Comic Book Postal Auctions

August 2020 Results

British comics, annuals & artwork

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Note: Prices Realised include 19% Buyer's Premium.

1

Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday (1895-96)
1895 comprises 51 issues between 558-609 (missing issues 575, 577) and including Christmas Holidays issue with free Gratis Plate. 1896 comprises 42 issues between 610-661 (missing issues 634-644) and including Christmas Holidays issue with free Gratis Plate.
Robust copies with cream/light tan pages. A few [gd], balance [vg-/fn] (93)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £438

2

Boys' Friend No 53 (June 14 1902) Coronation Double Number [fn]. With Penny Popular Nos 1 and 2 with free gift plates [vfn] of Billy Bunter and Arthur D'Arcy and Boys' Friend Nos 919 and 920 advertising these gifts on their front covers
[vg/vg+] (5)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £101

3

Boys' Herald No 19 (1903)
Christmas Double Number. Retrieved from bound volume [fn-]
With Boys' Realm No 2 wfg gift photoplate of heavy-weight boxer Bombardier Billy Wells and Jingles No 3 (1934) wfg Motor Race Game
[gd/vg] (3)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £24

4

Nelson Lee Library (1919-1933)
1919 Xmas, 1920 Xmas, 1921 x 8 issues (incl Xmas), 1922 x 16, 1923 x 4, 1924 x 4, 1925 x 5, 1926 (New Series) Nos 17-34 rusty staples [fn-], 1928 x 1, 1929 x 4, 1930 x 2 (incl. Xmas), 1931 x 2, 1932 x 11, 1933 x 1.
Half of issues retrieved from bound volumes [gd/vg-], balance [vg] (78)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £131

5

Boys' Magazine (1926-33)
257, 337, 525, 527 Fireworks issue wfg, 559 wfg, 560, 561 wfg, 562 Xmas Number wfg, 563-567, 570, 579-581, 608 and 3 extra free-gift booklets
Nos 561, 559 have small b/cover competition cut-outs [vg-], balance [vg/fn+] (18)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £57

6

Boys' Magazine (1926-28)
No 215: wfg Six Colour Transfers of Charlie Chaplin, Jack Hobbs, Tom Mix, Charlie Buchan, Falcon Swift and Jack Dempsey. No 333 wfg Prince of Wales metal badge, 347 wfg Malcolm Campbell metal badge, 350 wfg Earl Beatty metal badge, 354 wfg Sir Alan Cobham metal badge and 358 wfg Lawrence of Arabia metal badge
To our knowledge, the only known free gifts to survive [fn-/fn] (6)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £77

7

Magnet 967 (1926)
wfg Stand-Up Cut-Out of Australian Cricket Captain Herbie 'Horseshoe' Collins [fn-],
Hobbies 1876 (1931) wfg cut-out Model Austin 7 Saloon [fn] and Triumph 806 (1940) [gd] wfg Fighter Planes of Britain pull-out (3)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £43

8

Modern Boy No 1 (1928)
With free gift Metal Model Locomotive 'King George V'
With Modern Boy No 1 (New Series 1938) wfg The Modern Boy's Film Star Album (48 pgs) and Modern Boy No 525 (First Series final issue)
[vg-fn-] (3)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £101

9

School-Days No 71 (1930)
With free gift 'What Christopher Robin does in the mornings' colour plate by E.H. Shepard. Interview with George Bernard Shaw
School Days has worn spine, retrieved trimmed from bound volume [vg/fn]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £48

10

Beano (1945) 249-274
Complete year in bound volume. Propaganda war issues
First 'Six Brands for Bonnie Prince Charlie' double page spread by Dudley Watkins with Lord Snooty, Strang the Terrible, Tom Thumb and Pansy Potter
Issue No 251 has lower corner torn away to all pages [vg-], A few issues [vg], 273 Xmas [vg+], balance [fn-/vfn] (26)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £1,380

11

Beano (1948, 1952)
1948: 348, 371, 376, 379, 386; 1952: 512, 524, 528, 531, 543
A few issues [gd], balance [vg-/vg] (10)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £345

