Miracle Comics (1940) 1
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Issue #1
Auction opens January 4- Paper: Cream to off white
- FROM THE OXFORD COLLECTION.
- Label #21-26027AF-012
- INCOMPLETE. First two wraps missing. Interrupts art and story.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Cover by Ed Kressy. Stories and art by Emile C. Schurmacher, Ed Kressy, Norman Fallon and Jack Alderman. The very first comic book from publisher Hillman, featuring Sky Wizard, Dash Dixon and other embryonic superheroes. Sky Wizard, the world's greatest inventor, creates an enormous flying island, but when his pilot Captain Dare is kidnapped by the Tibetan supervillain the Unholy One, he uses his inventions to gain superhuman strength and set out in pursuit. Experimental "perpetual life rays" give Dash Dixon superpowers, which he uses to fight crime. Steve Oakes becomes the Masked Angel to catch the gangsters who killed his father, and winds up hunted by crooks and cops alike. Sky Wizard; K-7; Dusty Doyle; Dash Dixon: The Triangle Murders; Scorpion; Blanda; Masked Angel; Pinkie Parker: Kid Sherlock. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
