Comics and Animation News: Family Guy, Lou Fine, and a Pedigree Collection

Comics and Animation News [Read this newsletter online]( [Heritage Auctions]( [Comics and Animation News]( In This Issue: • [Sunday Internet Auction](#spotlight) • [The Indiana Pedigree Collection of Video Games](#collector-b) • [Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #2 - the First Hardbound Edition (Fourth Article in a Series)](#collector-c) • [Help Wanted: Comics Grader](#collector-e) • [Around Heritage Auctions](#around-1) • [Cover of the Week: Next They Busted Up The Ring-Toss Ring](#week) • [Current Auctions](#current) January 30, 2019 []Sunday Internet Auction [Sunday Internet Comics Auction]( Auction Ends: February 3, 2019 Live Session at 6:00 PM CT [Our large Golden Age selection includes a number of Lou Fine covers.]( [Plenty of war comics are in the auction, including some scarcer examples.]( [And we've got three copies of Giant-Size X-Men #1.]( [National Comics #10 (Quality, 1941) Condition: VG/FN]( National Comics #10, featuring Uncle Sam. [War Comics #23 (Atlas, 1954) Condition: VG-]( Cover art by the late, great Russ Heath. [Giant-Size X-Men #1 (Marvel, 1975) CGC NM 9.4 White pages]( The first appearance of the new X-Men. Highlights of this week's auction include: [Family Guy First Episode Full Family Animation Drawing Signed by Seth MacFarlane (Fox, 1999)]( Family Guy First Episode Full Family Animation Drawing Signed by Seth MacFarlane (Fox, 1999) Family Guy fans, you gotta check this out. It's an incredible original production drawing of the entire Griffin family! From left to right: Brian, Stewie, Lois, Peter (great profile), Chris, and seated with her face to the family, Meg. This is from the very first episode, "Death Has a Shadow." It was originally shown after Super Bowl XXXIII, on January 31, 1999. This scene is listed as 187A. The art is in blue pencil on 12 field animation paper, with a combined image size of 8.75" x 5.5". If that wasn't enough, series creator Seth MacFarlane has hand-signed the piece! Doesn't get much better than this! The drawing is matted with an opening of 12" x 9.25" and framed with Plexiglas for an overall size of 20.5" x 17.5" A 20th Century Fox seal is on the art, and a COA is included on back of the frame. Drawing is in Fine condition. [View]( [Adventure Comics #79 (DC, 1942) Condition: Apparent VG/FN]( Adventure Comics #79 (DC, 1942) Condition: Apparent VG/FN Classic Manhunter/Nazi War cover by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby. Jack Burnley and Bernard Baily art. Restoration includes multiple tear seals and reinforcing on the centerfold. Overstreet 2018 GD 2.0 value = $300; VG 4.0 value = $600. [View]( [Headline Comics #9 (Prize, 1944) Condition: FN]( Headline Comics #9 (Prize, 1944) Condition: FN Hitler story. Interesting Halloween/Nazi War cover by Dan Zolnerowich. The second copy we've encountered to date. Overstreet 2018 FN 6.0 value = $159. [View]( [Alex Raymond Rip Kirby Daily Comic Strip Original Art dated 3-5-54 (King Features Syndicate, 1954)]( Alex Raymond Rip Kirby Daily Comic Strip Original Art dated 3-5-54 (King Features Syndicate, 1954) Rip Kirby, Desmond, and Crusher pay an after-hours visit to Haskin's bar in this chilly strip created in ink over graphite on Bristol board with an image area of 20" x 5.25". The strip is slightly toned with a text correction in the first panel, and light glue residue showing from behind the revision. In Very Good condition. [View]( [Journey Into Mystery #83 (Marvel, 1962) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white pages]( Journey Into Mystery #83 (Marvel, 1962) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white pages The origin and first appearance of Thor. Jack Kirby cover and art. Steve Ditko art. Currently #6 on Overstreet's list of Top 50 Silver Age Comics. Overstreet 2018 FN 6.0 value = $5,950. CGC census 1/19: 66 in 5.5, 286 higher. [View]( [Iron Man #1 (Marvel, 1968) CBCS NM 9.4 White pages]( Iron Man #1 (Marvel, 1968) CBCS NM 9.4 White pages Origin of Iron Man retold. Story continued from Iron Man and Sub-Mariner #1. Gene Colan cover. Colan and Johnny Craig art. CBCS notes, "From the Clinton Collection." Overstreet 2018 NM- 9.2 value = $1,500. [View]( [Gil Kane and John Romita Sr. Captain America #145 Page 4 Original Art (Marvel, 1972)]( Gil Kane and John Romita Sr. Captain America #145 Page 4 Original Art (Marvel, 1972) Nick Fury, Dum-Dum Dugan and Valentina de la Fontaine are featured on this page from "Skyjacked!". Ink over blue pencil graphite on Bristol board with an image area of 10" x 15". In Excellent condition, with tape residue at the top and bottom. [View]( [Peanuts - Lucy and Charlie Brown Production Cel Setup and Animation Drawings (Bill Melendez, c. 1980s)]( Peanuts - Lucy and Charlie Brown Production Cel Setup and Animation Drawings (Bill Melendez, c. 1980s) Baseball manager Charlie Brown pays a visit to Lucy's Psychiatric Help booth, in this original hand-painted multi-cel setup. We hope he's getting his five cents worth! Figure sizes are 4.5" and 4". Setup is matted with an opening of 11" x 8.5" and framed with Plexiglas for an overall size of 21" x 18.5". Also included are three matching 12 field animation drawings, two of which are hand-signed by Bill Melendez (1916 - 2008). Drawings are in Very Good condition; cel setup condition is Fine. [View]( [Who Framed Roger Rabbit (NES, LJN, 1989) Wata 9.4 A+ (Seal Rating)]( Who Framed Roger Rabbit (NES, LJN, 1989) Wata 9.4 A+ (Seal Rating) Part of the Indiana Collection, the first video game collection with a recognized pedigree, noted on the Wata label. 