Comic Book Postal Auctions
February, 1999 Catalogue - Golden Age Comics and Aurora kits
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Our US section starts here, with some rare pulps published by Fiction House Magazines.

Lot #
174 Planet Stories Vol 1: No 1 (1939) Fiction House [fn-]
Winning bid: £165
175 Planet Stories Vol 1: Nos 3, 8 (1940-41) [vg-/fn-] (2)
Winning bid: £121
176 Planet Stories Vol 2: Nos 1, 8 (1942-44) [fn/fn-] (2)
Winning bid: £121
177 Planet Stories Vol 3: No 6; Vol 4: No 4 [vg/fn] (2)
Winning bid: £57
177A Batman 5 (1941) First Bat-head Batmobile. Spine tape interior and half exterior. Re-stapled, some cover tears. [gd]
Winning bid: £132
178 Batman 40 (1947) Joker cover and story. Good cover gloss, bright fresh colours, clean white pages. 2 mm white spine. 15 mm tear to back cover. This comic would grade [nm-] without the tear, it is therefore [vfn]
Winning bid: £572
179 Planet Comics 12 (1941) Fiction House. Celardo cover art. Intro The Star Pirate. Invisible tape fill-ins to spine, cover edges, and several pages [gd-]
Winning bid: £37
180 Action Comics 99 (1946) First small logo title. Small biro name, and ink letter fill-ins to front cover [vg+]
Winning bid: £66
181 Sensation Comics 66 (1947) Wonder Woman: H-G-Peter art; Wildcat: Joe Kubert art [vg]
Winning bid: £38
182 Blondie, Feature Book 36 (1943) D. McKay Publ. Chic Young’s Blondie on The Home Front. Classic cover. Bright fresh colours, creamy white pages [vfn-]
Winning bid: £33
183 Giant Boy Book of Comics (1945) Crimebuster and Squeeks in Charles Biro’s 240 page hardcover comic book [vg]
Winning bid: £38
184 Feature Comics (1945-47) 93, 97, 104, 108 [vg/fn-]. The Doll Man by Reed Crandall (4)
Winning bid: £61
185 Classic Comics 1-14 (1946) Gilberton Co. First fourteen issues including Three Musketeers; Ivanhoe; Count of Monte Cristo; Last of the Mohicans; Tale of Two Cities; Les Miserables; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Westward Ho! Most issues have a Highest Re-order Number, or HRN, of 28 being printed in 1946. 1 [gd-], 7, 8, 11-13 [pr/fr], 5, 6, 9, 14 [fr/gd], 2, 3, 4, 10 [vg-/vg+] (14)
Winning bid: £121
186 Cindy Comics 27 (1947) Timely. No 1 "Cindy" title. Kurtzman art. Clean near white pages [fn-]
Winning bid: £26
187 Jungle 86 (1947) Kaanga aanga. 1-2mm right hand edge trim, high cover gloss, clean white pages. Small corner piece loss bottom back cover [fn+]
Winning bid: £32
188 Thrilling Comics 61 (1947) Princess Pantha, the Lone Eagle. Schomburg cover art. Rear cover margin blemish, clean near white pages [vfn-]
Winning bid: £83
189 Wonder Comics 17 (1948) Wonderman panels by Frazetta, Jill Trent inks. Schomburg cover art. 4mm top spine damage, bright fresh colours, clean light tan pages [fn-]
Winning bid: £94
190 Boy Commandos 25 (1948) [vg]
Winning bid: £24
191 Charlie Chan 2, 5 (1948) Crestwood/Prize. Inscrutable Simon & Kirby covers. 2 has small bug chew loss at bottom first pages [vg+] (2)
Winning bid: £66
192 Headline Comics 30 (1948) Prize. Simon & Kirby cover art. Back cover dust shadow, white spine [vfn-]
Winning bid: £55
193 Superboy 2 (1949) "George Washington’s Drum" Spine centre split with small loss [vg-]
Winning bid: £110
193A Superboy 3 (1949) "Superboy’s Hall of Fame!" Small tears around staples [vg-]
Winning bid: £94
194 Journey Into Unknown Worlds 36 (No 1) (1950) Atlas. Heath art. 1st issue under this title, formerly "Teen Comics" [vg+]
Winning bid: £121
195 Strange Tales 1 (1951) Atlas. Classic horror stories begin. Full cover gloss, tanned interior covers, small chip out of back cover. Rare [fn+]
Winning bid: £1,045
196 Strange Tales 2 Loose centrefold [vfn-]
Winning bid: £357
197 Strange Worlds 3 (1951) Frazetta art. "Invasion from the Abyss". Kinstler cover art [vg]
Winning bid: £126
198 Strange Worlds 5 (1951) Avon. Wally Wood classic Good-Girl art cover [vg+]
Winning bid: £110
199 Detective Comics 168 (1951) "The Man Behind The Red Hood". Joker origin. Detatched cover, worn at spine. Clean off-white supple pages [gd]
Winning bid: £121
200 Mystery In Space 8 (1952) Last Knights Of The Galaxy, Infantino art. Small cover date stamp, good cover gloss, creamy white pages [vfn]
Winning bid: £132
201 Four Colour Comics 375 (1952) John Carter of Mars. Scarce [vg+]
Winning bid: £30
202 The Thing! 9 (1953) Used in censorship book "The Seduction of the Innocent". Good cover gloss, clean off-white pages [fn+]
Winning bid: £110
203 Space Adventures 12 (1954) Charlton. Classic Ditko cover [vg-]
Winning bid: £35
204 Pictorial Love Stories 1 (1952) with The Texan 12 (1951) both Matt Baker art [gd] (2)
Winning bid: £13
205 Captain 3-D No 1 (1953) Harvey. Kirby/Ditko art. Complete with both pairs of glasses [nm-]
Winning bid: £35
206 Action 197, 198 (1954) Issue 197 has small moisture stain top front cover [vg/vg+] (2)
Winning bid: £83
207 Superboy 32 (1954) King Superboy [fn+]
Winning bid: £46
208 Jimmy Olsen 7 (1955) [vg]
Winning bid: £33
209 Batman 80 (1954) "The Joker’s Movie Crimes!" High cover gloss, creamy white pages [fn+]
Winning bid: £110
210 Detective 221 (1955) Top margin moisture stain, tanned interior covers, bottom spine split [vg-]
Winning bid: £24
211 Detective 224 (1955) The Batman Machine. Front cover moisture stain [fn]
Winning bid: £44
212 The Avenger 1, 2 (1955) Magazine Enterprises. Bob Powell art. Only two issues [vg] (2)
Winning bid: £44
213 House Of Secrets 1 (1956) Scarce first issue. Minor colour touch to top front cover and corner, clean off white pages [vg+]
Winning bid: £132
214 Uncanny Tales 29, 34, 56 (1955-57) Atlas [fn/vg] (3)
Winning bid: £31
215 Buster Brown 33, 37 (1958) Reed Crandall art - scarce [fn-/fn] (2)
Winning bid: £22
216 Sharp Comics 2 (1946); Warrior Comics 1 (1945); Archie Comics 34 (1948) and Lois Lane 7 (1959) [gd/gd+] (4)
Winning bid: £42
217 Strange Worlds 1 (1958) Marvel. Flying saucers. Kirby/Ditko art. Front cover arrival date, good cover gloss, clean off-white pages [vfn]
Winning bid: £231
218 Strange Worlds 2 (1959) Classic Ditko cover. Good cover gloss [fn+]
Winning bid: £77
219 The Double Life Of Private Strong 1 (1959) Archie. Simon & Kirby cover art. Origin and reintroduction of The Shield. First Archie Silver Age super-hero. Bright fresh colours, clean creamy white pages [vfn-]
Winning bid: £165


