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All you people who just want to look at pictures of old Marvel Comics, please go use this site for that: The Silver Age Marvel Comics Cover Index. There's over 1500 scans of Marvels from the 1950's, '60's, and '70's. And there's also the Grand Comic Book Database.

Special Spider-Man Collectors Item:

Spider-Man store display/standee/standup. This was made for the Maximum Clonage storyline around 1995. I've owned this since new, and it was only put together once for the photo back then, and has been in its box since. Very cool and rare collectors item! Large Spider-Man in his classic red & blue costume, swinging towards you in front of cityscape, with Carnage on lower left, Venom on lower right. Usual cardboard type construction, about 6 ft. tall to tip of center building (Chrysler Building), and about 43" wide. Comes with an extra Spider-Man that you can either hang on the standee as pictured, or remove and hang up in a corner of a room. (You can see part of the duplicate Spidey that's part of the standee, behind the foreground one in pic.) Comes with a u-shaped metal rod and rope webbing to string on it (not pictured), that goes with Spidey's trailing hand. Or you can hang the webbing up in the corner of the room with the extra Spidey. Made to display comics, it has 6 plastic holders that fit in slots on the standee to display comics (not pictured), which you can use or not. It's all in excellent shape still, but of course some of the tips of buildings got bent in handling, and there's a floppy bend on his lower foot on the 'outside'/extra Spidey. There's an extra Venom piece that fits around that foot, that I think you use if hanging the extra Spidey separately. Instructions are in the box somewhere. Great for your store, or your huge comics room. This is a local pick-up only item (Sarasota area), as it's in a very large box, and not well protected enough inside to pass an insurance claim if damaged in transit, and double boxing would make it even more too expensive to ship. Have seen another seller asking $200, without the comic display boxes or webbing mentioned. Methinks that's a bit optimistic, so wouldn't you rather have a complete one for...$100? (View)

Spider-Man (Spiderman) comics:
Amazing Spider-Man Vol. #1 single issues
(Again, comics are Near Mint unless noted)

#294 NM- 9.2 (Kraven's Last Hunt, pt. 5)...$5 (View)
#360 (Carnage cameo)...$2
Annual #14 (Denny O'Neil/Frank Miller story). Spidey and Doctor Strange team-up vs. Dr. Doom and Dormammu. $22 in OPG, yours for 50% off...$11 (View)
Annual #15 - Frank Miller Punisher story, and Dr. Octopus! NM. 50% below Overstreet at...$15 (View)
New! Annual #21 - Wedding of Peter Parker and Mary Jane. Peter in tux cover. NM. 3 little 2-3mm binding wrinkle stresses on spine, in white, so don't show...$8 (View)

Giant Size Spider-Man (and Punisher) #4, from 1975, early Punisher appearance. VF 8.0, except two interior pages (#25, 27) have tears on right side--one is 1/4" in and up, and in margin only, other is 1.5" and goes in through Spidey's chest up to his chin. Scans will give you an idea. (Anyone ever figure how much to grade off for that stuff?) Back bottom spine corner has light crunch/bend area about 3/4" into cover, won't show in scans; appears to be a very thin little tiny slit at bottom staple bump on front cover, and little stress spot below that in army guys; very light thin indent line above 'group' at top edge, curved, about 1" long. Along the spine, the white edge overruns the cover about 1/8" at the widest point at top, then narrows as it goes down. Very clean and bright, great color, gloss, and nice edges. (Back cover bottom edge has two tiny v-shaped production ticks/nicks.) Spine is pretty square still. Light tan/off-white pages. $68 in 2008 OPG for VF. ($170 in NM-?! UP again? Why?) ON SALE THROUGH June 10th, was $45, now...$35 (View) (View page tears) (View back)

Amazing Spider-Man: Spirits of the Earth hardcover graphic novel, by Charles Vess. All painted art. Peter and MJ go to Scotland and hunt ghosts. $18.95 cover, yours for...$13 (View)

Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider-Man/Spiderman Vol. 1, 1976 series:

Selling my Spectacular Spider-Man run from #99-263 when it ended in 1998, as one lot. Missing #'s 176, 184, 185. Run includes Spectacular Scarlet Spider #1, 2, Flashback -1, Annuals #6-9, & 12. So 170 issues total, all first prints. Most of the first 25 issues or so were bought off the newsstand or by mail subscription from Marvel, so they range from a VG subscription-fold one, a few fines, to most being VF- to VF/NM. Most copies above #126 are direct market ones, and most are NM/NM-, with about 10 in VF to VF/NM, 1 VG, and a couple fine to F/VF. Some will have a slight "valley" along the spine or open edge, from not being lined up perfectly straight in the boxes/filing cabinets, which is a common thing. Some are 2 to a bag, most are bulk bagged in mag bags, and only a few have backing boards. If there was a choice, I bought the deluxe issue, so there's a number of $2.95 - $3.95 fancy covers. #213 includes the animation "cel" print. Overstreet guide if all NM is about $510-515 (but higher now from when I listed this), other guides are probably a bit higher. Discounting for grades, I come up with about $480 guide, but your mileage may vary. This run is for reading, not investment, so don't spend the education fund money on it. I'm going over 58% off approximate guide from a couple years ago, so about $1.17 per issue, vs. the $2.50 or more cover price for new comics, so get this for you or the kids to enjoy for only....$200

#2 - Kraven and the Tarantula appearances. Overall VF+ 8.5 at least. Has one medium size, but not heavy spine kink at mid-spine (light valley to it, minor stress mark); has a couple dull patches in the gloss here and there, likely from another comic sticking slightly when they were new, but no color peels or flakes. About $19 guide, yours for only...$12 (View)

#28 - Pt. 2 of the Daredevil crossover, Frank Miller art. NM- 9.2, just a couple/three very small spine kinks/stress marks, all very very short. How is this $45 in OPG (way way high guys), and only $16 in the main online guide?...$12 (View)

#131 (Kraven's Last Hunt, part 3) NM- 9.2...$3 (View)

"Spider-Man 3" movie prequel comic. NM. Given out at AMC theaters on the first day of the movie release, co-sponsored by Target. 12 page story, plus Spidey centerfold, and pics in back of various toys and other stuff, plus coupons good at Target for the video game (expires Jan. 1 2008), and the spinning web blaster toy (expired). Written by Todd Dezago, art by Stuart Immonen. Not sure how many were made, but one seller who supposedly worked for AMC said his boss told him the paperwork said 25,000, but never got that confirmed. Story shows Peter and Marko (Sandman) walking around the city mulling over their life and recent decisions. Hasn't set the world on fire, but now don't see many for sale, and saw it sell for up to $10 last summer, plus high $5 shipping! Get mine for a mere...$3 (View)

