Readcomix Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 (edited) 5 Simple Rules (Please, please read) 1st wins; tie/indeterminate goes to the thread. Payment is Check or Money Order (yeah, yeah I know I'm a dinosaur, troglodyte, luddite, mennonite, hermaphrodite etc. - I just don't have or want e-payments.) Shipping: USPS Priority between $8 (flip n ship mailer in a Legal Flat Rate Envelope) to $15 (Medium Priority Box) for raws. Don't be listy including the little one in my head. Returns: Raws; sure, just notify me within three days of receipt and get in back to me in the same shape on your dime. No returns on slabs. (Kudos thread linked under my avatar.) Edited September 7, 2021 by Readcomix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 Offering these three consecutive WWII era issues as a lot. These are pretty cool in that the first half of each book is a war comic but the back half still features superheroes/action heroes; Music Master, Hydroman, Man O’ Metal and Flyin’ Jenny. These are among the last issues of the series to contain Golden Age heroes, before a full cutover to war-based and other content. I thought about offering this lot in my long, ongoing “You Might Find It” thread over in Mixed, (and you may certainly combine shipping) but it seems that the Golden Age crowd mostly doesn’t venture over there. There are a few GA books in that thread, but I may also add the few remaining ones intended for it over here instead. Either way, I thought this fun little trio should be offered on its own. I’ll post several pix of each, then a price for the lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 Heroic Comics #26 (September 1944) Newt Alfred painted cover. VG range, centerfold detached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 Heroic Comics #27 (Nov. 1944) Henry Kiefer painted cover (D-Day landing?) Also VG range. No Music Master this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 (edited) Heroic Comics #28 (January 1945) this one approaches FN range. Henry Kiefer painted flamethrower cover. It is a smidge narrower than the other 2 but I believe it is badly miscut, not trimmed, as it is just as tall and the page edges still form a point; the edge is not uniformly straight as with trimmed books. Last Man O’ Metal, 2nd to last Hydroman. (If those two heroes did not inspire the Spidey villains Molten Man and Hydro-Man, I am shocked.) Edited August 31, 2021 by Readcomix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 That’s the offering. Take the lot for $150. That’s a lot of golden age superhero bang for the buck, with a good dose of war propaganda and caricature thrown in. If nothing else, read the full-page war bonds ad in #27 (pictured above). Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Price drop to $125 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Adding this beauty to the thread…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 (edited) Fritzi Ritz #56 (1st Dell issue). Tough to grade; pretty copy. Hard to see on the red, but there’s some soiling on the cover and (2nd pic) slight vertical tear on front cover near spine, maybe 1/2”. Revising grade to FN/FN- though it presents well. Let’s say $25 (well under the nicest copy on eBay, which ain’t this nice) Edited September 1, 2021 by Readcomix Grade and price drop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted September 1, 2021 Author Share Posted September 1, 2021 Down with Crime #1 in VG. Note tear in cover. Well-done Fawcett crime book. $100 jimjum12 and elibowman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted September 1, 2021 Author Share Posted September 1, 2021 (edited) Gunsmoke Blazing Stories of the West #4 VG- ghastly Graham Ingels galore! $30 Edited September 1, 2021 by Readcomix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted September 1, 2021 Author Share Posted September 1, 2021 Package Deal: Take the thread (up to this point) for $250 (Heroic 26-28, Fritzi Ritz 56, Down with Crime 1, Gunsmoke Blazing Tales #4) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted September 2, 2021 Author Share Posted September 2, 2021 Tip Top #215 presents VGFN to FN- but going VG- for back cover tear. 8 pages of Peanuts. $20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 Take the whole thread for $250 shipped! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
