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[vaillant]

Hi everyone! 
this sales thread will feature material from various countries related to World War 2 (and the interwar period), comics and other illustrated printed stuff.

Some of this material is pretty scarce or rare, some is uncommon, most are duplicates from a research I have been conducting in the last 6-7 years
I think a good portion of american collectors may be unfamiliar with a number of these items.

IMPORTANT: Each item will have a double price in USD / Euro. If you are paying in Euro via bank transfer I will apply a 5% discount.
Payment methods accepted: Paypal, bank transfer (Wise, or other methods). In case I already know you, International Bank transfers are fine.
Please no people on the HoS or Probation list.

I will combine shipping costs and try to have the less expensive options from Italy.

You can find my kudos thread here.

Beware: I am based in Italy. Postage costs are pretty high, so check the table below.

Rules: The first (icon or text) in thread wins. You can purchase by PM but at your own risk – I will go by time stamp.



Shipping rates: I ship from Italy. Rates indicatively as follows (Zone 1 is Europe and UK, Zone 2 is Americas, Asia and Africa, and Zone 3 Oceania).
I am inclined to use Registered, as Airmail does not have a tracking number, but if we’re acquainted and you’re willing to take the risk I can ship via regular Airmail or with a cheaper option which could take more time.

For total amounts of over $300 I will ship to USA through registered courrier for $39. (good up to 1kg, approx 2,2 lbs.), or $45 (up to 2kg, approx 4,4 lbs.).

				Zone1	Zone2	Zone3

Airmail / 1-2 bks:		11.00	16.00	20.50 USD

Airmail / up to 8-10 bks:	13.50	21.00	27.00 USD

Airmail / up to 16-20 bks:	21.50	34.50	41.00 USD


Registered / 1-2 bks:		17.50	22.60	28.80 USD

Registered / up to 8-10 bks:	23.50	32.50	43.00 USD

Return policy: I generally do not offer returns as it would be impractical cost-wise from here, but in the unfortunate case I missed something drastic (like a cut out page or ad) I will make sure to make you whole.

Thanks for looking!
 

Edited May 4, 2022 by vaillant

[vaillant]

Audace No_299, 301 (September-October 1939)

Superman started to be presented in Italy in apocryphal form in 1939. Some may already be familiar with "Ciclon el Superhombre", which was the spanish version, done by the very same Italian publisher (under the "Hispanos Americana Ediciones" trade name), which lasted over fifteen issues between 1940 and 1941. Equivalent (but not identical) albums were published in Italy starting in 1939, but at the same time, strips produced in Italy by the brothers Baggioli started to appear on "L’Audace", a historical comics journal which would then be famous as it was finally acquired by Gianluigi Bonelli that built upon it his editorial venture becoming one of the leading publishers of comics here.

Audace #299 sees the beginning of the first italian story arc of "Ciclone" (the italian "reinvented" version of Superman) and second appearance overall in Italy. Written by Vincenzo Baggioli and drawn by Zenobio Baggioli). Included is a copy of #301, with the first installment. Superman/Ciclone lasted for at least 15 issues on "L’Audace". In the inside pages you can also find Tarzan renamed "Sigfrido", Popeye and other less known features from italian authors.
Issues of L’Audace running from 299 to 330 are very scarce and hard to find. These copies aren’t in their best shape but are complete and a true historical landmark pieces as far as Superman historical worldwide impact goes.

Asking $275 / 255€ for both.  SOLD to Xeno 1997

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Detail from page 2:

On #301 the Ciclone strip appears on the last page:

More pictures in spoiler tags:

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Edited April 11, 2022 by vaillant
SOLD

[vaillant]

Lacht ihn tot! Ein tendenziöses Bilderbuch (1937)
    ("Laugh him dead! A tendentious picture book") by Waldl 

This cartoon book collects a series of satiric strips previously published on Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps"), the official newspaper of the SS.
The targets of the (sometimes dark) humor are pretty varied, going from usual antisemitic themes to internal politics, Germany life at the time, anti-catholic satire targeting the clergy and religious orders…
There is even a strip making fun of  Hermann Göring.

