Let’s begin things with an extraordinary explosion of excellence — a landmark gem, a treasure, a triumph, a key issue, all of these and above, the first appearance of Sergeant Nick Fury, Dum Dum Dugan, Izzy, Gabe, Junior and the rest of The Howlers or Howling Commandos with this extremely early collaboration of Jack The King Kirby, Stan Lee and Dick Ayers for a Marvel Title, Marvels Sgt.Fury and His Howling Commandos volume 1 number 1 from May of 1963, "Seven Against The Nazis" and "Weapons Of War.? A faded faint crease to the top and bottom right corners and some creasing along spine and staples, slight nubbing to bottom of spine on cover, a pen marking to the top of frontispiece and some browning to it, mostly great even inner pages while there is a small tear to bottom of page 3 and the last two pages have a tiny crease to the bottom corner, back cover has a small rip to bottom center edge and a bent corner to left edge. First time I’ve ever personally held this gem and it was certainly an honor.

Gardner Fox, Carmine Infantino and Sheldon Moldoff molding gold within these pages, the first Silver Age appearance of Jonathan Crane and only third overall ever appearance of Scarecrow, "Fright Of The Scarecrow" DC’s Batman volume 1 issue 189 from February of 1967, easily one of Batman’s most memorable and reoccurring villains and the rest is stuff of comic history. Surface to cover is sensational, some minor creasing to the spine and slight wear to right edge of it, some warping to bottom right corner of book, cream colored frontispiece that does have some pen writing to its top edge, despite the warping to the bottom right corner the inner pages actually have excellent corners and edges, faint print rubbing to spine of back cover; a clean and press would do this gem wonders.

"The Space Slayers" begins a brilliant and galactic series with working from Paul S. Newman and Ray Bailey, Silver Age tales of Anthony Rogers, Black Barney and others starts with Gold Key Buck Rogers In The 25th Century number 1 from October of 1964, tiny aliens threat the titular hero. Some scattered surface and edge wear to back cover, mostly great even inner pages with a super faint bit of warping to bottom corner tip and one page toward the back has a tiny fold ding to its center edge, cover has creasing along the spine, bottom and bottom right corner.

"Possibly the finest piece of comic art ever to be published in a popular edition" says Stephen King and you can’t argue with the importance of Frank Miller, Lynn Varley and Klaus Janson’s story as it’s been adapted and heralded since its premiere — DC’s Batman The Dark Knight Warner Edition first printing from 1986, this TPB edition re-presents the landmark mini-series, with a new cover by Miller and 28 pages of new material, including a new introduction, endpapers and chapter headings by Miller, the original covers to the mini-series and Warner Books edition, the plot to The Dark Knight Falls, and material from Miller's sketchbook. A superb copy with only the faintest bit of wear to the center of bottom edge on cover.

The first appearance of Unus The Untouchable with this Kirby gem that also includes an awesome Beast pin-up page to the back, Marvels X-men volume 1 issue number 8 from November of 1964, the original start up mutant team against Unus and an early Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants, marvelous stuff of Mutant history. Some browning to the frontispiece and pen marking to its top, mostly great concise inner pages with a folded corner crease to the first two pages and one tear to the bottom of page 20, brief browning to back cover that has mostly nice edges and surface, cover has brief browning, faint fades creases to the top right and bottom left corners, tiny chipped tip to bottom right corner.

Tremendous and terrific, the first appearance of Captain Savage and Phil Parker in this Kirby/Lee/Roussos/Ayers battle sample — Marvels Sgt.Fury and His Howling Commandos volume 1 issue 10 from September of 1964, "On To Okinawa" as Dum-Dum and the rest of Howlers are entrenched in the warfare. Some brief creasing around the perimeter of cover, cream colored frontispiece with pen writing to its top, fabulous inner pages with womdeful corners and edges, white backing has some minimal print rubbing to its spine and some crease dents along the opening edge.

Not only astonishing because of its incredible Neal Adams cover, this mutant morsel also includes the first cameo appearance of Dr. Karl Lykos (Sauron), plus an early Chris Claremont assist in writing duty alongside Roy Thomas, Marvels X-men volume 1 issue 59 from August of 1969, "Do Or Die, Baby!" Outstanding white and concise inner pages with terrific corners and edges, back cover has scattered wear to its perimeter and a ding to center of spine, cover has a slightly warped crease bunching to the corner box tip, creasing to the spine and right edge.

The glorious Gil Kane created some gorgeous imagery throughout this Atom gem plus an awesome pin up splash near the center of the issue, DC’s The Atom issue number 26 from September of 1966, the engagement of The Atom and Jean Loring plus the first appearance of the Bug Eyed Bandit, "The Eye Popping Perils Of The Insect Bandit!" Some faded creasing to the spine and rift edge on cover, a small chip to bottom of intro pages and a few creased corners, faint print rubbing to spine and one tiny chip to left edge of back cover.

On the surface it might not seem like an important Gotham gem, but this bat book is an integral one; the second ever appearance of Pamela Isley aka Poison Ivy, the first appearance of the Suction Cap Batrope, plus campy-style Bat stories in the fashion of the Adam West TV show begin in this comic, and also fan letters section includes a letter from future comic legend Mike Friedrich. Some creasing alongside spine and bottom edge, a pen marking to the top of white frontispiece, mostly very nice inner pages however the centerfold is detached and the last page and back cover have a crease to bottom corner, minor faded stain to bottom right corner of backing.

"Through A Mirror Darkly" sees the death of Ilsa Strangeway and a taunting bride of Dracula with a wondrous Neal Adams cover as the legend assists Tom Palmer, Gene Colan and Archie Goodwin — Marvels Tomb Of Dracula volume 1 issue number 4 from September of 1972. Excellent inner pages entirely except one folded corner tip to bottom of intro page, brief browning to perimeter of back cover and a chipped top corner tip, one rip up the bottom of spine and some creasing to it and bottom right corner on cover.

Black Bolt, Medusa and the rest of the Inhumans assemble together in Marvels Fantastic Four volume 1 issue number 54 from September of 1966, "Whosoever Finds The Evil Eye," the third appearance of Black Panther, and first appearance of The Beyonders, M’Wabu, Prester John and The Abominable Snowmen. Sensational inner pages with even edges and good corners, back cover some very faint print rubbing and a few very faded creases, cover also has some faded few creases to its center and spine, slight foxing to top edge.

The first appearance of narrator character M.T. Graves in this beginning to the series that also features stupendous Steve Ditko inner artwork alongside Rocke Mastroserio, Charlton Ghostly Tales number 55 from May of 1966, six thrilling and chilling tales captured inside. Browning to the back cover and slight waving to its top left corner, mostly great inner pages, frontispiece has pen writing to top, cover has creasing to spine and perimeter.

"The Legion Of Super-Outlaws" sees the first appearance of Duplicate Boy, Gas Girl, Beast Boy, Life Lass and Heroes Of Lallor, DC’s Adventure Comics number 324 from September of 1964, Curt Swan, Sheldon Moldoff, Otto Binder, and John Forte in this LoSH / Superboy spectacle. Mostly very nice and sharp inner pages, frontispiece has pen marking to top, back cover has super brief wear and print rubbing to its spine and perimeter, browning to the right edge of cover and creasing to its spine.

Another early Curt Swan captured Super special, "The Last Days Of Ma and Pa Kent" and “Superman Goes To War,” DC’s Superman volume 1 issue number 161 from May of 1963, a war film goes awry and Superboy as an infant in a glimpse into his super past. Minor creasing to the spine and bottom of opening edge with a brief browning near it, pen marking to top of frontispiece, one tiny chipped bottom corner tip and a folded bottom corner tip to intro page but besides that the inners are even and nice, faint print rubbing and browning to edges of back cover.

The period of Werner Roth / Dick Ayers Mutant covers was definitely different and unique to say the least, "To Save A City" sees Roy Thomas and crew take Professor X and the muties against a bunch of villains like The Unicorn, Porcupine, Plantman and others, also the first appearance of Prof X’s mechanical legs — Marvel X-men volume 1 issue number 23 from August of 1966. Cover has creasing and wear to the spine and perimeter, browning to frontispiece and a few seldom dings to bottoms of inner pages, back cover has a huge blemish as it’s missing half of the page.

"One of Us Is a Traitor" is the first work by Jim Shooter as a writer and penciler; he was only 14 years old when this story hit the stands in 1966 and was uncredited for it until a fan wrote in asking about it next issue, but also important is his first appearances made of Nemesis Kid, Ferro Lad, Princess Projectra and Karate Kid in this single super tale’d take — DC’s Adventure Comics volume 1 issue number 346 from July of 1966. Awesome cream colored inner pages with even conciseness and great corners, back cover has brief print rubbing, cover has slight creasing to its spine and bottom right corner.

The second appearance of fierce flying foe Evil Star and the first appearance of The Bottler in this Murphy Anderson, Gil Kane and Gardner Fox grab, DC’s Green Lantern volume 2 issue number 44 from April of 1966 "Evil Star’s Death Duel Summons!" Cover has only minimal creasing and surface rubbing to its spine and perimeter, mostly great and even inner pages, browning to back cover and a ding to the bottom of its spine.

The beginning of a thrill and terror filled DC series highlighted with a marvelous Mike W. Kaluta cover as the artist assists Jack Kirby and others for the hauntings inside, the first appearance of series Host, Destiny, plus the Book Of Souls, DC’s Weird Mystery volume 1 issue 1 from August of 1972, "Witch Queen Of Ancient Sumeria." Cover has some creasing to spine and a chip to center of top edge, that same chip echoes to the first 3 pages, they’re great otherwise, backing has browning marks but is nice.

"Crisis At The Earth’s Core" sees Mole Man messing with old metal head Mr. Stark then a treacherous thug named Peerless Planner attempts to frame and then beat Cap in "Wanted: Captain America," Marvels Tales Of Suspense volume 1 issue number 87 from March of 1967, the first appear of The Earth Digger and The Planner. Cover has a folded bottom corner tip and brief creasing to spine and top right corner, browning and a pen marking to frontispiece, mostly great inner pages, backing has faint browning but is nice.

Grab not one, but two deadly umbrellas for this utterly unbelievable lot; Oswald Cobblepot shown outstandingly by legend Carmine Infantino in this third Silver Age cover appearance of the Penguin in "The Penguin Takes A Flyer Into The Future," DC’s Batman volume 1 issue 190 from March of 1967, not one but two tremendous copies of this instantly recognized and loved issue that sees Penguin using a vast arsenal of umbrella weapons. Both covers are delightful with the faintest bit of creasing to spines and one to both their bottom rights corners, both copies have white and sharp frontispieces, the first copy has a small pen marking to its top, the inner pages to both are clean, even, sharp and concise however the second copy has a loose and detached single centerfold page, the backing to the first copy is clean white and sharp, the back cover to the second copy is white but has some minor print rubbing and some faint scattered creasing around its perimeter. Double vision via the vicious Penguin!

Hulk smash times two — two Herb Trimpe Bruce Banner bangers, Marvels Incredible Hulk number 120 from October of 1969 and number 156 from October of 1972, in the former Hulk helps his friends The Inhumans, in the latter happens the first appearance and death of Krylar and the Hulk Construct. Both copies have fantastic frontispieces, back covers to both are slightly off-white and outstanding but issue 120 has a faint bit of foxing and a small black dot to bottom, great inner pages to both that are even and concise, both covers remain great with wonderful corners and edges but issue 120 has some slight browning.

"Scourge Of The Human Race" sees Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson exploring excitement with a lone appearance of Makkar The Ancient amidst Katar-Hol the titular winged hero in Midway City: DC’s Hawkman volume 1 issue 15 from August of 1966. A brief bit of print rubbing and browning to the back cover with a few minor creases to bottom left corner tip, very nice inner pages and frontispiece, the top right corner of back of book has a super faint warping it’s hard to picture, cover is great with a minimal tiny crease or two.

Batman and Superman fight replicate anti versions of themselves (Perry White and James Gordon) with an issue that includes the first appearance of The Bat-Phone plus a really cool Nick Cardy image’d Superman and The Atom teamup "Peril In A Very Small Place," DC World’s Finest Comics numbers 159 and 211 from August of 1966 and September of 1972. Both books have awesome cover conditions,

Three separate samplings of the crimson speedster in his mid 60’s glory, Barry Allen pleads with readers, teams with Hal Jordan and is showcased with some of his most famous villain battles and origin moments in his first annual — DC The Flash Volume 1 Annual number 1 from 1963, issues 163 from August of 1966 and issue 168 from March of 1967. All three copies have creasing to the perimeter of their covers, a bit more so to issue 163, very nice cream colored inner pages and frontispiece to issue 168 while its backing does have a brief bit of print rubbing and faint wear, again great great inner pages and frontispiece to issue 163 while backing has a brief bit of print rubbing, minimal wear, mostly great, even intact and clean inner pages to the annual, its pin-up back cover has some faded creasing waving, frontispiece has a pen marking to its top edge.

Do the Bat-Dance like Adam West for this fantastic four issue feature during a pivotal moment in Silver Age Gotham history — DC’s Batman volume 1 issues 180, 184, 188, and 191, some dynamic duo comics spanning a full year of May of 1966 to May of 1967. Issue 188 is the first appearance of The Eraser, and issue 180 is the first appearance of Death-Man which would later be adapted into a Japanese Batman manga, all thanks to Murphy Anderson and Carmine Infantino for these Bat dazzler covers. Speaking of covers, varying levels of creasing to the edge perimeter of covers, least so to issue 180, great inner pages to issue 180 while back cover is white but has a brief bit of wear here and there, issue 191 is the only copy that doesn’t have a pen marking to the top of frontispiece while most of the inner pages and backings have good edges, only other mentionable blemish is the last four or so pages to issue 191 have a bent corner top crease.