The following collection of Aurora Kit models have been consigned by one of our US vendors who bought, assembled and painted all the kits in the 1960s. They are finished to professional model painting standards.

220 Superman (1960s)-Aurora.
Winning bid: £50
221 Superboy (1960s) Aurora.
Winning bid: £44
222 Captain America (1960s) Aurora
Winning bid: £99
223 The Phantom (1960s) Revell
Winning bid: £99
224 Wonder Woman (1960s) Aurora
Winning bid: £99
225 Batman (1960s) Aurora. Bataring missing.
Winning bid: £55
226 Robin (1960s) Aurora
Winning bid: £44
227 Batmobile (1960s) Aurora. Batman unglued and right arm missing.
Winning bid: £33
228 Batplane (1960s) Aurora. Lacks wing decals
Winning bid: £24
229 Spider-Man (1960s) Aurora
Winning bid: £39
230 Journey to The Bottom Of The Sea (1960s) Submarine Seaview Aurora model kit in original box. Slight moisture stain to box. No base. First issue
Winning bid: £220
231 Star Trek USS-Enterprise (1960s) AMT model kit in original box. Damaged moisture stained box.
Winning bid: £33
232 Star Trek Romulon Battle Cruiser (1960s) AMT model kit in original box. Slight moisture stain to rippled box
Winning bid: £31

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