Preface by Gunter d'Alquen, which was the chief editor of the newspaper, and commander of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers.

This is a decently kept copy with some wear and missing pieces to the cover (see picture). Insides have a pretty nice page quality.

Asking $230 / 210€ NOW $210

 SOLD via PM

 

More pictures in spoiler tags:

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Edited April 25, 2022 by vaillant
SOLD

[vaillant]

Super Mystery Comics (v1) #2 (Ace Comics, 1940)

Now, this is hard to price. The book presents nicely but technically it’s either a Fair/FR+ or a VG+ (Qualified) and it would fall in the "conserved" cathegory as apparently the spine was split and repaired with archival tape (removable, I guess, just in case).
Cover and back cover are pretty clean, small pieces missing. I can take pictures of the insides if needed.

Super-scarce second issue from the first year run, with an "eerie" early Timely feeling I have been told…

Bondage cover. Stories include: "The Lie Detector and How Suspects Were Treated in Earlier Times"; "Magno the Magnetic Man"; "'Sky' Smith"; "Vulcan the Volcanic Man"; "Q-13, America's Spy Fighter"; "Corporal Flint of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police"; and "Mark Murdock, Fighting District Attorney". "The Hideout Gun" illustrated text story by Cliff Howe.

Some copies of Ace books (a bit nicer) went for crazy prices on recent auctions, so I don’t know.
Let’s try $850 / 785€  NOW $800

 SOLD via PM

 

Edited April 25, 2022 by vaillant
SOLD

[vaillant]

Samurai postcard by Boccasile ("Postcard for the Armed Forces", 1942)

The "Samurai" postcard by the great illustrator Gino Boccasile, which could have easily been suitable as a comic book cover in the hypotetical case Japanese were doing comic book sized publications during the war… :-)

Circulated. Military Mail from the 16th division. Issued by the National Fascist Party, this one bears a stamp from October 5, 1942.

Asking 45$ / 39€   SOLD to sagii

Back:

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Edited April 22, 2022 by vaillant
SOLD

[vaillant]

Captain America Comics #1 (German edition, Marvel Deutschland, 1999)

This german edition was issued in 1999 by Marvel Deutschland as part of a pack of historical Timely books never before translated in German. As well known, the Swastika imagery was weirdly censored overall because of the current dispositions which prohibite the reproduction of it and other symbols associated with nazism outside of cultural/educational applications.

Beautiful copy in NM- condition.

Asking $50 / 46€

 

[vaillant]

Le Téméraire No_18 (October 1, 1943) - Copy B

"Le Téméraire" was a famous "collaborationist" french comics journal published in Paris from January 1943 to August 1944. From January 1943 to the Liberation, it was the only magazine for young people distributed in the german occupied France.
Authors feartured include Erik (André René Jolly) with "Fulminate et Vorax", Francis Josse with "Marc le téméraire", Vica (Vincent Krassousky) with strips of his character Vica the sailor, and Auguste Liquois with "Vers les mondes inconnus” (a Flash Gordon inspired science fiction epic with racial overtones).

In issue 18, a Ku-Klux Klan feature becomes a means to express the anti-americanism of the collaborationist government. Author J. Savary teaches us that all the officers of the Klan were Freemasons, whose contributions gave rise to rebates and since the Klan dared to attack the Jews who control the American press, the latter, with the help of the 1934 elections, dealt the group a fatal blow.

This is a pretty scarce issue. I can take pictures of the other strips in the insides if you want.
Asking $60 / 55€  SOLD to Xeno1997

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Edited April 8, 2022 by vaillant
SOLD

[vaillant]

Le Téméraire No_20 (November 1, 1943)

Issue 20 of "Le Temeraire" offers the occasion for a diatribe against communism. In the article "Insectes contre hommes" by André Ramon communist societies are compared to the "hive mentality" of insects organizations. Cool "giant insects" cover.

