One of the most famous Steve Ditko covers of the 1950s, Charlton's The Thing #15 has a wonderfully weird interior story to match.
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Marvel/Atlas' Journey into Mystery #15 is another mid-1950s example of radiation-transformed mutants in comic books.
Blurb to the contrary, Harry Anderson's cover for Astonishing #32 represents the interior story "The Werewolf Takes a Wife" by Paul Reinman.
Fawcett, the publisher best known for Captain Marvel produced one of the most notorious crime comic issues of the 1950s era.
In which the elusive Liberty Comics #12 gives us a hook into understanding the wheeling and dealing of the comic book industry of its era.
Witches Tales #25 (Harvey, 1954) is a classic among two different groups of people for two different reasons that involve the same story
Pay-Off is one of a small line of little-known but memorable crime comic book titles from magazine publisher D.S. Publishing.
Clover Press and Yoe! Books are teaming up for Popeye Variations, a 10" x 10" hardcover book featuring over 75 artists.
Jason Philip Macendale Jr. aka the Hobgoblin split with his demon in Web of Spider-Man #86, resulting in the even weirder Demogoblin.
Famous Funnies #81 features the comic book debut of early female comic superhero Invisible Scarlet O'Neil, with cover by H.G. Peter.
The War That Time Forgot debuted in Star Spangled War Stories #90, and the ongoing dinosaurs vs soldiers battles quickly took over the title.
While Tigra's Marvel Chillers series didn't last long, the character subsequently became a regular guest in Fantastic Four and beyond.
In Wings Comics #85, Captain Wings must prevent a military superplane from falling into the wrong hands to prevent the outbreak of WW III.
Eastern Color's Heroic Comics series debuted underappreciated Bill Everett superhero Hydroman and Tarpé Mills' Purple Zombie.
Strange Adventures lived up to its name during its run 1950-1973, and "The Space-Roots of Evil" is an excellent example of the series.
With the power of Static Electricity at his fingertips, Spark Man served as an equalizer against evil in his Sparkler Comics adventures.
In the Silver Age, Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff turned Clayface from a throwaway character into a Batman rogue's gallery staple.
When the God of War got humanity to turn its back on the institutions of knowledge on Earth, he forgot about Mysta of the Moon.
Sheena's early adventures in Jumbo Comics are some amazing stuff, and Jumbo Comics #18 from Fiction House is no exception.
Lasting 73 issues from January 1940 to Winter 1953, Planet Comics is the most important science fiction title in American comic book history
It might be a very long time before we see a complete set of Marvel Mystery Comics from a single collector sold at a single auction again.
How do you take the strangest Phantom Lady story of the Golden Age and make it even stranger in the Comics Code era? Add the Phantomobile.
Was Key Ring Comics' Radior originally meant for a feature in Dell's War Comics series before the company cooled off on superheroes?
Aviation-themed covers were a large part of the early era of L.B. Cole's career as a comic book cover artist.
After the Superman TV show sparked a new superhero boom in 1953, Farrell's Black Cobra became a thoroughly Cold War-era superhero.
Street & Smith's Super-Magician Comics ended with a story about how gods lose their power as their worshippers die off.
Blackstone the Magician faces off against descendants of the original Gunpowder Plot conspirators in this weird Super-Magician Comics tale.
Blackstone the Magician's comic book career took some fascinating twists and turns, and includes Shadow creator Walter Gibson.
International editions of key comic books like Brazil's O Homem-Aranha have been gaining popularity among collectors in recent times.
In one of the most impressive auction results of the year, the first appearance of Luke Cage in Hero for Hire #1 has sold for $102,000.