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I read somewhere that this is the only work Cardy did for a color Marvel Comic Book. He also did covers for Deadly Hands of Kung Fu and Marvel Movie Premiere but those were for the Black and White Magazine line.

plus #46 and #48

I think I have the Human Fly spec covered as well.

It does have a nice Nick Cardy cover, which is a true rarity on a Marvel Comic Book.

My favorite period for Buscema art was when he did the Avengers in the early 1970s with inks by Grainger. Squadron Sinister, Invaders, Scorpio, he was at his finest. By the mid 1970s he had developed a bunch of short cuts because he was producing so much work.

Came across this while reading an old trade mag I had. Before "Eternals" there was "Return of the Gods." It appears Dc had just come back with Return of the New Gods and Marvel had to make a quick change to the title of the book.

Remember the good old days in the late 70's when comic stores would go out of business and have real liquidation sales? I'd come home with a stack of books and my Mom would get on to me about buying more than 1 copy of the same book. "It's the same exact book!!! Why would you waste your quarter on the same exact book!! Just read the first one twice. What am I going to do with you..." That'll teach you Mom

Well, unless there is something special in there, you can assume the books with extra staples are low value. The tabloid size books shown are under $10 each. The only thing shown with any type of value are the sealed Star Wars packs with issues #1-3. If the books look in nice shape and bags are not torn up these have been selling for around $125-$150 each on ebay. I'd think it is safe to assume that a child's bronze collection that has been stapled to protect against damage, doesn't have anything worth having graded. If you want to create a list of the books involved it would take maybe 10 minutes to look it over and separate the junk from anything with value.

I bought a large collection of these a couple of years back and 90% had the subscription staple on them, most showing a degree of rust on them (cheap staples). I assumed the others were sold at conventions direct from the publisher or old comic stores.

As someone who tried to compliment him for hitting the goldmine with the Marvel Zombie craze (at a convention about 10 years ago), he really, really thinks highly of himself.

Love these books! Back in the early (mid?) 1980s my local comic shop picked up a large high grade collection. It had been picked over by the time I got there. I picked out complete runs (minus issues #1 & 2) of the 25 cent giants from both Marvel Tales, Marvel Super Heroes and Marvel Collectors Item. He wanted double guide on all of them. I was pissed off but paid it after person_without_enough_empathying for like an hour. They ended up costing me $1 each instead of the .50 guide price. Even today they are the most under priced books on the market.

Star Brand got me twice, first with issue #1, and just about when it had died they gave the book to Byrne and I loaded up again...

Got mine also, orderd after your post. It's a nice read. Thanks!

Yep, my first convention experience was in 1976 or 77. At $5 I had a choice between Nm'ish copies of Iron Man #1, Silver Surfer #1 and Avengers #93. It was no contest for the Avengers #93! I probably have 15-20 mid grade copies because it just seems like such a bargain anytime I see it.

I've got a copy of that book also, great read! Anyway, after seeing your copy I pulled it back out and was reading the Wrightson Interview. I've always felt it was somewhat disrespectful to classify all of Wrightsons work after the Frankenstein pieces as lesser quality (although that's exactly what I do). It was refreshing to read his take on the subject: CBA: If I can be frank here: One of the perceptions I had was that you pored your heart and soul into Frankenstein—you almost sweat blood—and you made it drop-dead, gorgeous. It was the best work you had done up until that time. Subsequently.... Bernie: Nothing's been as good? CBA: Nothing's been as good.

Would having the "eyes" punched out and the "tag" on the side of it removed make it incomplete? This is how I received mine, I originally thought the black gunk on the left side was adhesive used to attach it to the comic. After hearing of the rubber bands, it now looks like that is the rubber bands that have degraded town to a sticky gunk that was holding it on to the comic. They have also left a tacky dark residue on the interior page they were attached to. Now I'm wondering if it would it be better off just removing the "tab" and hoping that doesn't make it incomplete? .

Assuming it's for the Marvel 25th anniversary frame cover. That said, I only saw 1 copy at or over $100 on Ebay, so not sure how comfortable that price is.

Picked up a set of Fantastic Fanzine 8-11 from 1971. I had been looking for the Steranko Cap cover for awhile and hadn't even ever seen the Buscema Dr. Strange cover before. Great early interviews and art throughout.

Eerie 53 - 6.0 CROW $4 Eerie 9 - 6.5 OW $8 Eerie 1972 Annual - 7.5 OW $10

Avgrs 143 - 9.0 OW $12 Eerie 61 - 7.0 CROW $5

I'd think the gsx 1 8.5, FF 48 4.0 by a decent amount. Not only now but for the future as these 2 books are both surging in price, waiting for any MCU news to send them sky rocketing.

Phantasmagoria #1 & #4, Kenneth Smith's self published zine. Back in the early 1970s I bought a copy of #4 at the Dallas Comic Con, where Smith was set up, I think I was 12, but Mom threw it away because of the abundance of nudity (like every picture). Picked it up on ebay close to 50 years later. Got to admit, it's not quite the treasure trove of quality nudity that my 12 year old eyes remembered.