The caped crusader on the wrong end of The Metal Men in this tough-as-nails caper, DC’s The Brave And The Bold volume 1 issue number 103 from October of 1972, another awesome Nick Cardy cover for "A Traitor Lurks Inside Earth." Excellent inner pages that are even clean and concise, excellent back cover that is delightful, clean frontispiece and an excellent cover, this is a terrific copy.

A whole bunch of out of this world goings on with this tremendous four issue lot of the world’s greatest super hero squad — DC’s Justice League Of America volume 1 issues 44, 46, 56 and 74 spanning May of 1966 to September of 1969. Important occurrences aplenty: the first meeting between Earth-1 and Earth-2 Supes in the Neal Adams feature, the first Silver Age appearance of Sandman and first overall appearance of The Anti-Matter Man in the Solomon Grundy Mike Sekowski sample, then a very rare Martian Manhunter transformation to the JLA plaque issue, and of course the JSA / JLA gem. The two biggest blemishes to mention are a detatched cover to inner pages for issue 56 however it is evenly and cleanly so, and one minor bent corner tip to back cover of issue 44, that same issue is the only one with a pen marking to top of frontispiece, the rest are very nice, as are their inner pages and back covers, some typical (for 60 year old comic books and older) creasing to the spines on covers to varying degrees.

A barbaric and adventurous Gold Key triple play here with two issues of Turok Son Of Stone volume 1 issues 53 and 67 from September of 1966 and October of 1969, and Korak Son Of Tarzan issue 3 from May of 1964. All three covers remain very nice, creasing minimally to issue 53 and Korak, issue 67 is the only issue without pen marking to frontispiece but all of them are sharp and clean otherwise, as are the off-white inner pages for all three issues, pin-up back cove to Korak is delightful, white and sharp backings to both Turok’s, a slight faint bit of wear to a few bottom corners. Nice copies.

A glorious grouping of Gotham tales included within this wonderful five issue spectacular— beginning with DC Giant Batman Annual number 1 from 1961, then four issues of Batman during its 80 Page Giant period, issue 182, 185, 187, and 193 (August of ‘ 66 to July of ‘67), more than a bunch of Joker and Dynamic Duo stories contained within. The cover for annual number 1 is detatched from the rest of the book and it has a chip to it and creasing around its perimeter, waving and print rubbing to its back cover but its inner pages are nice, the rest of the copies have some creasing and nubbing, mostly good inner pages, some varying wear to back covers, pen marking to frontispieces.

Three marvelous Mighty Comics examples, Mighty Comics Group and Radio Comics’ Fly Man numbers 36 and 38 from March and July of 1966, then Mighty Comics Presents number 49 from August of1967, issue 36 is the Origin and first Silver Age appearance of The Web, the Mighty Comics Presents includes an early Silver Age appearance of Steel Sterling. Some spine creasing and slight perimeter wear to the covers, mostly very nice inner pages, there is pen writing to top of frontispieces, back covers are mostly good while issue 49 has some creaming to bottom corner and that issue has a loose bottom staple to a few inner pages but top is intact.

A radial venture that reprints horror and science-fantasy comics from the 1950s, plus the comics debut of the heroic muck-monster from Skywalds Psycho magazine, and the origin of The Heap whilst tragedy strikes a Mars mission, the first and only issue of the series includes 48 pages of fright and thrills — Skywald Publications The Heap number 1 from September of 1971, Jack Abel and Tom Sutton behind the terrorizing pages. Nice white frontispiece, even and concise inner pages, great back cover, main cover has only some minimal creasing to perimeter, a delightful copy.

Let’s turn up the terror with this tremendous lot that, some brilliant Bernie Wrightson imagery within, DC’s House Of Mystery volume 1 issues 188 and 217 including work from Neal Adams, Gerry Conway and the aforementioned legend Wrightson, then a lone DC Secrets Of Sinister House number 6 from September of 1972 the second issue of the series, finally two Marvel issues of Fear (before it more notably became Adventures Into Fear) numbers 5 and 9 from November of 1971 and August of 1972, the final issue of the short series. All issues have VG+ to Fine- covers that are nice, issue 9 of Fear has creasing mostly to its spine, nice clean frontispieces, great even inners, backings are mostly sharp and clean, issue 188 has a folded corner tip to cover and backing.

Double vision X two, a quite literal quadruple Mutant feature of the Maha Yogi, Marvels X-men volume 1 issue 30 from March of 1967, the early team of five and Professor X shown via a Jack Kirby cover, Roy Thomas writing, Jack Sparling and John Tartaglione imagery inside. Varying creasing to spines and varying nubbing to bottom of the spines and corners, mostly great inner pages, frontispieces only have some browning as do the backings but nice corners and edges.

Joe Orlando, Bob Haney and Mike Esposito warn the reader to "Never Bet Against An Element Man!" From Rex Mason’s titular beginning series comes three examples of element excellence — Metamorpho volume 1 issues 6, 7, and 14 (the final issue to the series) June and August of 1966 and October of 1967. Some spine creasing and slight brief edge wear to covers, only issue 6 has some pen writing to top of frontispiece the others are nice, great inner pages mostly as well, back covers are sharp with a bit of browning.

Seven super samples of Kal-El in this sensational lot, DC’s Superman volume 1 issues 148, 163, 164, 189, 196, 241 and 255, spanning a good amount of history through Supes’ history October of 1961 to August of 1972, issue 163 is the Wonder-Man triumph, issue 164 the Luthor match on Lexor with Lexorians, also issue 196 the first Thing From 40,000 AD. There remains a huge tear up the cover of issue 148, chipping to its bottom right edge, for the remainder it’s minor creasing to spines and edges (if any, the last 3 issues are very very nice), perhaps a bit of print rubbing or browning to a backing, nice inners for most.

Dick Dillin, Bob Haney, Sheldon Moldoff and a few others behind the pages of the Blackhawk Squadron of stars Andre, Chop-Chop, Chuck, Blackhawk, and crew as they spin that War Wheel, DC’s Blackhawk volume 1 issues 200 and 223 from September of 1964 and August of 1966 respectively. Some minor faded creasing to covers, issue 223 is very nice with a great cover and inners, issue 200 has some slight browning and wear to its back and a majority of the inner pages have a folded top corner tip and top staple is loose to the centerfold.

Sergeant Nick Fury and his Howlers in three different outings here, Special Marvel Edition volume 1 issue 6 from September of 1972 "The Death Ray Of Dr.Zemo," then two consecutive issues of the his main series Marvels Sgt.Fury And His Howling Commandos volume 1 issues 101 and 102 from August and September of 1972, the origin of The Howlers and “Death For A Dollar.” Slight browning to perimeter of issue 102 but nice spine and edges, a few faint creases to 101, Special Marvel Edition is nice as well.

A bit peculiar here but such is typical for the DP, Bob Brown, Bruno Premiani and Arnold Drake the tried and true team behind the working for DC’s The Doom Patrol volume 1 issue 105 from augusts of 1966 and starring the evil Mr.103, then not one or two but four (4) copies of issue 110 from March of 1967 "Trial By Terror" against The Brotherhood of Evil and Garguax. Varrying levels of creasing and edge wear while issue 105 has a detatched centerfold page but most remain fairly good in shape, mostly nice clean frontispieces, backings are good with perhaps a bit of browning and or print rubbing but the backing to one of the copies has a diagonal crease and folded corner tip, great inner pages mostly with slight waving to one copy.

Three vintage science fiction features from Gold Key are unearthed with this adventurous lot — Magnus Robot Fighter number 20 from November of 1967, Space Family Robinson Lost In Space number 18 from October of 1966, and Captain Venture and The Land Beneath The Sea number 2 from October of 1969 (that was a two-part miniseries). Some minor creasing to spines, a hole scuff near corner box on Capt. Venture, minimal scuffs and wear, Magnus has a rip to opening edge on cover, a few scuffs and rips to the back of Space Family, Magnus has waving and wear to its backing, Capt Venture has a nice back cover and inner pages.

You want marvelous, well here it is. Utterly magnificent, Very Fine copies of the first six steps of Carol Danvers beginning series — Marvel Ms.Marvel volume 1 issues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 spanning January to June of 1977, the origin of Ms. Marvel and her first appearance as the titular heroine plus first appearance of the Destructor and others, incredible happenings via Buscema, Sinnott, Conway, Romita and Severin. As stated before, all six copies are fabulous in condition, clean, sharp, smooth and delightful, one small chip to the back cover of issue 1.

Six shooter wielding, dust covered morsels: Charlton’s Frontier Scout Daniel Boone number 14 from March of 1965, and Marvel’s Two-Gun Kid issue number 80 from March of 1966 showdown with Billy The Kid penciled by legend Dick Ayers. Nice inner pages for Daniel Boone, both issues have browning and pen writing to their frontispieces, slight foxing to the back of Two-Gun and slight nubbing to its bottom corner tips, both copies have creasing to their spines.

A marvel feature with four different samples from 1972, Iron Man volume 1 issue 51, Daredevil volume 1 issue 92, Monsters On The Prowl number 19 and Marvel’s Greatest Comics number 37, all from October except for the last was released inn September of 1972. All four range from VG+ to Fine-, great covers mostly, Marvel’s Greatest has minor spine creasing and slight nubbing to bottom right corner tip, great back covers and great inner pages, Marvel’s Greatest has a bit of browning to its backing and frontispiece.

A DC science fiction special capsule beginning with Jack Kirby’s Forever People issue 4 from September of 1971, Sea Devils number 34 from April of 1967, Inferior Five from October of 1967, DC Showcase number 52 from October of 1964, From Beyond The Unknown number 24 from October of 1973, Strange Adventures number 220 from October of 1969, Mystery In Space number 109 from August of 1966, Strange Adventures number 204 from September of 1977, finally Challengers Of The Unknown number 51 from September of 1966. Some creases and bent bottom corner tips slightly, some spine creasing and wear and a few issues have surface creasing to their spines, a few frontispieces have pen writing to their tops, the DC Showcase has a detached cover, Challengers Of The Unknown has a bend crease down the length of the back cover and a detached cover, a bent corner tip to the backing of Strange Adventures 220, elsewhere only minor moments of wear if at all.

Supes and Bats samples with this bunch: DC’s Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane number 14 from January of 1960, Action Comics number 415 from August of 1972, also from 1972 is Detective Comics number 425, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen number 140 from September of 1971, Superman Annual number 8 from Winter of 1963, finally Batman Annual number 5 from the Summer of 1963. The Lois Lane has lots of wear to its cover and backing including a browned taping to spine and bottom corner, scattered chipping and wear, its top staple is loose but somehow the bottom staple looks to be keeping the inner pages intact; the rest of the issues are mostly Very Good with only minor to moderate moments of wear or nubbing to a few corners, some surface and spine creasing.

Enroumous and excellent, so step inside your Tardis and prepare for some tremendous time traveling… Beginning with the first U.S. appearance of Dr. Who in Marvel Premiere number 57 with the wonderful Walter Simonson cover, then continuing through that Marvel Premiere run the next consecutive four issues, then skipping to the first series and volume 1 of his own self titled Doctor Who, a straight run from issues 1 all the way to issue 23 to complete the first volume, a ludicrous lot of 27 issues total and a time span of December of 1980 to August of 1986. Luckily, all these are Fine+/VF+ copies, very little or minor blemishes, if any.

Missing its cover but still marvelous and an important issue to the FF and Marvel’s history, Fantastic Four Annual number 2 from July of 1964, 25 cents back then got you a bunch of FF versus Doom tales and some astonishing Kirby splash pages and Rogue Gallery images. The back cover has some slight print rubbing to its perimeter, all pages are even sharp and concise however pages 7-10 have a small rip to the opening edge.

Cowabunga! Two pizza gobbling, Foot Clan fighting samples of early TMNT lore — first, the 3rd printing of Issue 2 to the first volume of Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with the cool Richard Corben cover piece, released in December of 1985, then Archie Comics’ TMNT Adventures volume 2 issue 5 from October of 1989, the first appearance and origin of Man-Ray aka Ray Fillet, "Something Fishy Goes Down." Both issues are super sharp, clean and nice, one super minor surface scuff to bottom of spine on issue 2, and some slight browning to the first few inner pages and some waving to them as well for issue 5.

Frights and adventure via Charlton Comics in the form of two: The Many Ghosts Of Doctor Graves volume 2 issue 22 from October of 1970 "The Widow Walks," then a spectacular Dick Giordano cover piece for Charlton’s Gorgo volume 1 issue number 20 from October of 1964 "Monsters For The Moon.? Some creasing and nubbing to the corners and perimeter of cover on Gorgo, also slight warping to the bottom right corner of book, Doctor Graves has some slight browning to frontispiece and backing, great inner pages, sharp concise edges, some foxing, browning and pen marking to frotnispiece on Gorgo and a stain and browning to back cover.

