SAMSON 1940-41 #1
CGC VG+: 4.5
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off-white to white pages; Interior cover has full page ad for Green Mask #1 and Flame #1
(Fall 1940)
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off-white to white pages; Interior cover has full page ad for Green Mask #1 and Flame #1
(Fall 1940)
Ruben Blades Copy
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A 15% BUYER'S PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO THIS ITEM AT CONCLUSION OF THE AUCTION
off-white to white pages; Interior cover has full page ad for Green Mask #1 and Flame #1
(Fall 1940)
Ruben Blades CopyCapitalizing on the popularity of Fantastic Comics' star attraction, Fox moved Samson to his own title, which only lasted for six issues before the book was handed off to Captain Aero, leaving Samson clinging to his appearances in Big 3 until he was eventually ousted by V-Man, and finally left to fall into the dreaded public domain. One interesting aspect of Samson's first solo issue is the ad for Kooba Cola that appears on the cover -- apparently, Victor Fox had a scheme to sell the nonexistent soft drink based on buzz alone and then use the money to develop the product after the fact. This is just one of the many fly-by-night schemes cooked up by the imaginative hustlers that published comics in the depression-wracked 1930s and early 1940s, constantly "borrowing" ideas from one another, and following the elusive American dream, which is what the Golden Age was all about.
off-white to white pages; Interior cover has full page ad for Green Mask #1 and Flame #1
(Fall 1940)
Ruben Blades CopyCapitalizing on the popularity of Fantastic Comics' star attraction, Fox moved Samson to his own title, which only lasted for six issues before the book was handed off to Captain Aero, leaving Samson clinging to his appearances in Big 3 until he was eventually ousted by V-Man, and finally left to fall into the dreaded public domain. One interesting aspect of Samson's first solo issue is the ad for Kooba Cola that appears on the cover -- apparently, Victor Fox had a scheme to sell the nonexistent soft drink based on buzz alone and then use the money to develop the product after the fact. This is just one of the many fly-by-night schemes cooked up by the imaginative hustlers that published comics in the depression-wracked 1930s and early 1940s, constantly "borrowing" ideas from one another, and following the elusive American dream, which is what the Golden Age was all about.