Web of Spider-Man #1-129 run, only missing #104. Here's the general info on this run: This run is for READING, not for investment, as it's not an all NM run, besides being the least popular of the 3 old Spidey titles. Includes Web of Scarlet Spider #1-4, and New Warriors #67. All are 1st prints. #1, while NM, has a bad cut and staple job from the factory, with some pages having the art trimmed off a little on the open edge, and it was folded/stapled about a 1/2" off center. #2-26 were mostly purchased off the newsstand by me, before I was a "collector", and they range from several VG's and VG/F's, to mostly F/VF to VF+, so no great shakes there. MOST books above #34 are NM/NM- direct market copies, with a few VF+, a couple fines, and a couple newsstand issues. "Key" issues of #29, 31, 32, 48 are NM to NM- though. Some will have a slight "valley" along the spine or open edge, from not being lined up perfectly straight in the boxes/filing cabinets, which is a common thing. Some are 2 to a bag, some are bulk bagged in mag bags, and only a few have backing boards. Several issues have $2.95-$3.95 cover prices. #90 has the neat big hologram cover, #113 comes with the cel print, #125 has a neat Holodisc on the cover. If there was a choice, I bought the deluxe cover. Annuals #1, 2, 4, and 8 are included too. Guide price if all NM is $425-$510 (but higher now than when I listed this), give or take 10%, depending on which guide. Discounting a lot for the first 33 or so, and some for the NM- ones, approximate guide is around $310-360. 137 comics total. New comics are $2.50-$2.95 now, so these back issues are a bargain at what I'm going to ask, which comes to about $.92¢ per book! Get the set for yourself or your kids to read and enjoy at over 60% off guide...$125

Web of Spider-Man single issues:

#50 - Double size, one small/med. spine kink, so NM- 9.2...$2
Annual #2 (extra copy) - Art Adams art, New Mutants guest star. NM+...$3

Other Spider-Man comics:

Marvel Tales #286 - Reprints Amazing Spider-Man #278, Hobgoblin story, and has an "animation print" from the cartoon series (cel-like transparency print), and 16 page booklet on the animated series. Sealed in polybag, at cover price...$2.95

Maximum Clonage Alpha, or Omega. First and last parts to the Maximum Clonage story, with acetate and chromium covers, double size. $4.95 cover...$4 ea.

Scarlet Spider-Man Unlimited #1 ("Tomb of Kaine" one-shot). $3.95 cover. Sale!...$2

Spider-Man and Batman one-shot, 1995, a joint Marvel/DC production. Fancy embossed cover, 48 page prestige format story titled "Disordered Minds". Spidey & Batman vs. Joker & Carnage! 1st print. Nice! At cover price...$5.95 (View)

Spider-Man Classics #15 - reprints the first Green Goblin appearance from Amazing Spider-Man #14, and includes an animation cel-like print, and 16 page booklet on the cartoon series. Sealed in polybag. At cover price...$2.95

Spider-Man: Legacy of Evil one-shot. Green Goblin overview story by Busiek, with painted art by Texiera. $3.95 cover...$3

Spider-Man Unlimited Vol. 1, 1993 series, $3.95 cover:
#4 - Mysterio
#9 - Mark of Kaine pt. 5
#10 - Exiled pt. 4, new Vulture story. Sale!...$2 ea.

Venom comics (most have $2.95 cover price):
Venom: Carnage Unleashed #1-3 (of 4, don't have #4)...$2 ea.
Venom: The Madness #1-3 complete set...$6
Silver Sable #18 (Venom app.)...$1

Spider-Man related Treasuries:

Just basic listings here for the Spider-Man section, main listings with more issues and full descrips are down near the bottom in the Treasury section, AFTER all the regular comics listings.

#1 - Spectacular Spider-Man. Reprints. NM...$45 (View)

#25 - Spider-Man vs. Hulk at the Winter Olympics - All new story. 2 copies, VF/NM 9.0 is $30 (View), VF-- 7.5-ish is $18 (View)

#28 - Superman & Spider-Man - All new story, 1981, have 3 copies, NM 9.4 one for $35 (View), NM- 9.2 for $32 (View), and VF 8.0 for $15 (View)

Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man - All new story, 1976. NM- 9.2...$70 ($110 in 2008 OPG) (View)

Other Marvel Comics:

Amazing Adventures #15 (1970) - Early Beast of X-men, vs. the Griffin. VF 8.0. Light 1.75" thumbed edge crease line at Griffin's wing, with 1 teeny tear; light cream-ish/off-white cover; about 7 short minor spine stress marks (2-3mm), don't show well in white border; slightly darker white along top margin; nice color, decent gloss; light tan pages (CGC's "off-white"). $39 VF in 2008 OPG, yours for 40% off...$23 (View)

Astonishing Tales (1970):
#1 Kazar and Dr. Doom stories, Jack Kirby art. VF+ 8.5 copy has off-white pages; couple light cover kinks; 3-4 minor spine stress kinks; and one production "pinch kink" from back cover through book on the right edge, but doesn't show on front. Kazar vs. Kraven story, and Doom vs Mummy. $85 NM-, about $50 in VF+ in 2008 OPG, yours for 40% off guide at...$30 (View)

#1 VF- 7.5 copy. Has thin 1.75" stress line in upper right corner; 1/2" crease/bend in lower right corner; 5-6 minor spine kinks with 2-3mm stress marks; some flaking on spine edge at "Doom's Day" and a couple other spots on spine; couple short printing wrinkles; light tan/off-white pages. $39 VF in 2008 OPG, approx. $33.75 VF-, yours for...$20 (View)

#2 VF/NM 9.0. Main thing is an almost unnoticeable 1/4" zig-zag production tear at top staple, that also affects the first 4 pages some. Inside covers lightly tanning, but pages are nice off-white; one minor kink/ding lower left corner. Kazar vs. Kraven, and Dr. Doom vs. the Doomsman stories. $40 in NM- in 2008 OPG, $30 in VF/NM...$21 (View)

#4 NM- 9.2. Light tan pages; back cover dirt/rub-off; 1/16" corner crease/mush lower right. Kazar vs. the Sun God, and Dr. Doom vs. the Red Skull stories. Barry Smith art. $45 NM- in Overstreet...$34 (View)

