You’ll find 400 vintage comic auctions in the latest eBay offering from award-winning auction house Phil-Comics, covering a vast range of titles and genres, so there should be something for most collectors – including some great original British comic artworks.
The auction starts to close on Sunday 15th September 2024.
Some of the highlights include an original, rare 1940 Beano Book, which is attracting fierce bidding, at close to £1800 at time of writing, a 1945 Dandy Monster Comic, “The Bash Street Kids” art by David Sutherland, key issues such as 2000AD Prog 1 and 2 (the latter featuring the first “Judge Dredd” story) and Captain Britain 1 and 8 (the first Psylocke tale), topped up with a selection of comics with free gifts, numerous picture library comics, several pages of original artwork and much more to boot.
There are some interesting “Dan Dare” related items on offer, too, some quite rare, and a large number of lots of free gifts issued by DC Thomson for titls such as Adventure, Hotspur, Skipper and other weekly boys’ comics
Run by Phil Shrimpton, the award-winning Phil-Comics specialises in vintage comics and related items such as annuals, holiday specials, free gifts and original artwork.
Here are some of the auction highlights – check out the full catalogue here on eBay
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An epsiode of “Scott Lanyard” (No. A192) by Hugh McClelland, for the Daily Sketch. Hugh McCleland was a cartoonist who headed the cartoon department of the Daily Mirror in the UK. In 1937, he introduced his wild Western comic strip Beelzebub Jones in the pages of the Daily Mirror. After taking over as cartoon chief at the Mirror in 1945, he dropped “Beelzebub Jones” and moved on to a variety of new strips, including “Dan Doofer”, “Sunshine Falls” and “Jimpy”. In 1952, he exited the Mirror for the tabloid Daily Sketch. He drew “Pip, Squeak and Wilfred” until 1956 when he left the UK and emigrated with his family to Canada. He launched his final strip, “Jimmy Gimmicks”, in 1957, but it last only two months.
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This untested S.E.L. Television Viewer in its original box was released in either the 1950s or 1960s and comes with a “Dan Dare” strip from Eagle. The box features other comic characters such as Billy Bunter, Tiger Tim and, perhaps, and a cowboy (possibly from Eagle’s “Riders of the Range”), amongst others. The box with it contains three Dan Dare film strips. It’s possible the one in the viewer is also a Dan Dare one from this box.
An “Eagle Eye Mini-Cine Viewer” with Slide, in Original Box with Leaflet. Licensed from Eagle, made by Martin Lucas in the 1950s. The item comes with a leaflet which showcases all available titles, including some by permission of Eagle (“Dan Dare”, “PC 49”, “Riders of the Range”) and some with permission of Girl. Also other films, too.
• Check out the full catalogue here on eBay
The auction begins to end this Sunday, 15th September 2024
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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