2002 December Comic Auction - Dallas Texas. Sale #805 - Session 1

The Spirit #20 (Quality, 1950) CGC VF 8.0 Light tan to off-white pages. The striking front cover argues against the CGC-assigned grading, but the back

The Spirit #21 (Quality, 1950) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. If you haven't thought of Will Eisner as a perpetrator of "good girl...

Spitfire Comics #2 Mile High pedigree (Harvey, 1941) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. This issue is listed as "scarce" in Overstreet, ...

Spook #24 Bethlehem pedigree (Star Publications, 1953) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages. We've never had a copy of Spook #24 to offer before, so for o...

Star Spangled Comics #1 (DC, 1941) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. Here's the first big issue! This early DC key boasts one of the first...

Stars and Stripes Comics #2 (#1) Larson pedigree (Centaur, 1941) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Most Centaur books are uncommon in general, so to find one in

Startling Comics #31 (Better Publications, 1945) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Alex Schomburg has Pyroman taking on a bevy of Nazi saboteurs in one of his 3

Startling Comics #39 (Better Publications, 1946) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. Just an unreal copy of this book, the finest copy yet certified by CGC.

Startling Comics #49 (Better Publications, 1948) CGC VF 8.0 Light tan to off-white pages. This gorgeous robot cover by Alex Schomburg defines the word

Strange Adventures Magazine #1 (CJH Publications, 1936) CGC FN 6.0 Off-white pages. It must be incredibly rare, because who has ever seen this pre-Gol

Strange Worlds #2 (Avon, 1951) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. Avon brought its experience in sensationalistic paperback covers to comics in this

Strange Worlds #3 (Avon, 1951) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. If you are looking for a Golden Age Science Fiction comic with some great artwork,

Strange Worlds #6 (Avon, 1952) CGC VF 8.0 White pages. The shapely damsel has the unmistakable look of a Wally Wood creation, and, sure enough, Mr. Wo

Super Comics #8 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1938) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. Chester Gould had begun his "Dick Tracy" strip in 1931, and...

Super Comics #10 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1939) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages. With a grade this high, there just aren't many imperfections to detr...

Super Comics #11 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1939) CGC VF 8.0 White pages. One of Dell's earliest titles features a cover by Smokey Stover creator...

Super Comics #22 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1940) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. The striking, beautiful cover is in great part owing to the fabu

Super Comics #25 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1940) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. "Super" isn't just the title, it perfectly describes the ext...

Super Comics #27 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1940) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. This Ken Ernst cover hasn't been seen in such superlative condition si...

Super Comics #28 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1940) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. Jim Ellis was but one of over a dozen features in this early De

Super Comics #29 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1940) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. Frankly, we're at a loss to explain why this unbelievably gorgeous cop...

Super Comics #31 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1940) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. Dick Tracy had made his first comic book appearance four years

Super Comics #34 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1941) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. Ken Ernst offers his final cover for this title, and it's probably the...

Super Comics #36 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1941) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. After alternating cover spotlights with the likes of Smilin' Jack, Mag...

Super Comics #39 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1941) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. Big Dick is down on this cover, but Chester Gould's quintessential det...

Super Comics #43 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1941) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. This may be the nicest of the several ultra-nice Mile High book

Super Comics #45 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1942) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages. If it weren't from the famed Mile High collection, this grade for a ...

Super Comics #46 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1942) CGC VF 8.0 White pages. This book has every bit the look of a Mile High comic, and a higher-grade one

Super Comics #51 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1942) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. This cover from the early years of WWII is distinguished by t

Super-Magic Comics #1 (Street & Smith, 1941) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages. Charles Sultan, the cover artist here, was one of the more distinctive ...

Super-Mystery Comics #1 (Ace, 1940) CGC VG+ 4.5 Cream to off-white pages. Magno, the Magnetic Man makes his first appearance in the book from 1940 --

Supersnipe Comics #6 Mile High pedigree (Street & Smith, 1942) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. The humorous character had first appeared...

Supersnipe Comics #6 Rockford pedigree (Street & Smith, 1942) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. This is the first issue of the quirky titl...

Supersnipe Comics #7 Rockford pedigree (Street & Smith, 1943) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. The second issue of this title finds the w...

Suspense Comics #9 (Continental Magazines, 1945) CGC VF- 7.5 Cream to off-white pages. A hypnotic eyeball by L. B. Cole starts off this Golden Age boo

Suspense Comics #11 (Continental Magazines, 1946) CGC VF- 7.5 Cream to off-white pages. L. B. Cole's covers always leapt off the stands. His cov...

