2002 October Comic Auction - Session 1

Marvel Mystery Comics #26 (Timely, 1941) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages. A truly classic Schomburg cover, featuring the Sub-Mariner ripping the wheels ri

Marvel Mystery Comics #27 (Timely, 1942) CGC Apparent VF- 7.5 Slight (P) Cream to off-white pages. Just as Toro is about to be squashed beneath the tr

Marvel Mystery Comics #28 (Timely, 1942) CGC FN+ 6.5 Cream to off-white pages. Schomburg hands in a cover of disturbing creatures preparing a fair mai

Marvel Mystery Comics #29 (Timely, 1942) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. Torch has only moments to save his damsel, as he fights off the purple-hooded

Marvel Mystery Comics #30 Recil Macon pedigree (Timely, 1942) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages. One of only four yellow covers in the run of Marvel Mystery,

Marvel Mystery Comics #31 (Timely, 1942) CGC Apparent VF 8.0 Slight (P) Cream to off-white pages. On this Gabriele cover, Toro is about to be disinteg

Marvel Mystery Comics #32 (Timely, 1942) CGC VF+ 8.5 Cream to off-white pages. A truly gruesome Gabriele cover portraying the Japanese with pointed te

Marvel Mystery Comics #33 (Timely, 1942) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages. Even though most of the Marvel Mystery covers are impressive in their own right,

Marvel Mystery Comics #34 San Francisco pedigree (Timely, 1942) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages. "Can the Human Torch's death-defying leap save ...

Marvel Mystery Comics #35 San Francisco pedigree (Timely, 1942) CGC FN/VF 7.0 White pages. Schomburg delivers a fantastic Allied beach invasion on thi

Marvel Mystery Comics #36 (Timely, 1942) CGC FN+ 6.5 Cream to off-white pages. One of Schomburg's most creative covers, featuring a detailed des...

Marvel Mystery Comics #37 (Timely, 1942) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Cream to off-white pages. Moments before a group of dissidents are about to be cut down in a ha

Marvel Mystery Comics #38 (Timely, 1942) CGC VG+ 4.5 Off-white pages. Syd Shores puts the Human Torch directly in the middle of a firefight between th

Marvel Mystery Comics #39 Chicago pedigree (Timely, 1943) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Torch and Toro take the battle to the snow-covered A

Marvel Mystery Comics #40 (Timely, 1943) CGC FN 6.0 Cream to off-white pages. Schomburg, deep in his busy cover art style now, depicts a Nazi invasion

Marvel Mystery Comics #41 Chicago pedigree (Timely, 1943) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. Finally, Torch discovers the secret hideout of Tojo and Hiroh

Marvel Mystery Comics #42 (Timely, 1943) CGC VG+ 4.5 Off-white pages. Another busy cover by Alex Schomburg, this time featuring a Japanese submarine a

Marvel Mystery Comics #43 (Timely, 1943) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages. Earning their worth in the war against evil, Torch and Toro rip right through a s

Marvel Mystery Comics #44 (Timely, 1943) CGC Apparent VG 4.0 Slight (P) Off-white pages. One of the hottest books of the run, Schomburg's Superp...

Marvel Mystery Comics #45 (Timely, 1943) CGC FN 6.0 Off-white pages. Those dastardly hooded Nazis are at it again, this time preparing two U.S. soldie

Marvel Mystery Comics #46 (Timely, 1943) CGC Apparent VG- 3.5 Slight (A) Slightly brittle pages. What a cover! As if the Superplane wasn't enoug...

Marvel Mystery Comics #47 (Timely, 1943) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Torch tears through the Ruhr Valley dam like a hot knife through butt

Marvel Mystery Comics #48 (Timely, 1943) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Off-white pages. Another classic busy cover by Alex Schomburg, showing the Human Torch ripping

Marvel Mystery Comics #49 (Timely, 1949) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Off-white pages. Sol Brodsky's cover features Torch and Toro plowing into a gaggle of Jap...

