1952 #1 VG £95 (PICTURED) Decent solid copy with minor edge wear breaking colour at spine. Art by Jim Dixon.
British Comics Update: Pre and Post Code Horror Fest UK: L Miller’s Mystic
*Vintage UK/Australian Reprints Of US Material: Perhaps often overlooked in the annals of UK horror reprints (probably because these weren’t published until the 1960s), it should not be forgotten that Len Miller’s Mystic reprinted quite a bit of Atlas Pre-Code horror stories (as well as Post Code and pre-hero Marvel Big Panty Monsters, and work from many other publishers as well). A treasure trove of delights await within these (mostly) 68 page volumes, including plenty of work by Kirby and Ditko. 11 issues new in, in nice grades, between #11 and #57. Full details in our catalogue.
PICTURED: MYSTIC BOTH SOLD
#41 FN £25
#57 FN £25
British Comics Update: Your Wish Is Our Commando: 50 issues new in from the early 1970s
*Boys’ Adventure & War Picture Libraries: A chunky update to this most long-lived of Picture Libraries as we add around 50 issues between #530 and #1078 to our stock this week. These are from a newsagent’s uncirculated stock and have never been read; they are mostly in a FN/VF grade. Full listings in our catalogue.
British Comics Update: Free Gift Farrago/This Week’s #1s: Planet Of The Apes & Star Wars
*TV & Film Related Comics: Two Marvel UK #1 issues for two hugely popular franchises this week: From 1974, the first issue of Planet Of The Apes comes complete with its full colour Apes poster fitted inside. Star Wars Weekly #1 from 1978 does NOT have the Free Gift included. Both are in really nice shape.
PICTURED: BOTH SOLD
PLANET OF THE APES #1 VF £40 With Free Gift Poster
STAR WARS #1 FN/VF £30
Books Update: Re-Working our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Category: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Master of Adventure: Venus
*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror category for the fifth of several updates spotlighting the Master of Adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs was very prolific, and wrote in several series, in addition to his most famous creation Tarzan of the Apes. His style and settings set the tone for a whole library full of imitators/homagists in jungle, interplanetary and exotic locales. We shall be covering our ERB stock in a number of updates over the coming weeks, continuing this week with his tales of Venus. Like his more famous predecessor, John Carter, Carson Napier was an Earthman transported to an alien world for adventure and romance among fearsome beasts and weird peoples. ERB’s Amtor was every bit as well realised as his Barsoom had been. We have all five of the Venus volumes in stock in a variety of editions. Full details of all our stock in our catalogue.
PICTURED: ALL BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
VENUS #1: PIRATES OF VENUS Four Square 1963 UK PB VG/FN £5
VENUS #2: LOST ON VENUS Pinnacle 1950s UK PB VG £7
VENUS #3: CARSON OF VENUS NEL 1971 UK PB VG £4
VENUS #4: ESCAPE ON VENUS Four Square 1966 GD £3
VENUS #5: THE WIZARD OF VENUS Ace 1970 1st US PB FN £5
Books Update: New: A mixed bag of Crime: Allingham, Ambler, Carr & Chase
*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: Four new additions to this popular category this week. From one of the Queens Of Crime, Margery Allingham, an Albert Campion mystery, Eric Ambler’s most famous thriller (made into a classic film noir), another fiendish locked room mystery by John Dickson Carr and a fast-paced gangster tale by James Hadley Chase with stylish cover art by Oliver Brabbins.
PICTURED: ALL SOLD
MARGERY ALLINGHAM: POLICE AT THE FUNERAL Penguin Classic Crime UK PB GD £3
ERIC AMBLER: THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS Fontana 1966 UK PB GD £6
JOHN DICKSON CARR: IT WALKS BY NIGHT Avon 1954 US PB VG £7
JAMES HADLEY CHASE: THE FAST BUCK Robert Hale 1958 UK PB VG £13
American Comics Update: The Bute Collection: Golden Age Batmania: Batman #36 1946
*DC: Another Golden Age Batman from the Bute Collection this week. This time, it’s #36, with three excellent stories pencilled by Paul Cooper and inked by Ray Burnley. Jerry Robinson also contributes an Alfred short story. The opening story is a clash with the Penguin, the second a tale of danger set in the world of movies, focusing on a stunt man, and the third, cover-featured, has Batman and Robin travel back to the time of King Arthur’s court, where they encounter all the famous denizens of those fables. This is a very nice copy, featuring an unmarked cover with rich colour and a vivid yellow background against which the figures of our heroes and the mounted knight really stand out. Staples are tight and firm, page quality a supple off-white. Wear is restricted to a very minor amount at top right edge, a tiny nick at base of spie and a small tear of 1.5 cm at top of spine. The staples are positioned slightly behind the left cover line, which appears to give the comic a very slight spine roll, but this is not really the case. An excellent edition for the vintage Batman collector.
