Welcome to my gallery of classic comic covers. I've been collecting comic books for over 25 years and made this web site to share some of my favorite covers. All of the covers, with a very few exceptions, are (or were) from my personal collection. Have a question or a comment? E-mail me, my name's Ben.
Golden-Age Comic Cover Gallery

Browse the covers:
Batman and Robin super-hero and war comics Feldstein Junior comics good girl and romance comics Crime Suspenstories 22 crime and horror comics
super-hero and war comics good girl and romance comics crime and horror comics
Current Scan Count
Super-Hero & War: 69 Covers
Good Girl & Romance: 63 Covers
Crime & Horror: 67 Covers

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Alex Schomburg mini-Gallery
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Standard Guide To Golden Age Comics

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Here’s that price guide I mentioned a couple posts back, which contains the market report that I wrote. It’s actually a pretty cool guide, with hundreds of pictures all in full color.

Standard Guide To Golden Age Comics

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More Vault of Horror

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Here is another great cover, with art by Johnny Craig:

Vault of Horror 36
 Vault of Horror 36

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Vault of Horror

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

A gentleman named Quinton recently sold me a nice run of Vault of Horror comics, so I’ll be adding more covers from that series. Here is the first, art by Johnny Craig:

Vault of Horror 32, 1953
Vault of Horror 32

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My Market Report

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Back when I worked at Heritage Comics Auctions, one day my superior Ed Jaster told me to write a market report for some kind of new price guide. I dutifully did as I was told, and turned in 250 words (or so) on the state of the market. When I asked Ed Jaster where it would be published, all he would tell me was “I don’t remember!”

As time went by, friends would occasionally mention that they had seen my name in a comic book price guide, but no one could ever remember the name of it.

Now, many years later, my friend Matt Nelson of Classics Incorporated found and gave me a copy of that guide for my 40th birthday! I turns out the book was Krause Publications’ “Standard Guide to Golden Age Comics”. Despite having not written a word of it, Ed Jaster shares the writing credit with me.

At least I now have a copy of the book I contributed to, after all these years. Thank you very much Matt Nelson! If you need comics pressed, Matt is the guy to go to. (As luck would have it, I designed his web site too: www.classicsincorporated.com).

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Fantastic Four #1 for Sale!

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Calvin in Texas has a copy of Fantastic Four #1 for sale. From his description, it sounds like it grades in the Good 2.0 to Very Good 4.0 range. You can e-mail him at calvinforbes@att.net if you’re interested.

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