I have the pleasure of offering one of the most complete Timely/Atlas collections to enter the market. Dr. Tom Lammers has amassed nearly every comic produced by Martin Goodman since 1950 and many more prior to that. This is a process that will take several years to finish with new auctions coming out each week. I will be offering several different title each week trying not to inundate the market with twenty issues of the same title at one time. The initial offerings will be mostly Golden Age superhero and horror books, but I am going to include some other types as well. Eventually there will be every genre offered from funny animal to westerns to romance. Atlas produced some of the finest comics during this era and I expect to see quite a bit of competition for some of these books. I will also be designating the Lammers books with TGL in the title since I will continue to sell my inventory on ebay as well. I hope you enjoy seeing these books as much as I have.

This auction is for True Life Tales No. 8 (really No. 1)  from Official Comics Inc.  (Marvel/Timely/Atlas) from October 1949.  This features a photo cover.  This features interior art by Mike Sekowsky.  Gene Colan, and John Buscema.  This is the first issue of this series.  (All info per the GCD.) 

This issue grades at Very Good.  Spine split on bottom with fold back on bottom.  Some spine stress with dings and creases.  Writing on front cover.  Crease on bottom right front corner.  Other defects associated with grade.  Cover and centerfold firmly attached.  Cover has nice color and gloss.  Pages are cream to off-white and supple.  Take a look at large scans for your determination of grade.    

All pricing will be determined by recent ebay sales, CGC sales per the GPA and the Overstreet Price Guide.  Overstreet lists $30.00 in Very Good.  Timely/Atlas romance books are seeing a strong increase in demand.  Overstreet has not been keeping up with rising values which is understandable if these books don't even show up for sale.  My starting price should be reflective of current value. 

I have been selling on ebay for over fifteen years and have always maintained 100% feedback. I will ship either first class or media whichever is cheaper. Other shipping can be arranged but buyer will have to pay the difference. Foreign orders are OK with sufficient positive feedback. Postage for foreign orders will be higher and may not be reflected in the automatic billing by ebay, so please do not pay until you receive invoice created by me. Returns are accepted only if there was a defect not listed in the description. No returns accepted because of buyer's remorse so please bid accordingly. I will combine shipping but there will be a minimum fifty cents per additional auction up to a total of ten auctions. All books will be packaged safely and securely. Packages will be shipped within twenty-four hours after receiving payment. Check out my other auctions for other great books.