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

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&...