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Amazing Spiderman #106

Lee

Romita/Giacoia

 

Stan by this time was only writing Spidey and Fantastic Four on a monthly basis.

 

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Avengers #97

 

Thomas

J. Buscema/Palmer

 

The culmination of the Kree-Skrull war, with a cool cover by Kane and Bill Everett.

 

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Captain America #147

 

Friedrich

Sal Buscema/Verpooten

 

Great Hydra story.

 

[01TheDude]

cool how they interwove their initials on the Avengers 97 cover

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Conan the Barbarian #14

 

Thomas

Smith/Sal Buscema

 

Roy Thomas and Barry Smith really hitting their stride. The story and art withstand the test of time.

 

 

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Creatures on the Loose #16

 

Gulliver Jones story by Thomas and spectacular art by Kane/Everett. Cool example of cover art breaking out of the picture frame.

 

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Daredevil #85

 

Conway

Colan/Shores

 

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Fantastic Four #120

 

Lee

John Buscema/Sinnott

 

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Incredible Hulk #149

 

Goodwin

Trimpe/John Severin

 

Worn copy still in a polybag and cheap board from the early seventies.

 

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Iron Man #45

 

Friedrich

Tuska/Colletta

 

Shellhead takes on the hippies. Suscha News copy with a staple pull.

 

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Marvel Team-Up #1

 

Thomas

Andru/Esposito

 

First Spidey spin-off series starts.

 

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Marvel Feature #2

 

Thomas

Andru/Sal Buscema

 

Early Defenders and a giant size issue.

 

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Sgt. Fury #96

 

Friedrich

Ayers/Mooney

 

War books had lost some popularity by the early seventies from the climate of the country at the time.

 

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Submariner #47

 

Conway

Colan/Esposito

 

Another multipart Doom-Subby battle royal.

 

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Thor #197

 

Conway

John Buscema/Colletta

 

Mangog, the embodiment of an entire planet of a billion beings.

 

By this time, the X-Men was a bimonthly reprint book (no March issue), but the sheer quality and novelty of the books from this month was a joy to read. April continued strong, with first issues of Tomb of Dracula and Marvel Premiere, for starters.

 

[underthebigw]

It was a great time to be reading Marvel comics. Here is my set of reader copies of non-reprint books with the March 1972 cover date.

 

Amazing Adventures #11

Conway

Sutton/Shores

 

First Furry Beast

 

 

That is one sweet looking reader.

[Ghost Town]

Nice to see this thread have a renaissance about 7 years after it started. Lots of great books showing up lately.

 

And Bob, I don't know if the word "reader" means what you think it means.

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Nice to see this thread have a renaissance about 7 years after it started. Lots of great books showing up lately.

 

And Bob, I don't know if the word "reader" means what you think it means.

 

Well, they're from my reading set. It's nearly 300 books organized by month. The next time I read these comics, I'll go through them one month at a time in order, the way I did when I started reading and collecting regularly some 45 years ago. Marvel did a lot of multi-issue cliffhangers back then, and part of the fun was waiting the month to find out what happened next.

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Found this going through some other old ebay purchases:

 

 

Another great copy.

[underthebigw]

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Another great copy.

 

Thanks. It's actually an ebay tragedy. I had been buying easy 9.6 and 9.8 Marvel BA westerns from an ebay seller. They were absolutely mind-boggling. Finally, he threw up a PF. I jumped all over it, along with 4 other books. Of course, he didn't pack this shipment well, and they suffered a pretty severe corner ding. This book survived the best, and I don't think anything will show after a press, but I was pretty angst-ridden about it. I'm pretty sure it would have been a 9.8.