Comic books in 'Platinum Age'

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $23.00 View scan Cover almost completely detached.

Memorial Edition, The Drawings of Clare Briggs: That Guiltiest Feeling (5 of 7 posthumously published editions released in a boxed set). Published 1930 Wh. H. Wise & Co., NYC, reprinting, Clare Briggs single panel cartoons originally published via newspaper syndication. A platimun age precursor to modern day comics book. 8-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches, semi-hardcover with pebbled false black leather cover, black-and-white, 284 pages.

Add to cart VF 8.0 $37.00 View scans

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $23.00 View scan Title decal on spine torn.

Add to cart FN 6.0 $16.00 View scans

Without dust jacket. Minute Biographies by Nieson and Parker. Published 1931 by Grosset & Dunlap, reprinting multi-image box cartoons featuring famous individual from history and the contemporanious world, all originally published via newspaper syndication. A platimun age precursor to modern day comics book. 7-3/4 x 10-1/4 inches, hardcover, black-and-white, 168 pages with dust jacket.

Add to cart Fair $46.50 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Ball Publications, 15-1/2 x 5-3/4, 68 pages, hardcover, B&W, 1910, 50 cents, VERY COMMON. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart Fair $43.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

1911 1st edition. Opium den panels, Jeff smokes opium (pipe dreams). Hardcover, 15-1/2 x 5-3/4, 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart Good $99.00 View scans Water damage: Slight.

Book 4. Hardcover, 15-1/2" x 5-3/4", 68 pages, B&W Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $62.00 View scans

Pictures of Life and Character, 8-1/2 x 6 1/4" inches, 212 pages (counting endpaper and covers), color cover (inset full-color litho), black-and-white cartoons with sub-text, reprinted John Leech cartoons from Punch Magazine. Note: This item was published without a dust jacket.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $50.00 View scans Oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

1915. Art and words by Charles "Chic" Jackson. One of the first comic strips to portray aging characters featuring The Bean Family. Jackson also introduced story continuity into the strip, which was a rarity at the time. 17" X 5-3/8". B&W. 68 pages.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $50.00 View scans Oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

By Chas B. Jackson, self-published, Into the Trenches and Out Again with..., hardcover, 5-3/8 x 17, 68 pages, B&W, 1917.

Add to cart Very Good $43.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Fair $25.00 View scans Spine split 90%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Comic strip reprints from Ad Carter's long-running "Just Kids" strip. "Just Kids" was about a kid gang, inspired by the contemporary "Reg'lar Fellers" strip by Gene Byrnes. "Just Kids" ran daily in Hearst papers from 1923 to 1947, and continued to run in the Sunday funnies until Carter's death in 1957.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $44.95 or Best Offer View scans 2.75" Cumulative spine split. Coloring on interior illustration pages. Interior page tears. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Softcover version. "Story and Illustrations by Staff of Walt Disney Studio." Book No. 2. Text accompanied by animation stills from Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts. Laffs a-plenty with Mickey, Minnie and Pluto in "Pioneer Days," "The Delivery Boy," "The Castaway," and "The Moose Hunt." 6-1/4" x 8-1/2", SC, B&W with color cover.

Cupples & Leon by Bud Fisher, thick book, hardcover with NO dust jacket, contains 3 previous issues rebound, 1929. 10 1/4" x 10 1/4", b&w, 140 pages.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $94.00 View scans

Add to cart Poor $21.00 View scans Page missing.

Hardcover, 7-1/2 x 8-3/4, 92 pages, B&W

Add to cart PR 0.5 $18.00 INCOMPLETE. Title page missing, interrupts art and story.

Story and Art by Gene Byrnes. A 1925 collection of several "Reg'lar Fellers" daily newspaper comic strips. 10" X 10". 52 pages. B&W.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $80.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $70.00 View scans Water damage. Staple rust. Interior writing and residue.

Treasure Box of Famous Comics: Reg'lar Fellers - Cupples & Leon Company, softcover, 8-1/2 x 6-7/8, 36 pages, abbreviated version of hardcover, 1934.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $130.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4314165002

Add to cart Very Good $53.00 View scans

Does not have dust jacket; grading is based on book itself. Smitty by Walter Berndt. Newspaper reprints, Cupples and Leon Co., New York. 7 x 8-3/4 inches, 86 pages, color hardbound cover with black-and-white interior. No cover price.

Add to cart Very Good $86.00 View scans

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $57.00 View scans Front cover and spine detached (back cover still attached).

Written and illustrated by Bud Fisher. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date along with different ad pages, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown. 10" x 10". 52 pages. Black and white.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $22.00 View scans Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.

Issue #8 - March 1922. Written and illustrated by Bud Fisher. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date along with different ad pages, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown. 10" x 10". 52 pages. Black and white.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $54.00 View scans

Oh Skin-Nay! The Days of Real Sports by Briggs (1913) with verses by Wilbur D. Nesbit. BOOK ONLY, does not include illustrated box. Hardcover, 136 pages, 8 1/2" x 13". Published by P.F. Volland & Co., Chicago, U.S.A.

Add to cart Fair $45.00 View scans Front cover detached 90%. Water damage: Moderate.

Written and illustrated by Frederick Opper. Opper drew influential political cartoons supporting William Randolph Hearst's campaign against the "trusts" with characters "Willie and Teddy", depicting William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, and "Willie and his Papa", satirizing McKinley and "Papa Trusts", and "Nursie", a depiction of Cleveland industrialist Mark Hanna. Hardcover, 8" x 9.25", 100 pages, B&W

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $17.00 View scans

Collection of cartoon postcards and strips by Clare Victor Dwiggins. Hardcover. Publisher's quarter-cloth over illustrated boards, 5-1/2" x 6-1/2", 96 pages, B&W.

Add to cart Good $95.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $60.00 View scans Interior is complete. Cover detached. 6" Spine split. Heavy chew in back cover with residue. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cupples & Leon Company, by Russ Westover, 52 pages, B&W interior, daily strip reprints.