2007 January Signature Comic Auction #823

<B>Vampirella #3 (Warren, 1970) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages.</B></I> "Vampi's Scarlet Letters" page begins in this i...

<B>Vampirella #13 (Warren, 1971) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages.</B></I> Features the first annual Warren Creator Awards (for 1970). ...

<B>Vampirella #1-10 And Other Magazines Bound Volume (Warren, 1969-81).</B></I> Marvel and DC bonuses await the winning bidder for...

It had just been four years since the Man of Steel's first appearance in <B>Action Comics </B></I>#1, and he was already a leg...

Graphic Novels have been a standard form of comics publishing during the past twenty-five years or so, but there were a few earlier attempts at the fo

Offered here is a very fresh looking 1966 ­set of<B> Batman</B></I> "Red Bat" trading cards, consisting of 44 puzzl...

All 55 on the first set of Batman cards, inspired by the hit ABC-TV series, are featured in this lot. All have painted images by Norman Saunders. Also

Here's another complete set of the first group of 55 gum cards, featuring painted portraits of Batman, Robin, and assorted villains. All cards a...

Includes cards 1A-44A, the entire second set. All feature wonderful Norman Saunders painted portraits of the Dynamic Duo and their colorful villains.

Here's the versatile Captain Action in his original box, complete with hat, belt, gun. and sword. The box is in nice condition with only some li...

One of Disney's earliest cartoons featured Practical, Fifer, and Fiddler, the Three Little Pigs. The trio was captured nicely in this vintage bi...

Overstreet lists these tiny items as "Marvel Mania Giveaways", and at a size of 5/8" x 7/8" they indeed qualify for the title &q...

Colorful one-sheet for the feature film starring Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon. The feature was a re-edited version of the 1938 serial "Flash G...

Tight, never-opened copy with fresh cover colors. Some slight color loss at spine. Overstreet 2006 Near Mint value = $650. <BR><BR><b...

The price guide value mentioned below notwithstanding, a Fine copy of this issue sold for $3,000 in one of our recent auctions, and we think this spec

Basil Wolverton, the father of the "spaghetti and meatball school of design" and one of the most beloved cartoonists of the 1940s, '50...

<B>Big Ass Comics #1 First Printing R. Crumb (Rip Off Press, 1969) CGC FN+ 6.5 Off-white pages.</B></I> Hard to find first printin...

<B>Creem V1#2 and V3#6 Group R. Crumb (Creem Magazine, Inc., 1969-71) Condition: Average VG/FN.</B></I> Robert Crumb' s classi...

<B>Gothic Blimp Works #2 R. Crumb (East Village Other, 1969) Condition: FN.</B></I> Robert Crumb's over-the-top portrait of a ...

<B>King Bee #1 R. Crumb (Apex Novelties, 1969) Condition: VF.</B></I> This one-shot comix tabloid features a wonderfully funny Rob...

<B>Monster Greeting Card Complete Set of 50 - featuring Robert (R.) Crumb Art (Topps, 1966) Condition: Average VF.</B></I> Undergr...

<B>Motor City Comics #1 Second Printing R. Crumb (Rip Off Press, 1969) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Off-white to white pages.</B></I> All that ke...

Here's one of the rare, hand-assembled copies of this notorious comic, the last in the short series of three printed by the original publisher, ...

<B>Surfer Magazine V12#6 - featuring Tales From the Tube Comix R. Crumb (Surfer Publications, 1971) Condition: VF-.</B></I> This i...

<B>East Village Other Group of 3 R. Crumb (East Village Other, 1968-70).</B></I> This group of three East Village Other left-wing ...

<B>Yarrowstalks #1 R. Crumb (Brian Zahn, 1967) Condition: VG.</B></I> This item is something of a "holy grail" among R. ...

<B>Zap Comix #1 Second Printing R. Crumb (Apex Novelties, 1967) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages.</B></I> Don Donahue traded a ...

<B>Heavy Metal</B></I> cover artist Chris Achilleos uncorks another sizzling painting spotlighting one of his trademark erotically...

The soggy beast of the bogs, the Swamp Thing, roams the backwater bayous with a breath-taking beauty in his arms. This design is quite similar to the

Rock on, art lovers, with Chris Achilleos' most famous and -- in the minds of many fans -- his best painting! "Heavy Metal" showcased ...

Neal Adams took Silver Age readers by storm when his work debuted in the comic books of the mid-sixties. His "photorealistic" grey tone ar...

The late Archie Goodwin was one of the finest editor/writers to work in comics and perhaps the best since the glory days of EC Comics. He always broug

Neal Adams had a terrific stint on the Silver Age<B> Spectre </B></I>title -- he worked on issues #2-5, in 1968. It's great to...

