Auctions: comic books published by King
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Item #62085004
Tags: Comic Strip ReprintsKing Comics (1936) 1 CBCS 5.0
1st app. Flash Gordon, Brick Bradford, Henry, and Mandrake the Magician
Paper: Cream to off white
From The Oxford Collection.
Label #21-26027AF-009
Starts Jan 4 Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson (sometimes credited as Jo King). Stories and art by William Ritt, Clarence Gray, Billy DeBeck, Brandon Walsh, Nicholas Afonsky, Carl Anderson, Jack Burnley, R. J. Scott, Eddie Sullivan, Charlie Schmidt, Lee Falk, Phil Davis, Lyman Young, Nat Edson, 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 uses a flying carpet to free a rajah's daughter from an arranged marriage; Brick Bradford has adventures under the Earth's surface. Fun cover features multiple King Features characters interacting. Brick Bradford; Barney Google; Solve a Jiglette; Little Annie Rooney; Henry; Sport Features; Scott's Scrapbook; Radio Patrol; Mandrake the Magician; Tim Tyler's Luck; 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; The Pet Post. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #61826938
Mandrake the Magician (1966 King) 5 CGC 9.4
Paper: White
Label #4445140006
Starts Jan 4 Cover by Fred Fredericks. Stories by Gary Poole and Paul Norris. Art by Ray Bailey and Paul Norris. These comic-book adventures of the crime-fighting illusionist were published by comic-strip syndicate King Features itself. Mandrake and Lothar are all that stand in the way of the alien invasion of a small European country. Mandrake pursues modern-day pirates who are using a war-surplus PT boat to rob other vessels. Brick Bradford and Saturn Sadie shrink down to sub-atomic size to find out what caused an experimental plane to crash. Fun one-eyed aliens cover. Cape Cod Caper; The Fear Mongers; Brick Bradford. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.