Silver Age comic books issue 1

Add to cart Near Mint $8.00

Add to cart Near Mint $8.00

1st printing. Edited by James Lowder. Stories by John Ostrander, Steven Grant, Ed Greenwood, Bradley J.Kayl, Steven Harper, Robin D. Laws, and Lucien Soulban. Introduction by Denny O'Neil. Set in the Silver Age Sentinels roleplaying game universe, Path of the Just introduces a collection of tales exploring the game's central concepts of heroism, humility, and hope. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 208 pages, Text Only. Cover price $14.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $63.00

Add to cart Near Mint $63.00

2nd Edition - Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects material from Action Comics (1938-2011 DC) #252-307. Written by Jerry Siegel , Otto Binder, and Leo Dorfman. Art by Jim Mooney and Al Plastino. Cover by Darwyn Cooke. Back Cover by by Jim Mooney. Introduction by Diana Schutz. For many years, Superman believed himself to be the only survivor of his planets destruction, until one day a spaecraft crashed on Earth with a young girl inside – a Supergirl from Krypton, possessing all the same powers as the Man of Steel. And this Maid of Might wasnt just any Kryptonian survivor, but Supermans cousin, Kara Zor-El. The instantly popular character soon became a fixture of DC Comics. Supergirls adventures were the second feature in ACTION COMICS for more than a decade, chronicling Karas exploits both as Supermans secret weapon and as her other persona, Midvale Orphanges Linda Lee. The story of one of historys greatest female heroes begins here! Hardcover, 688 pages, full color. Teen Cover price $100.00.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $81.00 View scans Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Written by Bob Haney, Steve Skeates, Steve Ditko, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, Mike Friedrich, Neal Adams, and Gil Kane. Art by Bruno Premiani, Neal Adams, Nick Cardy, Steve Ditko, Bill Molno, Irv Novick, Jack Abel, Lee Elias, Bill Draut, Gil Kane and Wally Wood. Cover by Darwyn Cooke. In these fast-paced tales from the start of the 1960s, the sidekicks to DC's greatest heroes-Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Speedy and Wonder Girl-form their own team to take on evil! Collected for the first time in a single hardcover, these stories pit our teen team against the Demon Dragster, the Mad Mod, Captain Rumble and many other far-out foes. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 880 pages, full color. Cover price $99.99.

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Revised Edition - 1st printing. "The First History of Modern Comic Books!" By Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones. This is the first history of modern comic books. From 1956 to the mid-1990s, this volume covers it all. Softcover, 416 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $19.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $135.00

1st Edition - 1st printing. Collects My Greatest Adventure (1955-1964) #80-85, Doom Patrol (1964-1973 1st Series) #86-121, and The Brave and the Bold (1955-1983 1st Series DC) #65..

Written by Arnold Drake and Bob Haney. Art by Bruno Premiani, Dick Giordano, Sal Trapani, Murphy Anderson, Joe Giella, and Frank Giacoia. Cover by J. Bone.

The complete Silver Age adventures of the Doom Patrol, comics' strangest super-team, is collected in a single hardcover! Led by their wheelchair-bound chief, Niles Calder, three outcasts of society-Negative Man, Elasti-Girl and Robotman-take the qualities that made them freaks to become heroes. Together, the trio takes on bizarre menaces including General Immortus, The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man and The Brotherhood of Evil!

Hardcover, 1,076 pages, full color.

Cover price $99.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $50.00

1st Edition - Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Brave and the Bold (1955-1983 1st Series DC) #28-30 and Justice League of America (1960-1987 1st Series) #1-30.

Written by Gardner Fox. Art by Mike Sekowsky and Bernard Sachs. Cover by Mike Sekowsky and Murphy Anderson. Introductions by Roy Thomas and Marv Wolfman.

Together, Aquaman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman stand against such rogues as Starro, Despero, Kanjar Ro, and Felix Faust!

Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 896 pages, full color.

Cover price $99.99.

Add to cart Fine $7.49

1st printing.

By David Tosh.

Rise of the Superheroes is a visual and entertaining adventure exploring one of the most popular and significant eras of comic book history. From 1956 to 1970, Silver Age redefined and immortalized superheroes as the massive pop culture titans they are today. Lavishly illustrated with comic book covers and original art, the book chronicles the new frontier of DC Comics, with a revamped Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, and new characters including Hawkman; Marvel's new comics featuring Thor and The Fantastic Four; The pop art years that saw Batman's "new look" and the TV series; independent characters, including Fat Fury and T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents; and much more.

Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 176 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $36.95

Add to cart Near Mint $36.95

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Cave Girl (1953-1954 ME) #11-14 (1953-1954) and stories from the pages of Thunda (1952) #2-6. Cover by Bob Powell. After losing her parents when they were attacked by the savage Balu natives, Carol London escaped death when an eagle carried her away to the Dawn Lands, a valley hidden in time by the mountains known as the Barriers of the Moon! She was raised by wolves, becoming the pack leader after Kattu dies! With her ability to talk to the animals and her skill in using a bow, spear and knife learned form watching the Hairy Men, a group of Neanderthals who lived in the Dawn Lands she became Cavr Girl, only then having to fight off the attentions of the Neanderthal king Pood and the Hairy Men! Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $52.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $38.00

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "September/November 1962 to January/March 1964!" Collects Ghost Stories (1962-1973 Dell) #1-5.

Written by John Stanley and Carl Memling. Art by Gerald McCann.

This horror/supernatural anthology comic from DELL is a real blast from the past; the covers, the artwork and the dialogue seethes with that certain something that typifies the early 1960's.

