Undervalued & Overlooked Comics 11/3 - Golden Age

It’s time as soon as extra for Undervalued and Overlooked Comics! This time we’ll be wanting on the Golden Age, with a give attention to two collection, one that includes a singular Golden Age superhero, and the opposite a staff of DC heroes.

Mother Hubbard

There’s no query that there have been some unusual characters who confirmed up in comedian books through the Golden Age. Every writer was in a quest to provide you with a brand new superhero that may truly keep on with the general public. Most didn’t.

One of these characters that didn’t stick however is putting of their weirdness is Mother Hubbard. While solely showing in 5 comics, Mother Hubbard was legendary as a weird sorceress who fought Nazis and different ne’er do wells.

Her first look got here in Scoop Comics #1, printed by Chesler/Dynamic in November 1941. The writer is well-known by collectors for the standard of their covers. There are solely 21 graded copies of Scoops Comics #1 within the CGC census, and the best grade is an 8.5. Unlike many Golden Age books, we even have a pair gross sales this yr.

The first is without doubt one of the two 8.0 graded copies promoting for a slashed $1,100 on August 4. The second is a 4.5 promoting for $360 in an eBay public sale on February 13. The pattern for an 8.0 graded copy reveals a comparatively flat curve by way of current greenback worth with the earlier sale happening in 2019 for $830. There have been modest beneficial properties within the 4.5 grade; the earlier sale was in 2019 for $204.

It’s a bit odd, I’ll admit, however I contemplate this an neglected and undervalued comedian that might look nice in a Golden Age assortment.

Leading Comics

You can be arduous-pressed to seek out an neglected or undervalued DC superhero collection from the Golden Age. Nearly each collector is aware of the massive ones by coronary heart – Action Comics, Detective Comics, Adventure Comics… It’s an in depth listing that comprises among the most dear comics ever.

And then there’s Leading Comics, essentially the most neglected and undervalued DC Golden Age collection.

Leading Comics #1 was printed in January 1941 and featured Green Arrow and Speedy, the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy, Shining Knight, Crimson Avenger, and the Vigilante, in any other case often known as the Seven Soldiers of Victory.

There are 53 copies within the CGC census and there have been no gross sales of graded copies this yr. Sales in 2021 included a 5.5 graded copy promoting for $1,678 in an eBay public sale in June. The earlier sale in that grade occurred in October 2014 and was for $1,100.

That’s solely a roughly 6% acquire annually for this comedian, positively decrease than what we see for first problems with most Golden Age DC collection.

While the superheroes in Leading Comics would solely final 14 points – DC switched it over to a humorous animal comedian starting with Leading Comics #15 – there have been some nice covers within the run that featured basic DC characters.

Check out Leading Comics #3, with its lighthouse motif. It’s a cool, basic Mort Meskin cowl. And it’s comparatively cheap too. A 6.5 graded copy offered in April 2021 for $552, up from its earlier sale of $345, however that was all the best way again in 2005. That $345 has a gift-day worth of $527, that means the worth has barely budged on an amazing-wanting Golden Age guide.

It might be arduous to get into the Golden Age gathering sport, particularly for those who’re in search of DC superhero comics. If you do determine that this can be a gathering path you wish to take, Leading Comics provides nice worth for characters you recognize about featured on some good covers.