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Rare LB Cole Key Issue:Eagle!This sale Includes:
LOT OF1 VINTAGE COMIC BOOK: EAGLE COMICS #1 CGC 3.0 With Cream To Off-White Pages, With The Incredible Patriotic Portrait By The Legendary L. B. Cole. The Bold Cover ExhibitsThe Ornate Details, Stark Color Contrasts And Masterful Inking That Only Cole Could Achieve. And Note That Extraordinary Front Cover Looks Great On This Curiously Strictly-Graded Example. It's Complete, Intact, And Supple, With Bold Colors. It Is Unrestored And Has Great Eye-Appeal And There Are No Distracting Pesky Tears, Writing Or Chunks Out To Distract From The All-American Airborne Tableau That Cole Crafted. This Is A Scarce Small Press Key Issue, And Much Like Other Early Classics Including Mask #1 & 2 And Power Comics #3 It's Becoming A Sought-After Commodity By This Highly-Collected Artist. This Is From Late 1944, The First Issue Of The Bi-Monthly Air War Title By Rural Home Publications, And Much Like Dime Comics #1 It Is Not Easy To Obtain In Presentable Shape. The Last Time This Particular 3.0 (Which Is Especially Pretty For The Grade) Changed Hands It Sold For $720 Plus S/H, And It Will Include The sale Invoice And Lot Label For The Lucky New Owner's Records. The Lead Story Is "Journey Into Space" With Science-Fiction Themes, While Other Stories Have War-Themed Titles Such As "Bombs Over Tokyo". It Came Out At The Apex Of World War Two So It Has The Ubiquitous Shocking Content Including Brutal War-Time Violence, Patriotic Themes, Racial Caricatures Of The Axis, Gore, Good Girl Art And Explicit Violence.THIS ANTIQUE COMICHAD AN ORIGINAL PRICE OF TEN CENTS.That terrific LB Cole image is bold and clean and unblemished, please view our lame hazy photographs. It is vibrantand lustrous, that epic front cover retains amazing gloss and has great eye-appeal. The cover whites are still snowy white, the logo is astonishingly bold, and there is good gloss and structure on both covers. Please inspect all the photos, I took pictures at different angles so you can see the flaws, this is a solid copy, suitable for a serious LB Cole collection. Terrific acquisitionfor any war or aviation fan or collector of American pop culture fromthe middle of the twentieth century.MATERIAL LIKE THIS SPOTLIGHTING ICONIC THEMES OF FILM, PULP FICTION, CINEMA AND LITERATURENEVER LOSES APPEAL.
This will be carefully bagged in ARCHIVAL MYLAR, along with a polypropylene dust cover, and packaged very well to ensure safe delivery.
COLLECTOR'S ITEM KEY CLASSIC COVER AIRPLANE BATTLE COMIC.
We are now selling many LB Cole covers along with assorted pre-code horror comic-books, plus sci-fi, GGA, and crime, and even rare artwork, with more to come in the comingweeks.Many of you have dealt with us through our ads in CBM, CBG, O.P.G., etc.
(Comic Book Marketplace, Comics Buyer's Guide,Overstreet Price Guide, +...)KEY COMICS is a long-term top rated Seller and CGC Member Dealer that has specialized in Mail-Order Comics & Art for 35 years.WE LISTSCARCE & OUT-OF-PRINT COLLECTABLECOMICS FREQUENTLY, SO PLEASE CHECK BACK OFTEN!We accept PayPal; checks/MO.
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