The Elusive Ajax-Farrell Secret Love #1 From 1957, at Auction

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After a comparatively quiet 1956, Ajax-Farrell launched (or relaunched) a burst of titles in 1957, together with the return of romance comedian Secret Love.

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Rare Secret Love #1 comedian from 1957 options Jack Kamen-style work from Iger Studio.

Published by Farrell Publications with a canopy by Bill Ward, creators largely unknown.

First comedian art work by Steve Ditko was revealed underneath the Farrell Comic Group.

Founder Robert W. Farrell had diverse profession together with comics and reviving newspapers.

What’s your Secret Love? Farrell Publications was the identify of quite a few comics publishers fashioned by lawyer Robert W. Farrell within the Forties and Fifties, finest identified for its pre-Comics Code horror comics, largely produced by the S. M. Iger Studio. Farrell additionally revealed romance, Western, journey, superhero, and speaking animal comics. Farrell acted as editor all through. In 1940 he registered “The Comicscope”, an optical projector for studying comics that was closely marketed within the comics of the day.

The Farrell Comic Group was based in 1951 with the monetary backing of Excellent Publications. As effectively as comics creators Ken Battlefield, L. B. Cole, Matt Baker, and Bruce Hamilton, they revealed the very first comedian ebook art work by Steve Ditko. Imprints included Ajax-Farrell who put out six problems with the romance comedian Secret Love in 1957 and 1958. Issue 1 with a canopy by Bill Ward is up for public sale from Heritage Auctions, it’s CGC graded at solely 2.5 however that’s the highest grade this comedian has ever obtained, and is the one copy that Heritage Auctions have ever had. Writers and artists are unknown, however the artwork has the Jack Kamen-like look of a lot of Iger Studio’s output.

Secret Love #1 (Ajax-Farrell, 1955) CGC GD+ 2.5 Off-white pages. The first copy we have ever supplied. Bill Ward cowl. Overstreet 2023 GD 2.0 worth = $0. CGC census 12/23: 0 in 2.5, none greater. gentle, a number of stain cowl small tear with crease backside of again cowl, small, a number of piece out high of entrance cowl, tear with crease backside of entrance cowl

After his comics publishers closed, Robert W. Farrell began the humour journal Panic in 1958 within the method of Mad, and revived the newspaper The Brooklyn Eagle which he was as soon as a gossip columnist. He then labored for Myron Fass from 1969 to 1981, as writer of the black-and-white horror journal firm Eerie Publication, in addition to reviving the New York Daily Mirror in 1971. He died in New York at the age of seventy-eight in 1986.