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Kaanga Comics #8 appears to be one of the toughest Fiction House comics in high grade, and features a spectacular cover by Maurice Whitman This issue has recently attracted some attention among serious vintage comic book collectors, as high grade copies have been virtually unheard of on the public marketplace in the CGC era.  Last[...]

Today's Heritage Auctions' Sunday & Monday Comic Books Select Auction #122250 has twelve issues of Kaanga Comics, featuring spectacular art and covers from the likes of Maurice Whitman and Jack Kamen. Kaanga Comics (Fiction House). After nine years of headlining Jungle Stories, Kaanga received his own comic book series from Fiction House, which ran from 1949 to[...]

We recently singled one of the break-out hits of this Fiction House auction, Kaanga Comics #8 with its cover by an underappreciated artist of the Golden Age, Maurice Whitman.  But Whitman's work graced a large number of comics of the mid-1940s through the early 1950s that are undeservedly overlooked After serving in WWII, Whitman entered[...]

Kaanga Comics #8 appears to be one of the toughest Fiction House comics in high grade, and features a spectacular cover by Maurice Whitman This issue is a recent breakout among serious vintage comic book collectors, as high grade copies are unheard of on the public marketplace Five years ago, a slightly higher-graded copy sold[...]

We recently noted that the series Ghost Comics is in demand by vintage collectors, largely due to the covers of an underrated artist of the late Golden Age, Maurice Whitman.  But Whitman's work graced a large number of comics of the mid-1940s through the early 1950s that are undeservedly overlooked After serving in WWII, Whitman[...]

We recently noted that the series Ghost Comics is in demand by vintage collectors, largely due to the covers of an underrated artist of the late Golden Age, Maurice Whitman.  But Whitman's work graced a large number of comics of the mid 1940s through the early 1950s that are undeservedly overlooked After serving in WWII,[...]

EC Comics titles like Haunt of Fear, Shock SuspenStories, and Tales from the Crypt; Fawcett title This Magazine is Haunted; and even enduring Marvel Comics titles like Strange Tales have all transcended the politically-motivated witch hunt stigma of the 1950s to be considered well-crafted classics in the modern day.  But a few of those 65[...]