Avengers Vol. 1:
#200 VF 8.0. Little bend line along 3/4 length of open edge, and very light bend on lower left corner. Big anniversary issue...$3

Annual/Special #3 (1969) - Reprints Avengers #4 (1st Silver Age Captain America), and has 3 new Lee & Kirby stories. VF/NM 9.0. Has staple bump/scuff spots, and those semi-common printing bump/spots along bottom edge; 1/4" light corner crease in lower right, but only shows 1/8" color break; 1/8" white scrape line on open edge near "cast list" blurb. Nice off-white pages. Very nice looking, and undervalued in guides. 2008 OPG VF/NM is $37...$27 (View)

Annual #7 (1977) Warlock, Thanos app's, Starlin art. NM- 9.2, mostly due to a flattened spot along spine, with a vertical bulge in cover along there. Nice off-white pages. $60 in NM- OPG?!...$35 (View)

Annual #15 Vs. Freedom Force...$2

Avengers #1 Vol. 3 (released in 1997, but '98 cover date) - Busiek writing and Perez art, great stuff! $2.99 cover, regular version, have 3...$2 ea.

Avengers Forever #1-12 set. All NM, complete run. Introduces new Captain Marvel, and divulges secret Avengers history. $36 cover price, yours for...$25

The Last Avengers Story #1 (of 2). Prestige format acetate cover, Marvel "alterniverse" story. Peter David writing, painted art by Olivetti. $5.95 cover price. I never got pt. 2, nuts. So let's go...$3

Bizarre Adventures #27, NM. A Marvel magazine from 1981, with the "Secret Lives of the X-Men", with 60 pages of black and white art, new "untold" stories about Phoenix, Iceman, and Nightcrawler, by Chris Claremont, Mary Jo Duffy, Bob Layton, with art by John Buscema, George Perez, and Dave Cockrum, with a Paul Gulacy cover painting. Prices seem to be all over the place, from $5-$15 or more. Get mine for...$5 (View)

Bizarre Adventures #28, VF/NM to NM-. A Marvel magazine from 1981, featuring an all new 10 page story of Elektra written and drawn by Frank Miller, plus Shadow Hunter written by Neal Adams, art by Larry Hama; Huntsman by Archie Goodwin & Michael Golden; Conscience of the King by Mary Jo Duffy w/art by Wendy Pini (Triton story); and Bucky Bizarre, by Steve Skeates & Steve Smallwood. 62 pages, black & white art, cover painting by Bob Larkin. Very mild corner tip bump in upper right, plus a couple/three thin spine stresses. Yours for...$4 (View)

Black Panther #1 (1977) Have some in VF/NM 9.0 for $14 ea., and a couple in VF 8.0 for $10 ea. ($32 NM-, $25 in VF/NM in OPG!) (View)

Black Panther: Panther's Prey mini-series #1-4 set, prestige format, $4.95 ea. cover. Half cover at...$9.90

Captain America #444 - 1st Mark Waid issue, comes with Overpower card, mine's Black Cat. NM-/9.2...$3

See 1966 Captain America mini-book/comic under Marvel Mini-books too.

Captain Marvel (1973 series):
#26 VF- 7.5. Capt. Marvel vs. the Thing, plus a Thanos app....$10 (View)
#33 VF/VF- 8.0/7.5. Thanos origin, big battle issue...$8 (View)

Contest of Champions #1 (of the 1982 "Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions" mini-series) - VF+ 8.5. ALL the Marvel characters appear. 1/2 dozen 2mm spine stress marks is all...$2.50 (View)

Cosmic Powers mini-series set (1994): #1 (Thanos), #2 (Terrax), #3 (Jack of Hearts), #5 (Morg), #6 (Tyrant). Missing #4. Thanos stars, all tie together as one story. 48 pgs, $2.50 cover. NM to NM-...$10/set

Daredevil Vol. 1:
#252 (dbl. size, Fall of the Mutants tie-in)...$2
#254 - 1st Typhoid Mary, plus Kingpin app. My last copy is NM-/9.2, with a very light raised production line running vertically on the cover (the reverse of a typical polybag seam indent line)...$4
#256, 257 (vs. Punisher), 260 (all have Typhoid Mary & Kingpin app's.)...$2 ea.
#295 (3, w/Ghost Rider, ninjas, Kingpin & Typhoid Mary app's too!) Sale!...$1 ea.
Annual #6 ("Lifeform" crossover)...$2

Daredevil The Man Without Fear #1 (of 5 issue mini-series) - Another great Frank Miller tale, with John Romita Jr. art. 1st issue retells his origin, and death of his father. $2.95 cover price...$2

Dragon's Claws #5 - 1st appearance of Death's Head. 1988, Marvel U.K., VF/VF+ 8-8.5 (5 minor spine kinks with 1/16"-1/8" stresses). Was hot at one time, still not many for sale. Yours for only...$2

Earth X #0, Alex Ross cover. Half cover price at...$2
Earth X Special/preview from Wizard, VF-/7.5...$1

Excalibur: Sword is Drawn one-shot, 1987. 1st appearance of team Excalibur, 1st print. NM-/9.2. $3.25 cover. Clearance!...$1

Fantastic Four Vol. 1, 1961 series:
#50, 1st Silver Surfer cover! Calling this Fine- 5.5. Mostly has noticeable long vertical stress lines near spine between the staples, with some horizontal ones. 3 minor spine stress marks below bottom staple; little bump bend above Thing's head in Marvel box; couple edge overrun stress lines along top edge and at right corner; thin stress line at bottom edge near spine; and bottom right corner tippy tip creased. Off-white pages, off-white to white back cover. Low gloss, but good color. $120 in Fine in 2008 OPG (only 14.5% of the $825 price in NM-! Too cheap!), I'll go...$90 (View)

#100 in Fine 6.0. Has 4-5 thin printing creases on back cover (3"-4" long, diagonal, near spine, won't show in scan) and couple razor thin ones on front that don't detract from eye appeal (1" & 2"); 10-11 short thin minor stress marks, some barely break color, but some shallow valleys with a couple around top staple; a few light reading kinks; lower right corner tip creases (longest 1/2"), some very light foxing on back in top/bottom margins, and down spine, shows up much worse in scans than in person--can't ever get scans to reflect reality for this defect; lightly tan pages. Looks better than it sounds. $27 in 2008 OPG...$20 (View front) (View back)

