Auctions: comic books in 'Spaceman / Spacemen'
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Item #65225872
Published Aug 1952 by Better Publications.Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 27 #1 VG 4.0
Water damage.
Starts Aug 31 Vol. 27, No. 1 - August, 1952. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Philip Jose Farmer "The Lovers" (this is his 1st published sf-story, but his very 1st non-sf story appeared six years earlier in Adventure Vol. 115 No. 5, March 1946), Kendell Foster Crossen, Harry Neal, Charles E. Fritch, Boyd Ellanby, Jack Vance, and Dave Dryfoos. Virgil Finlay (3) and Alex Schomburg illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 150 pages. Cover price $0.25.
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Item #64173847
Strange Adventures (1950 1st Series) 44 VG- 3.5
Cover detached at one staple. Moisture damage.
Starts Sep 14 Captain Comet in "The Plant That Plotted Murder," "A Switch in Time" (pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Bernard Sachs), "The City That Went Mad," and "The Man Who Couldn't Die." 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #65374587
Published Feb 1952 by Avon Publications.Strange Worlds (1950 Avon) 6 CGC 2.5
Paper: Off white to white
Small amount of dried glue on spine.
Label #3975592010
Starts Oct 3 Featuring a memorable science fiction cover by Joe Orlando and Wally Wood. Plus Everett Raymond Kinstler art in the 6-page Kenton of the Star Patrol story, "The Monster-Men of Space!", and a 3-page Kinstler titled "Death Claims an Enemy." Kinstler also draws the inside front cover. All the art in this issue is impressive. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #65224873
Thrills of Tomorrow (1954 Harvey) 18 GD+ 2.5
Cover detached at one staple, coming detached at second.
Starts Oct 3 Stories and art by Joe Certa, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, and Warren Tomb of Terror was one of Harvey Comics' notorious pre-Code horror comics. A ghost awakens to resume his old life with a murder, but doesn't reckon on the murder victim's ghost returning as well. Scientists discover something living deep beneath the Earth's crust - something evil. Puppeteers buy strangely lifelike puppets from an odd little man. The Dead Awaken; The Thing from the Center of the Earth; The Little People; Wax Museum. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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