2,000 game collection from an independent video rental store in rural Indiana that closed in 1998 leaving store stock that was never sold in pristine condition. Music composed by David Wise. Based on the 1988 movie. For more information about certified video games, see [HA.com/wata](. [View]( [The Art of Richard W. Sprang Hardcover Signed, Numbered, Limited First Edition #46/200 (Striking Impressions, 1998)]( The Art of Richard W. Sprang Hardcover Signed, Numbered, Limited First Edition #46/200 (Striking Impressions, 1998) A lovely 8.5" x 11.25" hardcover edition with embossed gold foil on the cover. The book contains 272 pages and is an unauthorized biography and career retrospective of Golden Age Batman artist Dick Sprang (1915-2000). The book is fully illustrated in both color and black and white. It includes rarely seen Sprang art from throughout his entire career, illustrated with photos, illustrations, and articles. The book's production run was strictly limited to 200 copies by DC Comics due to use of their characters and was conceived, produced, published, and privately distributed (not sold) to a small circle of friends and Sprang admirers. The page opposite the table of contents has been boldly signed by Sprang in black felt tip pen and has also been hand-numbered. This is #46/200, and it is in Excellent condition. [View]( Our MyHeritage: [MyBids]( feature makes tracking your favorite items easier than ever. Just a reminder...our Sunday Internet Comics, Animation, and Art Auctions end with a Live Session at 6:00 PM CT. [Browse the entire auction here](. [Back to Top](#top) []The Indiana Pedigree Collection of Video Games As you read the descriptions of the certified video games we're auctioning, you will see some described as being from the Indiana Collection pedigree. [The Comic Indiana Collection]( A small part of the hoard known as the Indiana Collection. We have the full scoop on this collection, and it's written by a fellow who knows a thing or two about pedigrees - former CGC Primary Grader and current Wata Games Chief Advisor Mark Haspel. [You can read the story here](. A number of Indiana Collection games are in this week's auction, with more to follow in our Signature auction. [You can browse through all of them here](. [Back to Top](#top) []Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #2 - the First Hardbound Edition (Fourth Article in a Series) By [David Stone](mailto:DStone@HA.com), Heritage Auctions Bob Overstreet began producing hardbound copies of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide with his second edition in 1972. The books had simple navy blue cloth covers, with gilt lettering on the front and spine. They included sections on grading, where to buy and sell comics, and the history of comics and comic fandom, as well as the general listing of comic book prices for issues in Good, Fine, and Mint condition. As the hardbound copies were relatively expensive ($10 cover price), Overstreet decided to only print them in batches, as orders came in, rather than ordering an initial print run to have a supply on hand. Customers had to allow two months for delivery of their orders (see advertisement in the Rocket's Blast and Comic Collector #93 below). [Comic Book Price Guide 2nd Edition] Today, the hardbound #2 is the rarest and most enigmatic issue in the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide regular series. Bob Overstreet experimented with the format for the hardbounds throughout the production process. We have examined three examples of the number 2 hardcover in recent years and each book represents a distinctly different variety. The books were bound on at least two separate occasions, with different arrangements of the text on the front cover and spine. All three copies we have seen have a pictorial soft cover bound in, a feature not seen on any other issue in the regular hardbound series. One example surfaced on eBay in March of 2018, where it realized $798 (see cover below). This copy has a binder's stamp on the endpaper at the back of the book that reads "Southern Bound May 1972" and a pictorial soft cover, as used for the regular softbound edition, bound in (see images below). [Comic Book Price Guide 2nd Edition 2] [Comic Book Price Guide 2nd Edition 2 Backside] [Comic Book Price Guide 2nd Edition 3] In November of 2018, longtime collector Jack Mallette made a remarkable discovery - an example of the hardbound OPG #2 with a binding stamp on the end paper that read "Southern Bound June 1972" and a different arrangement of the text on the front cover. This copy had a gilt horizontal line between the title and the author's name and the edition number following the author's name, instead of preceding it (compare cover below with the previous example). This copy also had a pictorial soft cover bound in. The book was in the collection of an old-time collector who recently passed away. Jack remembers selling the book to him years ago and believes it might possibly be the copy he mentioned in an article in the Comic Book Marketplace in 1995. Jack purchased that book in a 1984 auction, along with a whitecover OPG #1 and two other books, for the then-unheard-of price of $1,600. [Comic Book Price Guide 2nd Edition 4] Another example of the second printing was auctioned in June of 2016, realizing $1,450. That copy, illustrated below, was from Bob Overstreet's personal collection, graded 9.4 NM, signed by him, and had the June-dated binding stamp on the endpaper. There