Punch 1 (1841)
16 pages of The London Charivari, political satire at its punniest. Tanned cover through being in a frame for many years [vg]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £145

Rosebud Annual (1912) J. Clarke & Co, with The Children’s Friend (1910) S.W. Partridge & Co [both vg+] and Puck 1923 (very well worn) [fr]. Colour plates by Faw, Evans and Sidney Stanley (3)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £28

Boy’s Friend (1920-23)
136 issues between 980-1126 with "Rodney Stone" by Sir A. Conan Doyle in the first six issues and seven stories by P. G Wodehouse in the last seven issues. Incl Xmas & New Year 1920, Easter and Xmas 1921 [vg] (136)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £123

Monster Library Of Complete Stories (1925-27) 1-19 Am. Press.
Complete series by Edwy Searles Brooks. With six photocopy letters from Brooks to the original schoolboy collector who painstakingly put this rare set together. Thirteen copies have taped spines, there are two copies of issues 4 and 16 [gd/vg] (21)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £198

Daily Express Children’s Annual 1 (1929)
with 23 page Rupert Bear story and pop-ups (some collapsed). Missing spine [gd] with Rainbow Annual 1937 [gd], Sparkling Book For Girls 1938, When I Grow Up (1940s), Fun & Frolic (1930s) and Tiger Tim’s Annual 1951 [vg-/vg] (6)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £29

Hotspur Comic 1 (1933)
The Swooping Vengeance. Inside cover tape at vertical margins, slight edge trim, tan pages [gd]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £73

Hotspur Comic 2 [gd]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £12

Hotspur Books 2 and 3 (1936 and 1937)
Bright fresh boards and spines, sharp corners, light tan pages. Rare in these grades [vfn] (2)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £126

Rover (1933-4)
28 issues between 564-625 and 708 (1935) [vg-/vg] (28)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £67

Skipper (1932-33)
14 issues between 111-174 incl Xmas 1932. Rare in these grades. 3 issues [vg], balance [fn/vfn] (14)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £73

Wizard (1937)
35 issues between 735-771 [vg-/vg] (35)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £192

The Boy’s Budget Annual (1934) with
Uncle Oojah’s Big Annual (1934). Bright fresh boards and spines, cream pages. Rare in these grades [vfn/fn] (2)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £83

The New Adventures of Rupert (1936) D. Express
First Rupert annual with dustjacket. The annual shows light general wear with some pink blemishes to front board. Four of the five ‘colour-in’ pages are enthusiastically coloured in. Generally cream pages with neat pencil dedication. The dustjacket is split down its spine with some front and back loss to jacket edges. It is enclosed with its original Daily Express packing box. DJ [gd], annual [vg+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £880

Dandy Comic 17 (1938)
Korky’s Copper Copped It! Bright cover colours, light tan pages [fn+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £220

Dandy Comic 18 April Fool
Bright colours, light tan pages [fn]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £220

Dandy Comic 19
Korky Hits The Target. Bright colours, light tan pages [vg+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £157

Dandy Comic 20 First Bumper Easter Issue.
Bright cover colours, light tan pages with some margin tears and small loss to some page edges [vg-]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £74

Dandy Comic 22
Korky Winds Up Mice – With Fireworks! Bright covers, light tan pages [vg]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £83

Dandy Comic 23
Flying Korky Wins Obstacle Race! Bright colours, medium dust shadow to top margin, light tan pages [vg]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £83

Dandy Comic 25
Korky’s So Cute – His Foe Gets The Boot!
3 inch front cover tear. Bright colours, light tan pages [vg]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £77

Dandy 28
Korky Sees Sawfish’s Saw! Bright fresh colours, creamy white pages. Two inch right-hand margin tear to back four pages [fn+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £109

Dandy 32
Korky’s King Of The (Sand) Castle! Bright colours, light crease to first two pages, light tan pages [vg]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £97

Dandy 33
Korky’s Best Catch! Bright colours, light tan pages [fn-]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £97

Dandy 34
Korky Smashing At Cricket! Bright colours, light tan pages [vg]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £121

Dandy 35
Korky’s Seaside Companions! Bright colours. Some front/back cover margin foxing, light tan pages [vg]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £97

Dandy 36
Korky Gets His Goat! Bright colours, light tan pages. Some margin foxing [vg]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £110

Dandy 37
Korky Red With Rage – And Ink! Bright colours. Light tan pages [vg+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £97

Dandy 38
Buzz Off, Korky! Bright colours, some cover margin foxing, light tan pages [vg]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £97

