Wild Adventure story books (1914-1930) published by Cassell, Blackie, Pearson and RTS
All with tooled covers and spines
The Black Box by W. Bourne Cook, The Pict by Mary F. Outram, Midst Arctic Perils by Percy F. Westerman, River and Jungle by E.S. Ellis and The World of Ice by R.M. Ballantyne
[fn-/fn+] (5)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £50

Buffalo Bill: two original front cover artworks (1920s) initialled 'RP' (Robert Prowse) from Buffalo Bill Library Nos 552 and 680
With ink text beneath each illustration
Water colour on board. 15 x 10 ins (2 artworks)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £274

Knock-Out 1 (1939)
Starring Our Crazy Broadcasters, with Billy Bunter and first Sexton Blake, Red Ryder and Deed-A-Day Danny illustrated strip storieswith Knock-Out Fun Books 1945 and 1946
From the Woodard Archive of British Comics
Knock-Out 1 [fn-], Fun Books [vg/vg+] (3)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £321

Beano (1947-48) 315, 326, last Big Eggo cover, 327 First Biffo the Bear cover, 328, 329, 334
[vg/vg+] (6)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £125

Beano (1949) 352, 355, 358, 361, 365, 371-373, 375, 378, 384, 386, 406
Including the first Jack Flash - The Flying Boy by Dudley Watkins (355), Deep-Sea Danny's Iron Fish, The Horse that Jack Built and Pansy Potter in Wonderland
352 [gd], balance [vg/fn] (13)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £83

G.G. Swan booklets (1940s) Crime Shorts 1, Gang Shorts 1, Western Shorts 1, 4, Romances 4, 17 all text stories, and War Comics Special Double Number
War Comics [fn], balance [vg/vg+] (7)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £48

G.G. Swan booklets plus (1940s) Laugh It Off 2, 3 with cartoons on every page, From Loom to Footlights, Her Love in Peril, The Woman Between, Case of the Dead Producer 161 (Newnes), Buffalo Bill Novels 272, 301
all text stories with New Funnies 25, War Comics 16 and Special Double Number
[vg/vg+] (11)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £48

G.G. Swan Young Folk booklets + (1940s) Fairies 1, 3, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 21-23, 25, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38 with Modern Boy Picture Album free gift [gd], Schoolgirls Pocket Library 18, 20, 21 (x2)
With G.G. Swan Cash Sales receipt (1945)
Schoolgirls P.L. 16, 21 [gd], balance [vg/vg+] (22)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £50

Buck Jones Cowboy Comics/Fighting Sheriff of the Ranges (Australian issues 1949-52) 1-36
Complete run designed by Amalgamated Press, printed by Land Newspapers, Sydney, Australia. With cover art by George Cattermole and Geoff Campion, these full-size comics were the template for the hugely successful Cowboy Comics/Cowboy Picture Library digest-size UK series that was published from 1952 once paper stocks became more widely available in post-war Europe. This complete run is extremely rare
No 1 [vg+], Nos 25, 29, 36 [gd/vg], most issues [vg/fn] with a few later issues [fn/vfn] (36)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £536

Tim Holt - Cowboy Star of the Films (Australian issues 1949-50) 1-4
Complete run designed by Amalgamated Press and printed by Century Press/ Land Newspapers in Australia. Cover art by Geoff Campion. Interior art by Frank Bolle. With Captain Flame 1 (1949) cover and interior art by Eric Parker, Battling Samson 1 (1949) and Thunderbolt Jaxon (1949) 4, 6
These Tim Holt full-size comics were the template for the hugely successful Cowboy Comics/Cowboy Picture Library digest-size UK series published three years later once paper stocks became more widely available in post-war Europe. These issues are rare.
Battling Samson 1, Thunderbolt Jaxon 4, both [vg-], balance [vg/vg+] (8)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £60

Beano (1950) 390 New Year, 391, 393-406, 408-410
The Dandy's Desperate Dan cover appearance with Biffo (No 390). First Sinbad the Sailor by Paddy Brennan (No 400), Jack Flash and Bob in the Bottle
403, 410 [gd], balance [vg/fn] (19)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £125

