Real Fact Comics #1 Mile High pedigree (DC, 1946) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. Fred Ray, Joe Simon, and Jack Kirby provide the c...

Auction amount: $2,530.00

Sold: Mar 6, 2003

Real Fact Comics #1 Values

Publisher: DC, 1946

About Real Fact Comics #1

Harry Houdini story. Just Imagine begins. Cover by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Story art by Simon and Kirby, Fred Ray, and Dick Sprang.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: True Picture Stories from the Drama of Life

Characters: Jean Laffite; Harry Houdini; Raffles

Pencils: Jack Kirby; Dick Sprang

Inks: Jack Kirby; Dick Sprang

Notes: Most of the cover appears to be by Jack Kirby; inset picture of Houdini is from the last panel of the inside story by Sprang.

STORY DETAILS

(12 Stories)

Title: Master of Mystery

Characters: Harry Houdini

Synopsis: Biography of Houdini with emphasis on how he learned magic.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Dick Sprang [as Richard Sprang] (signed)

Inks: Dick Sprang [as Richard Sprang] (signed)

Title: The Rocket Lanes of Tomorrow

Synopsis: Tales of what the future will hold, from personal rocketpacks to a tunnel drilled right through the center of the earth.

Pages: 2.000

Script: Joe Simon (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)

Pencils: Joe Simon (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Joe Simon (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)

Letters: Howard Ferguson

Reprints: Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #4 (October-November 1951), | My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #43 (May 1960), | The New Gods (DC, 1971 series) #6 (December 1971-January 1972), | Hawkman (DC, 1964 series) #26 (June-July 1968), | House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #69 (December 1957)

Title: Pirate or Patriot?

Characters: Jean Laffite; Captain Lockyer; Captain McWilliams; Dominique; Governor Claiborne; Pierre Laffite; Edward Livingstone; General Andrew Jackson

Synopsis: Facts about a Jean Lafitte who warned the Americans that the British planned on invading New Orleans.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Jack Kirby

Reprints: Mister Miracle (DC, 1971 series) #4 (September-October 1971)

Title: The Ghost of Guam

Characters: George Tweed

Synopsis: The story of George Tweed, an American soldier who hid out on the island of Guam and caused trouble for the Japanese soldiers.

Pages: 6.000

Script: ? [as B/S]

Pencils: Fred Ray [as Fred Ray Jr.]

Inks: Fred Ray [as Fred Ray Jr.]

Notes: Signed "B/S Fred Ray Jr."

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	1	2	4	1	3	3	3	1	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	31
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	4
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	1	3	4	2	3	3	3	1	7	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	36

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