Desperate Dan Original Artwork (1938) by Dudley Watkins from The Dandy No. 8.
After a 500 mile ride, Dan’s so hungry he eats all the food in the saloon, including the sardines (without a tin-opener)! Indian ink on card 16 x 10 ins
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £495

Dandy 58-60
First three issues of 1939. 58 cover foxing [gd], 59 [vg], 60 [vg-] (3)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £121

Dandy 61-63
[vg-/vg+/vg] (3)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £146

Dandy 65, 66
Korky Gets Butted Out Of The Zoo – Then Gets Hung Out To Dye! [vg+/vg] (2)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £94

Dandy Monster Comic 1 (1939)
General wear to boards, spine missing (underspine webbing intact) light tan/tan pages
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £1,051

Dandy Monster Comic 2 (1940)
General overall wear, complete spine, neat dedication [vg]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £578

Magic Comic 1 (1939) D. C. Thomson.
Koko The Pup by E H Banger, Peter Piper by Dudley Watkins. This third title from The Beano and Dandy stable only lasted for eighty issues until 1941 due to wartime shortages of paper and dyestuffs. All are rare and this is only one of six issues known to exist. Bright fresh colours, minor foxing to front cover margin, three-quarter by quarter inch piece missing from top back cover edge with 1.5 inch horizontal tear (in margin only), supple light tan pages [fn]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £1,925

The Beano Comic No 2 (1938)
Big Eggo Hatches A Surprise! Bright cover colours, some small overlapping edge tears, supple light tan pages. Rare, only a handful of copies known to exist [vg+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £2,135

Beano Comic 22 (Dec 24 1938)
Big Eggo Skates On Thin Ice! Lord Snooty, Good King Coke, Frosty McNab Xmas stories. Bright cover colours, some margin foxing, light tan pages [vg]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £220

Beano Comic 23
Eggo Becomes Scottie’s Bagpipes! Bright cover colours [fn-]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £290

Beano Comic 24 (1939)
Big Eggo Snow Bombs Bobby!
Bright cover colours [fn-]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £290

Beano Comic 25
Eggo Eats Pens And Provides Quills! [fn-]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £290

Beano Comic 26
Pie Eating Contest – Eggo Can’t Win But Pelican! [fn-]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £242

Beano Comic 27
Big Eggo Gets Penned In With Blacksmith. Bright cover colours, slight margin foxing [vg+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £220

Beano Comic 28
Big Eggo ‘s One-Man-Band Is Banned! Bright cover colours, some light margin foxing [vg+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £220

Beano Comic 29
Circus Strong Lady Cannot Lift A Feather! [fn]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £242

Beano 50-52
[vg/fn-/vg] (3)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £285

Beano 53-55
[vg/vg+/vg+] (3)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £285

Beano 56-58
[fn-/fn-/gd] (3)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £275

Beano 59-61
Bright colours, margin foxing [vg-] (3)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £242

Beano 64
Socko The Boxing Elephant Gets Socked! [gd]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £52

Beano 75 (Dec 30 1939) Xmas Comic
Big Eggo Posts Himself! According to D C Thomson, issues 74 and 75 were both Xmas issues in 1939 [fn-]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £235

Hotspur (1939) 280-331
Complete year with fourteen free gift booklets including "Get Your Gas Mask On!", all as new with colour covers by Dudley Watkins. Exceptionally high grades [vfn/nm-] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £495

Hotspur (1940) 332-383
Complete propaganda war year including three Hitler covers and ‘Big Guns’ 12-card-sheet free gift (the only one given away that year). A few issues [fn], balance [vfn/nm-] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £440

Radio Fun (1939) 27, 28, 30, 31, 46
46 [gd], balance [vg-/vg] (5)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £103

Dandy 155 (1940)
Korky Riveted! Addie And Hermy propaganda war issue. Bright colours, creamy white pages [vfn+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £100

Dandy 160 (1940) Christmas Holiday Number
[gd] with Adventure 1028 (1941), 1088 (1943) and 1149 Xmas (1945) [vg-/vg] (4)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £181

Dandy (1941) 164-167
Propaganda war issues starring Addie And Hermy The Nasty Nazis. 165 [gd], balance [vg] (4)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £126

Dandy 168-171
Propaganda war issues. 169 [gd], balance [vg] (4)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £126

Dandy 172-175
War issues incl. April Fool [vg] (4)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £157

