TIJUANA BIBLE/X-RATED COMIC LOT.
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Winning Bid:
$316.25 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bids:
6
Bidding Ended:
Thursday, November 12, 2015 12:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, November 12, 2015 12:00:00 PM)
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Auction:
Auction #216 - Part II
Item numbers 978 through 2735 in auction 216
Value Code:
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Item Description
Lot of seven, measuring between 2x4-3/8" and 6.5x8.5". Each is an X-rated sexually explicit comic book, also referred to as a Tijuana Bible, featuring unauthorized use of comic characters. Four titles feature Popeye. "Cheap N' Easy - Two By Four's" salesman's promotional notepad features two salesmen running w/sample cases in hand, cash in the other. Eight inside pages and back cover are blank. Rare and first we've seen. "Delightful Pastime - From The Golden Chronicles Of Aromiu" 32-pager features 16-page text story w/16-page illustrated story of naive man from Potatoville having sex w/various women. Both have scattered lt. wear/aging. 32-pager has a few extra staples along spine and tiny pieces off back cover. Overall VG. Scarce. "The Love Guide Directed By Mae West" is multi-character 16-pager featuring Popeye, Blondie, Dagwood, Toots and Casper, Tillie the Toiler, Jiggs and Maggie, Major Hoople, Pete The Tramp and Moon Mullins. Covers have bit of edge wear. Staple rust. Fine. "Pop-Eye In Balochy Bill" features Popeye having sex w/woman only to end up bandaged after parrot bites his privates. Staple rust and small streak of rust soiling to front cover w/.5" tear at center right. Fine. Large "Youth's Intimacies" 32-pager is mostly text story, featuring a few cartoon images of Popeye having sex w/stereotypical African-American woman and Sea Hag. Scattered handling/aging. Fine/VF. "Kathy (Batwoman) Kane And The Boy Wonder" 8-pager features red art of Batwoman and Robin having sex. c. 1950s. Trace of staple oxidation, but o/w VF. "Popeye Comics" is 1960s compilation featuring reprints of seven classic 8-pagers from the 1930s, eight pages featuring Popeye. Scattered handling wear w/moisture stain to front cover. Fine.
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