Two graphic adaptations of yesteryear, Dell Publishing’s issue number 1197 The Aquanauts from May-July of 1961, and everyone’s favorite ginger haired silver screen queen Gold Key’s The Lucy Show number 1 from June of 1963. Both issues have slight browning and pen marking to their frontispieces, creasing and nubbing to spines on cover, lesser so to perimeters, a tiny chip to opening edge on cover of Lucy, some scattered dings and surface scuffs to back cover of it, mostly good inner pages with a few folded corner tips.

Grab your helmet and bullets, here comes the blitzkrieg! About as giant and gargantuan as a battle-filled, armed forces, tank smashing, war-torn wondrous lot can get, spanning several battle titles, this is tremendous and not just for the Joe Kubert covers that are included, either. Charlton’s Marine War Heroes volume 1 number 7 from April of 1965, Charlton Battlefield Action number 53 from June of 1964, DC Star Spangled War Stories Numbers 86, 114 and 125, Charlton Fightin’ Army numbers 58, 62 and 100, DC Weird War Tales Number 6, DC Our Fighting Forces number 127, DC Our Army At War numbers 118, 141, 145, 148, and 223 from May of 1962 to September of 1970, All American !em Of War number 69, 103 and 115, Charlton Fightin’ Marines number 94, DC G.I. Combat number 63, 102, 106, 118, 119, and 155, Charlton Attack number 3 from Fall of 1964, and finally Charlton Army Attack number 4 from Fall of 1965. Whew. Hopefully the great many numerous photos provided could speak all the condition concerns that I could never; various levels of wear, some issues obviously more than others. Four or five issues are detatched from the cover, the first few issues look to be also but they are intact, a big chip to one of the issues of Our Army At War, various levels of browning, creasing, surface wear and nubbing, foxing and print rubbing.

The tremendous cartoon comic cavalcade begins with this bustling, fumbling and tumbling lot of looney — 16 total issues spanning several years and series, starting with Archie’s Mad House number 29 from October of 1963, Harvey’s Spooky number 76 from October of 1963 also, Gold Key Hanna Barbera Huckleberry Hound from July of 1963, Harvey Hits number 121 from October of 1967, Archie’s Seymour My Son number 1 from September of 1963, Harvey’s Bunny number 2 from April of 1967, Dell Mighty Mouse number 168 from September of 1966, Dell Woody Woodpecker number 67 from July of 1961, Dell Yogi Bear number 1162 from July of 1961, Dell Comic Album number 15 from November of 1961, Dell Bozo The Clown number 4 from December of 1963, Fawcett’s Dennis The Menace number 89 from 1966, Harvey Devil Kids number 7 from July of 1963, Gold Key Tom & Jerry number 218 from February of 1964, Dell Walter Lantz Space Mouse number 1244 from January of 1962, finally Gold Key Hanna Barbera Cave Kids number 8 from March of 1965. The Cave Kids is the nicest in condition, the remainder of the lot has wear, nubbing, browning, creasing, and some folded corner tips here and there.

Bless the King Kirby for all his creations, contributions and brilliant work, here smashes a spectacular sampling of just that — DC’s Forever People number 1 from March of 1971, the first appearance of The Forever People, Infinity Man, Big Bear and the rest, the first appearance of The Infinity Man, third appearance of Darkseid but first full appearance, the first appearance and use of a Mother Box, plus tons of other important occurrences. This is a tremendous, Very Fine/NM copy, only a slight bit of nubbing to the top left corner tip.

An astonishing Nick Cardy cover to present this Gotham gem, the third ever (and first Silver Age) appearance of Clayface aka Basil Karlo in this tremendous collection of Bruce Wayne tales, DC’s Batman volume 1 issue 208 from February of 1969 an 80 page packed giant. Amazing inner pages with only one lone minor crease to the bottom of intro page, very brief print rubbing to the back cover, very minor creasing to cover near spine, a very very nice copy.

Peter Petruski aka Paste Pot Pete hassles the Human Torch and The Thing in this terrific epic via Dick Ayers, Steve Ditko, George Bell and other legends, Marvel Strange Tales volume 1 issue number 124 from September of 1964, the first appearance of Zota in "The Lady From Nowhere." Truly fabulous inner pages that are clean, even and concise, a small ink stain and some slight print rubbing and wear to the back cover, a small nubbing rip to the top of spine, cover has some creasing to the spine and one small number stamping to the center.

"And Death Is A Woman Called Widow" sees a landmark occurrence as Black Widow officially joins The Man Without Fear in his series and afterward costarring and title changing, Marvels Daredevil volume 1 issue number 81 from November of 1971, Gerry Conway, Gene Colan, Gil Kane, Bill Everett and other greats collaborated. A very superb copy, clean and brilliant cover, clean concise white and sharp inner pages, white and sharp back cover with one tiny ding to bottom near spine.

"The Tremendous Triumph of The Six Super Villains" sees Carmine Infantino doing what he did so amazingly with an iconic rogues gallery cover and inner feature, DC’s The Flash issue number 174 from November of 1967. Some slight spine creasing and top center edge wear, some staining to the bottom of the book for inner pages, back cover has brief print rubbing and slight staining to bottom as well.

The first appearance of Arthur Parks in "The Living Laser," legendary epic stuff from Don Heck and Stan Lee, also the first appearance of Lucy Barton and third ever appearance of Doctor Bill Foster — Marvels The Avengers number 34 from November of 1966. A super faint bit of browning to back cover, inner pages remain excellent, cover only has some minimal creasing to the spine and corners, a very nice copy.

Guest starring a very early Legion Of Super Heroes appearance as the second ever appearance of Invisible Kid, third appearance of Mon-El Valor, and the third appearance of Shrinking Violet, vibrant, lively and vivid Supes stuff from legends Curt Swan and Ed Hamilton, DC Superman number 156 from October of 1962, "The Last Days Of Superman." Outstanding concise and sharp inner pages, back cover has a brief bit of browning to its top and bottom edges, cover has only some slight creasing to its spine and some browning to top edge and one small surface scuff on Superman himself.

The greatest Thunder Agent of them all in his own epic series beginning with this gem landmark, Tower Comics Dynamo volume 1 number 1 from August of 1966, an awesome action packed series for the devastatingly powerful Titan from Steve Ditko, Reed Crandall, Wally Wood and other industry giants, this series would last only a stupendous yet brief four issues. The cover has creasing and surface rubbing to its perimeter, one tip to bottom of spine, great inner pages with perhaps a ding or two to some bottoms, slight browning, print rubbing and a pen marking to the top right corner of back cover.

"The Deadly Numbers Game" and “The Batman Nobody Knows” are the two takes to this terrific landmark in Bruce Wayne history as the series hits 250, the latter story somewhat being the inspiration for Batwing, Dick Giordano, Irv Novick, Frank Robbins and other greats — DC’s Batman volume 1 issue 250 from July of 1973. A sharp clean and white back cover and frontispiece, inner pages are dazzling and concise, cover remains excellent with only a tiny ding to top center edge.

Dick Ayers, Frank Giacoia and Stan Lee present an early spectacle for this war torn wonder that features the first appearance of Irving and Selma Cohen and Bill Leonard, Marvel Sgt.Fury And His Howling Commandos number 24 from November of 1965, "When The Howlers Hit The Homefront." A truly beautiful back cover, beautiful inner pages with only one super tiny chip to the bottom corner of page 15, excellent cover with only the faintest crease or two to spine and brief browning to right edge, a superb copy this one is for sure.

Marvelous. Just marvelous. The third ever appearance of Frankenstein’s monster in "Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein," Gary Friedrich and magnificent Mike Ploog behind the gorgeous and important macabre work — Marvels Frankenstein number 1 from January of 1973. A superb cover condition, crisp, clean and sharp cream colored inner pages, white and wonderful back cover. Delightful.

The first appearance of Harvey Birdman, first Herculoids, first Tor the Mighty Mightor, and first to this series of Silver Age television sensation, Gold Key’s Hanna Barbera TV Super Heroes volume 1 issue 1 from April of 1968 via Mike Arens, Carl Fallberg and Dan Spiegle. Almost undoubtedly a Very Fine/NM copy, the inner pages are off-white, even, sharp, clean and concise, back cover is white with hardly a single blemish to it, cover is beautiful with the tiniest briefest crease or two to the top of spine and bottom right corner.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, about as important as Jimmy Olsen issues can get, a stunner iconic Neal Adams cover piece to present the first (some consider it a cameo as it is) appearance of future DC omnipotent villain Darkseid, DC’s Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen volume 1 issue number 134 from December of 1970, "The Mountain Of Judgement." The double splash page by King Kirby to page 16 and 17 is always breathtaking. A slight bit of print rubbing and faded minor denting to perimeter of back cover with one tiny numbered stamping to top corner, great inner pages, cover has only a couple super tiny creases to its perimeter.

Equally iconic and important moments for the world’s greatest super hero crew, "Riddle Of The Runaway Room" and "Indestructible Creatures Of The Nightmare Island,?? DC’s Justice League Of America volume 1 issues 31 and 40 from November of 1964 and 1965, in the former Carter Hall Hawkman joins the JLA officially and in the latter, the story dabbles in war and religion with Buddha, Fidel Castro, Jesus and Mohammad mentioned. A pen marking to the cover of issue 31, creasing wear to its perimeter, slight browning to the frontispiece and lesser so to inner pages (the bottom staple is loose to the centerfold page but top is intact) and backing that has some slight scattered wear to edges, creasing to the spine and perimeter for cover on issue 40, great inner pages mostly while a few toward the back of book have a very faded crease dent to bottom, some print rubbing and wear to back cover.

"To Die Like A God" shows Kirby, Coletta and Lee showcasing one of the more involved and complex stories to the Thunder god’s early reign, the first appearance of Abu Dakir in Marvels Thor volume 1 issue number 139 from April of 1967. Sticker labeled a FI, excellent corners, surface and edges to the captivating Kirby cover, fabulous white concise inner pages and a beautiful back cover with one tiny blue dot to the left edge.

The first appearance of The Sleeper, Von Kimmer and Erica Wolfmann in this epic and excellent Cap and Iron Man feature — Marvels Tales Of Suspense volume 1 issue number 72 from December of 1965, Don Heck and George Tuska providing the proper framework for fantastic. Some slight creasing to the spine and top right corner on cover, great inner pages, back cover has a brief bit of browning and a minor surface scuff.

Your friendly neighborhood hero with Romita to the rescue with an iconic cover for the epic "Crisis On Campus," as Kingpin lurks amongst the first appearance of The Crusher, Josh Kittling and Louis Wilson — Marvels Amazing Spider-Man volume 1 issue 68 from January of 1969. A nice white back cover with some brief print rubbing to its perimeter, fabulous and clean inner pages entirely, cover is excellent with only minimal print rubbing to right edge, a stunning copy.

Another stunning and staggering cover from astonishing legend Neal Adams (but aren’t they all?), DC’s The Brave And The Bold volume 1 issue number 93 from January of 1971 that sees the caped crusader dark knee deep into The House Of Mystery, "Red Water, Crimson Death." Iconic cover remains outstanding in shape, sharp corners and edges, great inner pages with concise edging and back cover is white and sharp with only a few dents to the bottom corner area.

Two spectacular Charlton specimens of beastly delight — Charlton Fantastic Giants number 24 one-shot from September of 1966 and with stunning Steve Ditko artwork to showcase Konga, Gorgo and the rest, then Charlton Monster Hunters volume 1 issue 1 from August of 1975. Some browning to back cover edges on Giants while its inner pages are very nice with some minor browning as well with about two or three chipped bottom corner tips, cover has some faint browning to right edge, great inner pages and frontispiece to Hunters with some minor print rubbing to back cover and main cover a super brief crease to top right corner and spine.

The tremendous Herb Trimpe penciled first appearance of Monica Lynn with Marie Severin and Roy Thomas assisting with awesomeness — Marvel The Avengers volume 1 issue number 73 from February of 1970, "The Sting Of The Serpent!" A beautiful white and sharp back cover whilst inner pages are concise, clean and even, a truly great cover with only a few tiny creases to bottom right corner tip, a very nice copy.

A toast as Doom clutches Storm while the rest of the mutants around them lay wrecked, amazing cover work from Dave Cockrum and Joe Rubenstein — Marvels X-men number 145 from May of 1981, the first appearance of The Doom Squad. A superb and fabulous copy, great off-white inner pages and white back cover, delightful cover condition.

A glorious Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella cover for this Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen team-up: DC’s The Brave And The Bold volume 1 issue number 67 from September of 1966, "The Death of The Flash." Some slight print rubbing near spine to white back cover as the inner pages remain fabulous and very nice, brief creasing to the spine of cover, faint nubbing to the top of spine.

The first appearance of The Molecule Man’s Artificial Construct as Ben Grimm and Ted Sallis team-up in this monster meets monster feature, Marvels Two-In-One number 1 from January of 1974, The Thing is cooling his heels in the New Mexico desert when he decides to head to Florida and take on the Man-Thing for appropriating his name. In an alternate dimension, the Molecule Man has duplicated himself and his "son" decides to take vengeance on the Fantastic Four when his "father" dies. Instead of arriving in New York, Molecule Man finds himself in the Florida Swamp where Thing and Man-Thing are able to separate the villain from his power staff and reduce him to dust. Some brief creasing around the staples and minor surface rubbing to the top edge, a brown dot to the top of frontispiece and a chip to the back cover near spine, it is white and sharp otherwise.