12

Dandy (1940-45) 154, 171, 275, 278, 296
First four are propaganda war issues
No 275 [vg+], balance [fn-/fn] (5)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £178

13

Dandy (1941-52)
188, 262, 263 April Fool, 265-267, 277, 281, 286, 345, 449, 478, 488, 502, 503, 554
No 188 [fr], balance [gd/vg] (16)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £369

14

Dandy (1944)
279 Fireworks, 282 Xmas Number
[fn-/vg+] (2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £274

15

Magic Comic (1939) 10, 11, 12
No 11 has clear tape to interior cover edge [vg-], No 10 [vg+], No 12 [vg-] (3)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £333

16

Boy's Favourite Library (1949-50 Panmure Publ). 1-20
Text stories by Edward R. Home-Gall with h/back books: The Outlaw Mountie with dj, signed to the fly page by Home-Gall (1948) [fn-], The Haunted Ice-Rink with dj (1947) [vg] and Ace Carew Airman Speed-King with dj (1950) [vg]
Libraries with rusty staples, some disintegrated [vg-/fn-] (23)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £161

17

Captain Marvel Adventures (L Miller 1940s-50s)
1, 7, 9, 18, 20, 22, 56, 69-71, 75, 76
With Whiz (L Miller) 54, 63, 65, 67, 73 with Flying Captain Marvel easy to assemble card figure [vfn] in vfn envelope] and Captain Marvel Picture Puzzle [vfn] in worn envelope
Comics [gd/vg/fn] (19)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £173

18

Captain Marvel Jr (L Miller 1940s-50s)
1, 12, 13 (x2), 21, 24, 61, 69, 79 with No 20 (Australian reprint), Captain Marvel Jr Ski Jump easy to assemble colour card figure [vfn] in [vfn] envelope with Captain Marvel Picture Puzzle [vfn] in worn envelope and Flying Marvels 3 Easy to assemble colour card figures [fn]
With Marvel Family (L Miller 1940s-50s) 50 (No 1), 53, 62, 63, 64, 73, 74, 76, 84, 86, 89 and Marvel Family 22 (Australian reprint), with WOW Comics 55.
Comics: a few [fn], balance [gd/vg] (26)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £143

19

Paget Comics bound volume (1948-49)
Many edited by Mick Anglo with his written and illustrated strips including Comic Wonder 1-7, Funny Cuts 1, 2, Meteor 1-5, Oh Boy! 1-13 (some 'Tornado' character scripts & illustrations by Bob Monkhouse), Premier Comic 1-7, Surprise 1-5, Wonderman 1-13 and 33 further single issues including Bags of Fun, Pageant, Merry Laughs, Picnic, Pep, Zest etc. All with typed index
[fn/vfn] (85)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £1,571

20

Sexton Blake/The Man from Chungking original artwork by Eric Parker for Sexton Blake Library No 130 (1946), booklet included
Poster colour on board. 16 x 13 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £321

21

Five wartime sketches (1918-45) painted and (four) signed by Eric Parker.
From the Eric Parker Archive
Black ink and wash, highlighted with white. 11 x 9 ins, 14 x 12 ins (5)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £125

22

Sexton Blake/The Mystery of Squadron X cover artwork by Eric Parker (1940s) from Sexton Blake Library No 53
From the Eric Parker Archive
Poster colour on board 20 x 17 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £381

23

Batman (early 50s K G Murray Australian reprints) low grade issues
25, 45, 47, 48, 51, 59, 60, 72
With Superman 56 and Superboy 42
All Batman issues have cartoon pages missing except for No 51 which has a 3 x 1 ins piece missing by central spine. Also No 25 has a missing back cover. All Batman stories are complete. Superboy and Superman [gd], Batman [fr] (10)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £45

24

Batman Australian reprints (1950s)
18, 38, 39, 73, 78-80, 84, 86, 88, 89, 100
No 18 [gd], balance [vg/vg+] (12)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £173