Marvel Mystery Comics #50 (Timely, 1943) CGC Apparent GD/VG 3.0 Slight (P) Cream to off-white pages. The giant Japanese executioner, surrounded by sku

Marvel Mystery Comics #51 (Timely, 1944) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. Moments before Toro is to be branded with a hot swastika, the Human Torc

Marvel Mystery Comics #52 (Timely, 1944) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white pages. An unmistakable Alex Schomburg cover featuring all of the key elements: hooded N

Marvel Mystery Comics #53 Rockford pedigree (Timely, 1944) CGC VF- 7.5 Cream to off-white pages. Another great Schomburg cover, featuring Japanese spi

Marvel Mystery Comics #54 (Timely) CGC Apparent VG+ 4.5 Moderate (A) Off-white pages. As the devious Japanese soldiers prepare to administer truth gas

Marvel Mystery Comics #55 Double cover (Timely, 1944) CGC Qualified VF 8.0 Off-white pages. The Human Torch stops the Japanese executioner moments bef

Marvel Mystery Comics #56 (Timely, 1944) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages. Torch interrupts a Nazi roast, as the gaggle of baddies prepare a fair maiden for

Marvel Mystery Comics #57 (Timely, 1944) CGC Apparent VF 8.0 Slight (P) Off-white pages. A great Schomburg cover, featuring the mad scientist preparin

Marvel Mystery Comics #58 (Timely, 1944) CGC FN+ 6.5 Off-white pages. This Schomburg cover finds an aviator trapped in a truly devious device, sure to

Marvel Mystery Comics #59 (Timely, 1944) CGC VF+ 8.5 Cream to off-white pages. The Japanese are up to their dastardly deeds again. Some of Schomburg...

Marvel Mystery Comics #60 (Timely, 1944) CGC FN 6.0 Off-white pages. Torch and Toro foil another Japanese attack, melting the Super Rocket Shell befor

Marvel Mystery Comics #61 (Timely, 1945) CGC VG 4.0 Cream to off-white pages. Here's a strange cover in the run, featuring an artist who tried t...

Marvel Mystery Comics #62 Mile High pedigree (Timely, 1945) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. Just as the executioner's axe falls on Toro an...

Marvel Mystery Comics #62 (Timely, 1945) CGC VG- 3.5 Off-white to white pages. Toro and the lovely lady didn't look like they were having a grea...

Marvel Mystery Comics #63 (Timely, 1945) CGC VG/FN 5.0 Cream to off-white pages. One of the most popular Schomburg covers of the run, featuring Hitler

Marvel Mystery Comics #64 (Timely, 1945) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. A truly magnificent Nazi cover by the indubitable Alex Schomburg! One o

Marvel Mystery Comics #65 (Timely, 1945) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white to white pages. Torch busts up a spy party on this Schomburg cover, tearing into the U.

Marvel Mystery Comics #66 (Timely, 1945) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages. The classic Schomburg Death Ray cover! Japanese airmen prepare to eradicate New

Marvel Mystery Comics #67 (Timely, 1945) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Off-white to white pages. As the war drew to a close, Schomburg began pitting Timely's he...

Marvel Mystery Comics #68 Cosmic Aeroplane pedigree (Timely, 1946) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. Schomburg just won't let go of those torture c...

Marvel Mystery Comics #68 (Timely, 1946) CGC GD/VG 3.0 Cream to off-white pages. Here's an interesting Schomburg cover, similar to Marvel Myster...

Marvel Mystery Comics #69 (Timely, 1946) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages. Hooded baddies are stopped cold in their tracks by Torch and Toro, moments before

Marvel Mystery Comics #70 (Timely, 1946) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages. Torch foils a pack of robbers from escaping across the rooftops, stealing the lo

Marvel Mystery Comics #71 (Timely, 1946) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages. Evil Egyptians reviving a beautiful princess from her ancient tomb are rudely int

Marvel Mystery Comics #72 "D" pedigree (Timely, 1946) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. Exhibiting deep glossy reds and a clean white cover, th...