Tally-Ho Comics #nn (Baily Publication, 1944) CGC Apparent VF- 7.5 Off-white pages. What we have here is a very significant book boasting the very fir

Target Comics #1 Rockford pedigree (Novelty Press, 1940) CGC FN 6.0 Cream to off-white pages. Bill Everett gets this run jump-started with a western a

Target Comics #3 Larson pedigree (Novelty Press, 1940) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages. Lamont Larson's childhood collection has gone down in history ...

Tarzan #1 (Dell, 1948) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Jesse Marsh illustrated this wonderful Dell book, the long-running title's first ...

Tegra Jungle Empress #1 (Fox, 1948) CGC VF- 7.5 Cream to off-white pages. Notoriously poor paper quality doomed the overwhelming percentage of Fox com

Terrific Comics #5 (Continental Magazines, 1944) CGC FN+ 6.5 Cream to off-white pages. Well... your long wait is over. All those years of searching ha

Terrors of the Jungle #17 (#1) Northford pedigree (Star, 1952) CGC VF- 7.5 Cream pages. This may well be the most undervalued book that we have in thi

Thrilling Comics #1 Rockford pedigree (Better Publications, 1940) CGC VG/FN 5.0 Cream to off-white pages. Merely three months after Better Publication

Thrilling Comics #62 Rockford pedigree (Better Publications, 1947) CGC NM 9.4 Cream to off-white pages. We can only imagine the stir this first airbru

Tip Top Comics #1 (United Features Syndicate, 1936) CGC VF- 7.5 Cream to off-white pages. United Features' first comic book title managed a run ...

Tom Mix Western #1 (Fawcett, 1948) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. This photo cover of the famous movie star of the 1930s looks right nice, seei

Tomb of Terror #15 File copy (Harvey, 1954) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. The exploding-face cover by Lee Elias boosts the value of this iss

Top-Notch Comics #1 (MLJ, 1939) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages. One of the more colorful of the early MLJ covers is also one of the more significant by it

Top-Notch Comics #2 (MLJ, 1940) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. One of the earliest offerings by MLJ, the publisher that would eventually give

Top-Notch Comics #4 Mile High pedigree (MLJ, 1940) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. This fantastic copy, from the historic Edgar Church pedigree collection, i

Top-Notch Comics #5 (MLJ, 1940) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Off-white to white pages. This book has a lot going for it, from the E. M. Ashe, Jr. flag cover (rated...

Top-Notch Comics #7 (MLJ, 1940) CGC Apparent VF/NM 9.0 Slight (P) Off-white pages. Only two other copies of this issue now appear in CGC census, both

Top-Notch Comics #11 (MLJ, 1941) CGC VF 8.0 White pages. This copy is brighter and more colorful than most MLJ covers from the period, spotlighting th

Top-Notch Comics #12 Mile High pedigree (MLJ, 1941) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. This copy is currently the highest, and only, CGC-graded copy. This is an

Top-Notch Comics #13 Mile High pedigree (MLJ, 1941) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. From the historic Edgar Church pedigree collection of Golden Age comics,

Top-Notch Comics #14 (MLJ, 1941) CGC VF- 7.5 Cream to off-white pages. Here is a very striking bondage cover from a publisher better known for its Arc

Tops Group Lot, #1 and #2 (Lev Gleason, 1949). Zowie! There are definitely 50s books we haven't seen, but this we've never even heard of! An...

Torchy #5 (Quality) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. One of the sexiest series of the Golden Age, Torchy still wows collectors today with her splashy co

True Crime Comics #3 (Magazine Village, 1948) CGC FN- 5.5 Cream to off-white pages. Talk about a classic cover! This Jack Cole shocker always manages

Two-Gun Kid #1 Rockford pedigree (Marvel, 1948) CGC VF- 7.5 Cream to off-white pages. Cover artist Syd Shores had already made his considerable mark o

Uncle Sam Quarterly #4 Mile High pedigree (Quality, 1942) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. One of the great patriotic heroes of the Golden Age, U

Uncle Sam Quarterly #5 (Quality, 1942) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. A giant Uncle Sam pulls apart a swastika while Hitler, Tojo, and Mussol

Underworld #1 (D.S. Publishing, 1948) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Cream to off-white pages. Overstreet mentions that this "True Crime Stories" comic con...

Underworld #2 (D.S. Publishing, 1948) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages. Any book that was used in Seduction of the Innocent remains extremely desirable, es

V-Comics #1 (Fox Features Syndicate, 1942) CGC FN+ 6.5 Off-white to white pages. Here is a very patriotic book from the height of World War II. The Na

V-Comics #2 (Fox Features Syndicate, 1942) CGC FN 6.0 Off-white to white pages. Overstreet lists this as a "Nazi bondage/torture cover." A...

Voodoo #1 (Farrell, 1952) CGC FN+ 6.5 Cream to off-white pages. Pre-Code horror titles aren't the easiest to find, but the genre is still relati...

