Auctions: comic books in 'Comic Strip Reprints'

Amazing Spider-Man The Ultimate Newspaper Comics Collection HC (2015 IDW/Marvel) 1-1ST VG/FN 5.0

Sticker.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "1976-1978!"

Written by Stan Lee. Art and cover by John Romita, Sr.

The wondrous wall-crawler's long-running newspaper strip by Stan Lee, John Romita, and others is given the deluxe Library of American Comics treatment, with all Sundays in color and integrated with the dailies-just as they originally appeared in newspapers worldwide.

Edited by Bruce Canwell, this first volume includes the complete strips from the series start in 1977 through the end of 1978.

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 9-in., 312 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $49.99.

Famous Funnies (1934) 57 PR 0.5

INCOMPLETE. Piece missing, interrupts art or story.

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "War on Crime" by Rex Collier and Hammon; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Big Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "There's A Town" by M. E. Brady; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Punky" by Fred Balk; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; and "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady. "The Magic River" text story by Robert M. Hyatt. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Famous Funnies (1934) 92 PR 0.5

INCOMPLETE. Piece missing, interrupts art or story.

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, a text story, and an original Fearless Flint feature. In order of appearance: "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Fearless Flint" by H. G. Peter; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Connie" by Frank Godwin; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; and "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon. "When Wings Fail" text story by E. Albert Willard. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

King Comics (1936) 41 FR 1.0 (R)

Restored (see item notes)

RESTORATION: Spine split seal. Full length spine split.

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson (sometimes credited as Jo King). Stories and art by William Ritt, Clarence Gray, Brandon Walsh, Nicholas Afonsky, Carl Anderson, Jack Burnley, R. J. Scott, Marge Buell, Eddie Sullivan, Charlie Schmidt, Lee Falk, Phil Davis, E. C. Segar, George McManus, Otto Soglow, Eddie Rickenbacker, Clayton Knight, Romer Grey, Charles Flanders, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Frank Miller, Don Moore and Alex Raymond. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay presents an anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. A crooked carny's game is no match for Mandrake the Magician; A Sports Feature on Babe Ruth, possibly written by famed sportswriter Damon Runyon. Also features the little-seen E. C. Segar strip Sappo ("Heh! Heh! Heh!"). Brick Bradford; Little Annie Rooney; Henry; Sport Features; Scott's Scrapbook; Hall of Fame of the Air; Sentinel Louie; Radio Patrol; Mandrake the Magician; Thimble Theatre; Flash Gordon; Bringing Up Father; The Little King; Ted Towers, Animal Master; King of the Royal Mounted; Barney Baxter in the Air; Sappo; The Ming Bonnets of Corea; Dun-Dums. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Tip Top Comics (1936) 75 0.3

Coverless but otherwise complete.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Gus Mager, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Reg Greenwood, Hal Forrest, Bernard Dibble, Ed Dodd and John Hix. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 7 #3. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. The Mirror Man finds a surefire way to get Winnie and Slim out of Nazi-occupied Norway: by hiding in the coffins prepared for dead Nazi generals! Fritzi and her friends try to outdo each other's evening gowns, in a strip showcasing Ernie Bushmiller's fashion designs and good-girl art. The Triple Terror, now with the Army Air Corps, goes behind Axis lines to hunt for a fortune in jade. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Mirror Man; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Stamp Tips; Looy Dot Dope; Tailspin Tommy; Iron Vic; Phil Fumble; Fritzi Ritz; Back Home Again; Strange as It Seems. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.