Featuring "The Door," one of the top twenty scariest horror stories as voted by awakeatmidnight.com, you're gonna discover a real treasure of chills in these long forgotten pages, from Aztec idols come to life, to British soldiers that are saved from the Germans by a tank squad that had been blown to smithereens two days earlier. Sit back, relax and enjoy; just be sure to read these with the lights on!

Hardcover, 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $46.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $35.99

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "December 1954 to January 1956!" Collects Mysterious Stories (1954) #2-7.

Plucked from the fetid pages of the first half-dozen ghoulish issues of Premier's long-vanished Mysterious Stories (December 1954 to January 1956) comes another rattling collection of not-so-cuddly corpses and delish-a-rooney damsels in distress, featuring such writers and artists as Hy Fleishman, Gerald Altman, Al Hollingsworth, George Woodbridge, Joseph Szokoli, Cal Massey, Kurt Schaffenberger, Richard Doxsee, and Jon D'Agostino.

Hardcover, 216 pages, full color.

NOTE: Limited 1,700 Copies.

Cover price $44.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $57.00

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "March 1955-July 1955/December 1958-February 1959!" Collects Secret Mysteries (1954) #17-19 and Tense Suspense (1958) #1-2. Cover by Myron Fass. Featuring Stories by Edvard Moritz, Marty Elkin, Tony Tallarico, Cerrone, and Dick Ayers. I mean, cmon! The original copies of these comics will have been swapped a hundred-fold or sold for pennies when the recess bell sounded in the magical long-ago frightful freakin fabn fantastic fifties schoolyards. And now you can pick em up for peanuts. Go get, em folks. Im coming over all wistful so youll have to excuse me . . . it starts good and just keeps right on gettin gooder. Featuring the talents of Myron Fass, Marty Elkin, Edvard Moritz, Bill Allison, Tony Tallarico and the wonderful Dick Ayers. But then its PS Artbooks, you warriors, so get with the program and get your copy today! Hardcover (with Slipcase), 204 pages, full color.

Add to cart Very Fine $35.99

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "August 1956 to January 1957!" Collects Tales of the Mysterious Traveler (1956-1959) #1-5.

Courtesy of the Traveler's creator, Steve Ditko, this title beat pretty much everything else on the creaking metal comic book spinners. What it may have lacked in the comicbook equivalent of $100M FX budgets, the Mysterious Traveler made up for it with sheer class, style and out 'n out pizzazz and charm. A clear inspiration to the hugely popular Amazing Adult Fantasy, the Mysterious Traveler is surely the original "adult" comic and the one that's still, with these sumptuous hardcover four-color volumes, worth a deep read.

Featuring work by Dick Giordano, Charles Nicholas, Steve Ditko, Tony Tallarico, Bill Molno, Howard Boughner, Maurice Whitman, Rocco Mastroserio and Paul Reinman.

Hardcover, 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $44.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $42.50

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "November 1955-September 1956!" Collects Unusual Tales (1955-1965) #1-5.

Unusual Tales is a treasure trove of science fiction, horror, suspense, fantasy and the supernatural from the jewels of 1950's comic book talent including Bill Molno, Marc Swayze, Maurice Whitman, Charles Nicholas, Dick Giordano, Ernie Bache, Rocco Mastoserio, Vince Alascia, Tony Tallarico and Pat Musull, all captured here within these pages, reproduced completely from cover to cover as they should be! They'll have any self-respecting comicbook fan absolutely drooling at the prospect of digging up this treasure chest!

Hardcover, 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $46.99.

Add to cart Fine $9.00

Add to cart Very Good $8.70

1st printing. By Arlen Schumer. The first book dedicated to the Silver Age of comics (1956-1970) and the artists that defined it, author Arlen Schumer highlights the careers of eight acknowledged Hall of Fame artists who rendered definitive versions of the industry's great characters: Carmine Infantino, Gene Colan, Gil Kane, Jack Kirby, and Joe Kubert, Jim Steranko, Neal Adams, and Steve Ditko. Softcover, 9-in. x 13-in., 176 pages, full color. Cover price $29.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

1st printing. Edited by James Lowder. Introduction by Elliot S! Maggin. Path of the Bold presents an anthology of all-original tales of super-powered action and mystery set in the Silver Age Sentinels universe, featuring stories from such masters of the fantastic as John Kovalic, Mike W. Barr, Stewart Wieck, and Dennis Detwiller, as well as a new adventure of Sydney Taine (star of Marvel Comics' Nightside mini-series) by Robert Weinberg. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 208 pages, Text Only. Cover price $14.95.

Add to cart Fine $13.00

1st printing. Collects stories from Brave and the Bold (1955-1983 1st Series DC) #25-27 and 37-39 and Star Spangled War Stories (1952-1977 DC) #3 to 204 #110-111, 116-121, 125, 127 and 128.

Written by Robert Kanigher and Howard Liss. Art by Ross Andru, Gene Colan, and Mike Esposito. Cover by Michael Cho.

The original 1960s missions of the Suicide Squad are collected in trade paperback! When all other options are exhausted, the U.S. calls in their new team, Task Force X, led by Rick Flag! Whether a scientist is missing, a dangerous serum is in the wrong hands or dinosaurs threaten our fighting forces, the Suicide Squad is ready for action!

Softcover, 336 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $5.00

1st Printing - Written by RJ Pine. Back in the early 60s there was something wonderful going on in the comic book industry. Sure, Superman, Batman, and the Flash were going strong, but there was the emergence of a new kind of comic book hero. Spider-Man, Thor, Iron Man, and the Fantastic Four were beginning to hit the news stands. What could be better than having some of the greatest comic books ever along with the best comic book store right down the street? Well there was just one small problem... Softcover, 6" x 9", 68 pages, B&W.