Dark and macabre morsels of morbid magnificence from Charlton with two of their horror off-shoot series: Scary Tales with its beginning here in issue 1 from August of 1975 with Joe Staton cover and Joe Gill story, then Ghostly Tales number 105 from July of 1973, cover by horror legend Tom Sutton and including inner work from Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. The Ghostly is a VF clean and sharp copy only super faint and faded creasing to its perimeter, Scary Tales has some surface rubbing. Great inner pages and back covers for both, some pen marking filled inn on the back cover sendaway ad for Ghostly.

Everything from early Romita/Lee Spidey to early Kirby FF to cartoon King Kong and beyond, American Broadcasting Company’s America’s Best TV Comics one-shot from 1967 including the incredible first appearance of George Of The Jungle in comics plus early Casper as well with this wonder. A sharp and white back cover depicting a sensational Sally Field as the Flying Nun with one tiny surface stain (that can be cleaned carefully to remove) to the center bottom and one faded faint crease to the bottom left corner, great inner pages, a white and sharp wonderful cover.

The first appearance of Huntress II aka Helena Wayne here via Mike Grell, Bob Layton, Denny O’Neil, and Joe Staton — DC Super Stars number 17 from December of 1977 with the origin retold of the Legion Of Super Heroes and The Green Arrow, awesome stuff. Superb and sharp, quite easily a VF copy with outstanding edges and corners, only some very faint print rubbing to white back cover.

The three parter at "Encounter At Land’s End" and then the two tale’d “To Bestride The World” and “The Living Brain,” Doctor Doom and Prince Namor together as unique and awesome now as it was back then — Marvel Super Villain Team-Up Giant-Sizes number 1 and 2 (the only Giant-Sizes to the series), from March and June of 1975. Both are very clean, sharp, and fabulous copies with hardly any even minor blemishes to them.

Three truly fabulous and fantastic fantasy filled examples showcasing the stupendous work of artist Frank Brunner — Eyes Of Light: Fantasy Drawings of Frank Brunner by Vanguard Productions 2002 both the hardcover AND the softcover TPB version, then Marvel Epic Collection Doctor Strange A Separate Reality volume 3 spanning work of the sorcerer supreme from 1969 to 1974 of course including much work from Brunner and other greats such as Gene Colan, BWS and Herb Trimpe from 2016, all first printings and all in like-new fabulous condition.

A legend unquestionable, from his astonishing work with Hawkman to Star Spangled War Stories to Brave and The Bold and beyond, Kubert created a dynasty of dynamite imagery. The Art of Joe Kubert is a deluxe, full-color coffee table book that honors this legendary creator with beautifully reproduced artwork from every phase of his career as well as critical commentary by the book’s editor, comics historian and Kubert biographer Bill Schelly. Fantagraphics Books The Art Of Joe Kubert by Bill Schelly from September of 2011. This is a beautiful and impressive hardcover that is in like-new, clean sharp condition, no damage at all to the book or dust jacket.

312 pages of staggering, stunning and stupendous work complete with even pen-to-paint comparisons, Big Wow Art’s Sanjulian Master Of Fantasy Art hardcover with intro by Joe Jusko first U.S. Edition from March of 2016 and included is a signed Vampirella Sanjulian postcard-like card print by the legend himself. Beautiful and breathtaking. Book is like new, some slight dust to dust jacket, some possible minor surface scuffs, boo itself is amazing, signed card has slight wear to its top edges briefly.

A brilliant Brazilian artist who had a firm hold on a captivating J.Scott Campbell-like style that amassed a great following, Big T Productions Al Rio Tribute Art Bolk volume 1 from December of 2014 first printing, these volumes were a Kickstarter exclusive to raise money for his family after his unfortunate passing, this Volume 1 set also includes several double sided pencil and ink and colored art prints, a few business cards and postcard sized prints. All items like-new and superb.

If you had to make a Mount Rushmore of the greatest comic artists ever, whom would you choose as the four? This collection of four sketchbook trade paperbacks would be a solid, fabulous answer — Popular Artist Sketchbook Series and Vanguard John Buscema, Neal Adams, Wally Wood, and John Romita Sketchbooks — NA 1999 Vanguard by Arlen Schumer and intro by Stuart Gordon, Wood 2000 Vanguard by Spurlock and Pearson with intro by Steranko and Bruce Timm, Romita by Spurlock and Romita 2002 with intro by Stan Lee, Buscema by Spurlock from 2001 with intro Steranko. All four are like-new and in sensational shape.

Rachel Deering and Justin Jordan present this beastly beauty, IDW and Tiny Behemoth Press’ In The Dark A Horror Anthology 11 x 14 hardcover that is hand numbered 308 of a scarce 1100 first edition first printing from April of 2014. Book is pristine clean and stunning, image and condition wise.

Two comic giants and legendary creators from different eras and ages but equally excellent that shook up the industry with their style and developments— first, Dynamic Forces George Perez Storyteller by Christopher Lawrence with foreword by Kurt Busiek first edition 2006, then EC Comics and IDW’s Wally Wood Stories Artisan Edition first printing 2015 by Scott Dunbier and collecting Weird Science, Weird Fantasy and several other stunning Wood horror works.

The marvelous Mike Allred showcased here with one of his arguably most acclaimed and recognized creations — AAA Pop Comics’ The Atomics, starting with The Atomics hardcover Super Deluxe Limited Edition still sealed, then following is three Atomics King-Size Giant Spectaculars "Lessons In Light, Lava, and Lasers," “Worlds Within,” and “Jigsaw,” all around 104 pages full like a TPB, the hardcover is limited to only a super scarce 500 copies with afterwood by Alex Ross from 2002. Hardcover is still sealed in plastic and basically new, the three issues are pristine and clean with only one minor print rubbing dot spotting to the top right corner on cover of Jigsaw.

The mastermind Chris Claremont bringing brilliant beginnings to the industry with this marvelous magazine sized gem, the first appearance of New Mutants team, Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Sunspot and first appearance of Psyche — Marvel Graphic Novel volume 1 issue 4 from November of 1982 "Renewal." A key issue landmark indeed, one of the most sought after from this lengthy series. It remains sharp, clean, with concise smooth inner pages, excellent edges and corners everywhere, only a faint bit of warping to the top right corner.

Spectral legend Jim Starlin shakes up the industry and creates incredible moments with this Marvel gem — Marvel Graphic Novel volume 1 number 1 The Death Of Captain Marvel second printing from April of 1982, a super hero and villain studded monumental occurrence with outstanding imagery throughout. A minor bit of warping to the top right corner and a brief tiny bit of nubbing to the top of spine on back cover, everywhere else is spectacular and sharp.

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ barbaric and heroic jungle entity here with four samplings together to make for a terrific lot — DC’s Korak Son Of Tarzan number 46 the first ever DC Korak issue from June of 1972, then a treasure of the first three continuous swings to the Gold Key series Korak Son Of Tarzan numbers 1, 2 and 3 from January of May of 1964 featuring Mo Gollub pin-up painted covers and Russ Manning illustration inside. The Kubert DC issue has a few tiny and faint creases to its bottom edge, back cover is white and sharp with one super tiny ding to bottom a very faded and small pencil marking to the top left corner, some minor creasing to spine and perimeters of the Gold Keys but mostly very nice, clean and sharp.

Tales to blow your mind is quite right and no holding out on the frights with these first five fear filled bites — Marvel Tower Of Shadows volume 1 issues 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 spanning September of 1969 to May of 1970, including the first appearance of narrator like character Digger and his next few appearances with three tales at least to each with Don Heck, Dan Adkins and other legends art. All five are Fine+ is not better in condition, most are excellent copies, slight creasing and fain moments of edge wear if at all, slight browning to frontispiece of issue 1, a few creases to the back of issue 3.

Dare you look into the ominous eyes or enter the world of Jim Corrigan here in a spectral and stupendous eight issue run beginning with an early Silver Age appearance in DC Showcase volume 1 issue 64 from October of 1966 the first appearance of Ace Chance with that instantly recognizable Murphy Anderson cover, then seven consecutive haunting steps into his first self titled series dimension, DC’s The Spectre volume 1 issues 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 (missing the first 3 issues to complete the entire volume) spanning June of 1968 to June of 1969 and including several first appearances and important occurrences, and not just the Neal Adams featured covers either. A few of these issues hover dangerous around (and might be) VF, while most are VG+ to Fine-, some slight spine creasing and edge wear to some areas for a few covers, a tiny date stamp near spine on cover of issue 5, a few very minor ink stains to back of issue 10, mostly great backings and concise clean intact inner pages.

Tom Gill and Paul S.Newman to the stellar inner working of time travelling wonder whilst George Watson tackles the engrossing and gorgeous covers for this only two part series, Gold Key Time Tunnel number 1 from February of 1967, two scientist are hurled helpless in the lost world of time. Truly fabulous inner pages that are concise and clean edged, pin-up back cover is sharp and nice with one minor crease to the bottom left corner and one tiny surface scuff below it, outstanding cover condition with only a few super tiny creases to spine.

A photo cover with awesome inner art by WWII veteran Sam Glanzman, sort of a cross between the Dirty Dozen and an early A-Team, Garrison's Gorillas are criminals recruited as a special forces unit for dangerous missions in WWII Europe. The team goes undercover as workers in a Nazi aircraft plant to find secret plans. Garrison's Gorillas are assigned to steal two freight cars from a Nazi train that is using them to transport prisoners — Dell Garrison’s Gorillas number 1 from 1968. The faintest and very faded stain to the bottom corner of back cover but it is white sharp and wonderful, delightful inner pages that are concise and even, cover is just excellent; almost undoubtedly a VF+ copy, what a beauty.

The first and second appearances of Jefferson Pierce as Black Lightning, the first appearance of Tobias Whale and several other minor first appearances to this first two fierce fists of the series: DC’s Black Lightning volume 1 issues 1 and 2 from April and May of 1977 with Rich Buckler cover pieces. Superb, sensational and sharp copies with very very little to complain about condition wise, both are dazzlers.

How about this for a proper Peter Parker stunner run? Numerous important occurrences and some first appearance, phenomenal stuff continuously with this Romita bunch — Marvels Amazing Spider-Man volume 1 issues 106, 107, 108, 109 110, and 111 spanning March to August of 1972, the first appearance of the Spider-Slayer Mark IV, first Sister Sun, first Gibbon, finishing with the Kraven feature final Stan Lee issue as the great Gerry Conway takes over the thwips. All of these are terrific copies, take a look at the photos included — tiniest of creases if they do occur, minimal wear moment of two, just fabulous superb copies.

Be through a dinosaur filled lost valley or through a beast flooded sea of creatures, the titular hero and arrow slinger of yesteryear here with two terrific and early examples — Gold Key Turok Son Of Stone volume 1 issues 37 and 49 from January of 1964 and January of 1966, Rex Mason, Giovanni Ticci and George Wilson on the artwork and covers. Fabulous copies the both of them with only some minimal creases to the spines, great inner pages and nice back covers with only and slight bit of browning.

After the beginning to his first ever self titled series comes these next four cloaked in darkness and white shrouded specials, Marvel Moon Knight volume 1 issues 2, 3, 4 and 5 from December of 1980 into March of 1981, issue 3 is the first appearance of Midnight Man, issue 4 the first appearance of Bull, Dragon, Ice and Razor with a fantastic Werewolf By Night flashback. All four issues remain spectacular in shape, great spines, fabulous covers, excellent inner pages and back covers.

Gold Key Walt Disney’s The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh from 1964, then Walt Disney’s The Scarecrow number 2 from 1965, and finally Walt Disney Showcase number 53 from November of 1979 the 48 page retelling feature, three different Disney samplings of Romney Marsh. Some slight creasing to the spine on issue 2, lesser so for the other issues, great inner pages and back covers, super brief if any other blemishes.

One of the silver screens greatest and most respected haunters of yesteryear with four fright filled steps to his series here, Gold Key Boris Karloff Tales Of Mystery volume 1 continuous issues 12, 13, 14 and 15 spanning December of 1965 to September of 1966, some Joe Orlando outstanding art included. Some brief creasing to the spines and perimeter of covers, minor nubbing to some bottom of spines, mostly very good inner pages and pin-up back covers are nice with only some very minor browning if any, slight scuff or two, great copies.

Marvel’s first family and first ever official marvel team presented here in a phenomenal way, 10 items total to capture a great collection— beginning with Marvel’s Fantastic Four volume 1 issues 95, 96, 97 and 98 from February to May of 1970, then the Marvel Wizard Fantastic Four 1/2 issue by Ron Lim with the Certificate, Fantastic Four Annual number 12 from 1977, then the Marvel Skybox Stan Lee Presents The Silver Age card set from 1998, Fantastic Four Visionaries by Walter Simonson Volume 2 from 2008 TPB, finally two still sealed in plastic hardcovers: Marvel The Best Of The Fantastic Four Volume 1 and Marvel Premiere Edition Fantastic Four Volume 1 by J. Michael Straczynski and Mike McKone. Both sealed hardcovers are of course like new and plastic wrapped with no perforations to their plastic, Visionaries is like new and clean and sharp, the card set is complete however many if not most of the cards have edge and or surface wear, some bent tips and corners here and there, the 1977 Annual is sticker labeled a F/VF and it is clean and sharp, the 1/2 issue is superb in shape, and the four issues remain superb and spectacular, only some minor spine creasing and edge wear if at all.

