Bruneau’s Comic, TCG, & Toy Auction
March 11 at 10 am EST
63 4th Ave. Cranston, RI
www.BruneauandCo.com
Info@BruneauandCo.com
401-533-9980

CRANSTON, R.I. — Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers’ winter comic, TCG (trading card games) and toy auction is slated for Saturday, March 11, beginning at 10 am Eastern time, online and live in the Cranston gallery.

The auction opens with 125 lots of Golden, Silver, Bronze and Modern age comics highlighted by a Fox Features Syndicate Famous Crimes #2 graded CGC 5.0; a copy of Marvel Comics Amazing Spider-Man #129 graded CGC 6.5; Marvel Comics Fantastic Four #48 CGC 3.0; and a Valiant Comics Adventures of Super Mario Bros. #1 CGC 9.8.

The copy of Marvel Comics Amazing Spider-Man #129 (February 1974), features the first appearance of the Punisher and the Jackal ($1/1,500). The copy of Valiant Comics Adventures of Super Mario Bros. #1 (February 1991) is a newsstand variant that reprints Super Mario Bros. #1 and has a Captain N backup story ($800-$1,200).

The second portion of the catalog will showcase 126 lots of collectible cards spanning from the 1930s through early 2000s. Trading card highlights include a 186-piece group of 1938 Gum Horrors of War trading cards; a lifetime collection of 1967 to 1977 Topps Wacky Packages; and multiple key lots of Topps Series 1 Garbage Pail Kids.

The lifetime original owner collection of 1967-77 Topps Wacky Packages sticker trading cards includes more than 550 cards, more than 50 of which are from the original 1967 series, including Quacker Oats #18a (BGS 5.5 excellent) and Jolly Mean Giant #21a (BGS 5 excellent). The set overall is graded 4.0-7.0 for condition ($1/2,000).

The complete set of 1985 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 sticker trading cards — 164 in all — includes Nasty Nick #1a with matte back (BGS 7 Near Mint); Evil Eddie #1b (BGS 6.5 EX-MT+); Adam Bomb #8a with checklist back (BGS 6 EX-MT); and Blasted Billy #8b with checklist back (BGS 8 NM-MT). The group also includes original Series 1 wax pack box with more than 24 open wax wraps ($1/2,000).

Trading card game offerings will include numerous lots of factory-sealed Magic: The Gathering, highlighted by a Fifth Edition booster box along with Ninth Edition, Core Sets 2010 through 2020, and multiple Championship preconstructed decks. There will also be two original paintings from Magic: The Gathering. MTG fans will have much to bid on.

Other TCG highlights include a 1999 Pokémon Base Shadowless Charizard holographic trading card graded CGC 9 Mint ($2/3,000); a factory-sealed Two-Player Starter Display Box; and a factory sealed Yu-Gi-Oh! Evolution Starter Deck display box.

The final portion of the sale will focus on antique and vintage toys, featuring an array of pressed steel, tin lithograph, Steiff and 1970s-80s Japanese robots and Transformers.

An unused 1980 Clover Tryder G7 Bird Attack Robot, an example of a rare robot considered one of the greatest designs of the period by Clover, has an estimate of $1/1,500. The toy, graded C9+, appears only to have been opened for inspection. Included is an unused sticker sheet and some factory-sealed accessories.

A 1985 Wonder Masters of the Universe Battle Cat ride-on spring bouncer, 42¼ inches tall, overall an exceptional example showing minimal signs of use should fetch $800-$1,200

A 1948 Gilbert Walking Robot Erector Set No. 12½, from the childhood toy collection of Jack Pillar of Mystic, Conn., a man whose love for collecting and caring of toys began as a child, is estimated to finish at $600/900. The set was originally purchased by Pillar’s parents, most likely at Eaton Chase Hardware, Norwich, Conn. The set was professionally reassembled by Randy’s Collectibles: Restoring Erector Sets, Medford, Mass., in November 1996. It’s original and complete. Included are notes from the restoration process in what pieces were found to complete the set.

Internet bidding will be facilitated by liveauctioneers.com, invaluable.com, bidlive.bruneauandco.com and the mobile app “Bruneau & Co.” on iTunes or GooglePlay.

Previews will be conducted on Thursday and Friday, March 9 and 10, from 9 am to 4 pm Eastern time each day in the Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue. Doors will open on auction day at 8 am. For information, 401-533-9980 or www.bruneauandco.com.