Beano (1950) 412, 414, 417-419, 421, 422, 424-428, 430, 431, 435-437, 439, 441 and 443 (1951)
Starring Lord Snooty with a few new pals, Jimmy and his Magic Patch, First Bird Boy by Jack Glass and Deep-Sea Danny's Iron Fish
435 [gd], balance [vg/vg+] (20)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £119

Beano (Jan-Mar 1951) 442-450
Nos 448, 449 [vg], balance [fn-/fn] (9)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £71

Beano (Mar-Jun 1951) 453-463.
Including Easter Fun and April Fool numbers. Starring Jack Flash and the Terrible Twins
461-463 [vg], balance [fn/fn+] (11)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £137

Beano (Jun-Nov 1951) 465-470, 472, 475, 477, 478, 480, 482, 483, 486, 488
Including Bumper Sports Number and first Red Rory of the Eagles
470, 472, 475 [vg/vg+], balance [fn/fn+] (15)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £143

Beano (Jan-Mar 1953) 546-556
[vg/fn] (11)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £95

Beano (Mar-Jun 1953) 558-566, 568-570
Including Easter Fun Number and first Rodger The Dodger by Ken Reid and the Dandy's Desperate Dan adventure with Biffo (No 568)
[vg+/fn+] (12)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £113

Beano (Jul-Sept 1953) 572-582
[fn/fn+] (11)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £95

Beano (Oct-Dec 1953) 585-597
Including Fireworks and Xmas Numbers with General Jumbo by Paddy Brennan and firsts of Little Plum and Minnie the Minx by Leo Baxendale
587, 588, 597 Xmas [vfn], 594, 595 [vg/vg+], balance [fn-/fn+] (13)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £298

Beano (1954) 599, 600, 603, 607, 610, 613 Easter, 617, 619, 620, 622, 623, 626, 628, 629
[vg/fn] (14)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £125

Beano (Aug-Dec 1954) 631-649
Including Fireworks and Xmas Numbers with Rodger the Dodger, When the Bell Rings, Biffo, Dennis, Minnie and Pansy Potter
649 Xmas [vg+], balance [vg/fn] (19)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £161

Beano (Jan-Apr 1955) 651, 652, 654-662 and 664 Easter
660, 661 [vg-], balance [vg/fn] (12)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £113

Beano (Apr-Sept 1955) 665, 666, 668, 670-672, 674, 676, 678-680, 682, 685
With the Shipwrecked Circus, When the Bell Rings, and Lord Snooty's Pal, Scrapper in his first comic strip and first Grandpa by Ken Reid
671, 678 [vg], balance [fn-/vfn] (13)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £107

Beano (Jan-Apr 1958) 807-821
Including April Fool issue with first appearance of Jonah by Ken Reid in No 817. Pansy Potter guest appearance with Biffo in No 815
4 issues with pen numbers to top cover margins and a couple of others [vg], balance [fn-/fn+] (15)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £125

Beano (Apr-Aug 1958) 822-837 unbroken run
Starring Jack Flash, Jonah, The Bash Street Kids and Rodger the Dodger
823, 829, 833, 834 [vg/vg+], balance [fn-/fn+] (16)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £309

Beano (Aug-Dec 1958) 839-858 unbroken run
Including Fireworks and Xmas Numbers with Dennis the Menace, The Shipwrecked Circus, Red Rory of the Eagles, The Iron Fish and The Bash Street Kids
849 [gd], Fireworks [vg], Xmas [fn], balance [vg/fn+] (20)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £464

Beano (Jan-Mar 1959) 859-869 unbroken run
Including No 860 last Biffo the Bear signed by Dudley Watkins with Little Plum, The Iron Fish, Minnie, The Bash Street Kids, Jonah and Dennis the Menace
[vg/fn] (11)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £369

Beezer (1956) 8, 12-18, 20, 21, 24, 26-28, 33, 37, 38, 40-43
Starring Ginger, The Banana Bunch, Kings of Castaway Island and Pop, Dick & Harry
Nos 17, 18 [gd], a few [fn], balance [vg/vg+] (21)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £369

Cisco Kid original cover artwork (1954) painted and signed by Walt Howarth for The Cisco Kid Comics No 39 (WDL)
Bright watercolour on board. 15 x 11 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £179

