Auctions: comic books October 1955

Detective Comics (1937 1st Series) 224 FR/GD 1.5

5 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation. Water damage.

Cover art by Win Mortimer and Dick Sprang. The Batman Machine starring Batman and Robin, pencils by Dick Sprang, inks by Charles Paris. What Are You Getting Out of School? public service announcement starring Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. The Captain Who Went Berserk starring Captain Compass, script by Otto Binder, art by Joe Certa. Catching the Coin Counterfeiters article by Jack Miller. The Lamp That Could Change People! starring Roy Raymond TV Detective, art by Ruben Moreira. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Psychoanalysis (1955 EC) 4 GD- 1.8

5" Cumulative spine split. Water damage.

Cover by Jack Kamen. Stories by Dan Keyes and Robert Bernstein. Art by Marie Severin and Jack Kamen. One of EC Comics' late New Direction titles, a response to the new Comics Code. Perhaps the strangest comic of that line, if not of all time, this features ordinary people Freddy, Ellen and Mark as they undergo Freudian analysis to find the root of their neuroses. Definitely one of a kind. Featuring some stories by Daniel Keyes, later the author of the science fiction classic Flowers for Algernon. Freddy freaks out when his parents come to visit his therapist. Mark realizes he's seeing his relationship with his therapist as a substitute for his parents. Case No. 101 Male Session 4: Freddy Carter; Case No. 103 Male Session 3: Mark Stone; A Fifth Dimension?; Case No. 103 Male Final Sessions: Mark Stone. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Strange Tales (1951 1st Series) 39 GD- 1.8

1" Spine split from top.

Cover art by Carl Burgos. Karnoff's Plan, art by Bill Everett; A Puppet Master type story, but the character's material works on buildings as well as people. Music Master text story. Blind Spot, art by Sid Greene; A homely alien plans to recommend humans be destroyed to preserve the galactic peace. The Secret of the Ship, art by Kurt Schaffenberger; A young boy who plays with toy ships loses his paper route job when he is late once too often. The Man Mountain, art by Norman Maurer. Five Who Volunteered, art by Joe Sinnott. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Valor (1955 E.C. Comics) 4 GD 2.0

Cover detached. Puncture through first half of book.

Cover by Wally Wood. Art by Joe Orlando, Reed Crandall, Graham Ingels, and Bernie Krigstein. One of EC Comics' late New Direction titles, a response to the new Comics Code, featuring historical adventure. An assassin is hired as a food-taster for the cruel Borgia family during the Italian Renaissance, with art by Graham Ingels. A Scottish noble is abducted by a British counter-revolutionary in 1745, illustrated by Bernie Krigstein. A Crusader faces a Muslim champion to seal a city's fate, in a story by Reed Crandall. Gratitude; The Alamo; The Know-Nothing; The Taste of Freedom; A Knights Dream. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.