Dandy 176-179
War issues incl. All-Star Easter Number. Podge Gets A Fright When He Flies A Hitler Kite! [vg/vg+] (4)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £157

Dandy 180-183
U2 Sub Surrenders To Korky, Desperate Dan Teaches Nazis How To Salute! [vg-/vg] (4)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £133

Dandy 184-187
"Your meat is rationed, so’s your jam, your milk, your marmalade, your ham! But not Our Gang - you’re getting more – five extra pictures, laughs galore!"
185 top right hand corner insect chew through all pages [gd], balance [vg] (4)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £115

Addie And Hermy original propaganda artwork by Sam Fair from The Dandy c.1942.
Addie and Hermy shoot down a bird for lunch, unfortunately it was the German Army’s best carrier pigeon…! Indian ink and crayon on card. 11 x 12 inches
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £198

Dandy 267 (1944), 284 (1945), 370 (1948) and Beano 310 (1947)
Extremely faded [pr], balance [vg-] (4)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £34

Dandy (1940-49) 131 [gd], 178, 208, 303, 307, 327, 329, 343 [gd], 344-346, 349, 377, 410, 413, 414 [vg/fn] (16)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £126

Dandy (1946) 311-331, 333
312, 329 [fr], balance [vg/fn] (22)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £152

Danny Longlegs (1947) original April Fool artwork by Dudley Watkins from The Dandy No 339.
Danny paints the teacher’s windows black so the kids can play medieval football but he gets his just desserts in chemistry class! To our knowledge, the first Danny Longlegs piece to be offered at auction. Indian ink and red crayon on cartridge paper 15 x 15 inches
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £605

Dandy (1949) 386-423 Complete year in bound volume.
Issue 401 saw The Dandy return to weekly production. Bright colours, cream pages. 423 [vg], balance [fn/vfn] (38)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £440

Beano (1943) 196-221 Complete year in bound volume.
Propaganda war issues. No. 204 ‘Heil Hitler’ cover. No. 200 First Shipwrecked Circus by Dudley Watkins. Bright covers with mainly clean white pages [fn+/vfn+] (26)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £1,028

Beano (1944) 222-248 Complete year in bound volume.
Propaganda war issues. "Paste Hitler with paper and get nearer the end of Germany." No. 222 first Jimmy And His Magic Patch by Dudley Watkins. No. 225 Pansy Potter kicks Desperate Dan back into The Dandy! 243 worn torn back cover [gd], 247, 248 [vg], balance [fn/vfn] (27)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £665

Beano (1943-49)
212 (trimmed top margin), 219, 261, 289, 293, 296, 297 and 17 issues between 304-379 including April Fool 1949 [gd/vg] (23)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £233

Beano Book 3 (1942)
Big Eggo Highland Flung! Bright boards with bumped top corner, tight clean spine. Foxing to inside covers front and back. Neatly erased dedication. Light tan pages with some foxing and finger marks [vg]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £1,391

Magic-Beano Book (1948)
Big Eggo’s Marching Band. General overall wear, slight warping, neat dedication, a few interior (light tan) page tears [gd]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £242

Magic-Beano Book (1949)
Maxi’s Taxi. Little Eggo! Good colour to boards, tan pages [vg]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £242

Oor Wullie original artwork by Dudley Watkins from The Sunday Post Fun Section 17 Sept 1944.
The Headmaster is caught by the local bobby as he finds Oor Wullie’s fish and tackle at Stourie Burn. Let off with a warning, he’s so embarrassed he cancels Wullie’s 500 lines! Indian ink on card 17 x 15 inches
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £1,211

Rupert Annual 1946
Rupert Looks Out Of The Window… Bright covers and spine. Minimal wear with light vertical crease to front cover. No dedication, price unclipped, cream pages [fn]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £154

Rupert Annual 1947
Rupert Chases A Tiny Dragon. Bright covers and spine. No dedication, price unclipped, cream pages [vfn]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £254

Rupert Adventure Series (late 40s) 7, 8, 11-13 with Rupert Book 1 (1947) M & S [vg+/fn] (6)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £99

Rupert Adventure Series 24, 41, 44
All puzzles and cut-outs untouched. 41, 44 scarce [vg+/fn-] (3)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £39

Mickey’s Hawaiian Holiday (1940) Dean & Son with Sharp’s Toffees Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs Stamp Album with all 56 coloured stamps enclosed. [vg+] (2)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £61

Funnies Album (1948) G. G. Swan with Champion Annual for Boys 1951
[vg+/fn] (2)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £19

