BANG-UP COMICS #3
CGC VG+: 4.5
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SOLD ON: Tuesday, 06/13/2017 1:04 PM
$443
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PUBLISHER: Progressive
COMMENTS: off white pgs
very rare; WWII Japanese battle cover
Jon Berk Collection
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very rare; WWII Japanese battle cover
Jon Berk Collection
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off white pgs
very rare; WWII Japanese battle cover
Jon Berk CollectionIn the cutthroat world of Golden Age comics, scrappy little publishers were constantly vying to get in on the action, chasing hungrily after the normous readership generated by the big guns of National (later DC), Timely, and Fawcett. Whatever it took to get noticed, these tenacious small fries would do, and the most surefire way of getting attention was to tug aggressively at readers' patriotism, especially in the early, white-hot days of America's entry into the Second World War. This classic example showcases the crude but effective illustrations that the lower-tier publishing houses would mop up, dragooning hungry freelancers, starry-eyed newcomers, and starving art students into churning out marketable material with startling speed. Thanks to low print runs and aggressive wartime paper drives, very few of these forgotten treasures have survived, making war-era rarities like this a real find for WWII cover collectors.
very rare; WWII Japanese battle cover
Jon Berk CollectionIn the cutthroat world of Golden Age comics, scrappy little publishers were constantly vying to get in on the action, chasing hungrily after the normous readership generated by the big guns of National (later DC), Timely, and Fawcett. Whatever it took to get noticed, these tenacious small fries would do, and the most surefire way of getting attention was to tug aggressively at readers' patriotism, especially in the early, white-hot days of America's entry into the Second World War. This classic example showcases the crude but effective illustrations that the lower-tier publishing houses would mop up, dragooning hungry freelancers, starry-eyed newcomers, and starving art students into churning out marketable material with startling speed. Thanks to low print runs and aggressive wartime paper drives, very few of these forgotten treasures have survived, making war-era rarities like this a real find for WWII cover collectors.