Some marvelous emerald Crusader samples here starting off with the gorgeous Gil Kane Star Sapphire Saga in DC’s Green Lantern volume 2 issue number 73 from December of 1969, then issues 75, 78, 79, 80, 81 and 83, arrow deep into the Green Lantern / Green Arrow teamup from Neal Adams, March of 1970 to May of 1971, the first appearance of the Witch Queen, the identity reveal and much more wit this glorious grouping. All issues are very sharp and clean, some slight and minimal spine creasing and print rubbing in brief moments, minor edge wear and slight nubbing.

You can’t get much more marvelous than this. Marvels Captain Marvel volume 1 issues 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26 and 28, a Mar-Vell span of March of 1969 to September of 1963 and including the fifth and fourth (first and second ever cover appearances) Thanos, first Eon, first Silver Age appearance of Death, first Megaton, the Hulk / Marvel battle, and tons more from BWS, Jim Starlin, Roy Thomas, Dick Ayers, Herb Trimpe and other legends. Only some very brief spine creasing and edge wear to a few issues but most remain spectacular in shape, great inner pages and back covers, some brief print surface rubbing to the bottom of cover on issue 22 and a pen marking and brief waving to its backing, issue 28 has some ink staining to the bottom, mostly only apparent to back cover.

Dan Brereton, Dave Cockrum, Carmine Infantino, Tom Sutton, Jim Mooney and many many more legends work included with these four Uncle Creepy samplings — Dark Horse and Harris’ Creepy The Limited Series Book 1, Book 2, Book 3 from 1992, then Creepy The Classic Years from 1991. All four books remain fantastic in condition with only a few very minor moments of corner or edge wear.

Co-headlining this special series way before they’d become a team in The Defenders, Sub-Mariner and Hulk with their own segments to t this spectacular series — Marvels Tales To Astonish volume 1 issues 86, 87, 88, and 89 from December of 1966, then January, February and March of 1967, issue 88 is the Death Of Boomerang feature, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Bill Everett and many other greats work collaborated. Besides some minor nubbing to the top of spines, these are clean and sharp copies mostly, Fine+ if not better, great inner pages.

Something about Lloyd Bridges face just makes you wanna smile. Way before he’d make millions of people laugh starring in feature films like Airplane and Joe Versus The Volcano, he was Mike Nelson in this graphic adaptation: Dell Four Color Comics Sea Hunt number 1041 from December of 1959, then the Sea Hunt series issues 6 and 8 from September of 1960 and March of 1961. Awesome clean and concise inner pages while only issue 1041 has a small colored pencil marking to its top right corner of intro page, great covers with some slight spine creasing, mostly sharp and very nice back covers.

One of Jack The King Kirby’s first superhero creations here with three issue features, DC’s Challengers Of The Unknown volume 1 issues 48, 69 and 78, Murphy Anderson, Joe Kubert, Denny O’Neil, Bob Brown, Arnold Drake and many other industry titans collaboration on these gems, issue 48 is the first meeting between the Challengers and The Doom Patrol. A slight warping to the spine on issue 48 and one small colored pencil marking on its title, minimal spine creasing otherwise, slight nubbing, mostly very nice copies with great inner pages, a stamping to bottom of intro page on issue 69.

Touted as the most startling swamp creature of all (obvious slight to Swamp Thing) showcased here with five frightful and mucky fur covered continuous samples — Marvel The Man-Thing volume 1 issues 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 spanning February to June of 1974, the first appearance and origin of Fool-Killer and the Skullcrushers plus many more minor appearances. Very brief print rubbing and creasing to the spines, mostly very nice copies, issue 4 has the Marvel Value Stamp cut out and issue 5 has some brief waving to its bottom.

Jack Kirby’s red, white and blue Stars and Stripes soldier Steve Rogers in a stupendous lot — Marvels Captain America volume 1 issues 121, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129 and issue 130 spanning January to October of 1970 and featuring numerous first appearances such as Man-Brute, Batroc’s Brigade, Satan’s Angels, Doctor Ryder and even Walter Cronkite’s first comic book appearance. Some minimal spine wear if at all, most of these copies are very nice and sharp, some slight print rubbing and creasing to top of cover of issue 129, a very brief and faded crayon marking below logo for issue 121, great inners and great back covers mostly, one factory pressing ink stain to an inner page of issue 130.

"Goldface’s Grudge Fight Against Green Lantern" introduces the 24 Karat Gold villain amidst gorgeous Gardner Fox, Gil Kane and Sid Greene workings, DC’s Green Lantern volume 2 issue number 48 from October of 1966, the first appearance of the character at this name. Sticker labeled a VF-, very sharp, clean and nice everywhere, a few very faint spine creases and a surface ding or two to the right edge of cover.

"The Origin Of The Ancient One" and “The End Of AIM” with two tremendous Shield and Strange samplings — Marvels Strange Tales volume 1 issues 148 and 149 from September and October of 1966, Bill Everett, Jack Kirby, Art Simek, Denny O’Neil and other greats. Some surface rubbing, creasing and wear to the spine of issue 148 and a faded faint crease to its top right corner, some slight browning to its back cover and inner pages, issue 149 is sticker labeled a NM/M and it is very clean sharp and smooth.

Four different Joe Kubert Hammer of Hell features with this Enemy Ace and Unknown Solider blitzkrieg — DC’s Star Spangled War Stories volume 1 issues 142 and 143 from January and March of 1969, them issues 155 and 157 from March and July of 1971, Bulldozer, Sergeant Rock and the battle torn crew through the battle in air and on land. Issues 155 and 157 are VF+ clean and shape copies, a slight but of staining to top and very brief spine creasing to issue 143, a tiny pen marking, surface rubbing and faded creasing to issue 142.

The most uncanny heroes of all, Black Bolt, Medusa, Lock-Jaw and the rest of the super team via Gil Kane, Doug Moench, George Perez and other legends — Marvels The Inhumans volume 1 issues 1, 2, 3 and 4 from October of 1975 to April of 1976, the first appearances of The Centarians, The League Of Evil Inhumans and many others. All four issues are VF+, fabulous and fantastic with very little to no blemishes.

The glorious George Perez had a lot of fun with this hot-headed hero in his Crisis series, this titular series was equally exciting and awesome as well — DC’s Firestorm The Nuclear Man volume 1 issue 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 spanning March to November of 1978 the complete five issue miniseries here, including the first 3 appearances and origin of Firestorm, the first appearance of Killer Frost, the first appearance of Multiplex and more. What’s even hotter, all these issues are stunning and superb in condition, sharp and clean throughout.

The aquatic team of heroes and adventurers here with three consecutive issues, DC’s Sea Devils volume 1 issues 19, 20 and 21 from October, December and February of 1964 into 1965, fabulous covers from Howard Purcell. Slight spine crease sand surface rubbing wear but only briefly, mostly great edges and corners.

Monumental comic moments with an early A team treasure, the first use of the catchphrase ‘Avengers Assemble’, the first appearance of Immortus, the first comic to show that Captain America’s shield could withstand a blow from Mjolnir, also the first appearance of The Teen Brigade with this Don Heck / Dick Ayers dazzler — Marvels The Avengers volume 1 issue number 10 from November of 1964, "The Avengers Break-Up" and "The One and Only Cap!" Back cover has a small scuff to the left edge, some dings, tears and wear to the perimeter edges and an unnecessary piece of tape to the bottom of spine, mostly great even edges and corners to the inner pages, however intro page has more tape to its spine, tape to the staples on cover even though they’d have been fine without it, a folded bottom corner tip, and some brief surface creases to the title, right center edge, spine and bottom edge, pictures of every page included.

A brutal bunch here that sees Bruce Banner against Umbu, The Supreme Warlord, Sandman, Mandarin, The Leader and more — Marvels Incredible Hulk volume 1 issues 110, 111, 112, 113, 114 and 115 spanning December of 1968 to May of 1969, first appearances of Daydra, Danad, The Supreme Warlord, the Galaxy Master and a few others with this tremendous Dan Adkins and Herb Trimpe grouping. Some brief browning to issue 114, some minor spine wear to issue 111, a few gain moments of edge wear and or surface rubbing, mostly very nice copies.

Editor Greg Sadowski has meticulously compiled Krigstein's finest stories from his brief (1949 to 1956) but astonishing comics career, including romance, crime, horror, and even Western stories from the publishers Rae Herman, Hillman, Atlas, DC, and EC — Fantagraphics Books B. Krigstein Volume 1 by Greg Sadowski from September of 2002, still shrink wrapped in plastic like-new hardcover book. Beautiful, with no tears to the plastic wrapping.

Easily one of the most powerful mutants in history showcased here with two important parts of her history via trade paperback soft covers — Marvel Comics The Uncanny X-men: The Dark Phoenix Saga from Chris Claremont/John Byrne/Terry Austin, then The Uncanny X-men From The Ashes from Chris Claremont/Paul Smith/Bob Wiacek with help from JRJR and Simonson, 1991 and 1993. Like new books that are clean and sharp everywhere except for one small crease ding to the back of Ashes.

The first career retrospective of the great Archie comics artist: a fitting tribute to the life and art of one of the world's all-time best cartoonists, lavishly designed with over 300 illustrations, including rare cartoons and strips, and of course, lots of those fabulous DeCarlo girls — Fantagraphics Books Innocence and Seduction: The Art Of Dan DeCarlo by Bill Morrison from June of 2006. Book is not only beautiful image and content wise throughout, it is pristine and superb in condition, like-new.

Beautiful and brilliant. The Best of EC Comics Artisan Edition collects 27 of the finest stories ever produced by the legendary comics company. Every page has been scanned from the original art in color—and while the art APPEARS to be in black and white, if you look closely, you will notice that blue pencil notations, ink gradients, corrections, duo-shade, and so much more is clearly visible—all the little nuances that makes original art so beautiful and unique. The stories in this volume truly represent the very best of what EC published—Wally Wood’s My World, Al Williamson’s Food for Thought, Alex Toth’s Thunderjet, Joe Orlando’s Judgment Day, Harvey Kurtzman’s Corpse on the Imjin, Bernie Krigstein’s Master Race, Jack Davis’ Foul Play, and so many more classics of the form—truly the cream of the crop, the best of the best, IDW’s The Best Of EC Stories Artisan Edition from September of 2022. Book is superb and impeccable in condition.

Artist Graham Nolan defined an entire era of Batman comics, including co-creating the villain Bane. Now Graham delves into his files to present a hardcover collection of classic images, private commissions, and personal work, much of it never published before, Ominous Press’ Black Book The Art Of Graham Nolan from November of 2018, signed by the artist himself in gold ink! Books is pristine and absolutely beautiful.

A four feature for the Justice Society Of America by way of legendary writer creator Geoff Johns — DC’s Justice Society Of America Black Adam and Isis from 2009, JSA The Next Age from 2007, and JSA Thy Kingdom Come from 2008 Part 1 and Part 3. All four hardcovers are like-new and shrink wrapped in plastic, a few possible tiny perforations here and there.

Astounding, amazing and astonishing, an action-packed, intellectual, time-travel adventure, Aztec Ace stars Caza (AKA Ace) as he travels between the Aztec Empire and his home in the 23rd century. Ace, along with his pupil Bridget Chronopolis and his navigator named Head (the floating disembodied head of Sigmund Freud), struggles to save his own dimension from time paradoxes created by his enemy, the mysterious Nine-Crocodile. Includes a new foreword by original series editor Cat Yronwode, a new introduction by series creator himself Doug Moench, and more. Also includes more text pieces, an Aztec Ace short story by Doug Moench and Tim Sale, and an Aztec Ace pin-up gallery with new artwork by Bill Sienkiewicz, ChrisCross, Dan Day, Jeff Lemire, Joe Staton, Jok, Kelley Jones, Matt Kindt, Michael Avon Oeming, Michael Wm Kaluta, Paul Gulacy, Paul Pope, Ron Harris and more. Dark Horse and Its Alive Press The Complete Aztec Ace by Doug Moench hardcover from October of 2022, book is shrink wrapped superb and like-new.

A phenomenal art legend gives a caring tribute introduction to another phenomenal art legend as Alex Ross introduces this retrospective on industry titan Dave Cockrum, TwoMorrows Publishing The Life And Art Of Dave Cockrum by Glen Cadigan and Alex Ross 2022. From the letters pages of Silver Age comics to his 2021 induction into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, the career of Dave Cockrum started at the bottom and then rose to the top of the comic book industry. Beginning with his childhood obsession with comics and continuing through his years in the Navy, The Life and Art of Dave Cockrum follows the rising star from fandom (where he was one of the "Big Three" fanzine artists) to pro-dom, where he helped revive two struggling comic book franchses: the Legion of Super-Heroes and the X-Men. His later work on his own property, The Futurians, as well as childhood favorite Blackhawk and T.H.U.N.D.E.R Agents, cemented his position as as an industry giant. Featuring artwork from fanzines, unused character designs, and other rare material, this is the comprehensive biography of the legendary comic book artist, whose influence is still felt on the industry today, book is like-new clean and sharp with no blemishes.

Six spectacular and marvelous hardcover books via explosive and extraordinary team Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, beginning with Image Reckless from December of 2022, The Ghost In You April 2022, Friend Of The Devil April 2021, Follow Me Down from October of 2022 — this Hardcover includes an autographed card by both creators! —, Destroy All Monsters from October of 2021, and finally Where The Body Was from December of 2023 (not a Reckless book). All six are like-new with no blemishes whatsoever.

