Lloyd Jacquet Archives

A vibrant comic book illustration featuring a superhero in a blue costume and cape, leaping through the air to save a woman with long red hair dressed in green. The background shows a colorful city skyline and a ship on the water, suggesting an action-packed scene.

Saving the World of Tomorrow: Amazing Adventure Funnies #1, at Auction

In the spring of 1940, as the New York World's Fair prepared to open for its second and final season in Flushing Meadows, Queens, by all appearances, it had become a towering success. Exhibits centered around its theme "The World of Tomorrow" inspired numerous pulps and comic books, as we have discussed here extensively. While Amazing Adventure[...]

Amazing-Man Comics #6 (#2) featuring The Shark by Lew Glanzman.

The Marvel DNA of Amazing-Man Comics #6, Up for Auction

The earliest issues of Amazing Man Comics from Centaur are an obscure but important part of the early Golden Age. The series features work from Human Torch creator Carl Burgos and Submariner creator Bill Everett, and was on newsstands at the same time as Marvel Comics #1. Amazing-Man Comics #5 had introduced Burgos's The[...]

Marvel Comics #1 Pay Copy (Marvel 1939).

Historic Marvel Comics #1 Pay Copy Goes for Record $2,427,777.65

The Marvel Comics #1 Pay Copy, one of the most famous individual comic books in vintage collecting circles, has just sold for a record $2,427,777.65 at ComicConnect. That is by a significant margin the highest price ever paid for this 1939 release, which is the first comic book published by Marvel. This particular copy of[...]