#320 - Thing vs. Hulk, plus Dr. Doom! 2 copies...$2 ea.
#347-349 set (1st prints, have 2 sets.) - Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Hulk app...$5/set

Fantastic Four vs. the X-Men #1-4 mini-series set, 1987. Chris Claremont writing. At cover price for the set...$6

Generation X #1 (Chromium cover) Sale! Half cover price @...$2

Ghost Rider promo pin, from 1993. PLASTIC pin is just over 1" tall, 3/4" wide, has metal tie-tac button to hold it in place. Gold flames around G.R.'s head. Sent to comic shops for one of the Ghost Rider title launches. Pins vary in condition, so some have minor scratches or tiny paint flecks, but I send the best ones available. Seen these go for $2.99-$6.75 on auctions, plus ridiculous $2-$4 shipping prices, and the false "Rare!" hype. I have a bunch (40+), so get them for yourself, each ear or other body parts, friends, relatives, employees, pets, whatever, cheap at...$1 ea. (View)

Human Fly #1 VF 8.0, 1977. Origin story, & Spider-Man app.. Only...$2

Incredible Hulk, Vol. 2:
#176 VF- 7.5. 1974. A few small spine kinks/stresses; 1.5" light bend line near right edge; couple barely perceptible stress/creases in lower right corner tip; some 'dirt' on upper left in price/number box, and around margins of back cover, and little kink bend area on open edge; light tan pages. Warlock cameo appearance. Half guide at...$5.50 (View)

#177 Fine 6.0. Distributor ink bleed along top edge, reading kinks, 1" stress line. Battles Warlock. Only...$3

#330 - First Todd McFarlane art on Hulk. VF+ 8.5. One medium size stupid "<" shaped kink above top staple, and short one above it, not heavy tho. Hulk not happy. A mere...$5 (View)

#367 - First Dale Keown art, NM- 9.2...$4

#369 - Keown art, 1st Pantheon, vs. Freedom Force, 2 copies: NM= $2, or VF/NM+ 9.0...$1

Hulk Future Imperfect #1 of 2, prestige format. Peter David writing, George Perez art, $5.95 cover. Sale!...$3

See 1966 Hulk mini-book/comic under Marvel Mini-books too.

Iron Man #1, Vol. 3 (published in 1997, but has 1998 cover date) - By Busiek and Chen. $2.99 cover, regular version...$2. And #2...$2

Logan's Run #6 (Early Thanos app. in back-up story--1st solo story?) 2 copies. NM (why is this $30 in 2008 OPG? UP!? No way!)...$8 (View) or in Fine 6.0...$3

Marshal Law Takes Manhattan one-shot. Mature readers. $4.95 cover...$2.50

Marvel Annual Stock Report #2, 1992. NM- 9.2. Done in comic book style/size, 64 pages, nice and not common. Spider-Man cover, and it also has 8 exclusive deluxe promo trading cards by Fleer, featuring baseball players Tony Gwynn, Roger Clemens, Tom Glavine and Dennis Eckersley, plus the Black Knight, Thunderstrike, Hulk and Capt. America, who "mirror" the same poses! Have a couple..$10 ea. (View cover) (View cards)

Marvel Comics Presents, 1988 series. Mostly half Wolverine and half Ghost Rider stories:
#54, 57-62, 64-71, 85-100, 150, 151 (have 1 extra #54, 86, 87, 90, 91, 92)...$1 each, or .75¢ each for 20 or more (also on Clearance page).
#72 - Part 1 of the Wolverine/Weapon X storyline, art by Barry Windsor-Smith. NM 9.4, but back cover edge has slight rough-cut from printer, and there's some color variation near both top corners due to printing quirks (purplish areas)...$3 (View)

Marvel Fanfare #51 - Double size all-new Silver Surfer story. (More Fanfares on the Clearance page)...$2

Marvel Graphic Novels:
All 1st prints, NM unless noted, not shrinkwrapped, but bagged.
(View all my Marvel Graphic Novels)

Hardcovers:

Amazing Spider-Man: Spirits of the Earth, by Charles Vess. All painted art. Peter and MJ go to Scotland and hunt ghosts. Slight yellowing of white border on cover, like most have. $18.95 cover. 30% off cover at...$13

Silver Surfer "Judgment Day" hardcover graphic novel, Signed by Stan Lee! Script by Stan Lee, art by John Buscema, beautiful cover painting by Joe Jusko. 1988, 1st print, all new story. Signed by Stan on the credits page, "To Kim, --Stan Lee" in blue sharpie, while I watched, at a Tampa comic & sports collectibles show in Sept. 1993. It has the certificate from the show and the punched autograph ticket. Since the show was mainly a sports memorabilia show that added the comics part late, all the certificates say "...the item of Sports memorabilia has been personally autographed by Stan Lee..." no matter what was actually signed. Autograph tickets were numbered, limited to 1000, and certificates signed by a Notary Public. Stan has received new popularity with the Spider-Man and other Marvel movies, and his TV reality show "Who Wants to be a Superhero?". Dust jacket has minor bend spot on top edge due to shipping ding, and hardcover edge there also shows a slight mush-in, and the spine corners also have very slight corner mushes from shipping bumps, so not NM. $14.95 cover price, and I keep seeing common $1-$2 value comics signed by Stan going for $25-$75 and more on auctions, so this should be a bargain. Reduced! Was $65, now...$55 (View) (View certificate/ticket)

Wolverine and Nick Fury: Scorpio Connection. By Goodwin, art by Howard Chaykin. Wolvy and Fury team up to defeat a surprise common enemy. $17.95 cover. 30% off at...$12.50

Softcovers:

Avengers: Deathtrap, The Vault. 1991, Ron Lim art. Overlooked Venom app., used to be hard to find, but they reprinted it. 1st prints are better. Has one good spine kink, and 3/8" light corner bend. VF- 7.5, or F/VF 7.0 to be conservative. $9.95 cover price...$6

Iron Man: Crash. 1988. 1st all computer generated graphic novel. NM-, with little corner bump. Huge cover price increase to $12.95, let's go half that...$6.50

Punisher: Assassins Guild. 1998, by Jo Duffy and Jorge Zaffino. NM. $6.95 cover, yours for...$5

Regular Comics continued:

Marvel Mini-books: These are from 1966, and only 5/8"x7/8" big, and are known as the world's smallest comics. (Listed in Overstreet in the Promotional comics section under Marvel Mini-books.) They were distributed in gumball machines, and they made 6 titles in 6 colors: Captain America, Incredible Hulk, Millie the Model, Sgt. Nick Fury, Spider-Man, and Thor, in red, orange, blue, green, light green/lime, and yellow covers. About 50 pages, black & white, usually with an illustration on one page and text on the facing page. Some have stories (usually reprinted material from what I've read), and some are joke books. Insides are all the same per title, only the cover colors change. They have a glued binding, and many other's copies have dried out and are very fragile, but mine are all in good shape, but I'd be very wary about trying to read them anyway. Mine were not out of gumball machines, they were unused overstock, and most are in very nice shape, but quality varies, especially with the back covers.

