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SOLD ON: Tuesday, 09/10/2019 1:37 PM
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PUBLISHER: Fawcett
COMMENTS: white pgs; 1 of 1 at the top!
Raboy skiing battle cvr
Edgar Church / Mile High Copy
Highest Graded
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white pgs; 1 of 1 at the top!
Raboy skiing battle cvr
Edgar Church / Mile High Copy
Highest GradedIn issue #15, Captain Marvel Jr. embarks on a wintry, snowbound mission againt the Nazi threat, dragging along sidekicks Arky and Sarge, a dopey sidekick and a hapless dog. The teenage hero braves the elements to bring down another enemy of the Allied Forces. Three other tales of derring-do inhabit these classic pages as well, as Captain Nazi makes his usual appearance to close out the book.
The wealth of high-grade Mile High Captain Marvel Jrs in this auction are such a pleasure to experience, books that seem as if they were transported through time to the current day, right off a newsstand in small-town America to our offices in NYC. This top of the census, 1 of 1 copy is guaranteed to be a popular lot once the hammer drops.
Overstreet Guide 2019 NM- (9.2) value = $1,075.
Artist Information
Emmanuel "Mac" Raboy was an American comics artist best known for his comic-book work on Fawcett Comics' Captain Marvel Jr. and as the Sunday comic-strip artist of Flash Gordon for more than 20 years. Cartoonist Drew Friedman has stated, "Raboy was an expert technician with pen and brush, and his lush covers are some of the most unusually beautiful ever to grace comic books".
Raboy began his art career with the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. In the 1940s he began working with the Harry A. Chesler studio of comics artists. Raboy began drawing comic books and gained fame as the illustrator for Captain Marvel, Jr. and the Green Lama. Raboy was a great admirer of Alex Raymond, and "kept a portfolio of Alex Raymond's "Flash Gordon" comics by his side for inspiration and guidance as he worked". In the spring of 1946, King Features hired Raboy to continue the Sunday page adventures of Flash Gordon, which he continued to work on until his death.