Captain George's Comic World (1970) comic books 1960-1969

Captain George's Comic World #1 (just "Comic World" on the cover) features newspaper comic strip reprints from 1906 by Winsor McCay and others (Buster Brown, Happy Hooligan, etc.). 16 pages, black and white, 8.25 x 11. Cover price $0.20.

Captain George's Comic World #2 (just "Comic World" on the cover) features newspaper comic strip reprints from the turn of the century by Winsor McCay and others (Buster Brown, Happy Hooligan, etc.). 16 pages, black and white, 8.25 x 11. Cover price $0.20.

Captain George's Comic World # 3 is a special Winsor McCay issue reprinting selected Sunday pages from Little Nemo in Slumberland, Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, and In the Land of Wonderful Dreams. 16 page, black and white, 11.25-in. x 14-in. tabloid size on newsprint. Cover price $0.20.

COMIC WORLD #8 features fantasy illustrations by Noel Paton for Rime of the Ancient Mariner originally published in 1863. 16 page, no color, 11.25-in. x 14-in. tabloid size on newsprint. Cover price $0.25.

Captain George's Comic World #12 features the western comic strip, Red Ryder. 16 page, no color, 11.25-in. x 14-in. tabloid size on newsprint. Cover price $0.25.

All reprints of the 1914 comic strip The Terrors of the Tiny Tads. 16 page, black and white, 11.25-in. x 14-in. tabloid size on newsprint. Cover price $0.25.

Captain George's Comic World #14 features Bringing up Father by George McManus, plus early Mutt and Jeff, and other vintage newspaper strips. 16 page, black and white, 11.25-in. x 14-in. tabloid size on newsprint. Cover price $0.25.

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Captain George's Comic World #17 features reprints of 1920s Winsor McCay political cartoons from the Herald Examiner, plus a one-page article on Thomas Edison. 16 pages, black and white tabloid newspaper, 11.25 x 17. Cover price $0.25.

Captain George's Comic World #22 is an all Fawcett issue with nice black and white reproduction of stories featuring Captain Marvel, Bulletman, and Captain Marvel, Jr. (2 stories). 32 newsprint pages, black and white, 7.5 x 10.5. Cover price $0.25.

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Captain George's Comic World #23/24 is a 75c cover-priced 64-page giant featuring all Golden Age Timely stories: Sub-Mariner (fighting Nazi robots), Captain America in "The Cobra Ring of Death" with art that is likely by Syd Shores, The Human Torch and Toro, The Patriot, The Vision, and The Angel. 64 page, black and white, newsprint, 7.5 x 10.75. Cover price $0.75.

Special Giant double issue featuring Stanley Pitt's Silver Starr in the Flame World. Stanley Pitt is an Australian artist inspired, like Al Williamson, by Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon. Silver Starr was a comic strip centered on an Australian soldier, Silver, who on his return from the Second World War, joins an expedition to the Earth's interior aboard a rocket-powered vehicle. They discover the incredible Flame World and its ruler, Queen Pristine (Pitt's homage to Raymond's Dale Arden), rescuing her from the evil despot, Tarka (another acknowledgement to Raymond's Ming the Merciless). These newspaper strips ran from November 1946 until November 1948. 7 3/4-in. x 11-in., 80 pages, not stapled, black and white. Cover price $0.60.

Captain George's Comic World #27 features a one page article on Will Eisner together with a reprint of a Spirit story, "Sand Saref," plus a twelve page Russ Manning "Brothers of the Spear" strip, a six page article on underground comics by David Zack titled "Smut for Love, Art, Society," and a four page article, "The Spirit of The Comics," by Joan C. Siegfried. Kirk Alyn Superman photo cover. 8.25 x 11, black and white newsprint, 32 pages. Cover price $0.25.

32 pages. Special Virgil Finlay issue. 18 pages of stunning Finlay art, some illustrating a Sam Moskowitz article, "Virgil Finlay, Dean of Science Fiction Artists." Also 5-page Edd Cartier portfolio and 7-page Hannes Bok portfolio. Cover price $0.25.