Auctions: comic books in 'Comic Strip Reprints', graded by CGC

Ace Comics (1937) 82 CGC 4.0 River City

Paper: Off white to white

River City.

Label #2120477001

Cover art by Joe Musial. The Phantom strips, scripts by Lee Falk, art by Ray Moore. Pete the Tramp strips by Clarence D. Russell. Jungle Jim strips, art by Alex Raymond. Katzenjammer Kids strips, art by H.H. Knerr. Tim Tyler's Luck strips, art by Lyman Young. Family Portraits strips, art by Norman Lynd. Blondie strips, art by Chic Young. Prince Valiant strips, art by Hal Foster. Teddy and Sitting Bull strips, art by Joe Musial. Tillie the Toiler strips, art by Russ Westover. Just Kids strips, art by A.D. Carter. Private Breger Abroad strips by Dave Breger. Curley Harper at Lakespur strips, art by Lyman Young. Barney Google strips, art by Billy DeBeck. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Famous Funnies (1934) 209 CGC 7.0

Paper: Off white to white

Slab: Significant front/back scuff(s)

Label #4319174002

Cover by Frank Frazetta. Stories and art by Rick Yager, Colton Waugh and Harold LeDoux. The long-running series that introduced "comic books" to the world, featuring reprints of comic strips. Seminal sci-fi strip Buck Rogers returns to Famous Funnies, ushering in the first of a series of iconic Buck Rogers covers by fantasy and comics legend Frazetta that ran during the title's last years. A series of short "True Heroic Stories," featuring real-life tales of wartime action. Buck Rogers; Dickie Dare; The Terrible Titans; The Smoke Eating Marine; The River Secret; Star Scout in Star Act; The Best Automobile Sticker. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Popular Comics (1936-1948 Dell) 25 CGC 4.5

Paper: Off white

Slab: Significant front/back scuff(s)

Label #3693465001

Stories and art by Milton Caniff, Chester Gould, Edwina Dumm, Bill Holman, Harold Gray, Frank Willard, Fontaine Fox, Percy Crosby, Walter Berndt, J. R. Williams, William Ferguson, Martin Branner, Martha Orr, Gus Edson, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, Carl Ed, Sol Hess, Wallace Carlson, Stookie Allen, Al Posen, Henry Sperry, W. C. Brigham, Ed Cronin, A. W. Nugent, and Ed Leffingwell. Edited by comics pioneers M.C. Gaines and Sheldon Mayer. An early comic book from Dell, featuring reprinted newspaper comic strips alongside new material. The Purple Cross Gang pulls off their biggest bank robbery yet, but Dick Tracy is hot on their trail. Pat, Connie and Terry face a dangerous showdown with the Dragon Lady, until government troops arrive at her hideout. Don Winslow leads the charge against the Crocodile's forces. Also featuring popular strips Little Orphan Annie, Skippy, Smokey Stover and Gasoline Alley. Toonerville Folks; Moon Mullins; Kitty Higgins; Dick Tracy; Skippy; Always Belittlin'; Smitty; Herby; Tippie; Winnie Winkle; Yankee Privateer; The Gumps; Don Winslow; Chimpsey's Cartoon Circus; Bos'n Hal Sea Scout; Harold Teen; Little Orphan Annie; Jinglet; Gasoline Alley; Out Our Way; Soldiers of Fortune: Alexander Iacovleff; Apple Mary; This Curious World; Tiny Tim; Spooky; Simp O'Dill; The Nebbs; Real Magic; Dill and Daffy; Streaky; Terry and the Pirates; Popular Sports; Smokey Stover; Little Joe; Smilin' Jack; Sweeney & Son. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.