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[adamstrange]

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Tales of Horror #6, River City.  For the those who love "girl in test tube" horror covers, and, to be honest, who doesn't, this is the book for you.  It is very difficult to find a copy of this issue, much less one with pretty colors and pages that you would expect of a River City copy.

Census: Highest is 7.5.  This 7.0 with ow/w pages is only $1500.

Edited January 24, 2020 by adamstrange

[adamstrange]

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Ship Ahoy #1, Vancouver.  LB Cole provided this WWII battleship cover scene and it certainly looks very bright and pretty in this Vancouver copy, known for the superior preservation of cover colors and pages as white as a Canadian snow drift.  The back cover and interior match the patriotic front cover and feature the American military on land, sea and in the air.  

Census: Sole second highest.  This de-slabbed cgc9.2 with ow/w pages is only $700.

CGC Label will be shipped with the comic.

Edited January 24, 2020 by adamstrange

[Comcav]

9 minutes ago, adamstrange said:

Tales of Horror #6, River City.  For the those who love "girl in test tube" horror covers, and, to be honest, who doesn't, this is the book for you.  It is very difficult to find a copy of this issue, much less one with pretty colors and pages that you would expect of a River City copy.

Census: Highest is 7.5.  This 7.0 with ow/w pages is only $1500.

take per PM

[adamstrange]

18 minutes ago, adamstrange said:

Tales of Horror #6, River City.  For the those who love "girl in test tube" horror covers, and, to be honest, who doesn't, this is the book for you.  It is very difficult to find a copy of this issue, much less one with pretty colors and pages that you would expect of a River City copy.

Census: Highest is 7.5.  This 7.0 with ow/w pages is only $1500.

 

Sold via PM

Edited January 24, 2020 by adamstrange

[adamstrange]

That is all for tonight.  I will be back tomorrow evening with more fun comics.

[Black Bat]

Thanks!

[bounty_coder]

34 minutes ago, adamstrange said:

Ship Ahoy #1, Vancouver.  LB Cole provided this WWII battleship cover scene and it certainly looks very bright and pretty in this Vancouver copy, known for the superior preservation of cover colors and pages as white as a Canadian snow drift.  The back cover and interior match the patriotic front cover and feature the American military on land, sea and in the air.  

Census: Sole second highest.  This de-slabbed cgc9.2 with ow/w pages is only $700.

CGC Label will be shipped with the comic.

 

 

Well this is certainly a lesser known under-appreciated LB Cole War cover.  I was once told if you find blinding fire reds on a GA book you don't think twice.  This will be my first Vancouver 

 

[adamstrange]

5 minutes ago, bounty_coder said:

Well this is certainly a lesser known under-appreciated LB Cole War cover.  I was once told if you find blinding fire reds on a GA book you don't think twice.  This will be my first Vancouver 

 

Sold!

You will not be disappointed!

[adamstrange]

8:30pm for the books tonight and I do expect to start on time.

[adamstrange]

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Weird Horrors 6.  Ekgren has to be one of the most unusual cover artists and his story is a very interesting one.  Archer St John, publisher of St John comics, found Ekgren selling his paintings/drawing in NYC and was so intrigued he picked up three to use on his horror comics.

This is a vg/fine and is yours for $275.

Edited January 25, 2020 by adamstrange

[adamstrange]

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Tales of Horror #4, River City.  This is one of the Toby's that is very difficult to find in grade.  Hiding inside is one of the highlights of pre-code horror, with a tail of rats attempting to take over the world.  It's insane but in a good way.

Census:  Three at cgc6.5.  This fresh copy with ow/w pages is a raw vf/nm and can be yours for $1500.

Edited January 25, 2020 by adamstrange

[adamstrange]

Lars of Mars #10:  Murphy Anderson was a huge fan of Sci-Fi and worked for a while as the artist on the Buck Rogers syndicated strip.  That ended after some disagreement and he went back to home to work in his father's taxi cab company.  Luckily, Jerry Siegel remembered him when he became the first editor of Ziff-Davis's comic line and he dangled high page rates and the chance to draw sci-fi for him. Murphy drove up to NYC and one of his first assignments was the interior art for Lars of Mars. 