25

Black Knight 1 (1955 L Miller)
Worn spine with 3 ins centre split and 1 ins top and bottom split [gd]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £101

26

Captain Marvel Adventures (1950s L Miller) 65, 76
With Marvel Family 84 and Whiz 71, 92, 94
[gd/vg] (6)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £39

27

Cartoon Art/Magazine Enterprises (1950s)
Black Phantom 1, Captain Fight 1, Big Fight 2, Daredevil Rancher (84 pg Bumper Comic with Senorita Rio, Tiger Girl, Hooks Devlin Special Agent, Risks Unlimited, Kayo Kirby and Tim Holt full colour stories), Firehair 1, Jungle n.n., Planet n.n., Wings n.n. and Indians Annual Yearbook of Wild West Comics n.n.
Indians Annual [gd], balance [vg-/fn+] (9)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £226

28

Comet (1952-59) 27 issues between 223-545 (Xmas 1958) with May 16 and June 20 1959
With free gift Kit Carson's Autograph Book of Cowboy Heroes (without photo inserts)
Comics mostly with rusty disintegrated staples [vg/fn-] (29)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £60

29

Sun (1952-59) 27 issues between 182-469 including 307 (Xmas 1954) and Sept 5 1959 with free gift Billy The Kid's Album of Cowboys and Indians, 5 of the 12 photos attached (incl. Jane Russell, Annie Oakley and Bill Boyd) and cover laminated photo of Robert Taylor
Comics with some rusty, disintegrated staples [vg/vg+] (28)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £77

30

Dandy (1950-56)
461, 462, 471, 472, 494, 529, 545, 556, 635, 738, 739, 743, 760, 778
4 issues [fn], balance [vg/vg+] (14)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £137

31

Dandy (1952) 528-579
Complete year in bound volume. Keyhole Kate rare front cover story with Korky in No 529, Desperate Dan rare front cover story with Korky in No 558. July and August issues had low distribution due to industrial action that year so the complete year for 1952 is hard to assemble.
Nos 528, 529 [vg], balance bright fresh covers, creamy white pages [fn/vfn/nm] (52)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £1,833

32

Dan Dare Interplanetary Stamp Folder (1953)
Lifebuoy Soap giveaway. Complete with all 32 stamps
[fn]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £250

33

Express Weekly (1956-58) 115, 198
115 wfg Sky Screamer, 198 wfgs Wild West Card Set of 25 cards complete (and collected from several further issues)
[fn/vfn] (2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £149

34

Guns in the Valley original double-page artwork (1956) drawn and painted by Denis McLoughlin from the Buffalo Bill Wild West Annual No 8, 1956
Fresh poster colour on board. 20 x 14 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £321

35

‘I-Spy for Adventure’ Life Membership Kit (News Chronicle, late 1950s)
Comprising Secret Codes Book, Big Chief I-Spy Tally card, two different I-Spy pin badges, I-Spy No 1 booklet 'I-Spy at the Seaside', all complete in original illustrated envelope with Bobby Bear Club (Daily Herald 1934) Membership Card, Secret Rules booklet and metal pin badge and The League of Ovaltineys Club Membership Rule Book (1935) and theme song-sheet (11 items)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: Unsold

36

Lion No 1 (1952) wfg Sports Stars in Action booklet.
Comic has well-worn spine and rusty staples [gd]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £65

37

MAD magazine (UK editions 1959-63) 1-7, 9-30
Bright covers, cream pages, rusty staples. No 11 [vg], balance [fn-/fn+] (29)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £309

38

Marvelman (1950s) 45 top corner cut away [gd], 177, 353 with Blackhawk 3 (Strato), 57 (Popular Press), Durango Kid 19 (Cartoon Art), Shadow 96 (Tricho, Sydney), Straight Arrow 12 (Cartoon Art)
[vg-/vg+] (8)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £45

39

Riders of the Range original artwork drawn and painted by Angus Scott for Eagle vol 2 No 39 (early 1950s) starring Jeff Arnold and his side-kick, Luke
The board has worn, rounded corners not affecting the art, six of the word balloons not inked in
Watercolour on board. 16 x 18 ins

Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £262

40

Roxy No 1 (1958) [vg+] wfg Tommy Steele's Lucky Guitar Pin in original envelope
With Marilyn No 2 (1955) [vg] wfg Gypsy Zena's Magic Hand of Destiny (2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £196

41

Superboy Australian reprints (1950s)
27, 70, 72, 91, 92, 94, 97-99, 101, 103, 105-107, 115, 118, 119, 121-123, 125, 129, 131
Nos 27, 118, 125 [gd], balance [vg/vg+] (23)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £262

42

Superman Australian reprints (1950s)
21, 31, 50, 51, 81-83, 86, 91, 96, 105-107, 109
No 109 [vg-], balance [vg/vg+] (14)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £107

43

Super Adventure Australian reprints (1950s)
56, 92, 95-97, 100, 101, 114
With Century 18, Jamboree 1, Korak n.n., Outer Space 2 and Skippy (1970) 2 x n.n.
Nos 18, 96, 100 [gd], balance [vg/vg+] (14)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £149

44

Sweet Cigarette boxes (1960s)
Thunderbirds, Amos Burke Secret Agent, Space Patrol (with rear image scuffing), Dixon of Dock Green, Dad's Army (1970s) (including complete Dad's Army 25 card set) and Ogden's Robin cigarette packet
The sweet cigarette box inner slides have been added later to fill out the packet shape (6)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: Unsold

45

Swift Morgan 50 (1950s) Roy Carson 46 (x2), Buffalo Bill 45, 49 with Swift Morgan Spaceways comic facsimile, The Comic Art of Denis McLoughlin (2012) and The Hardboiled Art of D McLoughlin (1994), signed by the authors, David Ashworth and Denis McLouglin. Comics [vg+/fn+] (8)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £125

46

Tomahawk (1954 Strato/Thorpe & Porter) 1-10
[vg+/fn] (10)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £119

47

Cherie (1960) 2, 3 wfg Top Pops of 1960 colour photos of Elvis, Marty and Russ
[fn] (2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £113

48

Dandy 1000, 1001 (1961)
With Dandy (1967) 43 issues in total between 1311-1362: ( missing 1319, 1322, 1326, 1333, 1334, 1339, 1346, 1349 and 1352).
Nos 1000, 1001 and a few others [vg], 1311 [gd], 1362 Xmas and a few others [vfn], balance [fn-/fn+] (45)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £226

49

Dandy (1966) 1258-1310
Complete 53 issue year
16 issues [vg/vg+], balance [fn/fn+] (53)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £417

50

Fabulous (1964-65) Jan 18 wfg Beatles Song Book, 14 Mar Beatles cover, 26 Sept wfg Alan Freeman's Mini Pop Guide and 29 May 1965
With Pop (1963) 14, 15, 17 all Beatles covers, Valentine 5 Oct 1963 wfg Beatles Colour Portrait
[vg/fn/vfn] (8)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £161

51

Fantastic No 1 (1967) wfg Fantastic Pennant Wallet and all 8 cut-out colour pennants: Amazing Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Nick Fury, Thing, Thor and X-Men. (Auctioneer’s note: There were only three cut-out pennants with Fantastic No 1, the other 5 were collected from editions of Wham!, Smash!, and Pow!)
With Eagle Flyer for Fantastic No 1
Fantastic No 1 has rusty staples and some spine roll [vg] (2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £179

52

Giant War Picture Library (1964-65)
16, 34, 44, 47, 53, 58, 60, 61, 66, 69, 70, 74
[vg-/vg+] (12)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £262

53

Hurricane No 1 (1964) wfg Flying Model of the TSR2
Bright covers, white pages, rusty staples [fn-/fn+], Free gift un-assembled, as new
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £196

54

Hurricane (1964-65) 1-63
Complete run. Starring Typhoon Tracy, Kid Solo, Rod the Odd Mod, Sword For Hire and He Rides Alone (Hal Itosis?)
No 1 Rusty staples, small piece out of back cover margin [vg], No 2 wfg Hurricane Howler [fn], No 31 wfg Footballer of 1964 complete with all cards [fn+]
Most issues with neat biro issue number to cover margin [fn/vfn-] (63)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £333

