Auctions: Sin comic books

Cherry Poptart (1982 Last Gasp/Kitchen Sink) #4, 6th Printing VG+ 4.5

Water damage.

6th Printing. 1992. ($2.95 cover price). Larry Welz story, cover and art. Stories include a Conan the Barbarian parody. 7" x 10", b&w, 44 pages. Adults Only. Cover price $2.95.

Cherry Poptart (1982 Last Gasp/Kitchen Sink) #7, 1st Printing VG 4.0

Water damage. Residue.

1st Printing. 1988. ($2.50 cover price). Larry Welz story, cover and art. Stories include Star Trek/Star Wars and Gilligan's Island parodies. 7" x 10", b&w, 44 pages. Adults Only. Cover price $2.50.

Cherry Poptart (1982 Last Gasp/Kitchen Sink) #9, 1st Printing VF- 7.5

1st Printing. 1990. ($2.50 cover price). Larry Welz story, cover and art. Stories include a Mad Max parody. 7" x 10", b&w, 44 pages. Adults Only. Cover price $2.50.

Cherry Poptart (1982 Last Gasp/Kitchen Sink) #12, 1st Printing VG+ 4.5

Water damage.

1st Printing. 1991. ($2.95 cover price). Larry Welz cover. Larry Welz, Dan Fogel, Mark Bode, Leslie Sternbergh, and Larry Todd stories and art. Stories include a Sgt. Fury parody. Photo back cover.7" x 10", b&w, 44 pages. Adults Only. Cover price $2.95.

Cherry Poptart (1982 Last Gasp/Kitchen Sink) #18, 1st Printing VF- 7.5

1st Printing. 1995. Larry Welz cover. Larry Welz and Mark Bode stories and art. 6 3/4" x 10 1/4", b&w, 36 pages. Adults Only. Cover price $2.95.

Cherry Poptart (1982 Last Gasp/Kitchen Sink) 24BUZZ.A VF+ 8.5

Buzz Comics, Joel's Comics, and Happy Comics Exclusive "Halloween" Variant Cover by Andrew Pepoy. Story and Art by Larry Welz. 32 pages, B&W, Adults Only.

Cherry Poptart (1982 Last Gasp/Kitchen Sink) 24HUGHES.C CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Hughes Variant Cover C. Includes COA.

Label #4691748005

Happy Comics Exclusive "Purple" Subscription Edition Variant Cover by Adam Hughes - limited to 500 copies. Originally sold with a Certificate of Authenticity. Story and Art by Larry Welz. Cherry #24 is bigger, longer, and harder than ever. It's a 48 page monster that has the next two chapters of the exciting ongoing epic. This issue also features All New Cherry Pin Ups by, Scott Diggs Underwood (Ed Edd n' Eddy, The Addams Family), Joe Pekar (Grimm Fairy Tales), Tuco El Buitre (Mademoiselle De Sade), Robert Ullman (Atom Bomb Bikini), Chance Wolf (Spawn, The Pitt), PHILO (Tales of Shaundra), Aaron Bordner (Alice Sinn, Monster High School) & Steven S. Crompton (Demi The Demoness). With Guest Strips by MastaJWood (Marvel, Dynamite), Shlepzig (Red, File 2231), & Gary Yap (Simpsons, King of the Hill).

Cherry Poptart (1982 Last Gasp/Kitchen Sink) 24HUGHES.C CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Hughes Variant Cover C. Includes COA.

Label #4691748006

Happy Comics Exclusive "Purple" Subscription Edition Variant Cover by Adam Hughes - limited to 500 copies. Originally sold with a Certificate of Authenticity. Story and Art by Larry Welz. Cherry #24 is bigger, longer, and harder than ever. It's a 48 page monster that has the next two chapters of the exciting ongoing epic. This issue also features All New Cherry Pin Ups by, Scott Diggs Underwood (Ed Edd n' Eddy, The Addams Family), Joe Pekar (Grimm Fairy Tales), Tuco El Buitre (Mademoiselle De Sade), Robert Ullman (Atom Bomb Bikini), Chance Wolf (Spawn, The Pitt), PHILO (Tales of Shaundra), Aaron Bordner (Alice Sinn, Monster High School) & Steven S. Crompton (Demi The Demoness). With Guest Strips by MastaJWood (Marvel, Dynamite), Shlepzig (Red, File 2231), & Gary Yap (Simpsons, King of the Hill).

Cherry Poptart (1982 Last Gasp/Kitchen Sink) 24SZERDY.A CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Szerdy Variant Cover.

Label #4561635004

Happy Comics Exclusive Variant Cover by Nathan Szerdy - limited to 200 copies. Story and Art by Larry Welz. 32 pages, B&W, Adults Only.

Demon Wars Scarlet Sin (2023 Marvel) 1G NM- 9.2 Virgin 1:100 Variant

Limited 1 for 100 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover. Story by Peach Momoko. The yokai are at war, and Mariko Yashida, descendent of the Oni King, has to choose a side. The fates of the spirit world and the human world hang in the balance. But things just got complicated thanks to the appearance of a mysterious yokaii with incredible power. This Yokai has a scheme of her own, and she wants to paint the world…scarlet. You can't afford to miss the cataclysmic conclusion of Peach Momoko's epic DEMON WARS saga! 36 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $4.99.