Stunning and sensational, a great grab of work from one of the most legendary and important creators and artists in all of comic history on display here — Fantagraphics Books’ Strange Suspense The Steve Ditko Archives Volume 1 from 2009 by Blake Bell large Hardcover, Pure Imagination’s Steve Ditko’s The Thing and Other from 2006 large softcover TPB, then Pure Imaginations’ Steve Ditko Reader from 2002 and Steve Ditko Angry Apes ‘n’ Leapin’ Lizards from 2011, a massive collection of Golden and Silver Age artwork from the legend. Only a very very brief bit of wear to the opening edge of Leapin Lizards on cover, all books are outstanding in condition otherwise and elsewhere.

To many, Mike Ploog is the epitome of an artist?s artist. A consummate professional and a master of the macabre,his imagination is without equal. In this first volume of his collected works, we review his early ground-breaking work in comics to his award-winning work in motion pictures, with plenty of amazing material along the way. Contains storyboards from the films The Thing by John Carpenter, Return to Oz, and The Witches — S.Q. Productions Moonshadows The Mike Ploog Sketchbook paperback softcover from March of 1998. Book is like new, clean and sharp however there is one blemish being a few brief creases to the bottom right corner on cover.

Whatever happened to the man of tomorrow? The Man Of Steel here with two different yet equally powerful samples, the mad scientist best selling author Alan Moore and legendary Curt Swan with DC’s Superman The Deluxe Edition hardcover collecting the last Silver Age Superman story from 1986 presented with this beautiful 2006 edition, then DC’s Final Crisis Legion Of 3 Worlds from Geoff Johns and George Perez from 2009. Both books are shrink wrapped and like new, however there is one year to the plastic to the back bottom of Superman.

Available only through a Kickstarter, this limited edition and beautiful autographed Eric Peterson and Joe Aubrey’s Space Bastards Volume 1 hardcover from 2022, the intergalactic postal service from co-creator of The Boys. Experience Space Bastards in the most exclusive way possible, with 130 pages of director’s cut material presented in an oversized edition featuring art by Darick Robertson, Simon Bisley, Gabo, and Boo Cook, book is signed to top corner of first page, like new in condition with a faint bit of wear to the top right corner tip on cover.

Russ Manning and George Wilson’s womdeful cyborg smashing creation presented brilliantly here — Gold Key and Dark Horse’s Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 AD trade paperback First Printing Editon from December of 2010, then 5 samples from the origin first series, Gold Key’s Magnus Robot Fighter volume 1 numbers 9, 10, 11, 14 and 15, those comic issues spanning February of 1965 to August of 1966, great copies encased in taut polyp bagging, only some brief creasing to the spines and faint moments of edge wear if at all.

Ambassador Spock, Captain Kirk, Uhura and the stellar crew of legend boldly going here — IDW’s Star Trek John Byrne Collection April 2013 first printing hardcover that is massive and beautiful, plus one space sample from the first space series: Gold Key Star Trek volume 1 issue 11 from August of 1971 the Viulcan Furies issue that is in VF+ condition, very sharp and clean with one faint tiny crease to bottom right corner and very brief surface wear near corner box.

Even if your aren’t a Disney or animation fan, this book is so beautiful it has to be seen to be believed, the gold embossed paging and lining for the cover, just magnificent. Walt Kelly, Disney animator on Dumbo, Fantasia, Snow White, and Pinocchio and the creator of the Pogo comic strip, created beautiful, action-packed fairy tale comic book stories from his own incredible imagination and ones based on The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson classics. Comic fans of all ages will thrill to stories of witches, princesses, giants, dragons, fairy queens, elves, and goblins. Enjoy fairy tale classics like "The Emperor’s New Clothes," "The Gingerbread Man," "The Wise Men of Gotham," "The Lost Prince," and "Cinderella" (published eight years before the Disney Classic) in this gorgeous collection — Yoe Publishing and IDW’s Walt Kelly’s Fairy Tales hardcover first printing from September of 2015. Book is beautiful and like new.

Written by X-Men co-creator Chris Claremont and stunningly illustrated by John Bolton, Marada the She-Wolf is collected in its totality for the first time, in full-color and accompanied by never-before-seen material with this marvelous hardcover — Titan Comics Marada The She Wolf first edition hardcover from September of 2013 via Chris Claremont and John Bolton. Book is like-new, clean and sharp and smooth everywhere.

Appalling entertaining, extreme and ultra provocative, from the creator of Fight Club, Choke and numerous other stories, Haunted is a 2005 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It's a frame story for 23 short stories, each preceded by a poem and followed by a chapter of the main narrative. The stories are told by people who have answered an ad for a writer's retreat, but instead find themselves in a "Survivor"-like situation. The storytellers become more desperate and their stories more extreme as they try to make themselves the heroes of the reality show: Random House Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk first Anchor Books Edition from April of 2006, now out of print. Book is clean and sharp with only faint spots of brief edge wear, slight warping to the bottom right corner.

And now for something’s different, dark and downright delightful: IDW and Yoe Publishing’s Haunted Horror Pre-Code Coloring Book from January of 2016 first printing, collecting B/W imagery (that I would personally never dare coloring) by legends Steve Ditko, Frazetta, Basil Wolverton, Don Heck and numerous other masters. Superb, sharp and stunning in condition, like-new.

The purple suited entity of mystery and crime fighting legend shown here with three stunner copies, Charlton The Phantom Volume 2 issues 31 (the second issues to the series), 34 and 35 from April, October and December of 1969, glorious Jim Aparo covers shine in this condition. A brief bit of tiny spine creasing, and issue 35 has a bit of surface scuffing to its bottom right corner, wonderful inner pages, very brief foxing and or browning to back covers, great edges and corners.

Four different fabulous Atlas features here — the first appearance of Moro Frost aka the titular hero Scorpion with Howard Chaykin The Scorpion number 1 from February, the first appearance and origin of Grim Ghost and Sara Braddock in The Grim Ghost number 1 from January, the first appearance and origin of Morlock in this Dick Giordano / Al Milgrom Morlock 2001 from February and finally The Destructor number 1 also from February of 1975 the first appearance and origin of Jay Hunter aka Destructor via legends Walllace Wood, Steve Ditko and Archie Goodwin in "The Birth Of A Hero," all issues released the same year, a pivotal moment for Atlas. Some wear and scuffing to the right edge and perimeter of Scorpion, surface rubbing to the spine and top left corner of Destructor, minor browning rubbing to spine on Morlock.

"Confessions" and “Endings” together with the death of hobgoblin and lead-up segments to the legendary Secret Wars saga via Klaus Janson, John Romita Jr, Roger Stern and Ron Frenz: Marvel Amazing Spider-Man volume 1 issues 250 and 251 from March and April of 1984. Both remain VF++ copies, superb and sharp, great inner pages and wonderful back covers.

"valley Of The Damned," “The City’s Not For Burning,” and “Assault On Avengers Mansion,” three of the best features for Danny Rand’s first self titled series (besides issue 1 and 14 of course), Marvels Iron Fist volume 1 issues 2, 3 and 12 from December of 1975, February of 1976, and April of 1977, many characters first appearances and the Avengers assault feature. All three books remain terrific and tremendous in shape with only some very minor spine creasing.

Another stunner Neal Adams cover for the ages presenting Boston Brand and Bruce Wayne "You Can’t Hide From A Deadman," DC’s The Brave And The Bold volume 1 issue 86 from November of 1969, Adams imagery to the inner pages as well and appropriate for the Deadman feature. Some slight creasing to the spine and tiny chip wear to the bottom right corner, a faint single crease fold to the bottom right corner tip of intro page, brief print rubbing to the back cover.

A stunning murderer’s row of comic legends collaborated on this Sub-Mariner Hulk feature, Marie Severin, Werner Roth, Herb Trimpe, Dan Adkins, Bill Everett, Vince Coletta…it’s crazy — Marvels Tales To Astonish volume 1 issue 96 from October of 1967, "Somewhere Stands Skull Island" and “What Have I Created?” Some browning and foxing to the frontispiece, mostly great and even inner pages, a tiny chip to the bottom edge, and top left corner of back cover plus a brief rip to center area of spine and some print rubbing, slight creasing to perimeter on cover and right corners.

"The Barbed Wire Warpath" sees The Lone Ranger’s companion in his own adventure for this early series, Dell Publishing’s Tonto number 27 from July of 1957. A very sharp and spectacular copy, sticker labeled a FN+, great edges and corners, only a faint bit of nubbing to the top left corner tip and a brief bit of print rubbing to the back cover center.

A wondrous Neal Adams cover for this five star super hero spectacular, the first issue in the run for DC’s Special Series volume 1 issue 1 from September of 1977, an 80 page Giant feature with an almost endless lineup of comic creators involved within the five fabulous epics of Batman, Aquaman, Atom, The Flash and Green Lantern, and also the first appearance of Penny Spivot. Easily a VF+/NM, a very beautiful and clean copy.

"And Time, The Rushing River" and “The Final Threat” equal two excellent and exciting segments of Avengers history — the classic iconic cover for Avengers King-Size number 2 from September of 1968 the first appearance of the Scarlet Centurion with a smattering cast of Marvel super hero cameos, then Avengers King-Size Annual number 7 from 1977 the Jim Starlin sample which features the first ever Warlock/Thanos fight, he first appearance of the Space, Mind and Reality Gems, the death of Pip The Troll, death of Gamora and death of Adam Warlock himself! King-Size number 2 has some slight creasing and surface rubbing to its perimeter and a few minor surface rubbings to the corner box, Annual number 7 is labeled to its back a VF and I concur, outstanding edges, inner pages and back cover for it.

A brilliant and vicious five vampire bites here begins with "The Fear Within" the first appearances of Gort and Dr.Von Harbou and the terrors and tension escalates from then on — Marvels Tomb Of a Dracula volume 1 issues 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 spanning May of 1972 to March of 1973, the first appearance of Quincy and Edith Harker, Ora, and the death Of Ilsa Strangeway amongst many other Dracula occurrences. Most of these copies are terrific, some faint spinal creasing if at all, issue 6 has some ink staining to the corner box and the back of its spine, minor nubbing to bottom corner tips of issue 4, slight wear, very good inner pages mostly.

Wakanda forever the saying with this tremendous T’Challa lot from Kirby and crew, the first appearances of Jakarra half brother of T’Challa, Ogar and several others, outstanding stuff with this six issue run — Marvels Black Panther volume 1 issues 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 spanning March of 1977 to March of 1978. Luckily all six issues remain in F+/VF shape, great spines and corners, a tiny pen marking to the corner box on issue 6, a possible brief moment of wear here and there.

The fabulous first appearance of The Adaptoid via Jack The King Kirby, Gene Colan and Stan Lee here as the Titanium Man and AIM are not much far away, Marvels Tales Of Suspense volume 1 issue 82 from October of 1966, Iron Man and Cap together during this period in ToS. Some slight creasing along spine and top edge and bottom right corner on cover, slight scuffing to bottom left corner, minor foxing to frontispiece, brief browning to back cover.

"Clark Kent’s Incredible Delusion" and a Super-Mr.Mxyzptlk? It is so, in this Kal-El sample — DC’s Superman volume 1 issue number 174 from January of 1965, Batman makes an appearance in this metropolis morsel. A very very nice copy, only some really brief and minor creasing to the spine, great off-white inner pages, a few moments of print rubbing to the back cover.

You just gotta love this cover by Golden era legendary artist Bernard Baily, "Raid Of The Mutant Marauders" sees The Flash, Martian Manhunter AND Hawkman and Hawkgirl together, DC’s The Brave And The Bold volume 1 issue number 56 from November of 1964. An easy VG+ if not better, a faint tiny ink stain to top center edge of book, a few faint faded dings to the spine on back cover, super brief and minimal creases to spine on the great cover, awesome copy.

Bless the legend George Perez for all his contributions and helping kickstart a fiery and phenomenally passionate and important era for DC history, here’s a stunning, stupendous and sensational compilation of landmark work, what a treasure — starting off with a shrink wrapped like-new DC Comics Teen Titans A Celebration of 50 Years Hardcover from November of 2014, The New Teen Titans issues 1, 2, 3, and 4, (wow), then New Teen Titans Annuals 1 and 2 and then the switch to Tales of The Teen Titans Annual that began on issue 3, and 4 from Summer of 1983 and December of 1985 the only two issues to that volume, then finishing with the first issue of New Teen Titans Volume 2 from August of 1984, Marv Wolfman and Perez properly producing perfect TT titles, the first appearance of Deathstroke The Terminator, first Ravager, second Cyborg, second ever and origin of the team together, first HIVE, first Arella, first Chase Vigilante, countless more other important occurrences. Luckily all these copies are tremendous and terrific in condition, easily all Fine+ if not better, hard to mention even minor blemishes, a brief factory print rubbing to the title on cover of issue number 4, a few tiny holes to the plastic on the hardcover, barely any even minor creases within this wondrous lot, excellent corners and edges.

