Lot 211
Tales of the Killers & Murder Tales Painted Covers by Bill Alexander (World Famous Periodicals, 1970-71) Total 4
Northern Collection: From The Vault | CB26004
Auction: 6 November, 12:00 GMT
Description
Tales of the Killers & Murder Tales Painted Covers by Bill Alexander (World Famous Periodicals, 1970-71).
This lot includes: Tales of the Killers #10, with a painted cover by Bill Alexander. Interior art by E.J. Simpson and Frank Carin. Featuring seven ‘All True’ crime stories. Tales of the Killers #11, cover by Bill Alexander. Interior art by E.J. Simpson, Frank Carin and Harry Bilel. Featuring a story about Martha Place (renamed Langley) the first woman killed by electric chair and the crimes of Alvin Karpis; alongside four other crime stories.
With, Murder Tales #10, with a painted cover by Alexander. Interior art by Simpson and Carin. Featuring stories about American gangsters John Dillinger and Dutch Schultz; alongside five other stories. Murder Tales #11, with a painted cover by Alexander. Interior art by Simpson, Carin and Bilel. Featuring a re-telling of the 1941 Oklahoma Penitentiary prison break and six other stories.
Grades: 7.5-5.5, VF- to FN-. Murder Tales #11, cover detached by bottom staple and tear to spine from base to above bottom staple.
Cataloguer Note: A feature I have enjoyed about these comics, is the reader write in on the interior page.
