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18 February 2012
The Compalcomics Spring 2012 auction is now open!
Bidding closes on Tuesday March 13 at 8 PM UK time. This is the reminder you requested. To go directly to the main page for this catalogue click here:
http://www.compalcomics.com/catalogue/index.htm
There are 203 lots in this catalogue.
Our US section offers an early run of 1940s Classic Comics from #1-42 including key first editions along with Fantastic Four #1 and a good run of Silver Age DC comics.
Dan Dare rules the interplanetary airwaves this catalogue with a wonderful collection of comics, artwork and toys. There are 2 magnificent Eagle artworks from Operation Saturn, Eagle No 1 and No 52 signed by Frank Hampson, the impossibly rare Dan Dare Figures Set in original box by Crescent Toys and the Horlicks Dan Dare Spaceship Cup and lid which you could only get if you sent off 6d and a jar label in the early 1950s. It’s in mint condition. A Space Pistol, Table tennis Set, interplanetary Stamp Folder, Eagle Membership Card and letters are some of the other lots from this high grade collection featured in lots 74-93.
Other key artwork boards on offer showcase The Trigan Empire by Don Lawrence, full of action, Thunderbirds by Frank Bellamy, Oor Wullie in a terrible tangle with his pet mouse, Wee Jeemy and a Kit Carson cover from Cowboy Picture Library in 1958.
We travel back to 1890 with the first issue of Comic Cuts and to 1901 for Sherlock Holmes’ Hound Of The Baskervilles, all episodes collected from Strand Magazine in a bound volume. There’s a battered Beano Comic No 1 at No Reserve, Beano Books 1 and 2, the first Beezer with free gift Whizz Bang, plenty of early Cowboy Comics to ride the range and Playhour 1 with free gift Red Indian Head-dress to fight them off. Meet the Saint in number one of Super-Detective Library and Robin Hood, Black Arrow, Battler Britton and Spy 13 in Thriller Picture Library. Lot 128 has the original printer’s dummy copy of Buster No 1 along with the actual first issue and Tiger is well represented with complete years for 1962 and 1966.
Compalcomics holds four auctions a year. Results of most auctions are posted online two weeks after the closing date.
Important Note: If you have a question about any of the items in the catalogue, please send an email to Compalcomics director Malcolm Phillips at this address:
comicbook@compalcomics.com
Best wishes,
Graham Posner
Webmaster
http://www.compalcomics.com
gposner@ishi.org
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18 January 2012
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It's
a fascinating blend of autobiography and fiction with a sci-fi twist: in a
seaside Australian town struggling with alien tentacle-creature immigration, a
trio of aimless teenagers skip school to go surfing, chase rumors of a dead
body, and avoid dealing with their own fears.
Here's
what Craig Thompson, author of Blankets, Carnet de Voyage, and
Habibi, had to say about BLUE:
"This book rekindles my earliest enthusiasm for the comics medium. Pat Grant is
the Australian Mark Twain, trading Huck's raft for a waxed-up surfboard and an
inked-up sable brush. Vast themes of racism and immigration unravel in sprawling
murals and a single day in the life of some reckless teens in this sea-polished,
perfect nugget of a book."
Still
not convinced? Check out Pat's great SHAMELESS
PUBLICITY DOCUMENT, and the free
preview of BLUE at Pat's website!
Be
sure to pre-order this lush, lovable, complex book from your favorite comic shop
or directly from Top Shelf!
BLUE
by Pat Grant
--96-page hardcover graphic novel with 2-color
interiors
--9.4" x 6.6" (landscape format)
--Older teens (16+) and
adults
--ISBN: 978-1-60309-153-4
--Diamond order code:
JAN12-1268
--$14.95 (US)
"Pat
Grant is serious about comics." -- Scott McCloud, author of
Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making
Comics
"BLUE
is everything a good comics can be." -- Shaun Tan, author of
The Arrival and Tales from Outer
Suburbia |
Nate
Powell's ANY EMPIRE explodes onto YouTube!