Remarkable and radical, swinging a savage and sharp sword of righteousness, the fiery vixen Red Sonja — beginning with her first ever cameo appearance in Conan The Barbarian volume 1 issue number 23 from February of 1973 "The Shadow Of The Vulture," the Sonjita again in Marvel Feature Volume 2 issue number 1 from Neal Adams, dick Giordano, Gil Kane and Roy Thomas November of 1975, then Dynamite’s Red Sonja Valentine’s Day Special from 2022, Dynamite’s Invincible Red Sonja Volume 1 issue 2 the world less cover from Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, then Red Sonja Price of Blood Number 1 also word less David Finch crowdfunded exclusive only limited edition cover from December of 2022. All issues are VF/NM however the first cameo appearance has a slight bit of inking stain to the top and bottom edge of book that is mostly only visible on back cover which has a few faded dings and some brief print rubbing, outstanding cover and inner pages, the rest of the copies are just beauties.

The Mandarin menaces Tony Stark as The Super Adaptoid roughes up Steve Rogers in this epic, Marvels Tales Of Suspense volume 1 issue number 84 from December of 1966, Jack Kirby and Gene Colan to the inner fireworks and The King Kirby to the terrific cover, this issue the first time Super Adaptoid is fully named. Some bunched brief creasing to the perimeter and top area on cover, browning to the frontispiece, great inner pages and corners with a ding or two to a bottom, slight browning and a single crease dent to the left edge on back cover.

Jerry Siegel and Paul Reinmann presenting the first five issues to this buzzing bunch, Archie and Mighty Comics Group’s Fly Man volume 1 issues 31 (the first issue after the title change), 32, 33, 34 and 35 spanning December of 1964 to January of 1966, The Fly, The Comet, The Shield and The Black Hood teamed up against a bunch of numerous foes first appearances. Some nubbing to corners and edge wear plus some creasing to perimeters, some smudges here and there, some print rubbing to a few inner pages and back covers mostly to issue 32, issue 34 has a detached centerfold page, mostly good edges and inner pages elsewhere.

"Like a Death Ray From The Sky" centers somewhat around Hawkeye as the arrow slinging Avenger reveals his name for the first time in this epic plus the first appearance of Barney Barton his brother whom later becomes Trickshot — Marvels The Avengers volume 1 issue number 64 from May of 1969, Gene Colan and Roy Thomas.

Morbius The Living Vampire violently and vicious in his early appearances with this series, Marvels Adventure Into Fear (beforehand known as just Fear) issues 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 August of 1974 to October of 1975 with these Gil Kane blood gushing gems. All issues remain in relatively F- to VF conditions, clean and sharp edges mostly, great inner pages.

Autographed by creator and master Mike Vosburg to the TPB sized issue and also to the accompanying art print by him that is also self messaged, this is the very limited edition of Vosburg’s Offcastes Heavy Hitters collecting all three issues in one book from 1993 by the Emmy Award winning Spawn animated series creator. Some very slight beginning and edge wear to a moment or two and on the right side of art print.

Sensational super stuff, the second appearance of The Fatal Five, the Death of Ferro Lad, second Mano, Persuader and Validus, Neal Adams, Curt Swan, Jim Shooter and other legends to these two tremendous Validus cover features — DC’s Adventure Comics number 353 and 366 from February of 1967 and March of 1968. Delightful copies the both of them, minor edge creasing to covers, a scuff and print rubbing to the back of issue 353, issue 366 is VF, clean off-white and sharp.

Let’s get epic — "On the Matter Of Heroes" showcases the first appearance of Paul Rudd, I mean Scott Lang, who’d later become Ant-Man of course, Terry Austin, John Byrne, George Perez and other greats working wonders — Marvel Avengers volume 1 issue number 181 from March of 1979, a super hero studded sample. A FN- copy, fabulous edges and corners, great inner pages and backing.

Three tremendous Dell Classics from very early Silver Age late Golden Age, Dell Four Color number 650 Prince Valiant from 1955, Dell Movie Classics number 12-340-301 Hatari from 1962, and Dell Four Color number 800 The Buccaneers from 1957. These are all sensational in shape, off-white to white pages mostly, a slight border of browning tot the bottom on cover for Hatari, perhaps a few faint tiny creases to the spines, but excellent edges, excellent copies.

A title made super popular thanks to a film adaptation featuring Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Clowes creation that captivated a wide audience, Fantagraphics Books Incorporated Ghost World complete and original first softcover edition from March 1998. Book is like-new clean and sharp with a few brief minor stain dots to cover.

The brilliant John Buscema to "Holocaust In A Hidden Land," the first appearance of Nebula and death of Terminus, Marvels The Avengers volume 1 issue number 257 from July of 1985, The Avengers and Ka-Zar battle Terminus, who has laid waste to the Savage Land. Captain Marvel, still trapped in the Andromeda galaxy, meets Nebula, leader of the mercenaries who have hijacked Thanos' starship "Sanctuary II". A superb copy, excellent edges, inner pages and backing.

Vampires, werewolves, the undead, spirits, ghouls and screams aplenty, Skywald Nightmare Magazine the 1973 Winter Special issue and the 1974 Nightmare Yearbook, dozens of fables and frights within these two marvelous mags. Super brief wear to a few edges, very very nice even and sharp inner pages, great back covers.

Classic and iconic, anyone? Ed Hannigan and Klaus Janson’s brilliant cover that is now stuff of legend so epic it was adapted into the feature film Captain America Civil War, David Micheline and Jim shooter might have loosely been taking notes from prior JLA Green Arrow / Atom spectacles — Marvel The Avengers volume 1 issue number 223 from September of 1982, the first time Hawkeye uses Ant-Man on his arrow and first appearance of Carson’s Carnival of Traveling Wonders. Issue remains is superb shape, lovely inner pages and backing.

Beginning with the phenomenal and important "Vengeance Is Mine" epic where Carol Danvers gets her powers plus first appearance of The Psyche-Magnatron and Manuel Kree Mandroid, then the next three steps to the series including the Hulk showdown, John Buscema, Gil Kane and Roy Thomas — Marvels Captain Marvel volume 1 issues 18, 19, 20 and 21 spanning November of 1969 to August of 1970. Minimal spine creasing really if any, a faded crease down the center of issue 20, slight print rubbing to back cover of that issue and 21.

"And Now…Starfox!" The first appearance of Eros as Starfox in this fantastic Al Milgrom / Joe Sinnott special, Marvels The Avengers volume 1 issue number 232 from June of 1983, cameos also of Beast, Wonderman and Hercules. An outstanding copy, sharp white back cover, fabulous off-white inner pages, and great cover with one super tiny pen marking to the A in title.

The second spectacular appearance of the Guardians Of The Galaxy in this glorious gem, The Thing, Captain America and Sharon Carter have traveled forward in time to the year 3018 and help the Guardians of the Galaxy drive away the world-conquering Badoon from Earth, "Seven Against The Empire," Marvels Two-In-One volume 1 issue number 5 from September of 1974, Sal Buscema and Mike Esposito behind the bold imagery with a stunner cover from brother John Buscema, also the first appearances of Ebor and Zakkor. A fabulous and fantastic copy, womdeful inners and cover, only the faintest print rubbing to the spine of back cover.

A dust covered showdown and sun down, guns a’ blazing — DC’s Bat Lash volume 1 issues 1 through 7, seven awesome continuous issues that complete the entire first volume together, spanning October of 1968 to October of 1969 and featuring Nick Cardy covers that are fabulous and Denny O’Neil / Joe Orlando stories. All VG+ to Fine- copies really, issue 5 has a loose bottom staple to the centerfold page but the top is intact, some browning to try back of issue 6, print rubbing slightly to backing on issue 7, and issue 1 has a faded reoccurring crease to bottom corner.

Not one but four amazing examples of the world’s greatest super hero squad here, DC’s Justice League Of America volume 1 issues 69, 72, 73 and 75 spanning and including the first Silver Age appearance of Earth-2 Superman, the first appearance of Dinah Lance Black Canary as she joins the team, and of course amazing Neal Adams and Joe Kubert covers. Mostly great edges and good inner pages, some surface rubbing to the spine on issue 75, slight creases to perimeter areas here and there, mostly great white back covers but issue 75 does have a bit foxing and browning to its back.

Stars and Stripes forever. Steve Rogers samples here with two equally different yet delightful books, Marvel Captain America volume 1 issue number 255 the special 40th anniversary issue with Bucky and Cap tribute retelling of his first ever issue via John Byrne from March of 1981, then Marvel Captain America Blood Truce by Howard Chaykin trade paperback first printing from February of 1995. Issue 255 is an easy VF+/NM copy, wow it’s a dazzler, and the TPB is also superb and clean.

A massive and monstrous bunch of werewolf bites, six in fact for this Mike Friedrich, Mike Ploog and Don Perlin bunch — Marvels Werewolf By Night volume 1 issues 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 spanning April to September of 1974. Only very brief and minor spine wear if at all, white and sharp back covers, excellent inner pages almost entirely, great copies the lot through.

Bruce Lee, David Carradine, Shang Chi, Fu Manchu and all sorts of other furious fists and martial arts mastery on display here with six roundhouse kicks, Curtis’ The Deadly Hands Of Kung-Fu issues 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 from September of 1974 to February of 1975, issue number 5 being the first appearance of Manchurian. Extremely sharp and clean copies mostly, hardly any cover damage or inner wear, only some brief bits of surface rubbing on a small spine area or two, some pen marking and a tiny chip to back of issue 6, issues 7 and 8 with some minor print browning to their backs, some slight print rubbing to back of issue 9, mostly very nice conditions for these mags.

The entire tremendous first volume complete here including the Roy Thomas, Ross Andru, John Buscema "The Man Of Bronze" issue 1, while Marvel issues 1 through 8 span October of 1972 to January of 1984. Only very faint blemishes within the lot, super brief and tiny creases to cover or edge wear if at all, issue 8 has a super tiny pen marking near the corner box, great inner pages and mostly good back covers.

Two different yet dark and delightful samples of legendary Bram Stoker’s Dracula — Roy Thomas Dick Giordano Marvel Illustrated Dracula hardcover from January of 2010, then Harper Design’s Dracula Bram Stoker adaptation with illustration by Becky Cloonan from April of 2012. Both books are beautiful, the Marvel Dracula is still sealed in plastic with no perforations, and Harper Design is also magnificent and clean and sharp.

Xavier’s School For Gifted Youngsters with these four consecutive mutant gems — Marvels Uncanny X-men volume 1 issues 148, 149, 150 and 151 from August, September, October and November of 1981, the first appearance of Caliban, Angel Quits the X-men, the origin of Magneto told, the leaving of Kitty Pryde and several other awesome developments with this Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Dave Cockrum lot of lovely. All four of these issue are absolutely beautiful and pretty much undeniably VF/NMs, as is with the majority of this X-men collection we have.

The most savage hero of all, with one of the most savage and stunning lots compiled here, it’s a doozy hold onto your hat — beginning with Marvel Super Special graphic magazine issue number 9 with Conan and Red Sonja from December of 1978, then wow Marvels Conan The Barbarian volume 1 issues 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 a brutal span of October of 1971 to August of 1972 and including the first appearances of Kulan Gath, Elric, and tons more important Conan moments, if that wasn’t enough also included is 3 Conan Trade paperback novels: Conan And The Songs Of The Undead from 2007, Conan the Blood Stained Crown and Other Stories from 2008, and finally Conan The Spear and Other Stories from 2010. The majority, most if not all of the Conan volume 1 issues are VF, issues 16 (my personal favorite BWS Conan cover and it does have a pesky pen marking to its cover), 15, and 13 in particular are dangerously close to VF+/NM stunning copies in polyp bagging, the three TPBs are clean and superb, only issue has some very faint wear around the staples and perhaps a faint ding or two, the Marvel Super Special does have a disconnect from cover to paging loose from the staples but the inner pages are even and clean themselves, one rip to bottom edge on cover and two small tears to bottom of back cover, a marker marking to the intro page of issue 11, a brief faint crease seldomly.

Three terrific and big Batman hardcovers — DC’s Batman Black and White Volume 3 from September of 2008 and featuring work from Bryan Azzarello, Darwyn Cooke and many other greats 288 pages, Batman Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader Deluxe Edition hardcover from Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert 2009 128 pages, finally Batman The Black Glove Deluxe Edition from Grant Morrison, Andy Kubert and Tony S. Daniel 2012, that Bat book is the only of the three that is not new and wrapped in plastic, yet it remains in equally like-new sharp condition.

Snoochie Boochies! The beloved comic legend film director and comedian Kevin Smith presented here with two early paperbacks — Image and View Askew Clerks by Smith and Jim Mahfood 2001 first printing, plus Image’s Chasing Dogma by Smith and Duncan Fregredo June 2001 First Printing. Both TPBs are like new clean and sharp, however Clerks does have a strange separation warping near the spine of the centerfold pages, difficult to photo.

Gorgeous, glorious and pristine these four phenomenal hard covers that take a trip back to beginning superhero era — DC Archive Editions Golden Age Flash Volume 1, Golden Age Starman Volume 1, Golden Age Spectre Volume 1, and Golden Age Hawkman Volume 1. All like new, shrink wrapped with no perorations or tears to the plastic.

Everyone favorite vixen from the planet of Drakulon, Forrest Ackerman’s Vampi here with three vicious bite: Harris’ Vampirella Horror Classics from James Robinson and Ray Lago first printing from 2000 Hardcover, then two TPBs Harris’ Vampirella and The Blood Red Queen Of Hearts for, Esteban Maroto and Gonzales from January of 1996, Harris’ Vengeance Of Vampirella Return Of The Blood Red Queen from Phil Hester, Jay David Ramos and others from January of 2008. All three are like new, clean and pristine.