Classics Illustrated (1950s). 69: Around the World in 80 Days (1/3d edition), 19: Huckleberry Finn (15 cents), 50: Adventures of Tom Sawyer (15 cents)
[fn/vg+/vg] (3)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £4

Cowboy Comics/Picture Library (mid/late 1950s)
70-73, 96, 115, 118, 122, 123, 170, 192, 215, 232, 234, 250-253, 297, 299
Bright covers with rust marks showing through. No 297 no back cover [fr/gd], 3 issues [gd], balance 15 issues [vg] (19)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £43

Dan Dare/Eagle original artwork (1957) by Frank Hampson for The Eagle Vol. 8, No 15 pg 2
'Dan, Lex, Digby and Flamer return to Earth to find World Government overthrown by the Mekon, evil master-mind of Venus. Using Elektrobots the Mekon has set up slave camps where Earthmen are kept for his experiments. But 'Spacefleet Underground' has managed to re-programme an Elektrobot...'
Bright gouache colours on board. 15 x 13 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: u/s

Dandy (1952) 528-538, 541 April Fool, 542 Easter
No 529 Keyhole Kate cover
541 April Fool [gd], balance [vg-/vg+] (13)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £65

Dandy (1952) 17 issues between 530-578
A few [fn], balance [gd/vg] (17)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £89

Dandy (1952) 544-564
Unbroken 21 issues run. Twelve issues have Newsagent message to top cover margin detailing industrial action supply difficulties. No 558 Desperate Dan cover appearance with Korky
2 issues [gd ], 6 [vg], balance 13 issues [fn/fn+] (21)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £101

Dandy (Sept – Dec 1952) 566-578
13 issue unbroken run including Fireworks Number
[vg+/fn+] (13)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £149

Dan Dare/Eagle original cover artwork (1959) painted and signed by Frank Bellamy for The Eagle Vol. 10 No 36
'On Terra Nova Professor Jocelyn Peabody and Lex O'Mally are carried off by 'Nagrebs’ giant, man-eating ants. Dan's spacesuit is infused with 'Oro' - a vine-juice which repels Nagrebs and might protect him...'
Bright Pelikan ink on board. 15 x 13 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £2,023

Dandy (1954) 634, 635, 637, 638, 643, 646, 647 Easter, 650, 652 and 628 (1953)
With Korky, Desperate Dan and Keyhole Kate
[vg/fn-] (10)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £101

Dandy (1954) 655-657, 659-662, 667, 670-674, 677
With 'My Gang by Whacker Wilson' by future Judge Dredd artist, Ron Smith, first picture story of Shocker Jock by George Drysdale
660 [vg-], balance [vg/fn] (14)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £55

Dandy (Jan 1-Feb 26 1955) 684-692
[vg/fn] (9)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £45

Dandy (Mar 12- Jun 11 1955) 694-698, 701-707
Including April Fool and Easter Holiday Numbers
[vg/fn+] (12)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £77

Dandy (Jul 2-Sept 10 1955) 710-720
No 711 [vg-], balance [vg/fn] (11)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £65

Dandy (Sep-Dec 1955) 722, 723, 725-727, 729-731, 735 Xmas, 736 New Year
727, 731, 735 Xmas [vg], balance [vg+/fn] (10)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £89

Dandy (Jan-Mar 1956) 737, 739-748
[vg+/fn] (11)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £57

Dandy (Apr-Aug 1956) 750-753, 757-760, 762, 767-769
With first Bing Bang Benny by Ked Reid
751 re-inforced spine [gd], 758 [fn-], balance [fn/fn+] (12)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £77

Dandy (Aug-Dec 1956) 770, 771, 773, 774, 776, 781-783, 785, 786, 788 Xmas
Xmas [vg-], balance [vg/fn-] (11)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £71

Dandy (Jan 5 - Apr 13 1957) 789-803
Including New Year and April Fool issues with Korky, Desperate Dan, Bing-Bang Benny, Screwy Driver and Just Jimmy
798 paper-restored spine, 790, 791 [gd], 796 [vg], balance [vg+/fn+] (15)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £83

John Wayne No 12 original cover artwork (1951) drawn, painted and initialled by Walt Howarth
Gouache on board. 19 x 14 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £309