2008 OPG has them at $40 in NM-, yet those 5,280 ft. guys in Denver have them over $200! While they supposedly made millions of them, and they're not as rare now as once believed, you don't see very many people selling them, much less complete color sets. Most all have some edge flaking, this is just the way they are. These are all I have left now. I can email larger pics too. Am selling sets at about 40% below guide, and PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING TOO.

Captain America mini-books set #1 (best shape) - Bottom corner of the red, and top corner of the light green have a little corner bend/crease, the others are pretty much NM- 9.2 as these go. I'm figuring over $215 guide value based on NM- and VF/NM. Yours for...$130 (View front & back)

Captain America mini-books set #2 - Green one has some little scuffs/wear on front and more edge flaking than others; light green one has corner tip crease, others are pretty much NM-. I'm figuring about $195 guide value based on NM- 9.2, VF/NM 9.0, and 1 VG/F 5.0 (green). Yours for...$115 (View front & back)

Captain America mini-books singles (View front & back of all):
Yellow, best one, NM- 9.2. $40 guide, yours for...$25
Light green, second best, small white scuff near chin, say VF 8.0? So about $18-20 guide, yours for...$12
Red, orange, or green, all have layer flakes on back covers and/or a little more edge wear, scratch lines. Hard to decide grade for the size, so say Fine 6.0...$8 each

Incredible Hulk mini-books set #1 (best shape) - Green and blue one are maybe VF/NM due to edge flaking on back bottom edge or near spine, others are pretty much NM-. I'm figuring about $220 guide value based on NM- and VF/NM. Yours for...$132 (View front & back)

Incredible Hulk mini-books set #2 - Red one has a couple scratches and flakes on cover; green and yellow have corner tip crease lower right; blue has a bit more edge flaking, other 2 are nice. I'm figuring about $150-155 guide value based on NM-, VF/NM, VF, F/VF and VG/F (red). Yours for...$90 (View front & back)

Single Hulk mini-book yellow, NM/NM-...$27 (View front & back)

Millie the Model mini-books set - Blue one is missing back cover, this is how it came to me; green & light green have some flaking near spine; orange has bigger flaking on back near spine; red has little bottom edge wear; yellow is NM-. Most consider these the hardest to find and ask more for them, but not me. I'm figuring about $110 guide value based on NM-, VF's and VF+, Fine, and throwing in the blue for free...$70 (View front & back)

Sgt. Nick Fury mini-books singles: These have a thicker glue stripe on page edges, still mostly intact, so I wouldn't recommend forcing them open to read. The back bottom edges have a little flaking though. So VF/NM?
Red or orange...$14 each (View front & back, yellow one is sold)

Marvel Premiere (1972):
#1 VF- 7.5. "Featuring the Power of Warlock", which precedes Warlock's regular series. Some slight yellowing of pages and inside cover margins; 1mm edge tear middle right side, with 1/4" thumbed spot; about 15 or so very thin spine stress marks, with a couple light spine kinks; bottom spine corner has a little fuzzing; bottom right corner has slightest 1/4" stress line; bottom edge has thin 3/8" thumbed stress line under "God"; top right corner tip has 1/6th" crease and fuzzy; back cover has some light tanning in margin. Looks nicer than it sounds. $41 VF in 2008 OPG....$23 (View)

#2 - Warlock story continues. VF 8.0 copy has 4 spine kinks, but valleyed a little, extend 3/8" to 1/4" in, but shallow, plus a few other little stress marks on spine; nice off-white pages...$13 (View)

#2 VF- 7.5, just slightly worse than VF one, with about the same number and kind of spine kinks, but one is a little heavier in mid-spine; very light 5/8" lower right corner bend, not creased or wrinkled, barely shows when glinted; tiny bit of bendover there with tiny edge tear...$11 (View)

#50 VF+ 8.5 (Alice Cooper issue!)...$7.50 (View)

Marvel Presents (1975). All are Guardians of the Galaxy appearances (try to remain calm):
#4 VF 8.0, #8 VF, #9 VF, #10 VF+/8.5...$2 ea.
#11 NM, #12 VF/NM 9.0...$5 ea.

Marvel Preview #2. First Punisher origin story. 1975 black & white art magazine, color cover painting. Plus a Dominic Fortune story with art by Howard Chaykin. Looks VF/NM or better at first, but has some fair sized "foxing" (brown spots), mostly on back cover upper corner, but some in the title too, but very light there, and a slight rub fade in 'S' in Punisher title. Spots on back aren't quite as dark in person as in the scan. Inside front cover has more medium/dark foxing spots across the top margin that show some on opposite page, and inside back cover has some on inside corner that shows as a yellow stain on opposite page. Back lower corner has light 2" bend line. Off-white to white pages. Structurally the book is excellent, nice edges, no tears or nicks. Say VF 8.0, but priced below guide due to the foxing. ($150 in NM- in OPG! $63 in VF). ON SALE THROUGH JUNE 10, was $45, now...$35 (View front) (View back)

Marvel Super-Heroes Vol. 1 (1966/68):

#13 - Second app. of Captain Marvel, new story, plus other reprints. F/VF 7.0. Some scuffing near spine; a light couple inch bend line from spine-out; lower right corner stress/wear, a little edge stress/lines. Nice pages. About $33 in OPG for F/VF...$20 (View)

#15 - All new Medusa story (from the Inhumans), by Archie Goodwin, art by Gene Colan, plus reprints. VF 8.0, white pages. Medusa vs. the Trapster, Sandman and the Wizard. Nice copy, and it has the "normal" printing spots all over the cover from them stacking them before ink was dry, which most of this issue's print run had. They show some in the scan as the pinkish spots in the title, but show more in person. Main defect is a vertical 1.5" upward bend ridge near right edge, about 3" up from the bottom. No color break, and doesn't show in the scan, but noticeable in person; minor little kink spot at bottom left edge in Medusa's foot; top right corner has faint 1/2" mostly vertical bend to it, hardly noticeable; 3-4 worthless short stress marks on spine in the white border, they show more on the flat edge; decently square spine, and cover is otherwise smooth, edges are clean; back cover has some usual transfer "dirt", not bad. 2008 OPG NM- is $55, VF is $26, let's go...$18 (View)