Asking $30 / 28€  SOLD to Xeno1997

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Edited April 8, 2022 by vaillant
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[vaillant]

Timeless Topix (v3) #4 (Catechetical Guild, 1944)

This issue features the story "Hero of the Hills" (a biography of St. Benedict) whose opening panel represents the very first depiction in comics of the bombing of the Mount Cassino Abbey.

In nice VG+ shape or better.
Asking $65 / 59€  NOW $55

 

Edited April 12, 2022 by vaillant
Price lowered

[vaillant]

Il Topolino d’Oro No_31 (XXXI) (1973) - VF+
This issue collects the italian edition of the story "Mickey Mouse on a Secret Mission", which was published in Italy only after the war, in 1947, (for reasons that can be imagined) but with alterations and cuts. "Il Topolino d’oro" was the first attempt at an edition of Mickey’s strips trying to be "philological". Here the story is presented in a new translation and with a beautiful custom cover by Marco Rota.

Il Topolino d’Oro No_24 (XXIV) - VGFN
This issue includes  "Mickey Mouse outwits the Phantom Blot" with a beautiful custom cover by Marco Rota.

Both in large (magazine sized) landscape format.

$15 for the #31  SOLD to sagii
$10 for the #24

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Edited April 11, 2022 by vaillant
#31 is SOLD

[vaillant]

Key Comics #5 (Consolidated Magazines, 1945) - GD

The book presents very well although it has large spine splits, and bottom staple detached from cover.

Winter 1945. Book contains:

"The Key: The Case of the Three Keys!"
Here are three keys... two open the doors to death...only one leads to freedom… which one would you choose?

• " Dash"
 The intrepid boy adventurer, Dash, finds new thrills and excitement as he helps rescue his explorer father frdom the clutches of mongolian bandits...and still retains the legendary sword of Ghenghis Khan.

• "Eskey & Mo" by Burton Geller
• 
"Death Stakes the Claim" by Walter Johnson
After eliminating his fellow prospector, Timmy meets a similar fate.
• 
"Faust" by C. Gounod and H.C. Kiefer
A horror-suspense story. Faust trades his soul for youth and the love of a woman.

• "Will O' the Wisp" by Gerald Altman
• "John Quincy Atom" by Marv Lev
Out of the realm of electrons and protons steps this gay little character know (yes it should be known but it is mispelled in the book) as John Quincy Atom! His Atomic Powers are many-witness John Quincy as Cupid.
• "How To Be An Amateur G-Man" by Ken Bickley
Second page is called Clever Clues. Contain mini-mysteries to solve.
• "Tommy's Time Key" by Jim Tyer
When Tommy decides to change the curse of history--there isn't much anyone can do to stop him, so here we show you his idea of the capture of Fort Ticonderoga by the Green Mountain Boys under ethan Allen.

Walter Johnson "arab killer" cover.

Asking $130 / 120€  NOW $100

 

Edited April 12, 2022 by vaillant
Price lowered

[vaillant]

Four Favorites #4 (Ace Comics, March 1942)

First Unknown Soldier in title.

Cover art by B. Currie. Untitled story; Unknown Soldier vs. Invisible Man (Prof. Amos Aries). Untitled story, pencils by Maurice Gutwirth; Magno vs. the Hook; Davey and Magno go in Magnos study. Untitled story, art by Red Holmdale; Lash Lightning (Robert Morgan) vs. the Were-Wolf (Adolph Krimetz). Untitled story starring The Raven, art by Red Holmdale. "Hemp Hellion" text story. "Luke and His Magic Flute" one-page story, art by Lou Paige. Untitled Mr. Whiskers (Jim Clay) story; A group of tourists are in danger of being abducted.

This would be a pretty nice copy, but the front cover got detached from the rest of the book (back cover is still attached as it can be seen in the pictures).
I would grade it as a Fair/FR+ or a VGFN (Qualified).
Books appears clean, with no restoration, quite supple paper and nice page quality. I will take more pictures if needed.

Hard to price.
How about $650 / 600€?
Paging @MustEatBrains which inquired time ago for this book.

