2002 December Comic Auction - Dallas Texas. Sale #805 - Session 2

Mad #18 (EC, 1954) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. Great Kurtzman do-it-yourself cover. Flat, clean copy, with brilliant cover color and sharp corners.

Mad #19 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Just in time for the 50th anniversary of Mad, we have an incredible selection of issues, mostl

Mad #19 Gaines File pedigree 3/9 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. This issue, with its predominantly white front cover, is more difficu

Mad #19 (EC, 1955) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Finding a non-Gaines-File copy in this high-grade condition is a daunting task; in fact, ju

Mad #20 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. A comic designed to be snuck into class! From an original-owner collection, this copy has few visible flaws

Mad #20 Gaines File pedigree 5/12 (EC, 1955) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Everyone automatically thinks of kids reading Mad in class, and t

Mad #21 (EC, 1955) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. Significant among Mad collectors, this book features the first appearance of Alfred E. Neuman

Mad #22 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Kept in a cedar chest since first purchased, this book has remained in Near Mint condition with white pages

Mad #23 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. This is the very last Mad comic, but, don't cry, they brought it back as magazine that c...

Modern Love #2 (EC, 1949) CGC FN 6.0 Cream to off-white pages. EC even did the romance genre the right way, even though they had a very limited output

Panic #1 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1958) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. This seminal issue was used in Senate Investigation hearings. Perhaps the best

Panic #2 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. This classic early Mad parody features an atomic bomb cover by Al Feldstein. E

Panic #3 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1954) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages. This historically significant issue features a Senate Subcommittee parody. J

Panic #4 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1954) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages. This classic spoof of Mad features a John Wayne parody. Straight out of Bill

Panic #5 Gaines File pedigree 9/11 (EC, 1954) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages. Clean and glossy with outstanding page quality, this is great example of this

Panic #7 Gaines File pedigree 9/11 (EC, 1955) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. This may be copy #9 of the 11 set aside by Bill Gaines, but it could pass for c

Panic #9 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1955) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. During ECs final days, they were really trying anything they coul

Panic #11 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. Panic was doing a pretty good job of copying Mad with this great parody of Wh

Panic #12 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1956) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Finding this issue in any condition can prove to be very diffi

Picture Stories From American History #2 Gaines File pedigree 8/11 (EC, 1946) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. The British are coming! The British are com

Picture Stories From American History #3 Gaines File pedigree 3/11 (EC, 1947) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. That's right, the grade is...

Picture Stories from Science #1 Gaines File pedigree 4/11 (EC, 1947) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Before EC meant "Entertaining Comi...

Picture Stories from Science #2 Gaines File pedigree 8/11 (EC, 1947) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. This "Education Comic" from Max ...

Picture Stories from the Bible #2 (Old Testament) Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (DC, 1942) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. This is one of the earlies

Picture Stories from the Bible #2 (Old Testament) Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (EC, 1946) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages. A beautiful, near-perfect comic fro

Picture Stories from the Bible #3 (Old Testament) Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (DC, 1943) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. Let's start with th...

Picture Stories from the Bible #3 (New Testament) Gaines File pedigree Certificate Missing (EC, 1946) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages. Here we offer a gorg

Picture Stories from the Bible #4 (Old Testament) Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (DC, 1943) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. The fourth issue of the O

Picture Stories from the Bible (Complete New Testament) Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (EC, 1946) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. The "Complete New Tes...

Picture Stories from the Bible (Complete Life of Christ) Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (EC, 1944) CGC NM+ 9.6 Cream to off-white pages. This is the &quo...

Picture Stories from World History #1 Gaines File pedigree 4/11 (Eastern Color, 1947) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. From back in the days when

Piracy #2 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. EC's "Sagas of the Sea, Ships, Plunder, and... " managed seven...

Piracy #3 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. Reed Crandall's cover has us peering over pirates' shou...

Piracy #4 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Yet another of the fine covers Reed Crandall limned for the EC gang, the powerf

Piracy #5 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. This awesome cover, furnished by Bernard Krigstein, is supplement

Piracy #5 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages. Cover creator Bernie Krigstein was the last artist to come to EC prior to

Piracy #6 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Bernie Krigstein's blinding cover ranks with the best of EC&...

Piracy #7 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. Wow, what an opportunity to own a piece of history! Having an ori

Psychoanalysis #1 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. This Gaines file copy was deemed to be the very best one

Psychoanalysis #1 Gaines File pedigree 12/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. "People Searching for Peace of Mind through... &qu...

Psychoanalysis #2 Gaines File pedigree 12/12 (EC, 1955) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. Freddy Carter, Ellen Lyman, and Mark Stone are back for

Psychoanalysis #4 Gaines File pedigree 12/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Cream to off-white pages. Jack Kamen retired from comics about this time, but this

Saddle Justice #5 (EC, 1949) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. Overstreet notes this title to be "the 1st EC by Bill Gaines to break away fr...

Shock SuspenStories #1 Gaines File pedigree 8/12 (EC, 1952) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. Al Feldstein's electrocution cover was perfe...

Shock SuspenStories #2 Gaines File pedigree 7/10 (EC, 1952) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. One of Wally Wood's most memorable covers is...

Tales From the Crypt #20 (#1) Gaines File pedigree 1/11 (EC, 1950) CGC 9.8 NM/MT Off-white to white pages. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect

Tales From the Crypt #21 Gaines File pedigree 1/10 (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. The second issue of this famous title has a memorable Al Fe

Tales From the Crypt #22 Gaines File pedigree 1/10 (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. The undead zombie pulls the man into the grave in

Tales From the Crypt #23 Gaines File pedigree 1/10 (EC, 1951) CGC 9.6 NM+ Off-white pages. This a beautiful and near-immaculate copy of this issue. Fo

Tales From the Crypt #25 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1951) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-White Pages. According to Bob Overstreet this was the best file copy o