Knock-Out Fun Book 2 (1942)
Bunter, Sexton Blake, Deed-A-Day Danny [vg+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £67

Hotspur (1947) 561-597
Complete year (some issues fortnightly). 574 [gd], balance [vg/vg+] (37)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £114

Champion (1949) 43 issues between 1405-1453
1427, 1426 cover corner torn away [vg], balance [fn/vfn] (43)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £88

Classics Illustrated (1950s) Thorpe & Porter
18: Hunchback of Notre Dame; 22: The Pathfinder, 25: Two Years Before The Mast (Super Deluxe Classic) [vg/fn/fn] (3)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £17

Classics Illustrated 40. Thorpe & Porter
Mysteries by E. Allan Poe, Super Deluxe Classic [fn-]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £48

Classics Illustrated. Thorpe & Porter
1/3d price: 5 Moby Dick, 24, 31, 58, 62, 71, 73 Black Tulip, 74 Mr Midshipman Easy, 79 Cyrano de Bergerac, 90, 94. 79, 90 [fn-], balance [gd/vg] (10)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £61

Classics Illustrated. Thorpe & Porter
1/3d price: 107, 111 (1/-), 118, 126, 139, 163 Master Of The World. n.n. Men, Guns & Cattle Special Issue (4/-) and 7 Robin Hood Giant Classic [vg/vg+] (8)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £33

Classics Illustrated 146
Adventures of Baron Munchausen [fn+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £79

Classics Illustrated 156
The Dog Crusoe [vfn]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £58

Classics Illustrated 160, 162
In Freedom’s Cause, Saga Of The North [fn/vfn] (2)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £86

Classics Illustrated Great Adventure Stories (1950s) Thorpe & Porter
Hard bound book with Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe and Ivanhoe. Scarce [vg+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £48

Classics Illustrated Great Indian Stories (1950s)
With the Pioneers, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer, The Prairie and Lone Star Annual No. 2 (1956) [vg] (2)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £61

Sunday Post Fun Section
1950: 22 Oct; 1951: Jan 7, Feb 18, March 18, April 1, May 27, June 3, July 8, July 15, July 29, Aug 19, Sept 2 x 2, May 25 1958, Dec 18 1960 with Beano 2000 (1980). Tan pages [vg-/vg] (16)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £48

The Broons Book (1954)
Maw ‘n’ Paw Doin’ The Highland Fling! Bright covers, clean light/mid tan pages, complete spine, no dedication [fn]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £386

The Broons original artwork (1955) drawn and signed by Dudley Watkins. From The Sunday Post Fun Section 27 Nov 1955. Joe’s ‘sojer’ pal from the army is now a big French importer and the family get all dressed up to meet him at the docks off a luxury liner. Unfortunately it’s the wrong boat and Jacques is just a wee ‘Ingin Johnnie’ (door-to-door onion seller)! Indian ink on cartridge paper 18 x 15 inches
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £907

Dandy (1950-53)
30 issues between 427-630 incl. Easter 1952. Keyhole Kate moves to the front page as Korky’s nosey neighbour in No 529. Desperate Dan’s his front page fisherman in No 558 [vg/fn] (30)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £181

Dandy (1954) 632-683
Complete year in bound volume. 659 2 inch tear to lower margin all pages [fn-], balance [vfn/nm] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £484

Dandy (1955)
36 issues between 684 New Year – 735 New Year including April Fool, Easter and Xmas [vg]. 712 [fr], seven issues [gd], balance [vg-/vg+] (36)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £130

Dandy (1954-56)
28 issues between 635-796 incl. April Fool 1954, 1955 [vg/fn] (28)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £133

Dandy (1956)
17 issues between 737-773 incl. April Fool and 741 with four-page Rover ad/promo comic. 3 issues [vg], balance [fn/vfn] (17)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £126

Just Jimmy artwork (1956) by Hugh Morren with The Dandy 769 from which it comes. Poster paint on cartridge paper 12 x 15 inches
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £163

Hugh Morren was a freelance artist with D.C. Thomson and Just Jimmy was his first Dandy work in 1956. He also drew the popular ‘Smasher’ strip for 30 years and Jimmy’s female counter-part ‘Calamity Jane’ for the Beezer. This is the first piece of Just Jimmy artwork to be offered at auction.

