2002 July Comic Auction - Session 1

Star Spangled Comics #60 (DC, 1946) CGC NM+ 9.6 Cream to off-white pages. This goofy Submarine cover features the Guardian and Newsboy Legion giving a

Star Spangled Comics #82 (DC, 1948) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. Robin is doing poorly on this boxing theme cover, getting knocked clear from the ri

Star Spangled Comics #122 (DC, 1951) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. This latter issue of the long-running title features the origin and first

Strange Adventures #1 (DC, 1950) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. A Destination Moon movie adaptation starts this fantastic title of thrilling

Strange Adventures #1 (DC, 1950) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. This key first issue contains an adaptation of "Destination", with a...

Strange Adventures #2 Bethlehem pedigree (DC, 1950) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. This awesome cover features a giant red planet threatening

Strange Adventures #3 (DC, 1950) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. Here is an extremely high-grade early issue from DC's classic fantasy ser...

Strange Adventures #3 Bethlehem pedigree (DC, 1950) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages. Many of the masters of the science-fiction genre were working on this

Strange Adventures #4 White Mountain pedigree (DC, 1951) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. DCs from the early 1950s are notoriously hard to find in

Strange Adventures #5 Bethlehem pedigree (DC, 1951) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. DC's tandem of Strange Adventures and Mystery In Space...

Strange Adventures #6 White Mountain pedigree (DC, 1951) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white to white pages. Another superb example from the White Mountain collecti

Strange Adventures #6 Bethlehem pedigree (DC, 1951) CGC FN+ 6.5 Off-white to white pages. An absolutely awesome cover of an alien invasion. Note the a

Strange Adventures #7 Bethlehem pedigree (DC, 1951) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. This great giant ant cover features a horrified brunette bei

Strange Adventures #8 Bethlehem pedigree (DC, 1951) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white pages. This is the famous gorilla cover that started it all! We're ref...

Strange Adventures #9 Bethlehem pedigree (DC, 1951) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. This dramatic and magnificent cover introduces Captain Comet

Strange Adventures #13 (DC, 1951) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. This fantastic cover shows Captain Comet protecting a pensive damsel from the e

Strange Adventures #14 Bethlehem pedigree (DC, 1951) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages. This out of this world cover features robots bent on experimenting o

Superboy #1 (DC, 1949) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. Back in 1949 when most costumed crimefighters had faded away, the first superhero of th

Superboy #1 (DC, 1949) CGC FN 6.0 Off-white pages. This is an incredible book with tremendous investment potential; it still has not quite reached the

Superboy #1 (DC, 1949) CGC Apparent VF- 7.5 Slight (P) Off-white to white pages. A DC editor's memo from the late 1940s said "I know we hav...

Superboy #2 (DC, 1949) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. This second issue of "The Adventures of Superman When He was a Boy" takes us b...

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 GD- 1.8 Cream pages. Here is one of the most important books of all time. Superman #1 is the fourth most-valuable comic boo

Superman #1 (DC, 1939) CGC Apparent FN+ 6.5 Moderate (P) Cream to off-white pages. Considered the fourth most valuable comic book by Overstreet, Super

Superman #2 (DC, 1939) CGC Apparent VG+ 4.5 Slight (P) Cream to off-white pages. Here is the second issue of Superman in all its glory! The Golden Age

Superman #3 Nova Scotia pedigree (DC, 1940) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. Here is an extremely early issue of Superman in extremely high grade.

Superman #3 (DC, 1940) CGC VG 4.0 Off-white pages. Here is the classic third issue of this long-running series. The cool train cover has an art deco l

Superman #3 (DC, 1940) CGC Apparent VF+ 8.5 Moderate (P) Off-white pages. Siegel and Shuster bring us a fantastic cover with Superman in a classic fly

Superman #4 (DC, 1940) CGC VF+ 8.5 White pages. Siegel and Shuster render a dynamic cover of Superman toppling columns as a couple of wide-eyed people

Superman #5 (DC, 1940) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. Superman was still getting his kicks showing off on the covers of these very early issues

Superman #6 (DC, 1940) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white pages. Superman assumes a classic pose on the cool cover of this early issue, that has the appearance of

Superman #7 (DC, 1940) CGC FN 6.0 Off-white pages. Superman battles enemy war planes on this super cover. Note the bullets bouncing off of the Man of

Superman #7 (DC, 1940) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white pages. The bullets are just bouncing right off of Superman's chest on this classic cover. First app...

Superman #8 (DC, 1941) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white pages. Early issues of Superman are getting super tough to locate in grade. This is a very solid book, be

Superman #8 (DC, 1941) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white pages. Fred Ray draws a dynamic Superman rushing to stop a fire and rescue a victim as a Tommy gun-toting

Superman #9 (DC, 1941) CGC Qualified VF 8.0 Off-white pages. This is one of the classic early covers by Fred Ray. It is a beautiful-looking book, but

Superman #9 (DC, 1941) CGC FN 6.0 Cream to off-white pages. Superman busts out of this classic Fred Ray cover. Sometimes the simple covers are the bet

Superman #10 Larson pedigree (DC, 1941) CGC Qualified NM 9.4 White pages. Lex Luthor is bald in this issue, his fifth appearance. This pedigree book f

Superman #12 (DC, 1941) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. A terrific patriotic cover by Fred Ray, over a year before Pearl Harbor, spotlights this

Superman #14 (DC, 1942) CGC VG- 3.5 Cream to off-white pages. One of the greatest covers of Superman ever published. This black patriotic flag cover b

Superman #33 (DC, 1945) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. Super nice high-grade Golden Age DC from 1945, this is the third appearance of Mr. Mxyzt

Superman #34 (DC, 1945) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. Superman lends his support to the Red Cross on the cover of this classic book. This patr

Superman #35 (DC, 1945) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. This is a high-grade book with great page quality and a rare cover appearance by Lois Lan

Superman #36 (DC, 1945) CGC VF+ 8.5 White pages. Why is Superman destroying Lois Lane's refrigerator? She certainly looks perturbed! Is the Man ...

Superman #36 (DC, 1945) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white to white pages. This issue features a great full shot of "housewife" Lois Lane reprimanding ...

Superman #53 (DC, 1948) CGC VF- 7.5 Cream pages. Wayne Boring draws the classic tenth anniversary issue cover featuring the world's greatest adv...

Superman #60 (DC, 1949) CGC VF 8.0 White pages. Ten years after the first issue, this title's covers often sported humorous themes like this one...

Superman #61 (DC, 1949) CGC FN/VF 7.0 White pages. This book is key for many reasons. It retells the origin of Superman, it is the first appearance of

Superman #70 (DC, 1951) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages. Wayne Boring is, to some, the definitive Superman artist, discharging yeoman duties on The Man of T

Superman #74 (DC, 1952) CGC VF 8.0 Dark tan to off-white pages. Lex Luthor has turned Lois Lane to stone, and is in the process of doing the same to S