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Finest collection of 1960s DC war comics to be offered at Heritage Auctions

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- The highest-graded copies of the first Sgt. Rock and Haunted Tank comics highlight the war comic collection of Houston business executive Keith Marlow, being offered by Heritage Auctions as part of its Nov. 10-11 Signature(r) Vintage Comics & Comic Art Auction in Beverly Hills, also taking place live online via Heritage’s proprietary real-time bidding platform, HERITAGE LIVE!(r) on HA.com. “In assembling this superb grouping, Keith Marlow has accomplished something remarkable,” said Ed Jaster, Senior Vice President of Heritage. “After selling his entire war comic collection through Heritage in 2007, he went out and amassed an even better war comic collection.” War comics were very rarely preserved in high grade compared to superhero comics of the same era, making the assembly of a high grade set exponentially more difficult. The collection, which carries a pre-auction estimate at well into six