[CLOSED] Cool historical stuff for sale 1940's-1950s, but hardly any comics NOW 20% OFF! 3 3

[SOTIcollector]

Hi there,

I hope you and yours are able to stay safe and healthy during these trying times.

Welcome to my thread with very few comics.  Just really cool old comics-related stuff.  SOTI, L&D, a Stan Lee item from 1947 you probably don't have, some cool comics articles, and more.  I'll list things over the next few nights as time permits.

Payment via PayPal goods & services.  

Returns for any reason welcome within 14 days.  If the return is due to my error, I pay return shipping; otherwise, you pay return shipping. 

These items come from a smoke-free and, to the best of our knowledge, COVID-free house.

No probationites or shameful ones.  

SHIPPING IS INCLUDED in the US.  Shipping outside the US at exact cost, if I can ship it fully insured (which I realize can make it really expensive to ship).

I am limiting my shipping to once a week during COVID.  If you're in a rush, let me know in advance and I'll let you know what I can accommodate.

PM's are welcome, but "take it" in thread beats everything else. Please understand that this applies to everybody equally.  If you send me a PM, I'll get to it eventually but probably not while I'm in the middle of posting books.

My top priority is my family and my second priority is my full-time job.  After that, it's comics.  So please understand if I don't reply to your inquiries immediately.  I try to make sure that I check in at least once every 24 hours while I have a sales thread going.

All books unrestored unless noted.  I have never pressed a book or bought a book I knew to be pressed, so everything is, to my knowledge, unpressed.

 

Edited June 28, 2020 by SOTIcollector
Updated headline- now 20% off.

[SOTIcollector]

RECAP (unsold in bold)
Page 1
SOTI Second print, low grade, $100
The Comics by Coulton Waugh $25  SOLD Milhousb
Immoral by Luther Gordon $20
Bulletman and the Return of Mister Murder Copy A $100
Bulletman and the Return of Mister Murder Copy B $100
The Lure of the Comics $199
Death Valley #6 $20 SOLD Gunsmokin
Love & Death softcover $70  SOLD Comics-n-ERB
Yank copy A $25 SOLD Qua-Brot
Yank copy B $25 SOLD Comics-n-ERB
SOTI First print, $225 SOLD Comics-n-ERB
Clubwoman $65 SOLD IngelsFan
Batman Coloring Book  FREE CLAIMED Gunsmokin
Page 2
Your Child and Radio, TV, Comics and Movies Copy A $25 SOLD milhousb 
Your Child and Radio, TV, Comics and Movies Copy B $35 SOLD Dinesh_S
Your Child and Radio, TV, Comics and Movies Copy C $35 SOLD Qua-Brot
Comics, Radio, Movies - And Children $90  SOLD Comics-n-ERB
Headquarters Detective, v1, #1 $95  SOLD Bounty_Coder
Writer's Digest, November, 1947 $395

Patsy Walker $15, Canadian edition. $1 SOLD comicparadox
Superman Musette record $7  SOLD comicparadox
Tops v1#1 $95
Page 3
Close-up, August, 1941 $195
 

Edited June 27, 2020 by SOTIcollector
More sales.

[SOTIcollector]

We'll start off with a book you have come to expect from one of my sales threads:  a copy of Seduction of the Innocent.

Seduction of the Innocent, second print, low grade with tape repair on spine, spine break.  No dust jacket.  All 16 illustration pages are present.  Bibliography has been removed, as it was from nearly all 1950's copies of SOTI.  Photocopy of the bibliography is included.  

$100 shipped in the US.

[SOTIcollector]

The Comics by Coulton Waugh.  1947 harcdcover, no dust jacket.  The book is mostly about comic strips, but there's a chapter at the back all about those horrible things called comics.  Contains a brief history of the industry up to that point.

$25 shipped in the US.

 

Here's what Waugh had to say about one of the comics he had read.

Take a typical comic-book cover of World War II days.

