Auctions: comic books in 'Comic Strip Reprints'

Ace Comics (1937) 16 GD/VG 3.0

1" Cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation.

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Stories and art by Robert L. Ripley, Feg Murray, Clarence D. Russell, H. H. Knerr, Doc Winner, Jack Sords, Russ Westover, A. D. Carter, Lyman Young, Chic Young, Rutherford G. Montgomery, Jack King, Joe Musial, Billy DeBeck, Lee Falk, Ray Moore, Paul Robinson, Gene Ahern, George Herriman, 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 George Herriman's beloved Krazy Kat. The Phantom battles the all-female air pirates known as the Sky Band; the famous weird-facts strip Ripley's Believe It Or Not. The Phantom; Ripley's Believe It Or Not; Jungle Jim; Seein' Stars; Pete the Tramp; Katzenjammer Kids; Elmer; Sports in Pictures; Tillie the Toiler; Nicodemus O'Malley & His Whale, Palsy-Walsy; Just Kids; Tim Tyler's Luck; Blondie; Timberline Tales; The Stamp Spotlight; Curley Harper at Lakespur; Teddy and Sitting Bull; Barney Google; Etta Kett; Krazy Kat; Room and Board; Doc Winner's Daffy Doodles. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Comics on Parade (1938) 76 CGC 3.0

Paper: Off white

Label #4726568009

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller and Ed Dodd. Comics on Parade features reprints of Ernie Bushmiller's popular Nancy strip, featuring precocious Nancy and her streetwise pal Sluggo. Sluggo uses his little dog to send Nancy a message. Nancy meets the new kid who moved in next door, in a multi-page original story. Nancy; Stamp Tips; Back Home Again. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Famous Funnies (1934) 81 CGC 4.5

Paper: Off white

Label #4671329002

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil reprints begin, featuring the first plainclothes female superhero in a modern urban environment. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Nexus The Newspaper Strips TPB (2020 Rude Dude Publications) Kickstarter Edition 1KS-1ST VF+ 8.5

Signed by Steve Rude (first page). No autograph certification is included.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Kickstarter Edition "The Coming of Gourmando!"

Written by Mike Baron and Steve Rude. Art and cover by Steve Rude.

Something long dormant beneath the surface of Ylum comes alive, triggering a visit from the planet-devouring Gourmando and his mysterious ally. With powers far beyond those of even Nexus himself, this unstoppable being banishes Nexus to an unknown realm-and the only way out is to face one's worst fears!

Mike Baron and Steve Rude deliver a new Nexus adventure in this special collection that also includes the newly remastered "Nexus: The Origin" comic and the classic Rude hand-painted Sundra story, "When She was Young."

Softcover, 192 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.99.