Marvel Mystery Comics #73 "D" pedigree (Timely, 1946) CGC VF+ 8.5 Cream to off-white pages. Torch faces off against a unique adversary thi...

Marvel Mystery Comics #74 "D" pedigree (Timely, 1946) CGC NM 9.4 Cream to off-white pages. Robbers preying on the rich have got another th...

Marvel Mystery Comics #75 (Timely, 1946) NM 9.4 Off-white pages. Torch and Toro foil a kidnapping in progress at Jack's Tavern on this cover. A ...

Marvel Mystery Comics #76 "D" pedigree (Timely, 1946) CGC VF+ 8.5 Cream to off-white pages. Retired from waging war on the Axis, the Human...

Marvel Mystery Comics #77 "D" pedigree (Timely, 1946) CGC NM+ 9.6 Cream to off-white pages. Subby and Torch race each other on this intere...

Marvel Mystery Comics #78 "D" pedigree (Timely, 1946) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. Torch and Toro foil a midnight theft in progres...

Marvel Mystery Comics #79 (Timely, 1946) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. Here is a bizarre cover featuring a gaggle of super-villains prepared to take

Marvel Mystery Comics #80 "D" pedigree (Timely, 1947) CGC NM- 9.2 Cream to off-white pages. Can you believe it took 80 issues for Captain ...

Marvel Mystery Comics #81 "D" pedigree (Timely, 1947) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. Apparently Captain America had a lot of catc...

Marvel Mystery Comics #82 "D" pedigree (Timely, 1947) CGC VF+ 8.5 Cream to off-white pages. For your gazing enjoyment, featured is the ori...

Marvel Mystery Comics #83 (Timely, 1947) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Off-white pages. This issue features the Photo Phantom, as he prepares to take an acid picture

Marvel Mystery Comics #84 (Timely, 1947) CGC FN+ 6.5 Cream to off-white pages. The Blonde Phantom, starting her series this issue, checks out her beef

Marvel Mystery Comics #85 (Timely, 1948) CGC VF+ 8.5 Cream to off-white pages. Torch is in a sticky situation here, thrown into the river after receiv

Marvel Mystery Comics #86 "D" pedigree (Timely, 1948) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages. "Join Torch and Toro in the Carnival of Crime!"...

Marvel Mystery Comics #87 "D" pedigree (Timely, 1948) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. Syd Shores managed to squeeze everything but the kitc...

Marvel Mystery Comics #88 (Timely, 1948) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. This issue is packed wall to wall with Timely's heroes, with Torch excla...

Marvel Mystery Comics #89 (Timely, 1948) CGC VF+ 8.5 White pages. Torch faces off against Asbestos Man on this cover, as Blonde Phantom's life h...

Marvel Mystery Comics #89 (Timely, 1948) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white to white pages. Here we see Torch facing off against a baddie armed with liquid asbesto

Marvel Mystery Comics #89 (Timely, 1948) CGC VG+ 4.5 Off-white to white pages. Another copy, this one being in mid-grade condition. Only spine and edg

Marvel Mystery Comics #90 (Timely, 1949) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. As Marvel Mystery drew to a close, the covers began to get more bizarre

Marvel Mystery Comics #91 (Timely, 1949) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white pages. A tough issue featuring Dizzy Daze, genius of goofy gimmicks, as he tries to tra

Marvel Mystery Comics #92 (Timely, 1949) CGC FN+ 6.5 Off-white to white pages. The last Marvel Mystery issue, listed as scarce in the Overstreet Guide

Master Comics #21 (Fawcett, 1941) CGC VF- 7.5 Cream to off-white pages. One of the scarcest, most desirable Fawcett comics in fandom, this issue featu

More Fun Comics #52 (DC, 1940) CGC Apparent FN+ 6.5 Slight (P) Cream to off-white pages. After running 51 issues, it was decided that DC's first...