55

Tiger and Hurricane (1965) 22 May (First combined title) - 25 Dec Xmas. Unabridged run
Bright covers, most with rusty staples. Xmas issue has 3 x 2 ins piece torn away from back cover [gd/vg], a few [vg], balance [fn-/fn] (33)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £89

56

JOE 90 (1969) 1, 2 wfg W.I.N. Coderpass (mint & unwritten), 3 wfg W.I.N. Agent's Badge and a
complete set of 6 W.I.N. Badges as given away with Kellogg's Sugar Smacks and advertised on the back page of Valiant 7 Dec 1968, all included here, with TV 21 & JOE 90 No 1 (1969) wfg 3 stamps of Soccer Stars in Action
[fn/vfn] (10)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £393

57

Lady Penelope No 1 (1966)
Some wear to spine and lower front cover margin [vg]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £119

58

Oz Magazine (1967-69) 6, 16, 17, 21, 23, 24
6: Mick Jagger on the Stones bust, hippy language parody and graphics, John Peel interview. 16: Magic Theatre by Martin Sharp, Steppenwolf. 17: John & Yoko ad, Manfred Mann Interview, 'Long live the Eagles'. 21: Janis Joplin, Thunderclap Newman, 8 page Comic Freakout by Robert Crumb, Pete Townshend interview, Marsha Hunt by David Bailey. 23: Homosexual Oz issue, Moon landing, Gilbert Shelton cartoon, Bob Dylan and The Band. 24: Gilbert Shelton Freak Bros cartoon strip, John & Yoko photo, Beatles: Come Together - Abbey Road, John Lennon interview, Kinks, John Mayall and Steve Miller Band with LP album reviews
[fn-/fn+] (6)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £149

59

Oz Magazine 28 Schoolkids issue (1970)
Right-on Seventies porno edition with Rupert in flagrante delicto by Robert Crumb, Jail Bait of the month, Gilbert Shelton Fabulous Furry Freak Bros cartoon, The Doors, Incredible String Band LP reviews. This issue was the centrepiece of the Oz obscenity trials in 1971 where the defendants were found guilty and then innocent on appeal. They dressed as schoolgirls for the hearing.
Rare in this grade [fn]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £95

60

Phantom (1960s L Miller) 6, 8, 9, 12, 13
With Blackhawk 36 and Mr District Attorney 4, 7, 15
Some rolled spines [vg-/vg+] (9)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £369

61

Ranger No 1 (1965) wfg BOAC VC 10 Booklet
[fn]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £33

62

Sparky No 1 (1965) wfg Flying Snorter and original 4 pg Flyer for No 1
[fn] (2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £262

63

Super Mag No 12 Space Patrol (1964) Young World Publications
CGC 6.5
With Star Trek Annual 2 (1970)
[fn] (2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £29

64

Solo (1967) 1 [vg], 2 [vfn] wfg Scarecrow Pistol Banger
(2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £220

65

TV Tornado (1967-68) 1-50, 86-88
No 1 [vg+], wfg Batchute (unused), No 2 [fn-] wfg TV Tornado Magic Cards. No 49 [vg], balance issues [fn/vfn] (53)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £417

66

TV Tornado Tommy Buster Repeater Gun prize in Secret Agents Competition detailed in TV Tornado No 3 (1967). The gun also fires caps and is unused and in its original box with TV Tornado congratulations card and photocopy Competition Page. There were over 17,500 entries in the competition
20 x 6 ins. As new
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £274

67

Thunderbirds original double-page artwork drawn, painted and signed by Frank Bellamy from TV Century 21 No 64 (1966)
Virgil jumps for his life as the International Rescue Machine is charged by the crazed rhinoceros… Some minor fading to the Pelikan inks. 27 x 19 ins.
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £2,678

