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

M.D. #3 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. Another shocker here, this comic will perform an operation on you just by lookin

M.D. #4 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages. Watered-down EC was still superior to most any other comic publisher, but th

M.D. #5 Gaines File pedigree 12/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. Another incredibly powerful cover by Johnny Craig fronts this classic issue, wi

Mad #1 (EC, 1952) CGC NM- 9.2 Cream to off-white pages. Coming on the heels of the highly influential New Trend undertaken by EC, which elevated the s

Mad #1 (EC, 1952) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Mad is now 50 years old, and this is the one that started it all. The importance of this fir

Mad #1 (EC, 1952) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages. The full genius of the first satire comic might not have been evident from this Harvey Kurtzman cover, b

Mad #1 (EC, 1952) CGC FN 6.0 Off-white pages. This first satire comic is the key book in the satirical humor genre of comics. This book is sharp, with

Mad #2 (EC, 1952) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. Jack Davis easily bounced from horror to comic themes, here cramming numerous goofy characte

Mad #3 (EC, 1953) CGC VF+ 8.5 Cream to off-white pages. This is a very presentable copy of Kurtzman's satirical comic, Mad. There aren't any...

Mad #4 Gaines File pedigree 5/12 (EC, 1953) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. Harvey Kurtzman's over-the-top satire in general, and parodi...

Mad #5 Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (EC, 1953) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. Bill Elder created an instant masterpiece with this cover to Mad #3 in 1953, whic

Mad #5 (EC, 1953) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. This is one of those covers that you can really spend some time gazing at. There are literally

Mad #5 (EC, 1953) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white pages. This issue is notoriously scarce due to its limited distribution. Biography of Bill Gaines enclosed. Bi

Mad #6 Gaines File pedigree 3/12 (EC, 1953) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Wow, can you say Near Mint with white pages? And a Gaines file copy to boot; what

Mad #8 Gaines File pedigree 5/12 (EC, 1953) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. The earliest issues of the title were goofy beyond anything else yet seen in comi

Mad #8 (EC, 1953) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. A truly exceptional copy of a truly exceptional comic. The only visible flaws include a very sl

Mad #10 Gaines File pedigree 3/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Harvey Kurtzman created another one of his wild masterpieces for thi

Mad #13 (EC, 1954) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. The crazy guys at Mad really threw caution to the wind, and put whatever they wanted on the c

Mad #17 Gaines File pedigree 3/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. Although creating a genre of its own, Mad wisely utilized the resou

Mad #18 Gaines File pedigree Certificate Missing (EC, 1954) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages. One of the more unusual among the unusual covers of comics&...