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A conversation between Tom and Matt:

T: I want you to make an e-list. M: Okay. eCatalog 33: Comics & Pulps

1. Carl BURGOS, Bill Everett, et al. Marvel Comics Re-Presents: The First Ever Marvel Comics. (New York: Marvel Comics 1990) $40 Originally published in magazine form as Marvel Comics Vol. 1 No. 1. Featuring “The Human Torch” by Carl Burgos, “The Angel” by Paul Gustavson, “Submariner” by Bill Everett, and “Masked Raider.” Contributions by Les Daniels and Roy Thomas and more.

2. Jeffrey BROWN AEIOU: Any Easy Intimacy [No place]: Jeffrey Brown [circa 2005] $550 The final book of The Girlfriend Trilogy by this Ignatz Award-winning independent comic artist who has been featured on National Public Radio’s This American Life.

Read More 3. Al CAPP Original Sketch of L’il Abner $450 A caricature of the best-known of Capp’s comic characters.

4. (Communism) Two Faces of Communism Houston, Texas: Christian Anti-Communism Crusade 1961 $300 One of two comic books published to combat the spread of Communism by the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade. An interesting item of Cold War propaganda and a hard comic to find.

5. (DC Comics) The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told New York: DC Comics (1990) $40 A collection of comic book reprints from the Thirties and Forties featuring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Plastic Man, Hawkman, Green Lantern, and others.

Read More 6. Bob DUNN [Promotional Prospectus]: Brassband Bixby New York: Press Alliance [Circa 1935] $750 A large prospectus created to drum up interest in a new comic strip by Bob Dunn called Brassband Bixby. Dunn was a cartoonist and gag writer best known for his work on They’ll Do It Every Time and Little Iodine, and winner of two National Cartoonists Society awards.

7. Jimmy HALTO, O[tto] Soglow, and Walt Disney [Broadside]: Little Iodine, The Little King, and Donald Duck King Features Syndicate 1947 $225 A large promotional broadside containing three Sunday comic strips from King Features Syndicate, each beautifully rendered in bright colors. The strips include Little Iodine, The Little King, and Donald Duck.

8. (Hand Drawn Comic Book) Russ SMITH Flash Spencer - No. 2. 1943 $950 A delightful and ambitious hand drawn comic by Russ Smith in the style of the Golden Age comic books of the day. Obviously unique.

Read More 9. (Isaac ASIMOV, Frank Edward Arnold, Robert W. Lowndes, John L. Chapman, Donald A. Wellheim, S.D. Gottesman [Cyril M. Kornbluth], Cecil Corwin, Clifton B. Kruse, Elton V. Andrews, Hugh Raymond, Wilfred Owen Morley, Millard Verne Gordon, Damon Knight, Basil Welch, Leo Morey, and Walter C. Davies) [Pulp magazine]: Cosmic Stories – March 1941, Volume 1, Number 1 Holyoke, Massachusetts: Albing Publishing 1941 $125 The first issue of this short-lived science-fiction pulp featuring an early Isaac Asimov story, “The Secret Sense.” The story was given to the magazine’s editor out of friendship because, as Asimov admitted in his memoir, “it was a real stinker.”

Read More 10. (John Beynon HARRIS [pseudonym of John Wyndham], Frank R. Paul, Raymond Gallun, John Bertin, Captain S.P. Meek, J. M. Walsh, and Epaminondas T. Snooks) [Pulp magazine]: Wonder Stories — May 1932 (Volume 3, Number 12) Park Place, New York: Stellar Publishing Corporation 1932 $150 Includes the story “The Venus Adventure” written by John Beynon Harris, an early pseudonym of John Wyndham, best know for The Day of the Triffids, and predating his first book by several years.

11. (H.P. LOVECRAFT and Walter B. Gibson) [Pulp Magazine]: Tales of Magic and Mystery - 4, March 1928 Camden, New Jersey: Personal Arts Co. 1928 $2500 The penultimate issue of this short-lived pulp co-founded by Shadow scribe Walter B. Gibson, which includes the first published appearance of H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cold Air,” a story first rejected by Weird Tales.

12. H.P. LOVECRAFT, Robert E. Howard, Edmond Hamilton, et al H.P. Lovecraft in Weird Tales Indianapolis / New York / London: Popular Fiction Publishing Company / Weird Tales / William C. Merrett 1924-1973 $65,000 A remarkable collection of 83 beautiful issues of Weird Tales, containing many of H.P. Lovecraft’s best known stories including “The Horror at Red Hook,” “The Dunwich Horror,” “The Rats in the Walls,” “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward,” “The Shadow over Innsmouth,” “Herbert West: Reanimator,” “The Outsider,” “The Strange High House in the Mist,” “The Whisperer in Darkness,” “The Dreams in Witch House,” “The Haunter of the Darkness,” “The Thing on the Doorstep,” and many others.

Read More 13. George R.R. MARTIN Six Fanzine Appearances by George R.R. Martin $2000 Small collection of fanzines containing some of the earliest published work by fantasy and science fiction author George R.R. Martin, author of The Game of Thrones.

14. Tarpe MILLS Miss Fury Cambridge, Massachusetts: Archival Press 1979 $275 A collection of comics from the 1940s. One of 500 signed and numbered hardcover copies.

15. Alex RAYMOND Flash Gordon (Papeete Tahiti: Pacific Comics Club Publications 1977) $275 Reprints of the Flash Gordon strips in the Sunday comics of 1943-1944.

Read More 16. (Alex RAYMOND, Lee Falk, Hal Foster, Chic Young, et al.) Ace Comics - Vol. X-XII (1946-1949) Philadelphia: David McKay Company 1946-1949 $650 Three volumes of bound copies of Ace Comics that include issues 109-144 with the covers bound in. Well-known comic strip appearances by The Phantom by Lee Falk, Jungle Jim by Alex Raymond, Blondie by Chic Young, Prince Valiant by Hal Foster, The Lone Ranger, and The Katzenjammer Kids, as well as more obscure strips such as Tim Tyler, Brick Bradford, Daffydoodles, Barney Google, and Tillie the Toiler.

Read More 17. Art SPIEGELMAN and Francoise Mouly Autograph Letter Signed (“Art + Francoise”) to S. Clay Wilson with a Drawing by Spiegelman $1250 The left-hand side of the page consists of a Spiegelman drawing of a man with a head made from a sticker for his magazine Raw. The drawing and full text of the letter are in the hand of Spiegelman, except for the signature of Francoise. A nice association between two founding members of the Underground Comics movement.

18. (Art SPIEGELMAN) [Yearbook]: The Sun New York: High School of Art and Design 1965 $1500 The senior class yearbook of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman, a graduated of the High School of Art in Manhattan. Spiegleman appears in two different senior photos, first as part of the Advertising Art & Illustration class and a second time in the Cartooning class.

Read More 19. Adrian TOMINE Sleepwalk and Other Stories Montreal, Ontario: Drawn & Quarterly Publications (1997) $175 One of 2000 copies Signed and numbered on a tipped-in plate on the front endpaper. Collection edition of the award-winning independent comic book, Optic Nerve. Tomine is best known today as a frequent cover artist for The New Yorker.

20. Mary WINGS Come Out Comix Portland, Oregon: Portland Women’s Resource Center March 1974 $175 The second lesbian comic ever published. The story of a woman coming to terms with her own sexuality.

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