Scene, a Jap wireless shack, through whose open door is seen a vessel being dive-bombed and bursting into flames. Which side is that ship on? It isn't obvious. In the foreground a Jap is sending a message under difficulties; he screams, revealing hideous buck-teeth as he sends. A baseball bat swung by a tough youngster has smashed him on the head in a white explosion. Another Jap, with bloody Samurai sword in one hand, spitting gun in the other, has has also been socked by a noble, hooded male in brilliant blue. Meanwhile a blood-red blond man is smashing the power plant with his gloved fists -- Hey! Look out! There's a green Jap splut-sputting him with a machine gun! Yes, but see that blond, teen-age girl crouching on the pink table; she's got a blood-red ax; she's coming down on the Jap's head, or is she? A hideous, shaven crook is leaning through a porthole aiming a blowgun at her -- Yeah, but see that youngster in the blue business suit jabbing a bayoneted rifle at the whole group -- But another jap is reaching at him! Ah, but a gorgeous superwoman with blood-red hair and highly stylized harlequin mask, through which peer blood-white eyes is strangling the Jap with one of her delicate arms, as with the other, she -- oh, well.

The layout artist, on completing this page, probably looked hopelessly at it, figured it was a failure. He had used up every inch of available screaming space, yet, there was no block of ice enclosing a glorious, frozen girl about to be sawed in half by a ghoulish hellscientist done up in a white coat and pince-nez. Probably the editor, looking at this cover, said to himself, "That layout guy Prangle is slipping. We gotta get more action."

Check the spoiler for the comic he was describing.  This comic is NOT part of this sale, but posted for informational purposes.
 

Spoiler

 

The artist? No, not Prangle.  It was Schomburg.

This comic is NOT part of this sale, but posted for informational purposes.

 

 

 

 

[SOTIcollector]

Immoral! by Luther Gordon  1949 sleaze paperback by those purveyors of some of the worst comics ever made:  Magazine Village, which gave us True Crime v1#2 (cited by Wertham as dangerous more frequently than any other book), True Crime #3 (classic "RAT" cover), and True Crime v2#1 (also cited in SOTI).  Back cover rip, pictured.  BC ad for such classics as "Unfaithful!" and "Bed Time Girl."
$20

[SOTIcollector]

Bulletman and the Return of Mister Murder Dime Action Book from 1941.  From back in the days when it was cool to fight against the nazis.
A lower grade copy shows up in eBay sold items for $75.  Current offerings on eBay are much higher than my price.
Two available, $100 each.

COPY A, FC

COPY A, BC

COPY B, FC

COPY B, BC

 

[SOTIcollector]

That's it for tonight.

Coming up...

That Stan Lee item....

The Secret Origin of Crime and Horror Comics

And more!

[SOTIcollector]

The Lure of the Comics.  1952 British anti-comics pamphlet.  Pages loose at the rusty staple.  $199 shipped in the US.

[SOTIcollector]

Death Valley #6, August, 1954.  All the gore and violence you'd expect from Comic Media.  Low grade copy, with a rusty staple and something (glue?) that spilled all over and soaked through that lower left corner.  $20 SOLD

 

Edited June 26, 2020 by SOTIcollector
Sold

[gunsmokin]

Just now, SOTIcollector said:

Death Valley #6, August, 1954.  All the gore and violence you'd expect from Comic Media.  Low grade copy, with a rusty staple and something (glue?) that spilled all over and soaked through that lower left corner.  $20 shipped in the US.

 

Take

[SOTIcollector]

Love & Death by Gershon Legman.  1949 softcover published by Breaking Point.  Five years before SOTI, Legman was criticizing comics.  $70 SOLD Comics-n-ERB

Edited June 26, 2020 by SOTIcollector
Sold

[SOTIcollector]

1 minute ago, gunsmokin said:

Take

[SOTIcollector]

Yank magazine from 1945 featuring a two-page article with photos of some great GA books.  Heavily worn with paper loss at the spine.  Two copies

Copy A $25  SOLD Qua-Brot

Copy B $25 SOLD Comics-n-ERB

Copy A

Copy A

Copy B

 

Copy B

 

Copy B

Edited June 26, 2020 by SOTIcollector
Both sold

[milhousb]

22 hours ago, SOTIcollector said:

The Comics by Coulton Waugh.  1947 harcdcover, no dust jacket.  The book is mostly about comic strips, but there's a chapter at the back all about those horrible things called comics.  Contains a brief history of the industry up to that point.