 

Edited September 22, 2022 by vaillant
Price lowered

[sagii]

On 4/7/2022 at 4:35 PM, vaillant said:

Samurai postcard by Boccasile ("Postcard for the Armed Forces", 1942)

The "Samurai" postcard by the great illustrator Gino Boccasile, which could have easily been suitable as a comic book cover in the hypotetical case Japanese were doing comic book sized publications during the war… :-)

Circulated. Military Mail from the 16th division. Issued by the National Fascist Party, this one bears a stamp from October 5, 1942.

Asking 45$ / 39€

 

[sagii]

On 4/7/2022 at 5:07 PM, vaillant said:

Il Topolino d’Oro No_31 (XXXI) (1973) - VF+
This issue collects the italian edition of the story "Mickey Mouse on a Secret Mission", which was published in Italy only after the war, in 1947, (for reasons that can be imagined) but with alterations and cuts. "Il Topolino d’oro" was the first attempt at an edition of Mickey’s strips trying to be "philological". Here the story is presented in a new translation and with a beautiful custom cover by Marco Rota.

Il Topolino d’Oro No_24 (XXIV) - VGFN
This issue includes  "Mickey Mouse outwits the Phantom Blot" with a beautiful custom cover by Marco Rota.

Both in large (magazine sized) landscape format.

Asking $25 / 22€ for both

(or $15 for the #31 and $10 for the #24)

 

#31 for $15

[vaillant]

La Bête est morte! La guerre mondiale chez les animaux (1945) - Set A
    1er Fascicule - Copy A - August 1945 (2nd French edition, published on the first anniversary of the Liberation of Paris).
    2me Fascicule - Copy A - June 1945 (1st French Edition).

The beautiful "chef-d'œuvre" by french "funny animal" great artist Edmond François Calvo, published slightly afterwards the Liberation in France.
This pair lot includes the second French edition (there were Belgian ones as well) for the first volume and the first for the second volume.

Volume one in pretty nice shape aside from the bc wear; volume two in the VG+ range.
Asking $280 / 260€ for the pair  SOLD via PM

 

Inside pictures of the second volume to show inside artwork:


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Edited April 12, 2022 by vaillant
SOLD

[vaillant]

On 4/7/2022 at 11:37 PM, sagii said:

 

On 4/7/2022 at 11:38 PM, sagii said:

#31 for $15

 
Many thanks!

[vaillant]

Robinson Anno I No_4 (May 13, 1945)
In about VGFN shape (hard to grade these journals).

Italian anthological comics journal which started about a year after the liberation of Rome.
It presents exclusively American comics as a result of the abolition of the ban on publishing foreign characters imposed by the fascist regime.

The first twelve issues contain characters from comics books dating back to 1938.
The journal stops its publication after a mere two years of life on 12 April 1947.
This is issue 4, featuring, among others, The Flame. Rare.

Asking $80 / 74€  SOLD to MusterMark

 

Edited April 20, 2022 by vaillant
SOLD

[vaillant]

The Beast is Dead! 2nd World War among the animals
    English edition of "La Bête est morte!" (both volumes) published in 1984 by Abi Mezer Productions in Israel.

Very nice shape, minor corner scuffing.

Asking $125 / 115€  SOLD via PM
Or take both the two french original volumes and this English adaptation for $390 / 360€ shipped.

 

Edited April 12, 2022 by vaillant

[Math Teacher]

This is certainly an unusual selection of items!

[vaillant]

On 4/8/2022 at 12:16 AM, Math Teacher said:

This is certainly an unusual selection of items!

Thanks! There will be more… The biggest hindrance is that comics journals are hard to show properly, unless doing a lot of pictures with decent lightning.
As a side note, on "L'Audace" you can already have a glimplse of the work of Kurt Caesar, a unique artist (german, but naturalized italian) which also acted as a translator and field artist in the Afrikacorps during the North African Campaign of World War II.
And if I find my few duplicates I will also show one of the very first black characters fighting nazist army soldiers during the war in France, by the great french author Pellos (René Pellarin).