The whole <B>Superman Family</B></I> cast stars on this Bronze Age beauty. Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Perry White, and Supergirl all ...

Duck, Uncle Scrooge! Huey, Dewey, and Louie are playing ball again! This delightful cover illustration by Whitman mainstay, Al Anderson, is rendered i

Everybody's favorite wall-crawler is trapped in a rapidly-flooding sewer beneath the city streets, in this definitely "splashy" splash...

Holy Hanna! Spider-Man is trapped in the sewer that is filling up faster than a bingo parlor on a Friday night! Here is page 2 from the Len Wein story

The Shocker will just have to wait! Right now, Peter Parker must survive a deadly deluge of water in the sewer beneath New York City! This tense page

The ultimatum has been given -- New York must pay one million dollars or suffer the wrath of the Shocker! The mayor makes a television announcement th

Patrolling a Queens power plant in search of the Shocker, Spider-Man's spider-sense tips him off that "ol' quilt-face" is already ...

The Shocker vibro-blasts Spider-Man across the floor, intent on drilling him right through a wall, in this page from "Shattered by the Shocker!...

With a blast of Spidey fluid locking up his shock units, the Shocker is ricocheted around the room until the force knocks him unconscious. All in a da

Rufferto and Groo cause quite a stir on this uproarious double-page spread from the laugh-riot "Arfetto," drawn by that madcap <B>Ma...

Morty's drum-and-bugle business is swelling... as long as he doesn't play! This strip has an image area measuring 19" x 5.5". Asid...

Gus Arriola presents a romance between rooster Popo, and Chiquita, a slick hen from the big Martinez chicken farm, in this imaginative Sunday. The ima

Gordo turns the table on a pair of litter bugs, in this silent Sunday from 1956. The image area measures 22.5" x 15", and the condition is...

Giant-Man puts the Porcupine through a few of his workout moves in this Silver Age sensation, drawn in the dramatic Marvel style by Darlin' Dick...

<I>Wah-hoo,</B></I> Howler fans -- the <B>Sgt. Fury</B></I> art team-supreme of Darlin' Dick Ayers and Long ...

Two of Marvel Comics' finest artists defected to DC to create the slam-bang title page for the <B>Weird War Tales </B></I>yarn...

Good girl art legend Matt Baker adds sumptuous detail to the pulse-pounding panels of this hard-hitting yarn. Be sure to admire the scenes spotlightin

Most comics fans know Carl Barks as the definitive writer/artist for Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, but it was at the Walt Disney Studios that Barks l

A beefed-up Donald gleefully shows off his muscles in this energetic boxing sketch by the man known world-wide as the Good Duck Artist, Carl Barks. Ba

This incredibly detailed signed preliminary for Carl Barks' "The Diligent Headhunter" painting is from his series of "Famous Figu...

Fifty thousand volts of electricity just tickles the Mouse of Tomorrow! This scintillating cover illustration by Art Bartsch has an image area measuri

Shazam and holey moley -- lightning strikes twice as Billy Batson shares a magical moment with his super alter-ego, Captain Marvel, in a delightful fu

Julie Bell loves to paint the outdoors, especially scenes like this that combine three of her favorite subjects - snow-capped mountains, powerful wome

Nocturne is one step away from killing Zemo’s mutate, in pages 12 and 33 from the J. M. DeMatteis story, "Emergence." Each page has an ima...

The human mutate formally known as police detective, Angela Cairn, takes her harsh feelings out on Spidey, but he still manages to tag her with a spid

Nocturne manages to project her image into Spidey's mind, making him realize that she is the real Angela Cairn, in this page from the J. M. DeMa...

Rabid and horrific, this blood-curdling portrait of Varnae (a vampire from the dawn of history in the "Marvel Universe" timeline), by Stev...

Feast your peepers on this nifty gray toned illustration of the Lizard by Mark Bode. This piece has an overall size of 11" x 17", and the ...

On Genosha, with a worldwide virus regression looming, Magneto donates his last remaining ship in hopes that Bobby and Hank can reach the X-Men in tim

Emerging from a portal, Bishop finds himself in front of his teammates, Colossus, Psylocke, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Thunderbird, and Cerise, w

Play ball -- this grand-slam daily hails from artist/co-creator Joe Shuster's shop and was most likely drawn by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye. When...

In this offbeat forties Sunday, Superman travels to Venus to bring back a colossal egg to gratify one of Smartypants' wild and wacky wishes. Way...

No stranger to science fiction, thanks to his many years of drawing Superman, Wayne Boring's robust art style was a perfect fit for this group l...

