What are the Scarcest Comic Books of the 1950s? 6 6

[bronze johnny]

What are the scarcest comic books of the 1950s (1950-1959). Please don’t include comic books that were published before January, 1950 and after December, 1959.
thanks,

john 

My 4000th post after nearly 17 years on the boards!

Edited September 26, 2021 by bronze johnny

[bronze johnny]

Here’s two that are among the scarcest:

Weird Suspenstories 2 

Doll Man 47

[pemart1966]

A few of the Cathetical Guild books have only a handful of known copies.

[CrocHntr]

Been searching for Westerner 27 for maybe 5 years now and only run across a couple.  3 on census.

 

 

[eccomic]

These…

 

 

[eccomic]

These as well

[Robot Man]

Tales of Terror Annual #1 (1951)

Edited September 27, 2021 by Robot Man

[Robot Man]

[jimbo_7071]

I sold my copy of Muggsy Mouse #1 years ago, and it was the only copy I saw until someone offered a very low grade copy on the boards about a year ago. It isn't valuable enough to get slabbed in mid grade, so it's difficult to say how rare it actually is.

Edited September 27, 2021 by jimbo_7071

[OtherEric]

These miniature Peter Wheat issues are insanely rare.  At least nine exist, but I've only ever seen 3 come up for sale in over 10 years of looking; and I've only gotten two of them.

[Dr. Love]

This topic comes up from time to time.  I'd be more interested if it was a list of books 

you've never even seen, it's never been slabbed, it's never been sold, noone you know or has heard of has ever owned one or known someone who has owned a copy

what are the comic equivalents of Big Foot?

[sfcityduck]

On 9/26/2021 at 9:10 PM, Dr. Love said:

I'd be more interested if it was a list of books you've never even seen, it's never been slabbed, it's never been sold, noone you know or has heard of has ever owned one or known someone who has owned a copy.

 

Until a few years ago, I'd have put "The Nightingale" on that list.  But, SOTIcollector now owns the one I found.

The remaining Big Foots that I can think of might be limited to the publications the U.S. government destroyed because the publishers were violating the paper conservation laws back in the 1940s.  They existed, they were likely destroyed, unless the LoC or some other government agency or former employee has them tucked away somewhere.  Read this thread (and I'm glad you didn't say Sasquatches because the very cool Canadian editions up above are sort of a cheat, as my guess is that there are lots of very rare or lost foreign editions of U.S. comics) :

 

Edited September 27, 2021 by sfcityduck

[Point Five]

Some good answers so far. Honestly, and no offense to the OP, but the original question is so broad and info on books is so murky that I couldn't begin to even guess. Too hard to parse between 'book X doesn't exist' and variations on 'book X might exist but doesn't come up for sale or have that many people actively searching for it', especially when comparing books across different genres.

 

[FoggyNelson]

On 9/26/2021 at 9:23 PM, eccomic said:

These as well

That Hockey comic is awesome 👍👍‼️😷

[rjpb]

Wan't there a boardie who had spent years looking for a copy of Redskin #8? It stuck with me for some reason, and I don't think I've ever seen a copy for sale.

 

 

[steveinthecity]

On 9/27/2021 at 4:17 PM, rjpb said:

Wan't there a boardie who had spent years looking for a copy of Redskin #8? It stuck with me for some reason, and I don't think I've ever seen a copy for sale.

 

 

I believe that was @Scrooge.

[rjpb]

On 9/27/2021 at 4:19 PM, steveinthecity said:

I believe that was @Scrooge.

That sounds right, did he ever find one?

[steveinthecity]

On 9/27/2021 at 4:21 PM, rjpb said:

That sounds right, did he ever find one?

I don’t remember if he ever posted that he did. 

[adamstrange]

On 9/27/2021 at 7:21 PM, rjpb said:

That sounds right, did he ever find one?

He did.

[comicnoir]

This one is tuff- and Baker cover.