PATSY WALKER #57 March 1955 Bard / Marvel ~ Al Jaffee, Stan Lee ~ Last Pre-Code

Description: PATSY WALKER #57 March 1955 Bard / Marvel Comics Al Jaffee, Stan Lee ~ Last pre-code issue PATSY WALKER #57, Cover date March 1955, published 1954 by Bard Publishing with Atlas Logo Seal on cover. Golden Age. 2.0 Good condition. Bright colors; cover detatched; color interior fine; wrinkles and stress along binding edge. Images show the actual comic you will get (they are NOT stock photos). Cover art by Al Jaffee. Stories probably by Stan Lee, not signed, but with "SL" hidden on some pages. This is the LAST pre-code issue before the mandatory Comic Code Authority (CCA) approval went into effect. Includes two untitled Patsy Walker stories. One untitled Hedy Wolfe story. Patsy's Fashion Cut-Ups paper doll cutout. "Dear Patsy" story from a reader. Patsy's Club Page. "My Guy Mike" text story. An Historic issue being the final pre-CCA code issue, 36 pgs. Cover price $0.10. History. The high-school series of comics, Patsy Walker, was created by Ruth Atkinson and writer Otto Binder in 1944. It featured art by Al Hartley, Al Jaffee (MAD Magazine>/i>), Morris Weiss and others, and ran until 1968. It spun off three other titles. Atlas Comics, the successor of Timely Comics in 1950 was having problems with distribution and created 58 new shell company names and logos to hopefully stay on with almost any newsstand distribution company other than Independent News (IND), DC's distributor. One of the new names was Bard Publishing, ironically one of the more successful ones with 196 comics published under that label between 1952 and 1967. Atlas went defunct in October 1957, but somehow continued publishing and was rebranded as Marvel Comics in 1961. Stan Lee had worked for both Timely and Atlas, and continued on into the Marvel era. This particular issue of Patsy Walker was published in that weird in-between period and is one of the early comics in which the stories are probably written but not signed by Stan Lee (just his initials SL). By this time, Stan Lee was using his new name rather than his birth name, Stanley Martin Lieber. 100% of the proceeds of this sale go to Beyond the Walls (Charity) Make an offer! What do you have to lose? For shipping, I will send the comic with board via USPS Media Mail at the lowest current rate to any address in the USA. I'm not like some eBay sellers who build big profits into shipping and screw the buyer. Who am I? My web identity is SwapMeetDave, but I'm actually David Ahl, founder of Creative Computing, ex-editor of Military Vehicles, writer, incurable collector, and Christian. When you have time, take a look at my on-line carnival and flea market at SwapMeetDave.com, which is chock full of new clean jokes, patriotic pics, books, magazines, my bio, handyman humor, and other good stuff. I accept payments by check or PayPal. I ship the day I receive your payment or notification of payment from PayPal. Thank you!

Price: 11.95 USD

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