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For the original uncropped version from Marvel UK

My favorite Cardy Romance cover. It's right up there with a few Teen Titans / Aquaman covers as all time favorite Cardy.

Yeah, I read your post and thought 9.0-9.2 would be ok. Sadly, these were quite a bit below that. They did get back to me and are replacing the beat up copies. Said all orders are inspected while being boxed up, so it must have happened during shipping. It didn't look like it to me, but we'll see how the next batch looks upon arrival.

So...I picked these up direct from the publisher (Warrant), fresh off the press. How pissed off should I be?

Iron Man was a pretty rough read through the Silver and Bronze age. Really, the David Michelinie / Romita Jr /Bob Layton run that started around #116 was the Golden Age for Iron Man. If you do want to dip into the Bronze Age, I have a real fondness for the picture frame run from around #42-50, as that was when I started collecting Iron Man.

In a similar story, back in the early 1970's, as a young child, my mom would take me up to the local Mall to buy comics from a small local seller. One week he had a Silver Surfer #1 that I really wanted, but my mom said it was too much, we would come back in a couple of weeks and get it for my Birthday. A couple of weeks later we show up and the guy is gone, packed up, never to be seen again, along with my Silver Surfer #1 . Flash forward to 1999, around 27 years later, I see a want ad from a guy selling a large lot of comics. I call and set up an appointment to go take a look 3 days later. The next morning I get a call from the seller telling me he has a really pushy buyer that is set to come see it that afternoon, if I wanted anything I would need to get there by then. Anyway, me and the guy show up about the same time and get along pretty good. We decide to split the collection (so as not to get in a bidding war) and as he's looking through some stuff I start talking with the owner, who had little knowledge of comics or of what he actually had. It turns out, he was the son of the guy that used to sell me books when I was 10 years old. The books had been packed up for decades sitting in his dads garage. When his dad passed they were moved to the sons storage unit and he was finally getting around to selling them. It was quite the accumulation of books from the late 1960s/early 1970s, along with quite a bit of the early Marvelmania toys and some original art. And yeah, there were 2 Silver Surfer #1 sitting in the stack of books also. Not sure which one I had claimed so I ended up with both when we divided the books up.

Not my copy

I always felt that the difference was that "Legion of Monsters" was the cover title on the magazines used for a bunch of individual horror stories, featuring whatever stories of solo characters they used. While in the comic appearance it represented the team of monsters in their first appearance together.

Yeah, they are nice, it's just odd, I always wondered if Steranko had a "one time use" clause in his contract. For years I actually thought that Invisible Man painting was by Steranko, until I noticed the Adkins sig. I didn't recognize the Morrow cover, but now that you mentioned it, I can see the Morrow style in it.

Are these just black and white reprintings of the Supernatural Thrillers comics that came out a few years earlier? Also, interesting that they would pay other artists to recreate the Steranko covers as paintings rather than just use the superior Steranko covers (or have him paint them) that were used on the Supernatural Thriller books.

Is that white spot on the "3" of the 2nd 300 below the logo box on the actual book or is it something loose on cover? It's on the CGC photo but not your raw book.

Magik #1 VF/NM $5 (5 available) Magik #1-4 NM $12

One of these days I'll find a set of the early issues with the free inserts intact. I used to think finding the Captain Britain #1 with the mask was difficult, these inserts are on a whole different level of difficult.

Silver Surfer Black #1, 2, 3, 5 VF/NM $8

I had a stack of that ASM 298 at one time. After 299 came out I started buying up all the copies of 298 I could find. My local comic retailer mentioned the book to get was ASM 300, I laughed and told him McFarlanes 1st issue was the one to have. I probably had 50 of them at one point, and 1 ASM 300 .

Batman Mask of the Phantasm Digest VF/NM $4

People may be underestimating a She-Hulk show. Wasn't she the original "break the 4th wall" character (before Deadpool) in her Sensational She-Hulk series by Byrne. If the Disney series plays off that, it could find a market with the new collector crowd that like that (stuff) .

Yeah, I agree, it's just a cameo but people do collect them (esp. in todays market). While it is a preview, it is presented in new stories, not just previewing material that will appear in the books release. It also had, among others, the 1st appearance of the 616 Ultimates and Robert Maverick's (Red Hulk) 1st cameo.

New Avengers #0 had a cameo with his name and image shown (5 months earlier), it's actually labelled his 1st appearance in the Marvel Database. I wonder if the buying public is unaware of it, cause it hasn't moved at all.

Betty & Veronica FCBD + #3 set NM $7

Spectacular Spider-Man FINE $14

at 20% off

at 20% off

Yeah, him and Steve Parkhouse did quite a few for both Fantastic and Terrific. There are multiple lists out there but most are incomplete as Smith doesn't really post them on his list of professional credits. He was really hit or miss on a bunch of these, the Thor really kind of showed his developing style, while Yagg the Slayer and Blob look kind of rough. It looks like he was 17 or 18 when he cranked most of these out. The Chameleon one looks more like the work Parkhouse was doing back then but it was on one of the lists I found so I included it.