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

Strange Adventures #49 Bethlehem pedigree (DC, 1954) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages. Like other issues of the title offered from this pedigree in our auct

Superboy #1 (DC, 1949) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages. This excellent copy has received the highest grade yet given by CGC! This milestone issue is a nic

Superboy #15 (DC, 1951) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. DCs from this time period are proving extremely difficult to find in any condition. Th

Superboy Ashcan #nn (DC, 1942) CGC NM- 9.2 Cream to off-white pages. This historic DC ashcan was used to secure the copyright to the adventures of the

Superman #1 (DC, 1939) CGC Apparent FN+ 6.5 Moderate (P) Cream to off-white pages. Arguably the second most important comic book. The first comic book

Superman #2 (DC, 1939) Condition: Apparent GD+. Superman's second issue is packed with early Action stories by Siegel and Shuster, and shows the...

Superman #7 (DC, 1940) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white to white pages. This classic issue comes straight out of our consignor's personal collection to you...

Superman #11 "D" Copy pedigree (DC, 1940) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. This nice copy has an iconic cover, by Fred Ray, of the ...

Superman #15 (DC, 1942) CGC VF- 7.5 Cream to off-white pages. The dynamic cover is by Fred Ray, shown off in glorious colors by this copy that visuall

Superman #16 (DC, 1942) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white to white pages. It's a nice day for a stroll in the park on this, the first, Lois Lane cover in Su...

Superman #18 (DC, 1940) CGC VF+ 8.5 Cream to off-white pages. Superman rides his rocket to earth on this classic cover, as Allied planes dive with him

Superman #18 (DC, 1942) CGC FN+ 6.5 Off-white to white pages. Offered here is one of the best Superman comics DC ever published. Superman is an Americ

Superman #19 (DC, 1942) CGC FN+ 6.5 White pages. The unmistakable style of Jack Burnley graced the covers of 14 early issues of DCs most famous charac

Superman #26 (DC, 1944) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Cream to off-white pages. Deemed a "classic war cover" by Overstreet, this Nazi-ridiculing cover ris...

Superman #32 (DC, 1945) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. One has to look closely, front and back, to figure out why this striking copy grades out

Superman #35 (DC, 1945) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. On this cover, Superman takes time out of his busy schedule to pose with Lois for an old-

Superman #43 (DC, 1946) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. From the mid- to late-forties, humorous covers dominated this title. Wayne Boring was

Superman #56 (DC, 1949) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Superman, a babysitter?! Supes has met his match in Smarty Pants on this fun late-'...

Superman #74 (DC, 1952) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. This cover and issue are highlighted by a Lex Luthor appearance. Copies of this and ot

Superman #76 (DC, 1952) CGC FN 6.0 Off-white pages. Batman and Superman learn each other's secret identities in this rarely offered key issue. I...

Superman #86 (DC, 1954) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. This high-grade copy is currently one of only two of issue #86 to have earned even a Very

Superman #100 (DC, 1955) CGC VF- 7.5 Cream to off-white pages. 100th issues always seem to generate an inordinate demand, and an uncommon issue such a

Superman Bound Volume Issues #1-7 (DC, 1939-1940) Overall Condition: GD. This unique bound collection contains copies of Superman numbers 1 through 7!

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #1 (DC, 1954) CGC VG/FN 5.0 Off-white pages. Gerber in his The Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books gives this a "...

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #1 (DC, 1954) CGC VG/FN 5.0 Light tan to off-white pages. This premiere issue rates a "less than average" s...

Wonder Woman #8 (DC, 1944) CGC VF+ 8.5 Cream to off-white pages. Wonder Woman is a real swinger on this cover by H. G. Peter! This pastel cover is cle

Wonder Woman #9 Mile High pedigree (DC, 1944) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. One of the great H. G. Peter covers has our favorite Amazon upon an unlikely ma

Wonder Woman #16 (DC, 1946) CGC NM- 9.2 Cream to off-white pages. Wonder Woman snares Pluto (no, not the dog) off his steed on this cover by H. G. Pet

Wonder Woman #17 (DC, 1946) CGC VF+ 8.5 Cream to off-white pages. H. G. Peter has the Amazon Princess riding bulls out west, in this Golden Age beauty

Wonder Woman #20 (DC, 1946) CGC NM- 9.2 Cream to off-white pages. You can hold out for the nicer copy that you might never find (CGC hasn't seen...

Wonder Woman #45 (DC, 1951) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. "The Wonder Woman Story!" This issue tells all, and reprints the Amazon Princes...

World's Best Comics #1 (DC, 1941) CGC VG/FN 5.0 Cream to off-white pages. The stiff cardboard cover of this issue meant very few survived in hig...

World's Finest Comics #3 (DC, 1941) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages. Who do you think is doing the pitching on this neat baseball-themed cover? Mayb...

World's Finest Comics #5 (DC, 1942) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Offered here is the world's finest copy of this issue of World'...

World's Finest Comics #13 Toledo pedigree (DC, 1944) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. This excellent copy has received the highest CGC grade...

