Auctions: comic books September 1973
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Item #61015579
Tags: Marvel Legacy Numbering: Amazing Spider-Man (part 124), Spider-ManAmazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 124 CGC 6.0
1st app. Man-Wolf
Paper: Off white to white
Label #3967263003
Starts Jul 6 First appearance of the Man-Wolf (aka John Jameson) in "The Mark of the Man-Wolf" Part 1 of 2. Script by Gerry Conway. Pencils by Gil Kane. Inks by John Romita and Tony Mortellaro. Cover by John Romita. While web-slinging through the city, Spider-Man stops to take a look at the local papers, and becomes mad that the Bugle is the only newspaper calling him a murderer in connection with the death of Norman Osborn! The angry wall-crawler rushes to JJJ's apartment, but the Man-Wolf gets there first! Spider-Man rescues J. Jonah Jameson and battles the Man-Wolf! First appearance of Kristine Saunders. Cameo appearances by Mary Jane Watson, Flash Thompson, and Joe Robertson. (Notes: In the letters page, the web-slinger's fans react to Gwen Stacy's death. This story was reprinted in Marvel Tales 101.) 32 pages. Cover price $0.20.
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Item #60932581
Batman (1940) 251 FN- 5.5
Ends Jun 3 6:38 PM CST Bid History 15 bids Current Bid $405 Your Secret Max Bid If you'd like to bid, please log in or register. Cover art by Neal Adams. "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge!", script by Denny O'Neil, art by Neal Adams; The Joker has set himself free from the Mental Hospital for the Criminally Insane Batman had him incarcerated in, and he is out for blood; Before he was sent away, knowing that one member of his previous gang had ratted him out to the police, he had vowed to murder all five of them; And only the Batman is capable of stopping him; Despite Batman's best efforts, the Joker is able to finish off nearly all of his hit list; Batman is only alerted after the first murder, when a grinning corpse is found in the mud just outside of Gotham City, and he goes to each of the former members of the Joker's gang individually to try to protect them. Plop! comic book ad. Champion Sports comic book ad. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.
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Item #60776230
Batman (1940) 251 GD 2.0
3" spine split from bottom. Cover detached at one staple. Cover oxidation.
Starts Jul 6 Cover art by Neal Adams. "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge!", script by Denny O'Neil, art by Neal Adams; The Joker has set himself free from the Mental Hospital for the Criminally Insane Batman had him incarcerated in, and he is out for blood; Before he was sent away, knowing that one member of his previous gang had ratted him out to the police, he had vowed to murder all five of them; And only the Batman is capable of stopping him; Despite Batman's best efforts, the Joker is able to finish off nearly all of his hit list; Batman is only alerted after the first murder, when a grinning corpse is found in the mud just outside of Gotham City, and he goes to each of the former members of the Joker's gang individually to try to protect them. Plop! comic book ad. Champion Sports comic book ad. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.
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Item #61027787
Ghosts (1971-1982 DC) 18 CGC 9.6
Top CGC census grade for this issue.
Paper: White
Label #4416308005
Ends Jun 3 7:31 PM CST Bid History 6 bids Current Bid $46 Your Secret Max Bid If you'd like to bid, please log in or register. Cover art by Nick Cardy. Graveyard of Vengeance, art by Alfredo Alcala; An Indian Chief curses all white men on his ground when his family is killed by English soldiers during the Revolutionary War. Death of a Ghost, art by Abe Ocampo; Jan and Clayton Butler try to move into a haunted mansion; Mr. Devereux has a machine that will remove the ghost that occupies the mansion. Behind the Scenes at the DC Comic World ad with the Legion of Super-Heroes. The Eye of Evil, script by Leo Dorfman, art by Frank Redondo; Alois Hitler can see the hate in his son's eyes but nobody will believe him. The Girl-Hunting Ghost text story, art by Jim Aparo. Death Came Creeping, pencils by Ernesto Patricio, inks by Gerry Talaoc. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.
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Item #59637195
Strange Tales (1951-1976 1st Series) 169 CGC 8.5
Origin & first Brother Voodoo story
Paper: White
Label #4102698002
Starts Jul 6 Cover art by John Romita. "Brother Voodoo," script by Len Wein, pencils by Gene Colan, inks by Dan Adkins; Part one of the origin of Brother Voodoo, who is the union of Daniel Drumm's spirit in twin brother Jericho Drumm's body; Drumm returns to Haiti to find his brother dying from the curse of Damballah This is the first Brother Voodoo story; The first appearance of the character occurred in an article in Tales of the Zombie 2. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.
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Item #60932717
Tags: Wonder WomanWonder Woman (1942 1st Series DC) 207 FN 6.0
Starts Jun 3 Cover pencils by Ric Estrada, inks by Vince Colletta. "The Riddle of the Chinese Mummy Case!", script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Ric Estrada, inks by Vince Colletta; Wonder Woman goes back in time to ancient China to aid a princess and to discover why a statue of Wonder Woman was found in a 2000-year-old mummy case. "The Four Dooms!", script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Ric Estrada, inks by Vince Colletta; Inventa, a criminal scientist sentenced to Transformation Island, escapes her Venus Girdle with a special key of her devising, liberates the rest of the prisoners, and takes Paradise Island by force; Then she sentences Wonder Woman and Queen Hippolyta to the Island of Four Dooms; This a re-imaginating of an Earth-Two Wonder Woman story originally presented in Wonder Woman #33. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.