Kit Carson original cover artwork (1959) painted by Jordi Panalva for Cowboy Picture Library No 317
With original comic
Gouache on canvas. 11 x 11 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £196

Lion (!952-53) 1-50
With all free gifts (for Nos 1, 2, 31 & 32)
Starring Captain Condor by Frank S Pepper and Ron Forbes, Jungle Robot (Archie) by Ted Kearon and The Lone Commandos by Edward Home-Gall. From the Woodard Archive of British Comics
Lion was printed on low grade paper stock resulting in general staple rust which bedevilled most issues. No 1 [vg-], No 2 [vg], No 30 [gd], balance [vg-/fn-] (50)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £464

Lion (1953-54) 52-79, 81-83, 85-100 with Lion Annuals 1 & 2 (1954, 1955). Starring Captain Condor, The Amazing Adventures of Mr X, Brett Marlowe - Detective, No 68 Coronation issue and Grit Gregson - Foreign Legion Fighter
Cream pages, rusty staples [vg-/fn-] (49)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £83

Lion (1955) 150-202
Complete year in 2 bound volumes. Starring Captain Condor by Frank S Pepper, The Amazing Adventures of Mr X and The Great Invasion Mystery by Hal Wilton
These issues were Frank Pepper's own copies which he had to order from his local newsagent!
Bright covers, cream pages with shadow rust migration showing at spines [vg/fn] (53)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £286

Mickey Mouse Weekly (1954) Jan 2 - Dec 25 (missing Feb 6) and including 2 Xmas issues
With 7 free gift cut-out and fold 32 pg pocket Booklets (not cut-out or folded): Space Travel, Air Adventure, Sea, Land Adventure, Radio & TV Animals and Quiz Book
A few [vg], balance [vg+/fn+] (52)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £333

Mickey Mouse Weekly (1957) 49 issue near complete year (missing Feb 2, 16 & Dec 28)
Including 21st Birthday Number
[vfn/vfn+] (49)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £381

The New Spaceways Comic Annual 1 (1954)
Starring Swift Morgan, Roy Carson, Doll Man, Chop-Chop and Plastic Man with
Planet Adventure Book (1962) intro Mars God of War, Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron and Norge Benson
[vg] (2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £26

Terry Thomas/Film Fun (3 Aug 1957)
Four original artwork comic strips (complete episode) by Terry Wakefield
Uncle Joe thinks Terry's not very bright as he doesn't bring food to a pic-nic, only plates and a tin opener. All the other pic-nickers have forgotten their tin-openers and give Terry lots of food to open their tins. In the end Uncle Joe gives Terry a £50 note as he's so smart. 'I sa-ay, how frightfully decent!'
Indian ink on card highlighted with blue crayon. The frame is large and heavy (30 x 24 ins) so the strips will be extracted for shipment if necessary
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £119

Thriller Comics Library (1950s)
All Robin Hood issues. 130, 138, 154, 182, 198, 206, 207, 218, 243, 251, 267, 271, 291
No 271 [vfn], 206, 218 laminated covers [vg], 130, 202 [gd], balance [vg/vg+] (13)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £101

Topper (1953-54) 1-50 in bound volume
Starring Mickey the Monkey, Beryl the Peril with Treasure Island and Kidnapped back page adventure strips by Dudley Watkins
From the Woodard Archive of British Comics
Xmas No 47 light tan pages [fn-], balance creamy white pages [fn+/vfn+] (50)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £1,690

Topper (1954) 52-99 (missing issues 56, 62, 94)
Including Easter, Fireworks and Xmas numbers. With Mickey the Monkey and back pages adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Wild Young Dirky and King Solomon's Mines - all by Dudley Watkins
From the Woodard Archive of British Comics
[vg-/fn-] (45)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £220

Topper (1955) 100-152 (missing issues 108, 109, 111, 115-117, 119, 140, 145)
Including Easter, Fireworks and Xmas
From the Woodard Archive of British Comics
A few well worn, torn issues [gd], balance [vg/vg+] (44)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £238

Topper (1956) 153-204 complete year (No 158 missing centrespread [gd])
Mickey the Monkey and Allan Quartermain by Dudley Watkins, Beryl the Peril by Davy Law
No 154 with full page ad for Beezer No 1
[vg/fn] (52)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £298