World's Finest Comics #17 (DC, 1945) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages. It's amazing that any copy of this squarebound, cardboard-covered issue coul...

World's Finest Comics #41 (DC, 1949) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. No other copy of this issue has even attained a grade of Very Fine in CGC's ce...

World's Finest Comics #71 (DC, 1954) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white to white pages. Superman and Batman begin their team-up series, exchanging identities...

Aces High #1 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. This first issue really is in immaculate condition, even for t

Aces High #2 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. EC looked like they really had something going with their new

Aces High #3 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Wow, a Gaines file copy in straight Near Mint condition and perfectly white

Aces High #4 Gaines File pedigree 12/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. EC's New Direction titles really were cool, it's to...

Aces High #5 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. Artist George Evans gets his day in the sun with this title, d

Animal Fables #4 (EC, 1947) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. You would think that this is a Timely, not an EC, with the Human Torch of bugs on the cover

Crime SuspenStories #2 (EC, 1950) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. Outside of the Gaines file copies, ECs really are extremely difficult to find

Crime SuspenStories #5 Gaines File pedigree 3/10 (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. This pedigreed book is another absolute gem. Nearly

Crime SuspenStories #7 Gaines File pedigree Certificate Missing (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. Johnny Craig was a master at projecting a terr

Crime SuspenStories #9 Gaines File pedigree Certificate Missing (EC, 1952) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. If you think of a Johnny Craig cover

Crime SuspenStories #9 (EC, 1952) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. It's hard to argue with the notion that EC had the coolest books of the 1950s. ...

Crime SuspenStories #10 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1952) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. The cover is by Johnny Craig, while the interior is

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Crime SuspenStories #11 Gaine File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1952) CGC NM+ 9.6 Cream to off-white pages. Johnny Craig's creepy cover gets non-parallele...

Crime SuspenStories #14 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1952) CGC NM+ 9.6 Cream to off-white pages. Cover artist Johnny Craig was a master at conveying

Crime SuspenStories #20 Gaines File pedigree 3/12 (EC, 1953) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Indelibly etched in the minds of collectors, this co

Crime SuspenStories #21 Gaines File pedigree 3/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. More gore from the EC horror masters! Johnny Craig

Crime SuspenStories #27 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages. A creepy Jack Kamen cover starts this last issue of Crime Su

Extra! #1 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages. EC's first issue of Extra! did not manage to get approved by the Code...

Extra! #2 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. EC was making every attempt to maintain their readership by 195

Extra! #3 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. An awesome cover by Johnny Craig, the contrast of the yellow bac

Extra! #4 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Cream to off-white pages. EC's days of publishing comic books were, unfortunately, nu...

Extra! #5 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages. The final issue of the title sported the same newspaper-headline-style cove

Frontline Combat #1 Gaines File pedigree 3/9 (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. This first issue of Harvey Kurtzman's masterpiece comes fro...

Frontline Combat #6 Gaines File pedigree 6/9 (EC, 1952) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. It's easy to get lost in this action cover by Harv...

Frontline Combat #7 Gaines File pedigree 7/10 (EC, 1952) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Kurtzman's special Iwo Jima issue may have the bes...

Frontline Combat #8 Gaines File pedigree 3/9 (EC, 1952) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. Of the nine covers of this title that Kurtzman penciled,

Frontline Combat #9 Gaines File pedigree 7/10 (EC, 1952) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages. Kurtzman devoted this issue to the Civil War, and enlisted the ef

Gunfighter #12 (EC, 1949) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages. This is a very nice pre-trend EC with an incredible Graham Ingels cover, and art by H. C. Kiefe

The Haunt of Fear #15 (#1) (EC, 1950) CGC Qualified VG/FN 5.0 Cream to off-white pages. The first appearance of the Old Witch also happens to be the f

The Haunt of Fear #4 Gaines File pedigree 1/9 (EC, 1950) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages. Historic as the issue wherein the great Graham Ingels becomes th

The Haunt of Fear #5 Gaines File pedigree 1/9 (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. This unreal copy is the highest-graded issue #5 CGC has

The Haunt of Fear #9 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. This sensational copy just dares you to find fault. After staring a

The Haunt of Fear #14 Gaines File pedigree 7/12 (EC, 1952) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. Graham Ingels created one of the all-time classics fo

The Haunt of Fear #26 Gaines File pedigree 7/12 (EC, 1954) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. "Well, I was feelin' sad and feelin' blue, I ...

Impact #1 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages. Jack Davis is at his bizarre-best with this strange cover scene for the fi

Impact #2 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Jack Davis, arguably EC's most versatile artist, was assigne...

Impact #3 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Cream to off-white pages. Don't be looking for the suspense, horror, or a "twist...

Impact #4 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. The condition of this book will knock you off your feet! Another

Impact #5 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages. EC's New Direction came to a close with the final issue of this and ...

M.D. #1 Gaines File pedigree 12/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Here is another beautiful Gaines file copy in Near Mint condition with white pag

M.D. #2 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. This sensational cover by Johnny Craig was the good news. That only

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&...