Comics With Balls - Golden Age Sports Comics

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Tired of superhero comics that feature characters in colorful outfits engaged in epic contests?

 

For a change, try some sports comics that feature characters in colorful outfits engaged in epic contests.

 

Sports and comic books seem like an ideal match for collectors. There are many great comic books that feature entertaining and informative stories about fictional and real life sports heroes and contests. There are still some real deals and discoveries to be had in this crossover collectible realm.

 

Show us your sports comic books!

 

Starting this thread with what seems to be the earliest baseball cover in comics...from the turn of the century.

 

 

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Here are some signed sports comic books. Please forgive the couple of non-Gold issues. And some may debate whether Evel is really a sportsman, but I say yeah.

 

Anybody else listen to Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto announce Yankees games?

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Here are a couple of Baltimore Colts comics. First one is produced by Will Eisner. Second one is a bit harder to find...

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Here's another Eisner production...

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Supersnipe commonly imagined physical & sports feats -

 

 

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A few miscellaneous...

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First issue of Street and Smith's long running Sport Comics / True Sport Picture Stories.

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I was going to post, but I realized I posted all the baseball ones I had in bucket in my tribute to spring training thread yesterday. He's a cool toy though from the 1920's. Got a lot of other sports books but I'm too lazy to dig the box out again so I will let you guys dazzle me!

 

 

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Supersnipe commonly imagined physical & sports feats -

 

 

Never seen them before, those are great!

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I was going to post, but I realized I posted all the baseball ones I had in bucket in my tribute to spring training thread yesterday.

Feel free to post them over here again if you have the time! It will be nice to have all the sports comics in one place! Thanks!

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One of my all time favorite covers...

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More Sport/True Sport - boxing themed covers...

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A couple with Bob Powell cover and art...

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Here's a giveaway about swimming that Eisner produced.

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OK, since you asked...

 

 

 

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Here's a giveaway about water skiing produced for Evinrude motors, with an original package in which it came. There are also versions with different motors.

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Here's one from the publisher of True Comics.