Frank Miller's Big Damn Sin City HC (2014 Dark Horse) 1-REP VF- 7.5

2nd or later printing. Story and art by Frank Miller. The biggest, baddest Sin City ever is here, just in time for fall's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For! This imposing volume, suitable for home defense, contains all seven of Frank Miller's landmark Sin City yarns! In these tales of Marv, Dwight, Gail, Miho, Hartigan, Nancy, and the Yellow Bastard, no corner of Basin City is left unturned, and no bloody deed is left undone. Written with unmatched intensity and drawn in the starkest black-and-white imaginable, with blood-red bits of color, among others, the Sin City books make up the greatest crime saga in comics history, and Big Damn Sin City is the best way to rediscover the whole darn shootin' match! Hardcover, 8-in. x 12-in., 1,360 pages, PB&W/PC. Mature Readers Cover price $100.00.

Mr. Natural (1970 Apex/Kitchen Sink) #3, 1st Printing FN 6.0

MATURE READERS. Mr. Natural has all the answers! 1st printing Cover price $1.00.

Original Sin (2014 Marvel) 2B VF/NM 9.0 Dell'Otto 1:50 Variant

Limited 1 for 50 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover by Gabriele Dell Otto. Written by Jason Aaron. Art by Mike Deodato. WHO HOLDS THE EYE? WHO KNOWS ITS SECRETS? The cosmic manhunt for the Watcher's killer continues. More bodies are discovered. The killer's trail leads to the far corners of the universe and beyond. And just when Nick Fury and the Avengers think they've cornered their murderer...EVERYTHING EXPLODES, unleashing the Marvel Universe's greatest secrets. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $4.99.

Sin City A Dame to Kill For (1993) 1A CGC 9.8 Miller

Paper: White

Label #4735711004

1st printing - Story and art by Frank Miller. In Sin City, it's easy to hide from the present, but impossible to forget the past. Frank Miller makes a return trip to Sin City and brings eager readers along for the ride. On the way, meet Dwight, a photographer who specializes in hard-to-get shots... the incriminating kind. The kind that lead to messy, expensive divorces. Dwight's doing his best to forget the past, and was doing a pretty good job until the phone rang. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For #1 is another no-holds-barred, chiaroscuro excursion to the favorite city of Frank Miller, winner of the National Cartoonists' Award for Best Comic Book of 1992. This premiere issue features cover-to-cover story and a special mystery guest. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Sin City That Yellow Bastard (1996) 1 CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Label #4735711003

Story and art by Frank Miller. Just one hour to go. Hartigan's polishing his badge and working himself up to kissing it good-bye, it and the thirty-odd years of protecting and serving and tears and blood and triumph that it represents. He's thinking about his wife's slow smile, about the thick, fat steaks she's picked up at the butcher's, about the bottle of champagne she's got packed in ice, about sleeping in till ten in the morning and spending sunny afternoons flat on his back. Just one hour to go and he gets word from a stoolie about that one loose end he hasn't tied up, a young girl who's out there, helpless in the hands of a drooling lunatic. Just one hour to go ... and he's gonna go out with a bang. 32 pages, B&W (and Yellow). Cover price $2.95.

Spirit (1974 Warren Magazine/Kitchen Sink) 1 VG 4.0

1" cumulative spine split.

Published by Warren for the first 16 issues (and by Kitchen Sink beginning with 17), The Spirit reprints Will Eisner's groundbreaking work from the 1940s and '50s. Cover art by Basil Gogos. Introductory text with illustration and photograph of Will Eisner. "The Last Trolley," script by Will Eisner, pencils by John Spranger and Bob Palmer (splash), inks by Will Eisner and Bob Palmer (splash); Hop aboard a $100,000 ride into mystery; Travel Death's twisted track to Raven's Point; For The Spirit, it could be a one-way trip! "Escape," script and pencils by Will Eisner, inks by Will Eisner and Jerry Grandenetti; The Spirit never sleeps; Neither does the criminal mind; Watch as three escaped convicts find that the world is a prison for those who would flaunt justice! "Li'l Adam," script by Will Eisner, pencils by Will Eisner and Jules Feiffer (most of pg 6), inks by Will Eisner and Jerry Grandenetti; Parodies of Lil Abner, Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie. "The Criminal," script and pencils by Will Eisner, inks by Will Eisner and Jerry Grandenetti; A cop is shot; The Spirit is wounded; Tough gangland figures are held at bay; And behind it all is one Mr. Sawbuck—a seven year old boy! "El Spirito," script and pencils by Will Eisner, inks by Will Eisner and Jerry Grandenetti; The Spirit has witnessed many strange things on rainy nights; But tonight is the first time he has ever followed a ghost. "The Killer," script by Will Eisner, pencils by John Spranger, inks by Will Eisner and Bob Palmer; Henry the war-hero is back. "A Granule of Time," script and pencils by Will Eisner, inks by Will Eisner and Jerry Grandenetti; A hostile visitor from the year 2400. "The Partner," script and pencils by Will Eisner, inks by Will Eisner and Jerry Grandenetti; The Spirit is slaughtered by Slinko Joe Daws; Now there's no one to save a helpless Central City from the nefarious clutches of Slimy Skinch and Co. 76 pgs., B&W. Cover price $1.00.

Wild West Gals SC (Italian 2008 Glittering Images) Bizarre Sinema Archives 1-1ST VF- 7.5

1st printing. History of Eroticism in the Western genre. Featuring a filmography of eroticism in Western movies including comics guide. Softcover, 9-1/2" x 12-1/4", 96 pages, PC/PB&W, Adults Only, Italian and English language.