Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 235

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(COMIC BOOKS.) First issue of Lobo, the first comic book series with an African-American lead character. [32] illustrated pages. 4to, 10 1/4 x 7 inches, original color pictorial wrappers, moderate wear including light diagonal crease on front wrapper; minimal wear to contents. New York: Dell Publishing, December 1965

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"Lobo" tells the story of an African-American Civil War veteran who becomes a heroic fugitive in the Old West. Only one other issue followed, in October 1966. with--the first three issues of Fast Willie Jackson, a comic book very much in the spirit of Archie Comics, but with an African-American cast and mid-1970s fashion sensibility. Gus LeMoine, who did the artwork, had worked on Archie since the 1950s. New York: Fitzgerald Periodicals, October 1976 to February 1977.