Weird Comics #3 Mile High pedigree (Fox, 1940) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages. Joe Simon sure turned in a weird cover for this issue, with a Frankenstein

Weird Comics #3 (Fox, 1940) CGC VG+ 4.5 Cream to off-white pages. Only two copies of this issue have thus far earned a CGC grading of Very Fine Minus

Weird Comics #4 (Fox, 1940) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. This cover has to be one that will continue to be fondly remembered in this hobby, du

Weird Comics #6 Mile High pedigree (Fox, 1940) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. Edgar Church's copy of this Fox publication is like no othe...

Weird Comics #7 Mile High pedigree (Fox, 1940) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. What else can you say about a white-paged Mile High comic? Well, the colors on

Weird Comics #9 Mile High pedigree (Fox, 1940) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. This is currently the highest and only CGC-graded copy. Edgar Chu

Weird Comics #9 (Fox, 1940) CGC FN+ 6.5 Off-white pages. The Dart and Ace, introduced in issue #5, were in the midst of starring on eight consecutive

Weird Horrors #2 (St. John, 1952) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. St. John made great use of ghastly shades of green on the cover of this horror

Weird Mysteries #2 (Gillmor, 1952) CGC VG 4.0 Cream to off-white pages. Bernard Baily proved with the cover art to this issue that he could produce gr

Weird Tales of the Future #1 (Aragon, 1952) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white pages. Copies of pre-Code horror and science fiction comic books from the early 1950

Weird Tales of the Future #4 (Aragon, 1952) CGC FN+ 6.5 Cream to off-white pages. The unmistakable stamp of Basil Wolverton adorns this cover of a tit

Western Hero #76 Mile High pedigree (Fawcett, 1949) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. This is the first issue as this title; it was formerly Real Western Hero.

Western Thrillers #3 Mile High pedigree (Fox, 1948) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white to white pages. Probably the only way to find a Fox comic book with white pa

Western True Crime #4 Mile High pedigree (Fox, 1949) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. Here is a really neat Mile High book that can be had for a r

Wham Comics #1 Denver pedigree (Centaur, 1940) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Centaur, famous for their many titles produced during the late 1930s, including

Wham Comics #1 (Centaur, 1940) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Off-white to white pages. Centaur books from the early years of the Golden Age of comics are prized for t

Wham Comics #2 (Centaur, 1940) CGC Apparent VF+ 8.5 Slight (P) Off-white to white pages. Really a terrific-looking copy of a hard-to-come-by book; i...

Whirlwind Comics #2 Mile High pedigree (Nita Publication, 1940) CGC VF+ 8.5 White pages. Betcha don't have one of these! Gerber estimates there ...

Whiz Comics #3 (#2) (Fawcett, 1940) CGC Apparent NM 9.4 Slight (P) Off-white to white pages. This copy of the issue that features the second appearanc

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Whiz Comics #25 (Fawcett, 1941) CGC VG/FN 5.0 Cream to off-white pages. This landmark issue gave us the origin and first appearance of Captain Marvel

Whiz Comics #71 (Fawcett, 1946) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. These Golden Age Fawcetts contain a wealth of superhero stories which include the

Whodunit #1 "D" Copy pedigree (D.S. Publishing, 1948) CGC VF+ 8.5 Cream to off-white pages. Crime comics were all the rage in 1948, and ev...

Witchcraft #5 (Avon, 1953) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Cream to off-white pages. This obscure Avon features an incredible painted cover by Kelly Freas. The detail o

Women Outlaws #nn (Fox, 1949) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. This no-number issue sports a terrific cover, with the blonde outlaw taking care of

Wonder Comics #19 (Better Publications, 1948) CGC FN 6.0 Off-white pages. A fantastic copy from this high-demand series, featuring a great Alex Schomb

WonderWorld Comics #3 (Fox, 1939) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages. A true classic from the 1940s, featuring the Flame's introduction by Lou Fine. Cal...

WonderWorld Comics #5 (Fox, 1939) CGC FN- 5.5 Cream to off-white pages. This cool book, which comes from the dawn of the Golden Age, almost has a Worl

WonderWorld Comics #6 (Fox, 1939) CGC VG+ 4.5 White pages. If Lou Fine wasn't the most accomplished cover artist of the late-1930s/early-1940s, ...

WonderWorld Comics #8 (Fox, 1939) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Light tan to off-white pages. This book is incredible; let's start with the Lou Fine Flame cover...

WonderWorld Comics #9 (Fox, 1940) CGC VG/FN 5.0 Cream to off-white pages. The great Lou Fine only drew for comic books a scant six years, but he made

WonderWorld Comics #13 (Fox, 1940) CGC FN 6.0 Cream to off-white pages. Lou Fine created twelve of the first thirteen covers for this series, earning