In the chilling terrain of a ice-covered world, two travelers are pursued by a pair of killing machines, in this frosty fantasy painting by definitive

Stepping out into the heady atmosphere of an alien world, a U.S. astronaut is confronted by an enormous, heavily armed alien beauty, accompanied by a

Charlton Comics' adaptation of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, "Korg: 70,000 B. C." featured many of Pat Boyette's finest painted cover...

The dark and disturbing humanity on display in Brian Azzarello's <B>Hellblazer</B></I> storyline is captured on paper by Tim B...

This hauntingly beautiful painting by Dan Brereton features the Marvel Universe's most seasoned assassin, the killer Greek sensation, Elektra Na...

This bonanza of laugh-filled men's magazine gag panels by Bo Brown will have you doubled-over and in stitches. Each drawing measures approximate...

Something’s gotten into Batgirl and Wonder Woman! They’re acting like love-struck teenagers with a hankering for Batman! Here is page seven of the Bob

From the heart of the legendary Kree-Skrull war comes this spectacular splash featuring Rick Jones and the terror of the Negative Zone -- Annihilus! P

Even the mighty Conan is no match for the dread disease of leprosy in this skin-crawling scene from "Valley of Forever Night." John Buscem...

Big John Buscema and Artful Ernie Chan team to present a savage scene featuring the brawny barbarian on the battlefield in page 3 from "The Pla...

Foul sorcery takes the spotlight in this Bronze Age beauty drawn by the <B>Conan</B></I> team-supreme of John Buscema and Ernie Ch...

Trapped within the Dire Wraith-designed Securasphere, ROM, Starshine, and Gremlin defend themselves against some prehistoric horrors, in this page fro

Clairton, West Virginia is swarming with Skrulls, in this intimidating splash page penciled by Sal Buscema, and inked by Ian Akin and Brian Garvey. He

As her technological gang war against Mr. Tso continues, Doctor Octopus vents her frustration with Master Programmer, in this page from the story, &...

With the Eagle wrecked and communications with Alpha jammed, Commander Koenig struggles to stay alive and obtain his helmet, in this memorable cover i

John Byrne's first "regular gig" at Marvel was <B>Iron Fist</B></I>, and Byrne returned to the renamed series some y...

Kingpin Doppelganger, the Overlord, and Akeldama the Annihilator pose deadly danger for Batman and Commissioner Gordon in these scenes from "Th...

This partial Sunday is a first-rate example of Milton Caniff's talent as both artist and writer. These four panels spotlight his dramatic use of...

Here's a true scarcity -- sure 'nuff <I>comic book</B></I> pages showcasing Steve Canyon, drawn by Milton Caniff and his a...

Thanks to a natural disaster -- namely the Cornball's hurricane -- Daisy Mae ends up bow-legged at the close of this episode. Be that as it may,...

The foreboding foreshortening of this low-angled, cataclysmic cover scene heightens the crushing crisis that towering underwater titans pose to Aquama

Deadly army ants teach a brutal French soldier a lesson about respect for life and nature in the Weird War Tales chiller, "An Army in Reserve.&...

Joe Cavallo's sleek, streamlined art style captures all of the fifties fun of a 4-page "space opera" thriller starring Reef Ryan and F...

Chipmunk chuckles are the hallmark of this laugh-filled group lot with 32 pages in all. These yarns are titled "Tall Tale Teller," "T...

Kind and lovely Cinderella feeds her animal friends, in this charming illustration based on the characters from the world-famous Walt Disney movie. Th

A lighthearted portrait of O. Henry's famous Western character, the Cisco Kid, is the focus of this fabulous painted cover. The art was matted a...

Robin decides to make a stand, while in a warehouse on Gotham’s waterfront, the False Face Society’s meeting is cut short, in this page from the Doug

Cap stays one step ahead of a mob of disgruntled college students with a mad-on for the dean, in this ninth page from the Stan Lee story, "Up A...

Mounted on a flying platform, Insomnia challenges the Man Without Fear, in this breath-taking cover illustration, penciled by Gene "the Dean&qu...

Reed Crandall tells the story of Scotland's fight to be free. His figure drawing is first-rate -- Crandall was one of comic books' all-time ...

This was the second to the last issue in the decades-long run of <B>Classics Illustrated</B></I>.<B> </B></I>Thi...

Kids growing up in the mid-1960s loved bubble gum trading cards, especially if they involved monsters. Naturally, the Topps "Monster Trading Ca...

Rendered by the most famous Archie artist from the 1960s on, this cover features more than enough amusing subliminal symbols to sponsor a Dr. Fredric

Cloudburst and Landmine venture to the Black Hole Bar and Grill to find robot parts. Instead, they find Darkwing and Dreadwind! Here is page 6 for the