Auctions: comic books in 'Comic Strip Reprints'

Ace Comics (1937) 80 CGC 8.0

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4368650007

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.

Ace Comics (1937) 150 GD 2.0

1" cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached. Cover and interior wrap detached at one staple. Oxidation.

Cover by Ray Moore. Edited by Hal Fox. Stories and art by Charles Flanders, Drake Williams, H. H. Knerr, Doc Winner, Chic Young, Joe Musial, Lee Falk, Ray Moore, William Ritt, Clarence Gray, Don Moore and Alex Raymond. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay presents an anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Includes Alex Raymond's Jungle Jim and Lee Falk's The Phantom. The Phantom investigates rumors that an ancient Dragon God has returned to life; Rip Kirby tracks a murderer. The Phantom; Jungle Jim; Katzenjammer Kids; Fighting Americans; Blondie; Rip Kirby; Teddy and Sitting Bull; Pete the Tramp; Doc Winner's Daffy Doodles. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Bringing Up Father (1919-1934 Cupples & Leon) 6 GD- 1.8

Water damage and residue.

"6th series." Comic strip reprints from 1922. 9.75-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 48 pages; card stock covers; no cover price. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Debbie Dean, Career Girl (1945) 1 CGC 7.0

Paper: White

Label #4419920017

Back-up story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe story (6 pages). Cover price $0.10.

Debbie Dean, Career Girl (1945) 2 CGC 8.0

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4419920016

Famous Funnies (1934) 119 VG- 3.5

1.75" Spine split from top. Cover oxidation.

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; and "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta. "Terry Breaks a Record" text story by Carl G. Hodges. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Famous Funnies (1934) 209 PR 0.5

INCOMPLETE. Majority of 2 pages missing (affects Dickie Dare story). 7" cumulative spine split. Oxidation.

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.

Joe Palooka Visits The Lost City (1945) 0 PR 0.5

INCOMPLETE. Last page missing (affects art and story). Several pages detached and loose.

Cover by Ham Fisher (credited). Stories and art by Ham Fisher. Ham Fisher's boxer Joe Palooka joins the search for the Lost City, in this collection of the popular comic strip. At 164 pages (for the cover price of only 50 cents), this was the longest comics publication of its era, and a precursor to the book-length comics collections of the Modern era. Also featuring an illustrated profile of Joe Palooka creator Ham Fisher, and a good-girl art cover. 164 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.50.

King Comics (1936) 9 CGC 5.5

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4419920019

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson (sometimes credited as Jo King). Stories and art by William Ritt, Clarence Gray, Brandon Walsh, Nicholas Afonsky, Carl Anderson, Jack Burnley, R. J. Scott, Eddie Sullivan, Charlie Schmidt, Lee Falk, Phil Davis, E. C. Segar, George Clarke, Lou Hanlon, George McManus, Otto Soglow, Eddie Rickenbacker, Clayton Knight, Ed Anthony, Romer Grey, Charles Flanders, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Don Moore and Alex Raymond. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay presents an anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Mandrake the Magician and Lothar notice a suspicious couple on the circus train. Fun Christmas cover features multiple King Features characters interacting. Brick Bradford; Little Annie Rooney; Henry; Sport Features; Scott's Scrapbook; Radio Patrol; Mandrake the Magician; Thimble Theatre; Flash Gordon; The G-Man; Rosie's Beau; Bringing Up Father; The Little King; Ace Drummond; Ted Towers, Animal Master; King of the Royal Mounted. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Little Orphan Annie (1933 Whitman BLB) 708 FR/GD 1.5 (R)

Restored (see item notes)

RESTORATION. Major color touch. Spine rebuild. First few pages detached.

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Little Orphan Annie (1933 Whitman BLB) #708, Harold Gray, the 2nd Big Little Book

Texas History Movies HC (1928 Southwest Press) 1st Edition 1A-1ST VG- 3.5

Cover coming loose from staples. Writing on interior pages. Staple rust, rust migration.

1st (1928) Edition [Cardboard Cover] - 1st printing. Written by John Rosenfield, Jr. Art by Jack Patton. A collection of Daily comic strips from the pages of the Dallas News covering topics from Texas History. For may years, and as late as the mid-1960's, the little comic was used in Texas schools as a teaching aid. Cardboard Cover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 56 pages, B&W.

Tip Top Comics (1936) 68 PR 0.5

Interior is complete. Extremely brittle pages. Spine split through all wraps.

Tip Top Comics (1936) 167 PR 0.5

Interior is complete. Extremely brittle pages. Spine split through all wraps.

Stories and Art by Ernie Bushmiller, Paul Berdanier, Leonard Sansone, Rudolph Dirks and unknown. (Note: Who the inkers are is mainly unknown.) In this issue: Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller; Strange as It Seems 1-pager "Longest Cemetery in the World"; How It Began article "Cold Cream" with art by Paul Berdanier; Willie by Leonard Sansone; Stamp Tips article "A Stamp Fortune"; Broncho Bill; and The Captain and the Kids by Rudolph Dirks. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Tip Top Comics (1936) 186 GD- 1.8

Cover detached. Cover oxidation. Water damage.

Tip Top Comics (1936) 202 PR 0.5

Interior is complete. Full length spine split through cover and first few wraps.