"Heroes For Hire" and “The Fury Of The Iron Fist” packs two vicious punches of content, Marvel Epic Collection Power Man and Iron Fist Volume 1 from May of 2021 and Epic Collection Iron Fist Volume 1 from January of 2015, these are massive marvel morsels around 520 pages or so. Ike new, fresh and clean with no major or minor blemishes.

How about this for a dynamite lot — DC’s The Doom Patrol volume 1 with a straight run of issues 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119 and 120, 10 issues that span May of 1967 to August of 1968, the legends Bruno Premiani, Arnold Drake and Bob Brown bringing the unusual team of excellent entities to life, the origin of Beast Boy and many other lesser first appearances and occurrences. Issue 111 is sticker labeled a FN+, and the majority of issues here range around that, mostly marvelous clean and nice covers with minimal creasing, great inners and back covers.

I mean how phenomenal can you get? Sheesh. Grey Walker aka the the ominous noir spirit known as The Phantom Stranger here with a powerful seven specimens — starting off with the DC Showcase Presents Phantom Stranger Volume 1 massive trade paperback from 2006 of over 500 haunting pages and the thrills keep going with early Volume 2 issues starting off numbers 11 through 18 spanning from February of 1971 to April of 1972 including the Swamp Thing prototype issue 12, stunner Neal Adams covers aplenty with Arnold Drake framework. Issue 11 labeled a VF and the remainder of the lot lurks around that condition, mostly outstanding copies, the TPB is like-new.

Alex Maleev, Matt Hollingsworth and David Michelinie created this Kal-El versus the galaxy’s best hunter miniseries — DC’s Superman Vs. Predator complete mini series issues 1, 2 and 3 from May to July 2000, great artwork and story for this three part saga. All three are epic and excellent in condition with no blemishes.

The outstanding origin of the All-Star Squadron in "The World On Fire" also the first appearance of Firebrand II in the Rich Buckler Roy Thomas beginning gem, and only gets better from there, DC’s All Star Squadron volume 1 issues 1, 25 (the first appearance of Infinity Inc. team), issue 47 (the origin of Dr. Fate and Todd McFarlane cover), issue 50 (the Crisis On Infinite Earths crossover), finally issue number 67 the finale to the series featuring J. Edgar Hoover “The First Case Of The Justice Society,” basically the five best and most important issues from the 67 issue series here for you. All five books are beauties, fantastic edges, corners, backings.

A brilliant Bruce Wayne bunch here during the tremendous Neal Adams/Dick Giordano/Mike Friedrich period — DC’s Batman volume 1 issues 236, 240, 241, 242 and issue 246, 5 bag books spanning November of 1971 to December of 1972, including the classic title logo switch. Truly tremendous copies again here, minor and brief surface scuff, faint edge wear if at all, a finger smudge to cover on issue 240, brief browning if at all, some waving to bottom of issue 240, a tiny pencil marking to top corner on intro page of issue 242.

Four fierce consecutive fireworks from the JL International here and in brilliant stupendous condition, DC’s Justice League International volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 from Keith Giffen, J. M, DeMatteis, from 2009 on and with around 150 or so pages for each book, all four are positively pristine and shrink wrapped, like-new, there is one perforation to cover on Volume 2, and one to the back of Volume 3.

A far out and fantastic four fables from Kal-El’s best buddy, DC’s Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen volume 1 issues 105, 111, 144 and 147 spanning September of 1967 to March of 1972, James Bartholomew Olsen imagery and occurrences via Neal Adams and many other greats. These are four epic and impeccable copies, check out the photos they are superb and very nice.

"With a Bang and A Whimper" sees the death of Larry Trask as Scarlet Witch goes on an unbelievable tangent in this assembling — Marvels The Avengers volume 1 issue number 104 from October of 1972 via Rich Buckler, Joe Sinnott and Roy Thomas. This is a bonafide VF+ superb copy, very clean and sharp, one small ding and pencil marking to the top left corner of back cover.

A superb and spectacular copy of this bonafide gem and landmark mutant gem, the first appearance of the Hellfire Club, first Black and White Bishop, and first Sage in "Hellfire Is Their Name," Marvels X-men volume 1 issue number 132 from April of 1980, the staggering tried and true treasured team of Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Terry Austin crafting comic history. A phenomenal and beautiful copy this one is, see the pictures.

Careful of Anna Marie, sugar… Here comes the first appearance of beloved fan favorite Rogue and first cover appearance of the shape shifting stunner Mystique in "By Friends Betrayed," Marvels Avengers Annual number 10 from August of 1981, Chris Claremont, Al Milgrom, Dave Simmons and so many other greats behind the pages on this proper Marvel mutant morsel. Quite easily a VF copy, beautiful and difficult to spot even a minor blemish with this glorious gem.

The first appearance of Lakota and it just get more chilling from then on with this spectacular Adam Spektor sampling, the Doctor is in — Gold Key’s The Occult Files Of Doctor Spektor volume 1 issues 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 from April to December of 1973, Don Glut, Dan Spiegle and others behind the haunting pages. Three of these issues are sticker graded a 8.0 and 9.0, I’m not sure about that but they are very very delightful and dazzling copies for sure, issue 1 does have some creasing to the spine and slight faint wear to the bottom left edge, great backings and inners mostly.

Legendary creator Joe Kubert was responsible for an amazing stream of great works, for more than a sixty year period and heres a complete capsule example of his brilliance — Epic Comics’ Joe Kubert’s Tor volume 4 issues 1, 2, 3 and 4 spanning June to September of 1993, the imagery in these savage magazine sized issues is of course incredible, as is the condition, superb everywhere easily VF+ copies.

The legendary John Byrne with his incredible creation with some coloring help via Matt Webb, wow what a delight, the complete trade paperback collection of Dark Horse John Byrne’s Next Men Volume 1 all the way through 6, all six of the series, spanning March of 1993 to December of 1996. All TPBs are terrific in condition, a slight bit of nubbing to the bottom left corner of Volume 1, minor creasing along the spine of Volumes 4 and 6, great inner pages even clean and concise, a few minor surface scuffs to the backings of Volume 2 and 3.

Both the hardcover AND the trade paperback to this stellar Howard Chaykin / Archie Goodwin captivating story: Marvels Wolverine And Nick Fury The Scorpio Connection hardcover from 1989 and the TPB from 2012, the TPB also collects a bit more content and a few more stories from Wolverine Fury past. Both are dazzlers and superb in condition.

Wow, just wow. A massive lot of TPBs, a hardcover, and several prints but all with a common theme: autographed by Amanda Conner, Justin Gray, or Darwyn Cooke and sometimes more than one, okay here goes — first, Paper Films Denver first exclusive printing from April of 2014, Amanda Conner cover signed by her and numbered 123 out of only 200 and accompanied by three prints one of the cover, one signed by Gray and one by Conner, then Palmiotti and Gray’s Sex and Violence TPB Volume 2 first printing from October of 2014 signed by Justin Gray, Justin Gray and Palmiotti’s Retrovirus signed by Gray and Amanda Conner twice to the intro page and first page numbered a low 7 of only 100 copies, finally Forager first printing from November of 2013, this TPB includes an autograph by Justin Gray and Amanda Conner to the cover and includes 3 prints including the variant cover signed by legend Darwyn Cooke and one by Amanda Conner. Whew, what a wondrous lot. All items are impeccable and sharp like-new in condition.

Gore filled and gorgeous, Image Comics’ Hack And Slash Omnibus Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3 together, all from 2010 and all first printings, many many numerous segments with these three action packed gems, all in pristine shape I honestly can’t find even a minor blemish with these, just delightful.

Ray Harryhausen is arguably the greatest stop-motion animator in the history of motion pictures, blazing new trails in special effects from the 1950s to the 1980s creating realistic dinosaurs, fantastic aliens, and imaginative mythological creatures. In the animator's own words, accompanied by hundreds of previously unpublished photographs, sketches, and storyboards from his personal archive, this book details Harryhausen's entire film career, from 20 Million Miles to Earth and Earth vs. The Flying Saucers to Clash of the Titans and Jason and the Argonauts. In words and images, this book explains the basics of special effects and stop-motion animation, along the way telling entertaining tales of working with the film stars of the day, such as Laurence Olivier, and other greats. Billboard Books’ Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life hardcover from April of 2004. A beautiful tribute and in beautiful like-new condition with only some faint wear to the dust jacket.

Awesomely adapted by Denise Mina for this acclaimed Steig Larsson project, Vertigo Comics The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Volumes 1 and 2 from 2012 and 2013, art by Andrea Mutti and covers by legend Lee Burmejo 144 pages of thrilling and dark developments. Volume 2 is shrink wrapped in plastic and like-new, Volume 1 is raw but is also in awesome clean and sharp condition with only some minor dust to the dust jacket.

Out From Boneville, The Great Cow Race, and Eyes Of The Storm are the three Parts to arguably Jeff Smith’s most famous and beloved creation, Cartoon Books’ Bone Volumes 1, 2 and 3 all first printings and from 1996. All three are in terrific shape, only some brief faint warping to the right ends of covers.

Wild, wicked womdeful and wondrous, wow! Logan samplings unlike you’ve never seen, a gargantuan loot grab here, can you say snikt? Beginning with two terrific VF/NM copies of Marvels Uncanny X-men numbers 126 and 133 the first appearance of Kevin MacTaggert as Proteus and the first appearance of Senator Robert Kelly wit those two hailing from October of 1979 from May of 1980, then don’t hold your breath — 9 Marvel Trade Paperbacks: Marvel Wolverine Classic Volume 5, Marvel Legends Marc Silvestri Wolverine, Marvel Knights Wolverine Enemy Of The State, Marvel Comics Presents Wolverine, Marvel Classic Wolverine Volume 4, Marvel Epic Collection Wolverine Madripoor Nights, Marvel Comics Presents Wolverine Volume 4 Ghost Rider Cover, Marvel Classic Wolverine Volume 1, and finally Wolverine Blood Debt. All are truly beautiful excellent copies, with hardly any damages to any of them, perhaps a faint brief bit of warping if at all. Hey bub, what a treasure!

Geoff Johns and Grant Morrison the brain masters behind these two tremendous Diana Prince Hardcovers — Humanoids’ Olympus from 2015 still sealed and wrapped in plastic with no holes or perforations, then DC’s Wonder Woman Earth One Volume 1 from 2016, that hardcover is also like-new albeit raw and not in plastic but it is bagged. Nice copies.

Two terrific and huge handovers from much acclaimed fable history — the graphic novel adaptation of The Flash Gordon Book from G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1980 Famous Films with various photos and behind the scenes moments, then Jules Verne’s beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea adapted by Gary Gianni from Flesk Publications 2009. Both books like-new, clean and sharp but bottom right corner on Flash G has a slight dent nubbing and some spine sticking to back cover last page.

Excellent and exciting, the first computer generated graphic novel via Mike Saenz and Epic Comics, Iron Man Crash from 1988. Really really something and exceptional example of early AI from awesome comic history. Fantastic in condition with some minor warping to the edges.

Comic greats Gerry Conway and George Freeman breathing fire into the cold with this astonishing Natasha Romanoff sample, Marvel Graphic Novel Black Widow: The Coldest War from April of 1990, an excellent and exciting story telling to her history unique as it is intruiguing. Magazine sized novel remains in great condition with only very brief warping to edges.

Take a trip to Atlantis with this truly astounding lot — DC’s Aquaman volume 1 issues 24, 27, 28, and 31 spanning November of 1965 to January of 1967, and isn’t it something Bob Haney and Nick Cardy created awesomely? The first appearances of Karla, The Un-Thing, Capt. 40-Knot and others. Issues range from VG+ to Fine- mostly, a slight moment or two of edge wear, brief nubbing to a few corners, minor browning.

I remember fondly this issue being all the rage in its day, the special 30th anniversary hologram cover for proper Peter Parker spectacle plus the first appearance of Spider-Man 2099 and a cool Venom/Carnage bound in poster via John Romita Jr and David Michelinie, Marvels Amazing Spider-Man number 365 from August of 1992. A tiny bit of red ink staining to top left above corner box briefly. Faint bit of corner wear to the very tips.

The death of the Red Guardian in this John Buscema, Roy Thomas and Vince Coletta beauty, Marvels The Avengers volume 1 issue number 44 from September of 1967, "The Valiant Also Die," which is also the origin of Black Widow II. Some slight edge wear to the top edge, faint browning to perimeter, great inner pages, some browning and print rubbing to back cover.

"Even In Death" sees artist Brent Anderson join legend Chris Claremont on mutant duty, Marvels Uncanny X-men issue number 144 from April of 1981, guest starring the macabre Man-Thing and Polaris, the death of Jack Forrester as well. Issue is incredibly sharp and clean, an easy VF+, just a dazzler.

The Legion Of Super Heroes suicide squad as Superboy and the super youngsters escapade, DC’s Adventure Comcis volume 1 issue number 319 from April of 1964, true magic within these pages. Good edges and corners mostly, slight spine creasing and good backing with brief bit of browning.

What an absolutely awesome scarce and amazing treasure here, Wham-O’s Giant Comics number 1 from 1967 the world’s largest Comic Book which measure a staggering 21 inches by 14 inches and has incredibly cool imagery for every gigantic page. Considering its size and age it remains in pretty spectacular shape, only a stunning 1500 action panels, one minor crease to the top left corner of first few pages, and only faint edge wear to spots on the cover, brief browning to back.