#16 - First Silver Age appearance (?) of the Phantom Eagle (Who? Some WWI fighter plane guy.) All new story, plus Golden Age reprints with Sub-Mariner, Captain America etc.. VF+ 8.5, nice off-white/white pages. Has a "JUN 25 1968" date stamp above his cape; bottom right corner has several short creases in tip, 3/16" and less, plus a thin 1/4" vertical stress line to the left, and hint of a corner bend/ding when glinted; a few of those common printing dot spots along bottom edge; nice spine, with only 1 very slight kink/indent; back cover has super light 1/2" corner crease/wrinkle lower left, only seen when glinted. 2008 OPG is $55 NM- (why?), $26 in VF, and since no one cares about the Phantom Eagle, let's go 1/2 guide at...$13 (View)

#19 - All new Kazar story, George Tuska art, plus Golden Age reprints. 1968. Oh, VF/VF- (8.0-7.5), off-white pages, with a couple "buts". Nice overall, but has a blue pen streak near top edge just off the Marvel box. It's about 7/8" total, but only 1/2" really shows, rest trails off; a 1/4" down the spine edge, there's a 1/4" split, don't know how that happens. Above the split there's no tear, but cover isn't glued to pages there. Split doesn't show unless you open it and look inside, otherwise all you see is a fuzzy line. Lower right corner has 1/4" and 1/16" creases; top right corner has faint 3/16" bend from tip ding, also on back corner, ding shows on most page tips; 3/8" thumbed stress line midpoint bottom edge; little chip/tick off bottom spine edge, otherwise nice spine. Clean, nice color. 2008 OPG is $40 NM-, $20 VF. Let's go 50% off the VF price...$10 (View)

#19 - second copy, VG 4.0, but looks like VF at first. Main problem is spine stuff. Has a 1.25" spine split at top, and a 1/8" tick flap there, still attached. Back cover has very mild 2.5" and 3/4" corner bends, lower left. Nice reader copy. I have a large scan I can e-mail, just didn't want to waste site space on a $3 VG book...$3

#20 - All new Dr. Doom solo story, from 1969, which should make this far more collectible than the guide shows (how can it be worth less than #15 & #16?). Oh, VF- 7.5 or so, off-white pages. Doom vs. Diablo (Master of Alchemy, and really cliche villain phrases). Plus more Golden Age reprints. Top right corner has most of a 1/2" stress line, and inside of that is a 3/16" crease, but it's all flat there; some minor abrasions down the open edge, with a 1"+ thumbed stress line nearer bottom, in Doom's Cape along edge; bottom right corner has 3/16" crease, and fuzzing at tip; bottom edge has 7 or so yellowish printing scuff dots; white scuff dot at bottom staple bump, and some abrasion rub along top edge below that spot; top staple pokes through tiny hole at C in "Marvel Comics Group"; nice spine otherwise, no kinks/stresses to mention; light dirt in white letters of title; has very fine/light shelfwear or shipping rub scratches all over, not sure how that's done the way it is on this copy, but no heavy ones or color breaking scratches. 2008 OPG is $50 NM-, $24 VF, let's go...$18 (View)

Marvels Vol. 1, #2. From the acclaimed 1994 Alex Ross 4 part mini-series, 52 pages with acetate cover. Angel from X-Men cover. $5.95 cover price. Sale!...$3 (View)

(See Marvel Team-up issues under Spider-man at top)

Marvel Two-in-One #1 (1974) VG 4.0 to be on the safe side, but appears better. Thing vs Man-thing. Multiple spine stress marks/kinks, not heavy, and small peel spot in "o" in "Comics" in top banner...$9 (View)

Marvel Two-in-One #54, Thing and Deathlok, NM. Death of Deathlok issue! George Perez cover, John Byrne interior art. Has white line on left half of top edge due to misalignment at printer's--didn't print the black there, and bottom was cut a little short as you can see...$4 (View)

(The) 'Nam #1-12 set. One of the first comic book series to deal with the Vietnam war. Real stories, done in real time. By Doug Murray and Michael Golden. Get the full first year for only...$10
'Nam #1, extra copy, NM+...$1

New Mutants #26, 28, 94 moved to Clearance page, now $1 ea.!

Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D./SHIELD, 1968 series:
#3 VG/F 5.0, off-white pages. Steranko cover & story. Looks better than grade, main defect is a 1" corner crease upper right; about 7 very thin 2-4mm spine stresses, hardly detract; fuzz at bottom spine corner; 1/16" tip crease bottom right; and found 2 water/moisture spots on cover--one 3/16"L x 1/8"H in R in Fury, shows as dull spot, but inside there's a stain spot; other lighter dull spot in E in SHIELD title, about 1/2"L x 3/16"H, has scattered little dull spots spreading off of it; a few little ones in Marvel box above Fury. You don't see the spots unless glinted or you're told where they are. And argh, a water stain that shows on inside front cover on bottom edge near spine--two spots, bigger one is 3/4" wide, about 3/8" high at highest point, and a 1/4" one above it. Doesn't show on front due to green grass color, and is not all fuzzy or browned like bad stains, but has discoloration. Only affects the inside cover, not interior pages. Otherwise nice glossy cover, nice edges. Back cover is clean and nice. 2008 OPG Fine is $18, VG is $12...$11 (View)

#5 Fine 6.0, white pages. Steranko cover. Vs. Scorpio. Basically one area of light bend/mush/stresses in Fury's neck keep this from VF. Spine has 3 mild kinks--top staple, 1/4" valley length, in "Marvel", thin stress line in it; midpoint one is 1/8"; bottom staple 1/4" light "<" shaped one; couple other thin stresses, hardly seeable on white cover. Problem areas in Fury's neck: Whole spoon-shaped thing covers about 2" long x 1"W, from his lower shoulder up and over to edge at ear level; color flake in neck; 1/2" wrinkle crease below that, another lighter one below that with slight raised bend, part of the larger bend outline you see when glinted; light 1/2" thumb stress along bottom edge, left side of psychedelic target thing. Nice color, gloss, nice clean back cover. 2008 OPG Fine is $21...$14 (View)

