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All Star Comics comic books issue 1

  • Issue #1
    All Star Comics (1940-1978) 1
    • Moderate professional restoration
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Slab: Minor side edge crack
    • Professional restoration includes: piece added to back cover, cover reinforced, spine splits sealed, tear seals to back cover, cover cleaned.
    • Label #16-17447E6-008
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    Hawkman (script by Gardner Fox, art by Sheldon Moldoff), the Sandman (script by Fox, art by Chad Grothkopf, not Creig Flessel), Gary Concord the Ultra-Man (only appearance; script and art by Jon L. Blummer as "Don Shelby"), the Flash (script by Fox, art by Everett (E.E.) Hibbard), the Spectre (script by Jerry Siegel, art by Bernard Baily), Biff Bronson (script by Albert Sulman, art by Joseph Sulman), the Hour Man (script by Ken Fitch, art by Baily), and Red, White and Blue (script by Siegel, art by William Smith). Two-page text story, "Exile to Jupiter" by Evelyn Gaines. Cover art (composite) by Creig Flessel, Hibbard, Blummer, and Baily. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    All Star Superman TPB (2024 DC) Compact Comics Edition 1-1ST


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    1st printing. Collects All Star Superman (2005-2008) #1-12. Written by Grant Morrison. Art and cover by Frank Quitely. Graphic novels to read anywhere: DC Compact Comics collect DCs bestselling, most iconic stories in a new size! Combining their singular talents to create a fresh and brilliant vision of the Man of Steel, comics storytellers Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely tell one of the greatest Superman stories ever imagined. ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN! Topsy-turvy madness on the backwards Bizarro planet. A bottled city that proves you can never go home again. A living sun hell-bent on destroying humanity. A world without the Man of Steel. Twelve impossible labors and mere moments to save the Earth. The multiple-award winning ALL-STAR SUPERMAN is an eternal story true to the greatest character from the golden age of comics. Featuring iconic characters Lex Luthor, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, and Bizarro, this full color edition collects the entire story Softcover, 5-in. x 8 1/2-in., 296 pages, full color. Cover price $9.99.

  • Issue #1-REP
    All Star Superman TPB (2024 DC) Compact Comics Edition 1-REP


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    2nd and later printing. Collects All Star Superman (2005-2008) #1-12. Written by Grant Morrison. Art and cover by Frank Quitely. Graphic novels to read anywhere: DC Compact Comics collect DCs bestselling, most iconic stories in a new size! Combining their singular talents to create a fresh and brilliant vision of the Man of Steel, comics storytellers Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely tell one of the greatest Superman stories ever imagined. ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN! Topsy-turvy madness on the backwards Bizarro planet. A bottled city that proves you can never go home again. A living sun hell-bent on destroying humanity. A world without the Man of Steel. Twelve impossible labors and mere moments to save the Earth. The multiple-award winning ALL-STAR SUPERMAN is an eternal story true to the greatest character from the golden age of comics. Featuring iconic characters Lex Luthor, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, and Bizarro, this full color edition collects the entire story Softcover, 5-in. x 8 1/2-in., 296 pages, full color. Cover price $9.99.

  • Issue #1
    All Star Comics (1999) 1
    Published May 1999 by DC.

    Cover art by Dave Johnson. Time's Keeper featuring the return of the Justice Society of America, script by James Robinson and David Goyer, pencils by Michael Lark, inks by Wade von Grawbadger and Doug Hazlewood; Hourman returns to stop a spy ring; He ends up as a pawn to provide them supernatural heroes, used to summon Stalker; Hourman escapes to alert the JSA. Stalker nearly defeats them; Needing a respite, he creates 7 disciples to busy the heroes. 52 pgs. $2.95. Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #1
    All Star Comics 80-Page Giant (1999) 1

