In the Golden Age of comic book publishing, competition was extremely fierce with dozens of publishers churning out title after title. Ashcans were produced primarily for establishing a copyright as a publisher could stake his claim to a title without actually having to produce a full comic.
Ashcans were often published with little, if any, finished art, no word balloons, and were sometimes filled with whatever scrap paper was sitting around. They were designed to be printed and junked. Very few survived as their sole reason to exist was to be dumped in the “ashcan.”
ComicConnect.com is pleased to offer nine covers to Ashcan comics that survived the landfill to become rare, attainable glimpses of comic book history. The company’s sister site, MetropolisComics.com, just this week sold one of the three surviving Ashcans for Action Comics #1 for $50,000.
The covers in this rare collection include:
Animal Antics, with the cover art to Star Spangled Comics #49, Movie Cartoons, Movie Fables, Movie Gems, Screen Cartoons, Screen Comics, Screen Fables, Screen Funnies, and Screen Gems that all share the cover to Boy Commandos #1 from National Periodical Publications.
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ComicConnect.com provides free scanning for all CGC graded comics shipped to them for auction at $1 start & no reserve! They also offer generous cash advances up to $1 million dollars for top-notch consignments.
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