Dandy (1957) 789-840
Complete year in bound volume. Rare in these grades [vfn/nm] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £506

Dandy (1957)
11 issues between 815-839 [vg/fn+] (11)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £58

Dandy (1957) 823, 824, 828, 830-837
823, 828 [fr], balance, incl. 833 Fireworks [fn-/fn+] (11)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £61

Desperate Dan Annual 1 (1954)
Worn board covers, good colours, replaced red cloth spine, cream pages. Apparent [vg-]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £61

Beano (1950) 390-441
Near complete year missing 426. The Dandy’s Desperate Dan appears with Biffo on the cover of issue 390. No. 411 larger format and new title design. 411 [gd], a few [vg], balance [fn-/fn+] (51)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £159

Beano (1950) 390 New Year, 395, 397, 409 and 668 (1955) with Dandy (1954-56) 10 issues between 681-739 inc. New Year 1955.
722 [gd-], balance [vg-/vg+] (15)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £50

Beano (1950-53)
30 issues between 425-587. No. 455 fourth Dennis The Menace, 465 Sports Day one-panel front cover, 540 Dennis The Menace front cover with Biffo. [vg/fn-] (30)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £181

Beano (1954-55)
30 issues between 599-695 [vg/fn] (30)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £143

Beano (1956)
19 issues between 703-751 [vg/vg+] (19)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £91

Beano (1957) 785, 787, 790, 796-803
785, 787, 79 [gd/gd+], balance incl. 798 Fireworks [fn/fn+] (11)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £61

Beezer Book 1 (1958)
Bright boards, 2 inches of top spine missing. Creamy white pages [vg+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £72

Topper (1955-57) 152 New Year, 156, 174, 181, 206, 211, 214, 219, 223, 246-248 Fireworks, 249-253 [vg+/fn] (17)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £83

Topper (1957)
17 issues between 207-249 [gd/vg] (17)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £24

Eagle Circular Jigsaw (1950s) Waddingtons
Complete in box with Happy Warrior, Sir Winston Churchill Eagle book (1958) illustrated by Frank Bellamy. Top spine split two inches with bottom spine missing one inch [vg] (2)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £97

PC49 original Eagle artworks (early 1950s) drawn and signed by John Worsley. Two boards from ‘The Case Of the Looted Lorries’, one from ‘The Case of The Little Black Prince’. With eight original sketch studies of PC49’s full uniform, police cadet cap, torch, motor cycle helmet, trench coat and The Old Bailey No 1 Court. All by Worsley. 3 Boards. Indian ink and wash 20 x 15 inches, 8 sketches (11)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £451
John Worsley (1919-2000) was in the navy during WWII. Taken prisoner, he and a fellow officer constructed an astonishingly life-like dummy to help in their escape plan. After the war he was appointed adviser on the famous war film Albert RN, which tells the true story of this remarkable feat. John Worsley was a well established marine artist and portrait painter. As well as PC49 he illustrated many childrens’ books including Black Beauty, Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island.

Rupert Annual (1950)
Rupert On A Giant Seashell. Bright boards with rubbing to top and bottom spine and small spine splits. No dedication, price unclipped, as new cream pages [fn-]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £57

Cowboy Comics Library 100-115 (1950s)
Seven covers with neat biro ref. nos. [vg/vg+] (16)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £134

Cowboy Comics Library 116-130
Most with neat cover biro ref. nos. [vg] (15)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £131

Cowboy Comics Library 131-150
Eleven with neat cover biro ref. nos. 143 [gd], balance [vg/vg+] (20)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £121

Cowboy Picture Library (1959-60) 307-350
Near complete run missing issue 347. 3 issues [gd], balance [vg/fn] (43)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £109

Cowboy Picture Library
57 issues between 351-465 with Lone Rider Picture Library 1, Buffalo Bill 1, Davy Crockett 16, Buck Jones 10, Wyatt Earp 13, Maverick 11. 5 issues [fr/gd], balance [vg/fn+] (63)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £145

Super-Detective Library (1950s) 12, 16, 23, 25
2 taped, 2 worn spines [gd-/gd] (4)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £24

Super-Detective Library 19, 21, 24, 26, 27
[vg/fn] (5)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £52

Super-Detective Library 31, 32, 34-36, 39-43
31 [vfn], balance [vg/fn] (10)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £110

Super-Detective Library 44, 45, 47-54
[gd/vg] (10)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £106

Super-Detective Library 55-57, 62, 63, 66, 67, 69, 71, 73, 76, 77, 79, 80
67 [fr], balance [vg/fn] (14)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £126

Super-Detective Library 82, 83, 85-87, 89-93, 96-99
97 [fr], 93, 99 [gd], balance [vg/vg+] (14)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £79