68

Angela Mansi nude study drawn and signed by Frank Bellamy (mid 60s)
During this time Frank Bellamy ran and organised life drawing classes at the Studio Club in London's Piccadilly
From the Bob Monkhouse Archive
Crayon on paper. 17 x 10 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £149

69

Thunderbirds Board Game (1965) Waddingtons. Complete with instructions [fn]
With Captain Scarlet Board Game (1967) Waddingtons with 3 sitting figures missing
Box with 3 split corners [vg] (2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £65

70

TV Century 21 issues with Dalek covers (1965-66)
28, 36, 47, 50, 87
With The Dalek Pocketbook and Space-Travellers Guide (with multiple full-page illustrations)
[vg/fn+] (6)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £173

71

TV Century 21 (1966-68)
51, 52, 90, 92, 99, 101-106, 119, 141, 156, 157, 184, 191, 192, 194, 210, 211, 242
No 52: 1st Thunderbirds by Frank Bellamy, No 90: Catch or Kill by John Burns begins, No 105 Zero X by Mike Noble, 141: Captain Scarlet by Ron Embleton begins. 192, 210 Captain Scarlet covers by Frank Bellamy, 242 Final issue [vg], Nos 141, 191 [gd-vg], balance [vg/fn/vfn] (22)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £208

72

TV Century 21 No 218 with free gift 'Ready to Fly' Strato Streak
[vfn]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £476

73

Tell Me Why (1968) 1, 2 both with loose covers [vg]
With Treasure No 326 (1969) [fn+] wfg Big Wall Map and World of Wonder 1, 2 with free gifts Great Explorers and Great Battles of Europe wall charts
[fn/vfn] (5)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £1

74

Terrific No 1 (1967). wfg Iron Man transfer
[fn-]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £101

75

Action No 1 (1976). With free gift Red Arrow
With Monster Fun No 35 showing centre four pg ad for Action No 1
The Action 1 cover has two ¾ ins blind tears and a few small indentations (from the movement of the free gift over time) [fn-]. Gift as new with original (pliable) elastic band (3)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £131

76

Action No 2 (21 Feb 1976). With free gift Hookjaw Transfer (with Editor's Page note: 'The best way to iron on your transfer is to persuade your Mum to do it…') and 4pg Flyer for Action 1-4.
Action 2 has a one inch tear to lower cover margin, bright cover colours, cream pages [fn+]. Transfer as new (2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £77

77

Action No 3 (28 Feb 1976)
With free gift Soccer Super Stars of Britain complete set 1-64 with four Soccer Superstars wallets (all collected from later Action issues to complete the set)
Comic [fn-], 1-64 set [nm]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £155

78

Action (1976-77) 2, 4-36, and 12th Nov, 4th Dec x 2, 11th, 18th Dec, 29 Jan 1977, 26 March, 20 August and Action Summer Special No 16 (29 May) wfg Invasion! War Game sheets
31 June cigarette burns to cover [gd], Summer Special [vfn], balance [vg+/fn/vfn] (42)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £149

79

‘A Discreditable Exercise’ original double-page artwork by Frank Bellamy painted and signed by Frank Bellamy for The Sunday Times magazine (late 1960s)
From the Bob Monkhouse Archive.
Bright Pelikan inks on board. 28 x 20 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £2,261

80

Countdown (1971) 1-6 with all free gifts from each issue comprising The Giant Spacefact Wallchart and 24 stamps uncut and as new
Comics: No 1: worn spine with half-inch cover tear by upper staple with small piece torn away. Touched-in ½ ins cover scrape [vg], balance issues [fn/vfn] (6)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £309

81

Dr Who original artwork drawn and painted by Gerry Haylock for TV Action No 60 (April 8 1972)
starring Jon Pertwee as Dr Who, The Tardis, The Daleks - all illustrated here!
Black ink and wash highlighted in white on board. 21 x 15 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £2,559

82

Garth: ‘The Beast of Ultor’. 2 original consecutive artworks (1974) drawn and signed by Frank Bellamy for the Daily Mirror 9-10 May 1974
Indian ink on board. 21 x 7 ins (x2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £761

