PGM PPSSM #64

[matchstick johnny]

Thank you

[etanick]

5.5

[vaillant]

I’d feel more comfortable with a VG/F 5.0, but again a F- is possible. Depends on how bad the cover creases are? Still learning…

[matchstick johnny]

Thanks again!

 

This book has been in my collection for about 30 years. I picked it up second hand at a LCS. I was not a condition freak back then(just happy to have it).

[vaillant]

@matchstick johnny: This issue has been one of the first book I saw in a period where we no longer had Marvel comics in Italy (1983-1987). I looked at the covers of those american original comic books and asked myself: "Wow, who are Cloak & Dagger?". Then, in 1986, I purchased my first comics in original edition and… everything changed.

Of course, we restarted to have domestic editions around 1987, but this book to me will be always tied with mystery and "what has happened while I was away?", as much as a Defenders issue I can’t figure out (secondary characters were killed by a mysterious elf, and I have yet to read my Defenders collection in full to discover! ).

 

Besides this, there is also the thing that I was honored to receive a praise directly from Ed Hannigan (artists on those awesome early Cloak & Dagger) as I did a very positive review of his 1991 series "Skull & Bones" on my fanzine.

For some reason, he got a copy in the States (!) and wrote me to thank me.

Now Ed suffers from multiple sclerosis, I am so sorry for him.

[Jaws1965]

I was going to say 6.0 because the comic is free of any tears whatsoever.