Super-Detective Library
21 issues between 102-143. 10 [vg], balance [fr/gd] (21)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £50

Super-Detective Library
19 issues between 144-187. 5 issues [gd], balance [vg/fn] (19)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £79

Comet (1950-51) 96, 103, 107, 109, 112 x 2, 113, 117-119, 123-127 Xmas, 128-135 with No. 2 from 1946. [vg/fn] (24)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £171

Comet (1954) 285-336
Complete year. Buffalo Bill, Knights Of The Round Table. Full colour covers, cream pages, light/medium staple rust [vg+/fn] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £242

Comet (1955) 337-389
Complete year. Buffalo Bill, Nelson, Claude Duval. Full colour covers, cream pages, light/medium staple rust [vg/fn] (53)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £273

Comet (1956) 390-441
Complete year. Full colour covers, cream pages, light/medium staple rust [vg+/fn] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £242

Comet (1956) 416-441 July-December
Half-year in bound volume [vg+/fn] (26)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £152

Commando War Stories In Pictures 4 (1961)
Mercy For None! [vfn]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £137

Commando 39, 61, 74, 81, 82
[vg/fn+] (5)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £126

Commando 82, 87, 93, 97, 110
[fn/fn+] (5)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £73

Commando 116, 120, 137, 138, 141
116 [vg], balance [fn/fn+] (5)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £43

Commando 216, 217, 257, 302, 929, 935, 936
216, 217, 257 [vfn], balance [vg] (7)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £22

Battle Picture Library (1961-65) 2, 14, 41, 53, 58, 59, 66, 73
and 12 issues between 108-187. [vg/vg+] (20)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £44

War Picture Library (1960-64) 36, 37, 39, 47, 58, 70, 72, 77, 89
and 17 issues between 104-267. 77 [gd], balance [vg+/fn] (26)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £17

Thriller Picture Library 193, 245, 261, 334, 407, 411
[vg/vg+] (6)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £44

Air Ace Picture Library 17, 19, 39, 47, 56, 60, 87, 94, 96, 213, 338, 340, 341 with Western Picture Library 1, 2; TV Picture Stories Hawkeye/Mohicans; Lion Picture Library 10, 16; Valiant Picture Library 10, 14, 21, 37; Combat Picture Library 14, 49, 74, 77, 79, 100, 103; Pearson Libraries Picture Stories of WWII 3, 5, 8, 42, 66, 73 with Conflict 114, 115 [vg/fn] (37)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £36

Battler Britton hardbacks (1960, 1961) and Combat Picture Annual hardback book – all with dust jackets, all black and white picture stories. Dust jackets [vg/fn], books with light tan pages [fn-/fn] (3)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £28

The Hotspur (1954-57)
54 issues between 898-1098. 4 issues [gd], balance [vg-/fn-] (54)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £65

The Hotspur (1958)
41 issues between 1104-1149. 4 issues [gd], balance [vg-/fn-] (41)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £50

The Hotspur (1959)
31 issues between 1156-1196. [vg/fn-] (31)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £37

Hotspur (1955) 973-999
July – December half-year in bound volume. Bright cover colours, light tan pages [fn+/vfn] (27)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £88

New Hotspur (1959-60) 1-50
Missing 23, 26. Six issues some cover tears and loss [gd], No. 1 + balance [vg-/vg] (48)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £133

Wizard (1950)
17 issues between 1248-1278 [vg-/vg] (17)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £56

Wizard (1956) 1561-1611
Near complete year missing No. 1560.
Wilson – Champion of Champions stories [vg/fn-] (51)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £145

Wizard (1957) 1612-1637
Jan-June half-year in bound volume.
Wilson – Trainer of Champions series. Light/medium tan pages [fn/vfn-] (26)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £113

Lion (1956) 203-254
Complete year in two bound volumes. Captain Condor cover story by Frank S Pepper. These are Pepper’s own file copies – as ordered from his local newsagent! Cream/light tan pages. Twenty copies [vg], balance [fn/vfn] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £244

Lion (1957) 255-306
Complete year in two bound volumes. Frank S Pepper file copies [fn-/fn+] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £266

Tiger (1957) 122-173
Complete year in two bound volumes. Roy Of The Rovers by Frank S Pepper (Stewart Colwyn ndp). These are Pepper’s own file copies – as ordered from his local newsagent! [fn-/fn+] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £304

Tiger (1958) 174-225
Near complete year in bound volume and loose copies. Frank Pepper file copies. Bound Vol [fn-/fn+], loose copies with disintegrated staples [gd/vg] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £255