$25 shipped in the US.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's what Waugh had to say about one of the comics he had read.

Take a typical comic-book cover of World War II days.

Scene, a Jap wireless shack, through whose open door is seen a vessel being dive-bombed and bursting into flames. Which side is that ship on? It isn't obvious. In the foreground a Jap is sending a message under difficulties; he screams, revealing hideous buck-teeth as he sends. A baseball bat swung by a tough youngster has smashed him on the head in a white explosion. Another Jap, with bloody Samurai sword in one hand, spitting gun in the other, has has also been socked by a noble, hooded male in brilliant blue. Meanwhile a blood-red blond man is smashing the power plant with his gloved fists -- Hey! Look out! There's a green Jap splut-sputting him with a machine gun! Yes, but see that blond, teen-age girl crouching on the pink table; she's got a blood-red ax; she's coming down on the Jap's head, or is she? A hideous, shaven crook is leaning through a porthole aiming a blowgun at her -- Yeah, but see that youngster in the blue business suit jabbing a bayoneted rifle at the whole group -- But another jap is reaching at him! Ah, but a gorgeous superwoman with blood-red hair and highly stylized harlequin mask, through which peer blood-white eyes is strangling the Jap with one of her delicate arms, as with the other, she -- oh, well.

The layout artist, on completing this page, probably looked hopelessly at it, figured it was a failure. He had used up every inch of available screaming space, yet, there was no block of ice enclosing a glorious, frozen girl about to be sawed in half by a ghoulish hellscientist done up in a white coat and pince-nez. Probably the editor, looking at this cover, said to himself, "That layout guy Prangle is slipping. We gotta get more action."

Check the spoiler for the comic he was describing.  This comic is NOT part of this sale, but posted for informational purposes.
 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

The artist? No, not Prangle.  It was Schomburg.

This comic is NOT part of this sale, but posted for informational purposes.

 

 

 

 

I'll take it!

[SOTIcollector]

Seduction of the Innocent, first print, second state, no dust jacket.  Some scuffing near the spine.  Foxing along top edge.  Loose rear hinge is starting to separate.  No bibliography, but a photocopy bibliography has been included.  All typical pages present including the 16 pages of illustrations.  Free from writing except a small pencil "D" inside the FC and a fascinating inscription.  "To Joe & Clarice:  For your perusal and guidance worth while [sic] and timely book!  You both know what I think of 80% of present day comics. - Pop May 9, 1954"   $225  SOLD Comics-n-ERB

 

 

Edited June 26, 2020 by SOTIcollector
Sold

[SOTIcollector]

3 minutes ago, milhousb said:

I'll take it!

[SOTIcollector]

Clubwoman magazine, September, 1954.  There were many anti-comics articles in the mid-50's, but very few featured the article prominently on the cover, with photos of contemporary comics.  Extremely hard to find magazine.  $65  SOLD Ingelsfan

Edited June 26, 2020 by SOTIcollector

[SOTIcollector]

Batman coloring book.  1967.  Low grade, well worn, many pages colored.  Free  CLAIMED- Gunsmokin -  First to claim gets it.
 

Edited June 26, 2020 by SOTIcollector
claimed

[IngelsFan]

6 minutes ago, SOTIcollector said:

Clubwoman magazine, September, 1954.  There were many anti-comics articles in the mid-50's, but very few featured the article prominently on the cover, with photos of contemporary comics.  Extremely hard to find magazine.  $65 shipped in the US.

Take

[gunsmokin]

6 minutes ago, SOTIcollector said:

Batman coloring book.  1967.  Low grade, well worn, many pages colored.  Free to anybody who has made a purchase in the thread.  First to claim gets it.
 

Claim