    WRITTEN BY MARK WAID, ROY THOMAS, JOE KELLY, AND VARIOUS; ART BY ADAM DEKRAKER, DENYS COWAN AND VARIOUS; COVER BY MICHAEL LARK In stores July 14. An exciting one-shot showcases seven tales of the JSA, including a WWII tale written by Roy Thomas (ALL-STAR SQUADRON) that pits Doctor Fate and the Golden Age Green Lantern against the Nazis' deadliest agent: the Norse god Thor (illustrated by Kevin Sharpe)! Elsewhere in the Golden Age: Doctor Mid-Nite offers Atom Al Pratt some advice in dealing with college bullies (written by Mark Waid with art by Adam DeKraker and Mark Propst); Wonder Woman tries to teach Phantom Lady and Liberty Belle about being a liberated woman in a tale featuring the original Red Tornado (written by Eric Luke with art by Chris Jones); and Sandman Wesley Dodds faces the Third Reich's dreaded "Dream Assassin" in a subconscious battle with waking-world consequences (written by John Ostrander with art by Denys Cowan). Plus: The original Hourman faces a foe 50% his superior: the 90- Minute Man (written by Tom Peyer with art by Pete Pachoumis); the Spectre and Starman face off against each other over the fate of a group of Japanese war criminals (written by Joe Kelly with art by Duncan Rouleau); and, in the modern day, Wildcat teaches today's Starman some lessons in manhood (writen by James Robinson and David S. Goyer with art by David Ross). FC, 80 PG.$4.95" Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #1
    Hanna-Barbera All-Stars (1995-1996 Archie Comics) 1

    Cover pencils by Scott Jeralds, inks by Scott Awley. Honey, I Lost the Kids; Fred and Barney go on a wild snorkasaurus chase to find the missing Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm. Relatively Speaking; Boo Boo becomes a billionaire, and Jellystone Park is his first purchase. Used Gorillas; Magilla Gorilla has a new career: used car salesman. 36 pgs., full color. $1.50. Cover price $1.50.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Star Comics All-Star Collection TPB (2009-2010 Marvel) 1-1ST

    Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Planet Terry (1985) #1-2, Top Dog (1985) #1-3, Wally the Wizard (1985) #1-2 and Royal Roy (1985) #1-2. Written by LENNIE HERMAN, BOB BOLLING, SID JACOBSON and STAN KAY. Art by WARREN KREMER, BOB BOLLING and HOWARD POST. Cover by WARREN KREMER, BOB BOLLING and HOWARD POST. This collection for kids of all ages not only gets four stars, it has Four Stars: Planet Terry! Wally the Wizard! Royal Roy! Top Dog! Space opera, Arthurian-era fantasy, sovereign secrets and canine crimefighting - collected for the first time! Aliens, demons, ghosts, spies and more! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 216 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $19.99.

  • Issue #1
    All-Star Comics Revue (1977) fanzine 1

    Cover by Mike Nasser and Steve Leialoha. Art by Rick Stasi & Alex Delinges.Edited by Craig Delich. A complete index to All-Star Comics with cover reproductions. Also includes JSA character bios, Junior Justice Society of America membership kits, and more. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, glossy white paper stock, black and white. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Marvel Super Stories HC (2023 Amulet Books) All-New Comics All-Star Cartoonists 1-1ST


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    1st printing. Welcome to the Marvel Universe and the World Outside Your Window! All of your favorite Marvel super heroes are here in all-new six page stories written and illustrated by some of the biggest names in comics for young readers. These mighty team-ups include: Black Panther: Jerry Craft (New Kid), Wiccan: Mike Curato (Flamer), Miles Morales Spider-Man: C. G. Esperanza (Soul Food Sunday), Iron Man: John Gallagher (Max Meow), Shang-Chi: Gale Galligan (The Baby-Sitters Club), the Hulk: Chris Giarrusso (G-Man), Spider-Man: Nathan Hale (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales), Captain America: Michael Lee Harris (Choco Leche), Hawkeye: Ben Hatke (Zita the Spacegirl), Ms. Marvel: Priya Huq (Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin's Hijab), Daredevil: John Jennings (Kindred: The Graphic Novel Adaptation), Thor and Loki: George O'Connor (The Olympians), Namor: Lincoln Peirce (Big Nate), Squirrel Girl: Maria Scrivan (Nat Enough), and Ghost Spider: Jessi Zabarsky (Witchlight). Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 160 pages, full color. Cover price $16.99.