An
intense new
video trailer for ANY
EMPIRE has just been posted to YouTube! It features music by the bands
Tracker (who were responsible for the BLANKETS
soundtrack
album ) and Universe (featuring Nate Powell himself), and is a real treat
for both those who've read the book and those who haven't yet. Check
it out!
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Top
Shelf books are tops on Top Ten lists!
New
Year's is not just a time for making resolutions and asking your friends to
delete embarrassing party photos -- it's also an occasion for year-in-review
retrospective lists! Well, the lists have been pouring in, and we're proud to
see Top Shelf titles racking up so many rankings.
In
particular, Kagan McLeod's INFINITE
KUNG FU, Nate Powell's ANY
EMPIRE, and Robert Venditti & Mike Huddleston's THE
HOMELAND DIRECTIVE have been listed on "Best of 2011" lists from over a
dozen top sources, spanning the gamut from CNN to Publishers Weekly to Complex
to USA Today to Paste to The AV Club and many more. And other Top Shelf books
are not far behind! To see all the year-end praise, check out our REVIEWS
PAGE and treat yourself to one of our most acclaimed graphic
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8th January 2012
Ronald Searle CBE, British cartoonist and illustrator, passed away at his French home at the age of 91 on the 30th December 2010— He was one of Britain's great cartoonists with a totally unique and instantly recognisable style that was years ahead of its time and was the forerunner and inspiration for cartoonists such as Gerald Scarfe and Ralph Steadman. Though best remembered by the wider public for his St Trinian’s schoolgirls, his talents as an artist and illustrator went far beyond that. He did a huge body of prestigious advertising work and his familiar drawings appeared everywhere in counless publications around the world including Punch, Life, Look, Realities and Le Canard enchaine.
Left, is his cover illustration for a compilation of some of his amazingly widely varied work during the 1960s in a book published by Penguin entitled "Searle in the Sixties".
Ronald Searle was awarded a CBE in 2004, but he was even more prominent and respected in France where he lived and worked for most of his life. He drew a weekly political cartoon for the French newspaper Le Monde and was awarded the Légion d’Honneur, the highest decoration in France. His second wife who he was devoted to, died after a long battle with cancer just a few months before his own death.
Read more here..at the MailOnline
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8 December 2011
Invaluable Auction news:
Paris Entertainment Auction: Cartoons, Animation art and Comics including Popeye, Daffy Duck and more
Auction Catalogue from Rossini Maison de Ventes aux Enchères:
Rossini Maison de Ventes aux Enchères - Paris, France - 10 December 2011, 14:00 CET
7 rue Drouot
Face à l’Hôtel Drouot
Paris,
France
75009
Phone: + 33 1 5334 5500
Fax: + 33 1 4247 1026
Email: contact@rossini.fr
To view Lots - Please click here
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5 December 2011
Licensing News
Paddington Bear author Michael Bond approves apps and ebooks for classic property.
A new app is to launch for the classic picture book, Paddington, while the full range of Paddington Bear books are to be made available as ebooks. The app has been adapted by HarperCollins Children's Books and Bold Creative for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. It enables children and parents to read and experience the story together in a new way. It is available for £3.99.
"We're proud to bring Paddington to the iPad," said Tom Conway, digital publishing manager at HarperCollins Children's Books. "This is not just an electronic version of the book - it's a new way of telling, and sharing, a much-loved story."
Martin Orton, MD at Bold Creative, added: "The Paddington app is a landmark. We've pushed the story and how it's experienced and shared to a completely new level."
Full Story here
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9 November 2011
Licensing News
MGM secures movie rights for big screen live action family movie.
Where's Waldo? - or Where's Wally? as he's known in the UK - is heading to cinema screens, after MGM secured the rights from Classic Media.
MGM will now create a live action family adventure based on the property.
"We are thrilled to be bringing the search for Waldo to the big screen," said Jonathan Glickman, president of MGM. "Along with our partners at Classic Media, we look forward to making a worldwide adventure that will appeal to Where's Waldo? fans of all ages."
Eric Ellenbogen, co CEO at Classic Media, added: "Waldo is the most searched for character in the world. With thanks to MGM, fans everywhere will find Waldo in movie theatres with his motion picture debut."
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