PICTURED: BATMAN #36 VG £350 SOLD
American Comics Update: Mystery In Space with Adam Strange & Hawkman
*DC: For four glorious issues, #87-90, Hawkman joined Adam Strange in Mystery In Space. In the first three, they had a story each, and in the fourth, they combined to share a book-length adventure. Adam Strange by Fox and Infantiino, Hawkman by Fox and Anderson, the team that would go on to depict Hawkman in his own series shortly after. Some of the best comics ever (of course, I’m prejudiced). As a bonus, we’ve included #91, the last issue to feature Adam Strange as edited by Schwartz with Fox and Infantino, the last good Adam Strange story before Schwartz moved to Batman.
IN THIS UPDATE: MYSTERY IN SPACE ALL SOLD
#87 GD p £11.75 (PICTURED)
#88 GD p £11
#89 VG- p £14
#90 GD p £11.75
#91 VG+ p £11.75
American Comics Update: Tabloid Headlines: Superman x 3
*DC: In our recurring feature for tabloid-sized editions, we have three Superman titles. Limited Collectors’ Edition C-38 reprints 5 classic Superman stories from all periods and is chock full of special features to boot. LCE C-47, with a classic Superman cover, reprints six classic Tomahawk stories, with Superman framing sequences to salute the Bicentennial, and lots of celebratory features. The Amazing World Of Superman (slightly larger than a regular tabloid), is absolutely crammed full of Superman stories and loads of features, all in crisp black and white except for a giant colour map of Krypton at the centrefold.
PICTURED: ALL SOLD
LIMITED COLLECTORS’ EDITION
C-38 FN £15 Superman
C-47 FN £15 Superman Salutes the Bicentennial
SUPERMAN, AMAZING WORLD OF GD £15 Chip out base spine, cover creasing, edge wear, centrefold poster present but detached with some mottling to edges.
American Comics Update: Spider-Mania/Mighty Marvel Firsts: The Totally Amazing Spider-Man Collection: Rhino debut in Amazing #41
*Marvel: If you’re looking for really nice copies of Amazing Spider-Man for your collection, then look no further than this Collection. All high grade; even the few that fall below VF (and most are above) are really good-looking copies – no duds here, and nearly all cents copies. Issue #41 of the Amazing Spider-Man saw the first new villain of Jazzy Johnny Romita’s artistic tenure, as he and Swingin’ Stan Lee brought us the curiously endearing Rhino, a virtually unstoppable behemoth whose sheer power and tormented soul made him an instant hit, and a popular recurring villain, showing up everywhere from the Defenders to the MCU to the Unstoppable Squirrel Girl! (No, really…) The Totally Amazing Spider-Man Collection copy is a beautiful cents example of this issue, tight and flat with good cover colour and gloss, excellent white to off-white supple pages and firm staples. There is virtually no wear, just a very slight blunting of the top left corner, a few narrow wear marks at the very bottom of the left bottom edge and tiny ticks at spine. The inner covers are ever so slightly discoloured at the very extremities, but we’re being ultra-picky on this great-looking copy. High resolution images are available on request.
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #41 VF £875
American Comics Update: The Bute Collection: Fantastic Four #112 – Hulk Vs. Thing – The Sequel
*Marvel: Also from the Bute Collection this week, a tough one to get in any sort of reasonable condition due to the surrounding black background which highlights any flaw. Evoking the classic two-parter of issues #25 and #26, Fantastic Four #112 pits the FF’s Ben Grimm against Bruce Banner, the Incredible Hulk, for a no-holds-barred battle by Stan Lee and John Buscema. Highly sought-after these days, primarily for the dynamic Buscema cover starkly spotlighting the two contenders. This is a decent pence printed copy, with minor wear at edges and corners (tiny colour breaking crease top right), corner blunting and small non-colour breaking creasing at centre spine. There is also a very soft crease across bottom left corner which does not break colour. Staples are tight and firm; supple pages are an excellent off-white.
PICTURED: FANTASTIC FOUR #112 VG+ p £70 SOLD
American Comics Update: Marvel #1/Spider-Mania: Giant-Size Super-Heroes
*Marvel: From 1974, Giant-Size Super-Heroes (featuring Spider-Man) led the line for Marvel’s Giant-Size series of the mid-1970s and quickly evolved into Giant-Size Spider-Man, so that this is the only issue bearing this title. Morbius and Man-Wolf menace Spidey in the extra-length story, illustrated by Gil Kane, and there are special back-up features too. A lovely high grade copy, with intact spine, great staples and firm glue, beautifully supple off-white pages and a shiny black background cover, with only very minor handling wear.