More Fun Comics #53 (DC, 1940) CGC Apparent VF+ 8.5 Slight (P) Off-white pages. Part II of the Spectre's origin is told in this issue, continued...

More Fun Comics #54 Larson pedigree (DC, 1940) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. The Spectre looms over a mob of people, swatting enemy planes a

More Fun Comics #55 (DC, 1940) CGC FN+ 6.5 Cream to off-white pages. A mere four issues after the introduction of the Spectre, More Fun added another

More Fun Comics #56 (DC, 1940) CGC FN- 5.5 White pages. After his introductory issue, Dr. Fate scores his first cover, and what a cover it is! Locked

More Fun Comics #57 (DC, 1940) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white to white pages. Another tough issue here, featuring the Spectre on the cover, ready to rock. Earl

More Fun Comics #58 Mile High pedigree (DC, 1940) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. The series of More Fun is chock-full of rare issues, and #58 is

More Fun Comics #59 (DC, 1940) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. Whoa, what's the Spectre doing in there? If there's one thing he loved d...

More Fun Comics #60 (DC, 1940) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white to white pages. Another great Spectre cover, once again featuring him larger than life, about to

More Fun Comics #62 Mile High pedigree (DC, 1940) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. A truly magnificent book to behold. Bernard Baily achieves gre

More Fun Comics #63 (DC, 1941) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Coming out of nowhere, the Spectre rises into the clouds, plucking planes out o

More Fun Comics #64 (DC, 1941) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white pages. By this issue, the Spectre was taking a more playful approach to dealing with bad guys, as

More Fun Comics #65 Mile High pedigree (DC, 1941) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Of the many amazing books offered in Heritage's October auction, this ...

More Fun Comics #66 Larson pedigree (DC, 1941) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. Bailey returns to his usual cover design this issue, featuring a

More Fun Comics #67 Rockford pedigree (DC, 1941) CGC NM- 9.2 Cream to off-white pages. Featuring the first origin of Dr. Fate, this key issue is quite

More Fun Comics #73 Mile High pedigree (DC, 1941) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Featuring the first appearance of not one, but two major superheroes from th

Mystic Comics #9 (Timely, 1942) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Cream to off-white pages. The Destroyer crashes Hitler's party, just in time to save the bondaged ...

New Adventure Comics #14 Mile High pedigree (DC, 1937) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Off-white to white pages. Empowered by his G-man badge, the little kid seems to h

New Adventure Comics #16 (DC, 1937) CGC FN 6.0 Cream to off-white pages. By #15 New Adventure's metamorphosis was complete, featuring a cover st...

New Adventure Comics #17 Larson pedigree (DC, 1937) CGC FN- 5.5 Cream to off-white pages. Another funny cover by Creig Flessel, one of DC's stab...

New Adventure Comics #18 Mile High pedigree (DC, 1937) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Creig Flessel delivers another humorous cover of a bo...

New Adventure Comics #19 Mile High pedigree (DC, 1937) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages. Creig Flessel delivers another humorous cover, and Siegel and Shus

New Adventure Comics #20 Mile High pedigree (DC, 1937) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. Wow! Featuring a Tom Sawyer-esque cover by Creig Flessel,

New Adventure Comics #21 Mile High pedigree (DC, 1937) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Kids emulate D. W. Griffith on this Creig Flessel cover, with Siegel an

New Adventure Comics #22 (DC, 1937) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. On this Creig Flessel cover, two kids have actually ventured to the North Pol

New Adventure Comics #24 (DC, 1938) CGC VG- 3.5 Cream to off-white pages. New Adventure finally made the transition to action covers with #23, allowin

New Adventure Comics #28 (DC, 1938) CGC VF- 7.5 Cream to off-white pages. Captain Bill takes a belaying pin to his shipjackers, as they attempt a take

New Adventure Comics #29 Mile High pedigree (DC, 1938) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. Creig Flessel delivers a fantastic adventure cover here,