In issue 10, he both pencilled and inked and the result is among the best of his career up to that point (see example panel below).  Allan Anderson, a talented painter and studio mate of Norm Saunders, supplies the cover art with the requisite robot and gal in jeopardy.  Allan painted many covers for Fiction House and Ziff Davis pulps but his comic book work was almost exclusively with a very short run at Ziff Davis.

Despite being #10, this was the first issue of the title as #1 issues were viewed with suspicion by distributors and the public.  The #10 was assigned by Z-D to trick the public that it had been around while and was a safe entertainment purchase.

Census:  1 in 8.5, 1 in 8.0.  This raw vf copy with cr/ow pages. Yours for $1500.

[porcupine48]

I can't help it.I have a copy of that Lars-not even close to above,but I need to say,the way that (my)book looks in hand and knowing Mr.adamstrange's love of deep colours-it is such a pretty,pretty comic.

And of course,the one Ekgren I have is for sale.Top ten! 

Okay,drooling brown nosing over.Excuse me.

[adamstrange]

Strange Stories from Another World #3, Spokane Pedigree.  Speaking of Norm Saunders, he supplied cover paintings for some of Fawcett's horror comics.  A prolific and highly skilled pulp painter who started in the 1930s, Saunders was in top form as Death watches a gruesome scene beginning to unfold.  For a brief time, Fawcett had full color back covers as well, printed with brilliant metallic inks that refract the light.  The interior art is overall quite nice but I thought this first story very impressive and I couldn't pinpoint the artist.  GCD speculates Ed Waldman, who I'm not familiar with but should probably get to know.

Census: One in 9.2 and two in 8.5.  This is a raw vf copy but, like most Spokanes, it melts in your hands and gives off a glow that shines in the darkest night.  Seriously, the colors and pages are unreal.  Price?  $1250.

 

[skypinkblu]

Love your descriptions! 

[adamstrange]

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World's Finest #59: These 68 page giants are bear to find in decent shape and you'll have a hard time doing better than this attractive copy.  Joker takes on the Batman in the solo Batman story at end of the comic.  Superman stars in the first story and the loads of art in between.

Census: One in 8.5, one in 8.0, one in 7.5.  This raw 7.5 copy is only $800.

Edited January 25, 2020 by adamstrange

[adamstrange]

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World's Finest #64:  Win Mortimer is the quintessential 1950s Batman cover artist for me.  The characters are cheerful and, in his best scenes, placed within a setting of properly handled deep perspective like this image of Times Square in New York City.  There is always a Batman and a Superman story in these issues but there's quite a variety in between those two.  In this case, DC used a spy story most likely intended for their earlier cancelled "Danger Trail" title.

Census: 2 in 6.5.  This is an absurdly difficult comic to find in decent shape.  This raw 6.5 copy with ow pages is $800

Edited January 25, 2020 by adamstrange

[DavidTheDavid]

32 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

I can't help it.I have a copy of that Lars-not even close to above,but I need to say,the way that (my)book looks in hand and knowing Mr.adamstrange's love of deep colours-it is such a pretty,pretty comic.

And of course,the one Ekgren I have is for sale.Top ten! 

Okay,drooling brown nosing over.Excuse me.

It’s a very good price on the Ekgren, too.

And Lars has been hitting the gym to work on those glutes!

Edited January 25, 2020 by DavidTheDavid

[adamstrange]

Dr. Fu Manchu (I.W. Reprint)  I.W. stands for Israel Waldman who evidently purchased a big chunk of plates previously used to print comics.  Since that was what they were made for, that's what he decided to do with them, though without the expressed written consent of the National Football League copyright owners.  In this case, they put a new cover on the Wally Wood Fu Manchu story, drawn originally for Avon comics.

Census:  three tied for highest at 8.0.  This is a raw nm- with off-white pages for $90.

[adamstrange]

Atom #15. Murphy's career at DC often included inking, which he did superbly partly because he was such a good penciler in his own right.  Here his inks grace Gil Kane's pencils on the tiny titan.

This is a raw nm copy with white pages for $180.