PICTURED: GIANT-SIZE SUPER-HEROES #1 VF+ £55
American Comics Update: The Good Doctor Collection: Mighty Marvel Firsts: Tales To Astonish #59-69: Hulk joins, debut of Leader, Giant-Man & Wasp leave
*Marvel: From the Good Doctor Collection this week: A lot was going on between Tales To Astonish #59 and #69. Giant-Man and the Wasp (then the regular lead feature) fought the Hulk in #59, leading to the Hulk sharing the title with them an issue later. The Hulk’s nemesis, the gamma ray-powered Leader made his first cameo appearance in #62 and first two full appearances in #63 & #64 (these three Leader issues seem particularly uncommon – we don’t see them often). There’s a new costume for Giant-Man in #65, but that didn’t help to revive the popularity of his strip, which was on the wane by this time and phased out after #69 (but Hank & Jan fans – including us – didn’t have long to wait until they turned up again in Avengers). That left the field clear for a certain monarch of Atlantis to take over with #70, but that’s a tale for another update. The most significant issues are pictured here; full details of all issues from #59 to #69 can as usual be found in our catalogue.
PICTURED: TALES TO ASTONISH ALL SOLD
#59 VG+ £120 Giant-Man Vs the Hulk. Nice clean copy with short non-colour breaking creases at base of spine; minor indentations to centre cover, barely visible. Firm, tight staples, nice supple off-white pages.
#60 VG+ £65 Hulk series begins by Ditko. Unmarked cover with a couple of very faint diagonal creases bottom right, which barely break colour. Short reading crease at centre spine breaks colour; minor edge wear. Tight firm staples and decent off-white pages.
#62 FN+ £165 1st Leader cameo. Glossy cover with vivid lime green background. Unmarked but for tiny pencil arrival date on ‘H’ in logo. Tiny dink at base of spine, but no other wear. Tight, firm staples; supple off-white pages.
#63 FN £165 1st full Leader. Glossy cover with great colour. Minor handling wear; very slight redaing crease and small ticks at spine; tiny nick at top. Tight, firm staples; supple off-white pages.
#64 FN £150 2nd full Leader. Shiny and glossy with deep black background. A couple of short handling creases towards the bottom of the spine do not break colour. Otherwise just minor edge wear. Tight, firm staples; supple off-white pages.
#65 FN/VF £52 New Giant-Man costume. Great copy with rich colour and cover gloss. Tiny amounts of edge wear at op and top right edge. White to off-white pages; firm, tight staples.
American Comics Update: Quirky Corner: Silly Super-Heroes
*Miscellaneous 1960 Onwards: The Silver Age certainly gave birth to some silly super-heroes, and we feature a couple from lesser publishers this update: From MF Enterprises, another in the long line of heroes to bear the name Captain Marvel; this one could split his body into six (or more) component parts to fight crime. Yes, there are surely a lot of questions you’d want resolved about him. Secondly, from Milson, Fatman, the Human Flying Saucer, with art by C C Beck. It does what it says on the tin: he’s a fat super-hero who turns into a flying saucer, as you do. All three issues in this update are squarebound giants, all low grade but all totally bonkers.
PICTURED: ALL SOLD
CAPTAIN MARVEL #2 GD p £4
CAPTAIN MARVEL #4 GD/VG p £5.75
FATMAN THE HUMAN FLYING SAUCER GD+ £5.75
American Comics Update: Pre-Code Horror Fest: L B Cole Miasma: Blue Bolt Weird Tales #112
*Horror 1940-1959: L B Cole was one of the most famous of Golden/Atomic Age cover artists. He drew in a variety of genres, and was artistic director at Star, illustrating 95% of the company’s covers; his lurid, feverish style, almost hallucinogenic, graced horror, science-fiction, jungle and romance alike. Star took over the venerable title Blue Bolt in 1949 (previously it had been a classic anthology title starring the titular character, with much work by Simon & Kirby, Everett etc, lasting throughout the war years and beyond). By the time we got to the #112, Blue Bolt himself was long gone and the emphasis of the series had changed to horror, according to the zeitgeist of the time. Indeed, the title was rebranded as Ghostly Weird Stories from #120 onwards. Contents include three stylish horror shorts by Jay Disbrow plus a Torpedoman story from Captain Flight and a jungle story from the same source, both with horror overtones. But it’s the wonderful L B Cole cover for which this issue is prized, showing a monstrous beast erupting from a fiery pit below. A nice copy with a clean cover and bright colours. Some edge wear with tiny creases breaking colour, but a solid spine and very nice pages. We have given this an Apparent grade; there is just a suggestion of staple rust migration, but the staples themselves, although not appearing new, show little sign of rust. There is a possibility that the original staples have been replaced, although the evidence for this is inconclusive. We have taken this into account in the pricing.