83

Jet (1971) No 1-22
Complete run with first Buster and Jet 2 Oct 1971
3rd July (No 10) has half front cover torn away [gd], No 1 [fn-], a few [vg], balance [fn-fn] (23)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £262

84

Knockout bound volume (1962/63)
6 Jan-29 Dec 1962 complete year with 5 Jan-16 Feb 1963 last issue (prior to amalgamation with Valiant). Starring Billy Bunter, Battler Britton, Strongbow, Kelly's Eye and Sporty
Bright covers, white pages [vfn/vfn+] (59)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £1,333

85

Garth: ‘The Bride of Jenghiz Khan’. 2 original consecutive artworks (1974) drawn and signed by Frank Bellamy for the Daily Mirror 11-12 November 1974
Indian ink on board. 21 x 7 ins (x2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £761

86

Phantom (1970s-80s) Australian reprints.
92, 584, 586, 624, 625, 632, 661, 742, 757, 792, 799, 832, 834, 896, 909
With 1990s replica of No 2 and Argentine edition (in Spanish) No 96
No 96 [vg-], balance [fn/vfn] (17)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £65

87

The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire original artwork drawn and painted by Don Lawrence for Look and Learn 15 Aug 1970. With Dutch language speech balloons this 'City of Jewels' story was reprinted in the Netherlands for the weekly comic 'Sjors' some years later
Gouache on board. 18 x 14 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £547

88

Spellbound (1976-78) 1-69 complete run.
With Debbie and Spellbound No 258 the first amalgamated title issue. Spellbound No 2 [fn]) wfg Supercats Secret Diary
No 13 has lower RH corner torn away at all pages [gd], a few [vg], balance [vg+/fn+] (70)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £345

89

Vulcan (1975-76) 1-28 complete run
Meet The Spider, Steel Claw, Robot Archie and the Trigan Empire
No 1 with cover hole and wear by centre spine (most No 1s suffered this where gift was located) [vg-], balance issues [fn/vfn] (28)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £95

90

Faceache original artwork drawn by Ken Reid for Buster 14 March 1987, comic included. This appears to be the last ever published artwork by Ken Reid as he died (lovely man) just after this edition of Buster was published.
Indian ink on paper. 21 x 18 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £488

91

Scream (1984-88) 1-15
Complete run. With Scream Holiday Special (1985-88) 1-4
Comics: a few [vg], balance [fn-/fn]. Holiday Specials [fn/vfn] (19)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £857

92

Viz photocopy 'dummy' No 1 (1984) with four signed letters
Commissioned from Chris Donald in 1984 this prototype 'No 1' was sent to a major publisher who wanted to publish Viz. According to one of the letters signed by Chris Donald they went all 'scared-y-cat' wanting to tone it down and add their own content. Chris refused and this 24 pg photocopy dummy No 1 remained unpublished. A further two signed letters confirm Chris Donald's deal with Virgin Books, 'small scale compared to the other rumpus' for Viz to be published every two months. The letters were all addressed to Mick Kidd of Biff Productions whose Cathedrals of Tomorrow strip was central to the dummy No 1
(5 items in total)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £976

93

Viz Comics (1981-86) 6, 9, 10a, 11, 13-17
With Chris Donald signed letter with further reference to the prototype No 1 being considered by 'potential sponsors' and a 'moneybags backer'. The lot also includes 'The Viz Comic Hand-I-Diary Rule-Bookmark'
Viz 17 has pg 9 quarter pg cut-out [vg/fn] (11 items in total)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £583

94

Viz Comics (1983-99) 10a, 15, 26, 34, 35, 36, 38-40, 43
With Viz No 1 1999 reprint and 3 further letters (incl. 1 photocopy) signed by Chris Donald, Viz the Big Hard One (best of issues 1-12). Viz Holiday Special (1981), Viz Billy The Fish Football Yearbook (1990) and Viz The Big Pink Stiff One (best of issues 19-25)
[vg-/fn] (18)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £77


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