was also a pictorial soft cover bound in this book. The text on the cover matches the pattern of the other second printing copies we have seen, but the lettering on the spine is differently spaced, with a much narrower gap between the date and the stripes at the bottom (compare with the spine of the example from the Heritage Archives below). Curiously, the text is a little off-center, as well. These differences seem to indicate the spine was stamped with a different foil die. It may be that the specimen from Overstreet's collection is some kind of prototype of the June printing, given to Bob to demonstrate what the second printing would look like with the new text arrangement on the cover. If so, Overstreet may have made corrections to the spacing and centering on the spine before the main second print run was bound. [Comic Book Price Guide 2nd Edition 5] In addition to the three copies we have examined, there are two examples of the hardbound OPG #2 listed in the Heritage online archives. One copy was sold as part of a bulk lot of price guides in the Comics Signature Auction (Heritage, 8/2005), lot 2509, with a grade of NM- (see cover below). Notice the well-centered text on the spine and the wider gap between the date and stripes at the bottom when compared with the example above. The Heritage lot description from 14 years ago does not mention any binder's stamp or inside soft cover. Note: Hardbound copies of OPG #2 and #3 were printed with navy blue cloth covers that look black in certain lighting conditions, as here. At least one copy of hardbound #3 was erroneously described as having a "black" cover in an eBay offering in 2016. [Comic Book Price Guide 2nd Edition 6] The only other appearance of a hardbound OPG #2 in the Heritage Archives is a VF/NM specimen in lot 4781 of the Jerry Overstreet Collection (Heritage, 11/2003), which realized $471.50 (see cover below). Jerry was Bob's brother and Bob provided him with a copy of the Guide every year. Again, the description does not mention a binder's stamp or interior soft cover, but the pattern of the text on the cover matches the second printing version. [Comic Book Price Guide 2nd Edition 7] In addition to the five copies mentioned above, Jack Mallette reports another copy that was originally in the collection of Bob's son, Jeff Overstreet, which he handled years ago. These six examples represent the only copies of the hardbound OPG #2 we have been able to confirm in recent times, but others may be extant. Gary Carter did surveys and collected much information on Overstreet Guides, which he published in The Comic Book Marketplace in the 1990s. He was able to locate six examples of the hardbound #2 in his surveys, but only two were in Near Mint condition. If all six of those books were different examples from the specimens we have recently accounted for, the surviving population would number at least 12 books. Bob Overstreet told Gary only 75 copies of the second edition were bound with hard covers (other reports suggest there may have been two bindings of 75 copies each), and the number distributed was probably even smaller. It remains the rarest issue of the hardbound series by a wide margin, and is much more elusive than the softbound white cover #1. With only three copies examined, and each book representing a different variety, it is hard to say if we have discovered all the secrets of the important first hardbound edition. Copies have been reported without the inside soft cover, but that remains unconfirmed. It is possible those reports are mistakenly referencing the third hardbound edition, which had a similar cover design, but did not include the soft cover. Hopefully, we will be able to answer more questions about this mysterious issue as more examples become available for study. Sources: - Carter, Gary, "A Price Guide for Price Guides 1992", Comic Book Marketplace, Vol. 1, #16 (August 1992), pp. 53-55. - Carter, Gary and Mallette, Jack, "A Price Guide for Price Guides 1995", Comic Book Marketplace, Vol. 2, #25 (July 1995), pp. 64-67. - Mallette, Jack, conversations in July 2017 and November 2018. - Overstreet, Robert, advertisement in the Rocket's Blast and Comic Collector, #93, inside front cover. - Wilbur, Mike, Director of Operations at Gemstone Publishing, emails on various topics over the last two years. To be continued in a future newsletter. To read the [second article in this series click here]( and for the [previous article just click here](. [Back to Top](#top) []Help Wanted: Comics Grader Do you have knowledge of Silver and Golden Age comic books? Then apply your analytical and research skills in our unique and fun environment. 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"The lots in the weekly sales will be 100 percent unreserved, increasing the appeal to collectors of all levels." [More information about Currency Auctions]( [Back to Top](#top) []Cover of the Week: Next They Busted Up The Ring-Toss Ring For issue #1 of Racket Squad in Action, Charlton needed to show us what the heroes of the book were capable of. Taking down Al Capone perhaps? Well, actually it was breaking up a shell game at a carnival. [Racket Squad in Action #1 (Charlton, 1952) CGC FN+ 6.5 Off-white pages]( Perhaps they would have been better off investigating how the kid in the foreground stole Jughead's hat. Anyway, Racket Squad in Action #1 is a tough book that we haven't offered a copy of since 2006, and we've got a CGC-graded copy this week that [you can bid on here](. 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