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Popular Comics #61 Taking Bids At Heritage Auctions Today

Dell published Popular Comics for years, and one of the more interesting covers from the run is at Heritage Auctions today.

Popular Comics is a title I have little experience with from the golden age, but if the cover to issue #61 is any indication, they look wild. Published by Dell from 1936-1948, it was an anthology book that ran for a long time next to other titles like Four Color and tons and tons of licensed material. Dell was the go-to for all of the Saturday morning cartoon characters you know and love, and Popular Comics is where you went to for the weird stuff. A copy of #61 is taking bids at Heritage Auctions today, and this raw copy is currently sitting at $72, which is not bad for what looks to be a pretty clean and readable copy. Check it out below.

Popular Comics Indeed

"Popular Comics #61 (Dell, 1941) Condition: FN-. Overstreet 2022 FN 6.0 value = $123." Man, the look on that guy's face will haunt me for days. And is that supposed to be chest hair? I honestly cannot tell what is going on with his chest. As far as the characters listed to be in this issue, the only ones I had heard of before today were Hurricane Kids, Sky Hawk, and the rest I am completely unfamiliar with. I wonder why we don't get these into my shop; we buy in Dell books constantly but never Popular Comics.

Maybe that points to how hard it can be to find out in the wild, especially in this condition. I am sure it is a great read as well; maybe I should buy this one and learn a thing or two. Go ahead and go here to place a bid yourself. There is a whole bunch of great golden age books taking bids over there today as well, so make sure to click through everything else they are auctioning off as well.

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