Topper (1957) 205-256 near complete year (missing Nos 236, 247 & 255 Xmas)
With Mickey, Beryl, Captain Bungle and Oliver Twist by Dudley Watkins
From the Woodard Archive of British Comics
A few well-worn [gd], balance [vg-/fn-] (49)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £250

Topper (1958) 257-308 (missing issues 267, 285, 292-294, 296, 298, 301, 303-307) with No 208 x2
From the Woodard Archive of British Comics
5 issues [gd], balance [vg-/fn-] (39)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £250

Western Library (early 1950s) 'Fully Illustrated'. 72-83, 85-88
Cover art by Derek Eyles and Jas McConnell
No 83 has back cover ⅓ cut away [fr/gd], balance issues with rust spots showing through [vg/vg+] (16)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £42

Western Library (mid 1950s) 'Fully Illustrated'. 89-96, 99-105, 108
Bright covers with rust spots showing through. No 108 [vg-], balance [vg/vg+] (16)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £42

Beano (1960) 911-963 near complete year (missing 962 Xmas issue)
Starring Biffo, Dennis, Minnie, Little Plum, Lord Snooty, Jonah, The Bash Street Kids and Pete of the Spitfires
Early 1960s Beanos are scarce due to D.C. Thomson low print runs
13 issues [vg/vg+], balance [fn-/fn+] (52)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £1,095

Beano (1968) 1329-1354 Jan-June half-year complete
These issues all contain character cut-outs which are all intact and not cut-out! All [vfn] (26)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £71

Buster (1962) 6 Jan-29 Dec
Complete year with all free gifts: Buster's Boomerang (5 May), Buster's Book of Flying Aces with all 12 photos (12 May), Flying model of the Vickers VC10 (15 Sept). With colour Buster promo leaflet of the free gifts. Starring Maxwell Hawke, The Shrinker, Buck Rogers, The Black Ace and The Terrors of Tornado Street
Also including the first Buster and Film Fun (15 Sept) starring Johnny Wingco
Fresh creamy-white pages - the highest grades ever to be offered at auction. 13 Jan [vg+], balance [vfn/nm] (52)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £904

Buster (1965) 2 Jan - 25 Dec
Complete 52 issue year with first Buster and The Big One (17 Feb) wfgs Zoom-A-Jet and (30 Oct) Guy Fawks Mask and Buster's Book of Flying Aces free gift (from 12 May 1962) with all photos attached. The Toys of Doom illustrated story begins by Solano Lopez and first Thunderbolt the Avenger
N.B.: Fleetway's printers stapled the last six issues of the year which inevitably rusted [fn-], balance issues [vfn/nm] (52)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £785

Dandy (1961) 998-1022 Jan-Jun half-year in bound volume
[fn/fn+] (26)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £149

(It's) Fantastic Summer Special (1968)
[vfn]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £107

Flash UK reprints (1960) 1st Series: 2-5 black + white reprinting U.S. Silver age Flash Comics # 106-109
No 3 [gd], 4: b/cover moisture stain [vg], 2 [vg+], 5 [vfn] (4)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £55

Marvelman (early 1960s) 339, 343 with Young Marvelman 294, 301, 305, 332-334, 340, 346, 347
Nos 294, 333 with rusty staples, balance [fn+/vfn] (11)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £36

TV Comic (1960-64) 35 issues between 460…673
Starring the first Supercar (No 483), First Space Patrol (668), Range Rider by Ron Embleton, Fireball XL5, The Milky Bar Kid, Four Feathers Falls, The Telegoons by Bill Titcombe with No 673 Fireworks issue pg 3 advertisement and picture of William Hartnell's Doctor Who first episode the following week
From the Woodard Archive of British Comics
A few [vg], balance [fn-/vfn] (35)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £488

TV Comic (1964-65) 675 2nd Doctor Who, 681, 683-685, 688-690, 699, 702, 704, 709, 717, 719
All Doctor Who issues
681, 699 [vg+], a few [fn], balance [vfn] (14)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £250

TV Comic (1965) 720, 721, 723-725 Fireworks
No 720 first Avengers issue with Doctor Who full colour centre spread episodes
[fn/vfn] (5)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £101

