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Title: HEADLINE COMICS No. 37
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Publisher:Prize [Indicia: Headline Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: September-October, 1949
Description:

VG (4.0). Slight spine roll, bottom right corner of front cover creased and with tiny chip, light handling wear, sun shadow to back cover at spine, staple rust, penciled distributor's mark ("E7/1") to "D" in "HEADLINE." Cream pages. Cover: Photo cover by an uncredited shutterbug, featuring Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Art: Vic Donahue, Myron Fass, Jack Kirby (Joe Simon inks), John Severin. Overstreet: "Rare Kirby photo cover appearance." GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 3.5 sold for $350 in May 2021.

Photo cover depicting a cop (portrayed by Joe Simon) arresting a burglar (portrayed by Jack Kirby) as he sits at his dressing table. Inside, mugs plug fellow thugs; a dead man's corpse is displayed in a furniture showroom window; a lawman captured by moonshining hillbillies is forced to entertain them on the fiddle, but he escapes before things go full Deliverance; a Greenwich Village boho babe gets shanked in an art-crime caper.

Consignments welcome for PBA's Fall 2022 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art, vintage comic-related photos and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com.

A limited edition of 100 softcover and 6 hardcover catalogues are available. 140 pages, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcovers $40, dust-jacketed hardcover with limitation plate $200. To order, contact ivan@pbagalleries.com.

Consignments welcome for PBA's Fall 2022 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art, vintage comic-related photos and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com.