Golden Age comic books issue 1

1st printing. Collects Sovereigns (2017 Dynamite) #0-5. Written by Ray Fawkes. Art by Johnny Desjardins. Cover by Stephen Segovia. The epic that will redefine the Gold Key heroes continues! The year is 2025, Turok has gone missing and Magnus is good and worried about that. When even a time traveling mission to confer with Doctor Spektor and the creature once known as Solar don't yield any answers, Magnus must brave the unknown to track the missing hero down. Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.

1st printing.

Written by Alvin Schwartz. Art by Wayne Boring. Cover by Peter Poplaski.

The creative torch is passed to writer Alvin Schwartz when Superman's creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster leave the series. Schwartz and artist Wayne Boring present sixteen storylines that begin while World War II is still raging and continue into the post-war era. Stories include "The Prankster's Peculiar Premonitions," "Lois Lane, Editor," and "Superman's Secret Revealed!"

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 9-in., 272 pages, B&W.

NOTE: The 1st printings have a printing error. The November 22, 1944 daily is a duplicate of the November 23rd strip. This will be corrected in the 2nd printing. Cover price $49.99.

Add to cart Very Good $40.00

"The Golden Age of The Comics No. 4" on cover but this is actually the 6th book in series.

1st printing. Story and art by Milton Caniff. Collects TERRY AND THE PIRATES comic strips. The cover lists this as "The Golden Age of The Comics No. 4" but the inside has a list of the series from Nostalgia Press, and this is actually the 6th book. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 212 pages, B&W.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Tick's Golden Age Comic (2002) #1-3. NEC's tribute to the Golden Age of comics is back in print at last! Answering the question "What would a Golden Age Tick comic have been like?" this budget-priced "Golden Age style" wide-format squarebound book collects all three 44-page issues of the original full color Tick Golden Age comics, under an all-new cover by master Tick artist Sean Wang! Softcover, 132 pages, full color. Cover price $12.95.

1st printing. Collects Tick's Golden Age Comic (2002) #1-3. NEC's tribute to the Golden Age of comics is back in print at last! Answering the question "What would a Golden Age Tick comic have been like?" this budget-priced "Golden Age style" wide-format squarebound book collects all three 44-page issues of the original full color Tick Golden Age comics, under an all-new cover by master Tick artist Sean Wang! Softcover, 132 pages, full color. Cover price $10.99.

1st printing.

By Allen Bellman.

One day in 1942, a kid who liked to draw responded to an advertisement in the New York Times. He carried his portfolio to a young, upstart publishing company, landing a job on the spot. That company would become Marvel Comics. Allen Bellman participated in the early years of popular characters like Captain America, the Human Torch, and the Sub-Mariner. One day he left the comics field and never looked back. Five decades later, an intrepid "Golden Age" comic book collector located him. Allen received a hero's welcome from comic book historians, and now appears at conventions nationwide, proclaiming "I was there!" Herewith, his circuitous journey back to comics.

Softcover, 166 pages, full color.

Cover price $39.95.

1st printing. Collects stories from Marvel Comics (1939) #1, Marvel Mystery Comics (1939-1949) #2-31, Human Torch Comics (1940-1954) #2-6, Sub-Mariner Comics (1941-1955) #1-4, All Winners Comics (1941-1947) #1-4, Daring Mystery Comics (1940-1942) #7-8 and Comedy Comics (1942-1946 Timely) #9.

Written by Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, and John Compton. Art by Bill Everett and Carl Burgos., Cover by Bill Everett.

Hardcover, 864 pages, full color.

Cover price $150.00.

1st printing. Collects stories from Marvel Comics (1939) #1, Marvel Mystery Comics (1939-1949) #2-31, Human Torch Comics (1940-1954) #2-6, Sub-Mariner Comics (1941-1955) #1-4, All Winners Comics (1941-1947) #1-4, Daring Mystery Comics (1940-1942) #7-8 and Comedy Comics (1942-1946 Timely) #9.

Written by Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, and John Compton. Art by Bill Everett and Carl Burgos., Cover by Bill Everett.

Hardcover, 864 pages, full color.

Cover price $150.00.

1st printing. By Mike Madrid. Between the covers of Vixens, Vamps & Vipers, fans will rediscover the original bad girls of comics, as fierce and full of surprises as they were when the comic book industry was born. From murderous Madame Doom to He-She, Mike Madrid resurrects twenty-two glorious evildoers in fully reproduced comics and explores the ways they both transcend and become ensnared in a web of cultural stereotypes. These women may have been overlooked in the annals of history, but their influence, on popular culture and the archenemies that thrill us today, is unmistakable. Softcover, 240 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.00

Add to cart Fine $8.00

1st printing.

By Reid Mitenbuler.

In 1911, famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted one of the first animated cartoons, based on his sophisticated newspaper strip "Little Nemo in Slumberland," itself inspired by Freud's recent research on dreams. McCay is largely forgotten today, but he unleashed an art form, and the creative energy of artists from Otto Messmer and Max Fleischer to Walt Disney and Warner Bros.' Chuck Jones. Their origin stories, rivalries, and sheer genius, as Reid Mitenbuler skillfully relates, were as colorful and subversive as their creations - from Felix the Cat to Bugs Bunny to feature films such as Fantasia - which became an integral part and reflection of American culture over the next five decades.

Wild Minds is an ode to our colorful past and to the creative energy that later inspired The Simpsons, South Park, and BoJack Horseman.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 432 pages, Text (with full color and B&W photos).

Cover price $28.00.

1st printing. By Les Daniels. Beautiful as Aphrodite, strong as Hercules, wise as Athena, and swift as Mercury, Wonder Woman is the most popular female comic book hero of all time. Created in 1941 by a maverick psychologist with a Ph.D. from Harvard and some revolutionary ideas about women, Wonder Woman was modeled after the mythological Amazon warrior and endowed with Olympian strength, a peacekeeping mission, and a golden lasso that could bend anyone to her will. WONDER WOMAN: THE GOLDEN AGE celebrates her heyday, from 1941 to 1948. Packed with archival comic book art, photos, and more, this full-color book is a beautifully designed tribute to the super heroine who set out to "change your mind - and change the world!" Hardcover, 100 pages, full color.

Add to cart Very Fine $40.00

1st printing. Contributions by Jerry Robinson, Michael Chabon, and Jules Feiffer. This program has information about creators, characters, and key issues that shaped the Golden Age of Comics. Features Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Joker, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Daredevil (original) and many, many more! Softcover, 64 pages, B&W.