TV Comic (1966) 764, 766, 767, 772, 775, 782-785
All Doctor Who issues with No 736 free gift: My 1966 Book of TV Stars complete with all 24 colour photo inserts (including all 4 Beatles) and 784, 785 Christmas issues
No 764 worn cover [vg-], 775 [vg], balance [fn/vfn] (10)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £184

TV Comic (1967) 803-806, 808, 809
All with Doctor Who and the Daleks front covers and pages 2 & 3 episodes
803 [vg], balance [fn-/fn] (6)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £190

TV Comic (1967-68) 829, 831, 838, 854, 856, 858-860, 869, 872, 876, 880, 833 and 889 Xmas with TV Comic Holiday Special 1975
The first 12 issues with Doctor Who colour centre spreads, with Adam Adamant, The Avengers and Bob Monkhouse's Mad Movies
Xmas [fn], balance [vg/fn] (15)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £196

TV Comic (1969-71) 916, 924-926, 928, 931, 950, 969, 1000 and TV Comic Holiday Special 1976
Starring Doctor Who, The Avengers, Catweazle
No 1000 [vfn], balance [vg-/vg] (10)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £369

TV 21 and TV Tornado (1968-69) 196-215, 221, 223-225
With Thunderbirds by Frank Bellamy, Captain Scarlet and Zero X by Mike Noble
A few [vg-], 8 issues [fn], balance [vg/fn] (24)
With TV Tornado 1 (1967) 4 x 2" piece out of pg 19 [gd]. Star Wars Weekly No 1 wfg X-Fighter press out model (top piece missing) [vg] and Look and Learn (1962) 1-3, 238 [gd/vg] (4)
Total issues in lot (31)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £77

Valiant (1962) 1, 2 wfg Giant Book of WWII, 3, 4, 6-13
Starring Captain Hurricane, The Steel Claw, Paladin the Fearless and To Glory We Steer, the story of Nelson's naval career in triple page picture strips.
From the Woodard Archive of British Comics
Most issues with rusty staples. No 1 [vg], balance [vg+/fn] (12)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £191

Valiant (1963) 5 Jan-28 Dec. Complete 52 issue year
Becomes Valiant and Knockout on 23 Feb with 'free gifts' colour flyer
Starring 1st Battler Britton (June 1st), 1st Kelly's Eye, 1st Kraken and the Time Machine, The Steel Claw and Captain Hurricane. From the Woodard Archive of British Comics.
Cream pages, bright covers, rusty staples [fn-/fn] (52)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £417

Valiant and Knockout (1964) 6 Jan - 26 Dec. Complete 52 issue year with
Valiant Annual 1964.
Starring Captain Hurricane, The Steel Claw, Jack O'Justice, Kraken and Kelly's Eye. (Becomes Valiant and Hurricane on 29 February).
From the Woodard Archive of British Comics
Bright cover colours, cream pages, light staple rust. Annual [vg+], Comics [fn-/fn+] (53)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £161

Victor (1961) 1-45
Complete year introducing I Flew with Braddock, Pony Express, Wonder Man and The Charge of the Light Brigade. With Nos 2-5 free gifts Sportsman's Wallet and 11 Football Club photos including The Man Utd team photo taken just before the Munich air disaster
Nos 19 and 20 with full page ads for Commando 1 & 2. Nos 29-33 wfgs complete 22 'Star Football Teams of 1961' and Victor Sports Wallet [nm]
From the Woodard Archive of British Comics
Comics: No 1 dull covers with some edge wear [vg-], balance issues with margin foxing spots [vg/vg+] (45)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £571

Victor (1962) 46-97. Complete year
Starring Braddock V.C., 1st The Smasher and 1st Alf Tupper - The Tough of the Track with Nos 58-61 wfgs complete 22 Cup Stars of All Nations in wallet and The Victor Sports Wallet with 21 photocards of Star Teams of 1961
Most issues with margin foxing [vg/fn-] (52)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £262

Buster and Cor!! (1974-75) 15 issues between 17 Aug - 1 Feb. In bound volume
Including Xmas and New Year with Uncle Ironsides, Fiends and Neighbours, Fishboy, Charlie Peace, Pete's Pocket Army, Ken Reid's Faceache and Leo Baxendale's Clever Dick, Bluebottle and Basher and Nelly the Elephant
14 Dec with neatly coloured in back cover and 9 November [vg+], balance [fn/vfn] (15)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: u/s