PICTURED: BLUE BOLT WEIRD TALES #112 App VG £450 SOLD
British Comics Update: This Week’s #1: Free Gift Farrago/Mighty Marvel Firsts: High Grade Captain Britain #1 with Mask
*Marvel UK: Marvel UK’s experimental attempt to broaden their readership by generating a new British hero, Captain Britain was the subject of much controversy, not least because he was created by two Americans (Chris Claremont & Herb Trimpe) who, from the evidence presented here, had never met an English person, and whose interpretation of the UK’s manners and mores made the Austin Powers films look like documentaries. Be that as it may, the character endured to become a respected icon of the medium, and early issues are now attracting keen collector attention. We have a new copy in of the good Captain’s first issue, in a great NM grade, the nicest copy we’ve ever seen. Flat, tight and fresh wiith square corners. Looks unread with puzzle page NOT completed and with the original Free Gift (a Captain Britain mask) also in NM (pristine with eyes not pressed out, but with no rubber bands). It’s hard to award such a high grade to a British comic because of the paper quality used, but here the quality is outstanding for 47 years old – it looks like you’ve just brought it home from the newsagent. From an original owner collection and new to the marketplace.
PICTURED: CAPTAIN BRITAIN #1 NM WITH FREE GIFT NM £475 SOLD
British Comics Update: When You’re A Jet…
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: …well, it’s not long before you become a Buster, as it happens; but Jet, the 1971 adventure weekly launch from IPC/Fleetway, started strongly, with a line-up of well-crafted series along the well-trod path of war, sci-fi and sport, along with Ken Reid’s superb Faceache. For some reason, however, the series just didn’t ‘take’, despite other stellar contributors such as Solano Lopez and Eric Bradbury, and after a short run of 22 issues, it was inexplicably merged with the humour weekly, Buster, rather than another adventure series. The Sludgemouth Sloggers, Von Hoffman’s Invasion, Faceache, and The Kids From Stalag 41 made the leap. For a long time Jet languished forgotten. Recent interest in short-run titles has increased, however, and here we have an opportunity for you to sample Jet with half the run added in a consistent VG grade. See our catalogue for full details. ALL SOLD
PICTURED: JET 11/9/71 VG £5
British Comics Update: Love Story Picture Library 19 issues from 1968/69
*Girls’ Picture Libraries: This week’s release of Love Story Picture Library, the longest running romance picture library from Fleetway, comprises 19 issues from 1968/69, between #700 & #750. The series always maintained a high standard and the very accomplished art reflected the fashions and mood of the times. These new additions are mostly in excellent condition, with little wear or creasing, all FN to VF. Full details as always in our catalogue.
PICTURED: LOVE STORY PICTURE LIBRARY #703 FN/VF £6
Books Update: Re-Working our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Category: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Master of Adventure: Tarzan Part 3
*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror category for the fourth of several updates spotlighting the Master of Adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs was very prolific, and wrote in several series, in addition to his most famous creation Tarzan of the Apes. His style and settings set the tone for a whole library full of imitators/homagists in jungle, interplanetary and exotic locales. We shall be covering our ERB stock in a number of updates over the coming weeks, continuing this week with the third and final tranche of our extensive Tarzan stock. Tarzan is one of the most iconic literary characters of the 20th Century, is a household name and has had wonderful success in multi-media adventures, stemming from these exciting books. Selections here from the later numbers of this 24 volume set. As well as 1964 UK Four Square editions with the atmospheric cover art of Edward Mortelmans, we also have some NEL/Four Square editions from 1967, where Tarzan on the cover resembled Ron Ely, who was playing him on our TVs at the time. Full details of all our stock in our catalogue.
PICTURED: ALL BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
TARZAN #18: TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD MEN NEL/Four Square 1967 UK PB GD £3
TARZAN #19: TARZAN’S QUEST NEL/Four Square 1967 UK PB GD/VG £3.50
TARZAN #21: TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT Four Square 1964 UK PB FN £5
TARZAN #23: TARZAN AND THE MADMAN Four Square 1966 1st UK PB FN £5
TARZAN #24: TARZAN AND THE CASTAWAYS Four Square 1966 UK PB FN £5