Tiger (1959) 226-Dec 26th
Complete year in two bound volumes. Frank Pepper file copies [fn-/fn+] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £304

Radio Fun (1959)
The year’s last 20 issues in bound volume Aug 15 – Dec 29. With the first 16 U.S, Superman stories in Radio Fun [fn/vfn] (20)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £212

Garth (1950s) 4, 7, 8, 16
Landscape format Atlas Australian reprints [gd] (4)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £67

Action Comics (1950s) 1, 2
L. Miller reprints. Starring Thunda by Frank Frazetta [vg+/fn-] (2)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £19

TV Fun (1957) 214-221
With 108 from 1955. 108 [gd], balance [vg/fn] (9)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £12

TV Times (1968-69) Vol 54: 14-26
Xmas 1968 – March 1969, 13 issues in bound volume. Tom Jones, Michael Caine, On The Buses, Danger Man, Department S. Slight tanning to page edges [fn]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £57

Adventure (1960) 1824-1876
Complete year [gd/vg] with 1959: 1805-1825.
A few [vg], balance [gd] (72)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £172

Adventure/Rover And Adventure (1961) 1877 - Dec 30th.
Complete year. A few [gd], balance [vg/vg+] (42)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £36

Rover And Adventure (1962) Jan 6 – Dec 29
Complete year [vg/fn-] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £36

Rover And Adventure (1963) Jan 5- Dec 28
Complete year. Becomes Rover And Wizard with Nov 23rd issue [vg/fn-] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £36

Rover And Wizard (1964) Jan 4 – Dec 26
Complete year [vg/fn] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £36

Rover And Wizard (1965) Jan 2 – Dec 25
Complete year [vg/fn] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £36

Rover And Wizard (1966)
Jan 1-Dec 31 complete year [vg/fn] (53)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £36

Rover And Wizard (1967) Jan 7-Dec 2 Near complete year missing last four issues. Some foxing to cover edges. [vg-/vg+] (48)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £31

Hornet (1963-66) 3, 5, 6, 12, 16, 20 and 16 issues between 36-160.
[fn/vfn] (22)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £73

Hotspur (1968) 36 issues between 431-474
[vg+/fn] (36)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £24

Hurricane (1964) 1-32 (29 Feb–10 Oct), with eight further copies from 1964, and five from 1965-66.
Rusty staples [vg/fn-] (45)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £387

Valiant (Oct 1962-63) 1–4 and 39 unnumbered issues.
Rusty staples. [gd/vg] (43)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £133

Valiant (1964) Complete year.
Mostly clean creamy white pages, rusty staples. [vg/fn-] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £109

Valiant (1965) Complete year.
Mostly clean cream pages, rusty staples. [vg/fn-] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £132

Valiant (1966) Near complete year, missing 23 April.
Mostly clean cream pages, rusty staples. [vg/fn-] (51)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £115

Valiant (1967) Near complete year, missing 5 Aug & 23 Dec.
Mostly clean pages, rusty staples. [vg/fn-] (50)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £109

Valiant (1968) Near complete year, missing 10 Aug & 5 Oct.
Clean pages and staples. [vg+/fn] (50)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £85

Valiant (1969-70) 46 issues from 1969, 37 issues from 1970, with 5 from 1976.
[vg/fn] (88)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £209

Victor (1961) 1-41, 43, 44.
No.1 [vg] balance [fn/vfn] (43)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £255

Victor (1964-65) 41 issues between 160-234.
160 [gd] balance [vg] (41)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £48

Wham! (1964-65) 34 issues between 4–86
[fn/vfn] (34)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £181

Beano (1960-70) 42 issues between 957–1451 with Dandy (1960-68) 983, 1094, 1407, 1408 x 2, 1409
[vg/vg+] (48)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £67

Beano Book 1969 [fn]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £26

Dandy Books 1967, 1969 [fn+] (2)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £31

Beazer (1967) 577, 578 with free gifts, Flip-Flop Frog and Flying Fizzer.
Tanned and worn along horizontal mail fold. [vg/gd] (2)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £15

Topper (1962) 12 issues between 493–508
[vg/vg+] (12)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £29

Eagle vol.11 (1960) 1-53 Complete year in bound volume.
Dan Dare in Trip To Trouble by Frank Bellamy. [fn/vfn] (53)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £242

Eagle vol.12 (1961) 1-52 Complete year in bound volume.
Fraser Of Africa by Frank Bellamy. [fn/vfn] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £304