Charley's War: 4 original consecutive artworks (1979) by Joe Colquhoun with script by Pat Mills for Battle-Action 269 pgs 2-5
'October, 1916. Charley Bourne and his comrades were in the hastily dug "Angel Trench" awaiting the final German assault. As the shells rained down, the Tommies tried to sing and joke away their terror.'
Indian ink on card. 19 x 15 ins (4 artworks)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £1,142

Doctor Who Holiday Special (1974)
Worn spine [vg]
With Doctor Who Winter Special (1977) [nm]
(2)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £77

Dracula Lives (1974-75) 1 wfg Dracula poster, 4, 6-14 with Planet of the Apes 1 wfg poster
(and Dracula Lives No 1 full page back cover advertisement)
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Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £107

Charley's War: 3 original consecutive artworks (1979) by Joe Colquhoun and Pat Mills for Battle-Action 270 pgs 2-4
'October 1916. The "Judgement Troopers" had drenched the British defences in poison gas. Now they began the final assault.'
Indian ink on card. 19 x 15 ins (3 artworks)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £809

Eerie (GSP UK editions 1972) 1, 2, 4
No 1 [vfn], 2 [vfn/nm], 4 [fn/vfn] (3)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £26

Fury's Family original artwork (1970) by Denis McLoughlin for Lion and Thunder No 30 Oct 9 1970
In the final episode Fury and Robinson call their animal army to rescue the Hidden Valley travellers from the collapsed mine
Indian ink and black paint on board. 20 x 16 ins
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £125

Charley's War: 3 original consecutive artworks (1980) by Joe Colquhoun for Battle-Action 279 with Battle-Action front cover original painting with acetate overlay (printer's paste-up)
'February 1917. An armada of German naval zeppelins set out on a huge bombing raid to Britain. As they reached the Belgian coast they were intercepted by French fighter planes...'
Indian ink on card. 19 x 15 ins (3 artworks and 1 paste-up)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £1,214

Mighty World of Marvel (1972-73) 1-36, 38-65
Flat, fresh copies, cream pages. No 1 has 2 ins tear to pg 19, professionally sealed [fn/vfn], balance issues [vfn/nm] (64)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £321

Mighty World of Marvel (1972-74) 1, 67-117
Flat, fresh copies, cream/white pages. No 1: RH cover corner 1 ins piece torn away [fn-], balance [vfn/vfn+/nm] (52)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £155

Charley's War: 3 original consecutive artworks (1984) by Joe Colquhoun with script by Pat Mills for Battle 599 pgs 22-24
'1916. A few weeks before the battle of the Somme… sixteen-year-old Charley Bourne goes to rescue a runner who has been blown out of the trenches into no-man's land!'
Indian ink on card. 19 x 15 ins (3 artworks)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £690

2000 AD Prog 2 (1977)
1st Judge Dredd
Cream pages [fn]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £262

2000 AD Prog 2 (1977) 1st Judge Dredd
Insect chew to top margin page 2 onwards. Back cover lower corner piece torn away [fr/gd]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £47

2000 AD Prog 3 (1977)
Cream pages [fn-]
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £35

Valiant and Vulcan (Jul 3 - Oct 16, 1976)
15 issues in a bound volume with Adam Eterno, One-Eyed Jack, Captain Hurricane and Death Wish
October 16 was the final issue of Valiant before it was subsumed by Battle Picture Weekly
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Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £43

Valiant and TV 21 (17 Mar 1973 - 18 May 1974)
60 issues in two bound volumes
Starring Captain Hurricane, Star Trek double page colour spreads, The Swots and the Blots by Leo Baxendale, Janus Stark, Return of The Steel Claw and Kelly's Eye
8 Sept issue has ⅓ of interior page torn away [vg-]. A few issues with small tape pieces to edge tears [vg/vg+], balance [fn/vfn] (60)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: £119

Girl Picture Library (1984-85) 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9-16, 18-22, 24, 26-30 (final issue)
[vg/fn+] (24)
Winning bid incl. 19% Buyer's Premium: u/s