Swift (1960) 1-4, 6-53
Nos. 4, 6, 7, 9, 11 back covers missing [gd], No.15 [vg], balance [fn/fn+] (52)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £79

Swift (1961) 1-15, 17-52 Near complete year.
[vfn-/vfn] (51)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £115

Yellow Submarine Gift Book (1968) with Dennis The Menace Annual 1966 and Beezer Book 1967 [fn-/vg/fn] (3)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £24

TV Century 21 (1965) 21-30
21 page 7 cut out, 27 tape residue to spine, 28 centre pages 13-16 missing [gd] balance [vg+/fn] (10)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £50

TV Century 21 Nos. 32-35, 37-39, 48, 54, 59
34 spine tape residue [gd], balance [vg/fn] (10)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £47

TV Century 21 (1966) 61,62, 66, 68, 69, 75, 80-82, 86, 88, 89 [vg/fn] (12)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £52

TV Century 21 Nos. 91-104
101 [vg] balance [vg+/fn] (14)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £62

TV Century 21 Nos. 101, 102, 112, 115, 217, 227, 239
239 top half back page missing [gd], balance [vg/vg+] (7)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £19

William The Lawless (1970) Newnes.
Richmal Crompton, illustrations by Henry Ford. The last William hard-back book, low print run. Boards fresh and new, book unread, white pages. Bright dustjacket, price unclipped. Rubbed edges and lower right front with no loss. Book [nm], dj [vg+] Scarce.
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £517

1970s No.1’s+ with free gifts,
Action 1, 2, 3; Bullett 1, 2, 3; Captain Brittain 1, 2, 3; Forces In Combat 1, 2, 3; Crunch 1, 2, 3; Fury 1, 2, 3; Hulk 1, 2, 3; Disney Time 1, 2, 3; Roy Of The Rovers 1, 2, 3; See-Saw 1, 2, 3; Speed 1, 2, 3; Star Lord 1, 2, 3; Star Wars 1, 2, 3; Titans 1, 2, 3; Tornado 1, 2, 3; and Target 1, 2, 3.
Good colours, light/med. tan pages [vg/fn+] (45)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £156

1970s No.1’s+ with free gifts, Part 2,
Blue Jeans 1, 2, 3; Buddy 1, 2, 3; Cheeky 1, 2, 3; Dickory Dock 1, 2, 3; Disney Time 1, 2, 3; Donald Duck 1, 2, 3; Emma 1, 2, 3; Fun-To-Do 1, 2, 3; Jackpot 1, 2, 3; Krazy 1, 2, 3; Misty 1, 2, 3; My Guy 1, 3; Nutty 1, 2, 3; Oh Boy! 1, 2, 3; Penny 1, 2, 3; Plug 1, 2, 3; Read To Me 1, 2, 3; See Saw 1, 2, 3; Spellbound 1, 2, 3; and Toby 1, 2, 3.
No.1 of Krazy does not have its free gift. Good colours, light/medium tan pages [vg/fn+] (59)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £152

Nasty Tales 1-7 (1973) Meep Comix UK
In bound volume. Underground, Adult, Freak Bros., Mr Natural, Crumb reprints. Meep Comix were taken to Court over issue 2 - the case which they won. They were not awarded costs so ceased publication with No.7. These are file copies [fn/vfn] (7)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £94

T.V. Times (1974) Vol 77: 40-52 Sept – Xmas.
11 issues in bound volume. Tommy Cooper, Bless This House, The Saint, Upstairs Downstairs. Due to a printers’ strike issue 40 was only printed in black and white and in limited numbers with issue 41. Issues 43 and 44 were not printed at all. (Blank headed cover insert only). Slight tanning to page edges [fn] (11)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £50

2000 AD Prog 1 (1977)
With Space Spinner. Light tan pages [fn]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £165

2000 AD Prog 2
With Biotronic Stickers. Light tan pages [fn]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £121

2000AD Prog 3
With Survival Wallet (not made up). Light tan pages [fn+]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £170

Free Gifts (1980s) from Scream 1 and 2 (False teeth and spider), Transformers transfer; UK Marvel: Avengers Gun, Mask, Spider-Man, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Daredevil transfers, stickers and badges, Smash Secret Coder and Fury 1 model plane kit. All neatly carded (ex-shop stock) and As New (20)
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £145

Dandy 2402 (1987) 50th Birthday issue with free gift Giant Souvenir Poster [nm]
Winning Bid incl. 10% Buyers Premium: £20