#6 VF- 7.5, off-white/white pages. Steranko cover. Five or six 3-4mm very thin spine stress lines, not kinked. 2 odd other wrinkle/stress lines are what cut down the grade: One curls down from top edge above Fury title to D in S.H.I.E.L.D., so about 2.5" long, but very thin, only the 1" part above Fury shows super thin white crack line, rest trails off, but you can see the slight indent/bend to it when glinted; other one runs vertical near spine edge, about 3.5" long, very thin; top right corner has some thin/very light stress lines too, no bends; Marvel box has a super light/thin vertical print crease running through Fury, can see it better on inside, almost invisible on outside; couple very minor thumbed edge stresses along top, barely noticeable; bottom spine corner has little impact ding and light 1/8" stress/crease. About 5 middle pages have 2-3" printing creases across top right corner, and last couple pages have a couple 3"+ dips/bends from printer too. Nice clean off-white back cover. 2008 OPG VF price is $37. Yours for...$23 (View)

#7 Fine- 5.5, off-white pages. Steranko cover. Top right corner has thin 1" corner crease, light bend to it, and it goes through the book, with 3/4" crease on back cover corner; stress fractures along top edge overhang; 5 or so spine kinks, most very mild, one at bottom is worst, with thin dip extending about 1/2" in; couple 3/16" stress marks too, 3-4 other short ones, most hide well in the art. Back cover shows some very light indent lines near bottom spine corner, 1/4 to 1/2"; two dull spots in ad that look like thumb prints when glinted, can't see otherwise. 2008 OPG Fine is $18...$13 (View)

#10 VF 8.0, off-white/white pages. Christmas story, hence the cover art. Very nice at first glance, little niggling things keep it from VF+. About 7 very thin 2-3mm spine stresses/fractures, no kinks; slight abrasion along bottom edge; some pin-tip size indents in the red ornament, most at bottom, one near top; light color rub/scuff spot in bad guy's eye (right one looking at it), another very minor scuff in ornament neck; 3/8" light print crease in Fury's ornament near bottom. There's no extra black piece along the top, that's a scanner thing. Back cover is clean, off-white, has a 1/8" little layer peel/scuff spot near open edge. 2008 OPG NM- is $45, VF is $22...$16 (View)

#13 Fine 6.0, off-white/white pages. Vs. the Super Patriot. Mostly it's spine kinks/stresses, plus a 1/2"w x 3/4"h very light moisture stain in top of flag stripes, not solid, no waviness or fuzzing, easy to overlook. Has about a dozen various stress marks, half are 1/8", others are shorter and hard to see in the yellow part, but have mild kinks to them too, a couple valleys extend 1/4" to 1/2" into cover, but shallow. 1/4" dip/kink at .12 price is heaviest one. Top right corner has very light writing imprint of price, covers about 3/4"x3/4" above and into Comics Code box, shows when glinted. 1.5" thin horizontal printing wrinkle at Super Patriot's right foot, another lighter 1" vertical one in gun shadow on flag; little abrasion at bottom spine corner and some along bottom edge; few light reading kinks bottom area. Nice back cover, bottom spine corner shows minor ding. 2008 OPG Fine is $12...$9 (View)

#15 VF- 7.5, off-white/white pages. First appearance of AN assassin named "Bulls-Eye," but NOT the same one from Daredevil later (Bullseye), this was this guy's first and last appearance, but still high priced in guides. Little fuzzy/rub at top spine tip with the little tick piece there; in Marvel box, there's two little white rub dots right next to black edge across from Fury's shoulder, 3-4 really thin 3mm stress lines/wrinkles, another at top staple; at bottom of top staple, you can see one of those "<" shaped kinks going out 1/2" from it when you glint it, but very very light and shallow, and bottom staple hole has 1/16" tear, melds well so hard to see. Rest of spine is nice, but has very shallow valley the length of it, nothing I count off for though; bottom edge has very slight abrasion along most of it, worst part is near spine where it has the most minor of curl/mush to it, about 3/4" long; open edge has about a 2" section near bottom of white edge abrasions, but broken up. Back: upper left corner area of back cover got bent a little long ago, leaving a couple/3 very light wrinkle lines. Worst one is about an inch down, across corner, maybe 2.5", oh so slightly raised, only about 1.25" of it is noticeable. Inside cover, the ad shows white stress in the black part of that wrinkle. Other wrinkle lines are above it, longest is 3.5" if you count the last part as the same line, which it may not be; another very faint one above that is about 1" long. Can e-mail large scan of back. 2008 OPG NM- is $100, VF is $45...$30 (View)

Nick Fury vs. SHIELD #1-6 set, prestige format, $3.50 cover price, $21 total. #1 has two lightly bumped corners, so it's VF+. Half cover at...$10.50

See 1966 Nick Fury mini-book/comics under Marvel Mini-books too.

Power Man & Iron Fist:
#66 - 2nd Sabretooth appearance, 1980. Fine/Fine- (6.0-5.5). A good number of little spine stresses and kinks, maybe 20, most are 1-2mm, a couple are 1/8", with one light valley "<" one at mid spine. A few faint reading kinks on right side. Back cover has a light 4" bend line with wrinkle to it on top left corner; a 2" thumbed line along bottom edge, with a 1/8" tear at one end. Big price differential in NM between OPG and others, so hard to know who's right. 2008 OPG Fine is $12. Take this one for 50% off guide...$6 (View)

#84 - 4th Sabretooth appearance, on cover too, NM/NM-, off-white/white pages. Nice copy, just has a couple tiny 1mm white spine stresses above bottom staple, and light light 1/4" hump line off the one little kink, and super shallow valley at bottom staple in Spidey head box, seen when glinted. $30 NM- in 2008 OPG?! Get this sweet copy for 50% off guide...$15 (View)

Punisher Annual #1 (Evolutionary War)...$3
Punisher War Journal:
#1 (2)...$3 ea.
#14, 15 (Spidey app's)...$2 ea.
Punisher: Assassins Guild graphic novel (softcover). 1998, by Jo Duffy and Jorge Zaffino. NM. $6.95 cover, yours for...$5

Sabretooth Special #1 "In the Red Zone" w/chromium cover. (Not "Sabertooth"--he spells it different.) $4.95 cover, yours for...$3

Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #13 (1964). Fine+ 6.5. Early Silver Age Captain America appearance, on cover too. Tanning pages; dark tanning on inside cover margins; one good spine stress area at top staple; a few thin spine stresses, and found some light partial fingerprints here and there, so have lowered this to Fine+, but looks much better at first glance. Back cover has some tanning in margins. No tears, flat, nice color and decent gloss for a 43 year old book! (2008 Overstreet says $675 NM-, $255 VF, $102 in Fine, so about $140 in F+) I'll ask...$115 (View)

Silver Surfer, 1987 series. The Surfer is the focus of the Fantastic Four movie sequel!:
#2, #3, #15 (#15 is VF/8.0, 1st Ron Lim art in series, 3/4" bend line lower right corner, not creased), #34, 35, 36, 37, 38 (34-38 are Return of Thanos, leads into Infinity Gauntlet story)...$2 ea.
#50 NM, fancy silver embossed cover, no spotting, Thanos app...$2.50 (View)
#75 NM, fancy silver embossed cover...$2 (View)
#100 NM-, vs. Mephisto, big round hologram cover, double size, $3.95 cover...$3 (View)
Annual #1 (Evolutionary War, 1st Ron Lim art on Surfer)...$3

Silver Surfer/Rune one-shot, $5.95 cover. 2 stories of Surfer vs. Rune (from Malibu Comics). Sale! 1/2 price at...$3

Star Wars #99 (several). How are these still $12-15 in guides?...$2.50 ea.

Strange Tales Vol. 1:
(#178-181 all have Warlock stories, and Jim Starlin art, 1975.)
#178 - 2 copies: NM- 9.2 (couple little spine kinks) (View), and NM 9.4 w/low gloss, so it's a toss-up. Raised from $25 to $30 in 2008 OPG, don't know why. I only want...$18 ea. (View)
#179 NM- 9.2. 3-4 thin little spine stresses, tiny corner bend lower right tip...$12 (View)
#180, have 2 copies: NM- 9.2 (couple light spine kinks in Warlock 'circle')...$12 (View), or VF/VF- 7.5-8.0 (light bottom right corner bend with 1/8" stress line; small 'd' written in ink on back cover in lower spine corner; 2 horizontal rows light printing track lines; little kink/bump in top left corner with longer faint 'ghost' bend outside of that) @ 45% off OPG VF price...$6 (View)
#181, have 3 copies: NM...$13 (View), or VF/NM- 9.0 (has 2 rows of those little light printing press "tracks" across it, 3-4 minor spine kinks, one shallow valley bend near bottom spine)...$9 (View), or VF/8.0 (some factory scuffing bottom right corner, 3-4 little spine kinks, little scratches in R in Warlock, and some very light surface shelfwear...$6 (View)

Tales to Astonish prestige format one-shot, 1994. Hulk, Wasp, Hank Pym. Painted art. 2 copies. Sale! 1/2 cover price @...$3.50 ea.

Thor Vol. 1 (a.k.a. The Mighty Thor):
#158 - Reprints his 1st appearance from Journey Into Mystery #83. VF- 7.5, maybe F/VF 7.0 to be pickier, as two interior pages have decent tears, but not at the edge, in the middle of the pages! Weird. Nice color and gloss, and overall outside is decent. Upper right tip has multiple white line creases, only about 3/16" in from edge, longest crease is 3/8"; two noticeable spine stress marks, one in Marvel box is 1/8", and one below that box is about 1/4", but thin, and barely kinked/valleyed. There's 3-4 other light short kinks on down the spine, and two light valley bends in lower part, but you pretty much have to glint it to see that stuff. The interior page tears are on pg. 4 and 20, which is another oddity about them. Pg. 4 one is a semi-circle/hump-shaped tear, about 1.25" in width, and .75" high, in Thor's lower right leg (HIS right) and cape. Page 20 (last story page) tear is bigger, but hardly noticeable on pg. 20, but easier to see on back, pg. 21. If you didn't know it was on pg. 20, you wouldn't notice it as it melds very well. It's about 2" long, in a diagonal partial curve, in lower right panel, around Dr. Blake's head. Both tears meld well so they don't jump out at you, and I had the book for years before I saw them. Has some of that "top edge bendover" stress line too. OPG's NM price is $125, VF is $54, Fine is $24, and I have it priced below Fine at...$22 (View) (View page tears, top is pg. 4, bottom is pg. 21 side)

#162 VF- 7.5, off-white/white pages. 1969, first part of the origin of Galactus, one of the fan favorite cosmic characters. #168 & 169 are the other 2 parts. 6-7 thin minor spine stress marks, longest is 3mm at mid spine, others are 2mm, couple have slight kinks to them; top staple has some rust, egad! No stain on book. Feels smooth, but you can tell there's rust along inside edges and it's all darker than normal; bottom staple may have some slight rust along part of edge too, hard to tell; near Thor's neck is a slightly raised kink line about 1.5" long, barest color break on some of it; bottom right corner has 2mm edge mush/crease on tip, with vertical 1/4" barely-a-stress line outside of it. Inside front cover shows some tiny pinpoint foxing spots along bottom margin. Back cover has a barely visible moisture stain on open edge, about 1/2" long, you can just detect the stain line around edges of it; a few small dull areas, probably from finger oil, and you can find some tiny bits of foxing here and there, barely worth mentioning; 3 little rust stain slivers along spine from another comic, 1mm, 1/8" & 3/16"; inside back cover has bunch of light brown pinpoint foxing spots though, mostly along spine, bottom & right margins. Not terrible, but there. 2008 OPG VF is $32...$21 (View)

#168 F/VF 7.0, off-white pages, part two of the Origin of Galactus. Couple medium spine kinks, worst in Marvel box at Thor's head, with 3/8" stress line and shallow valley kink, and 3 other little stress marks around top staple; another 3/8" valley kink near mid spine, with very light one a bit below it; and 3-4 other 1/8" or less thin stress/wrinkles that are hard to see in the white; 1" vertical thumbed stress line at Galactus' shoulder at edge.; top right corner has slight 3/8" diagonal ding/bend, with 3/16" one inside of it, does affect most pages. Back cover top left corner has small "50" in very light pencil, and 1.25 print crease near lower corner, and a @#% little 1/2"L x 1/8"H light water stain at bottom spine corner, not dark, but has brownish outline edge. 2008 OPG VF is $32, Fine is $15, so F/VF is about $23.50...$17 (View)

#169 VF- 7.5, off-white pages. Part 3 of origin of Galactus. Looks better at first glance. 1" thumbed stress line at midpoint right edge; top spine corner has slightest ding/stress, 3/16", fuzzy tip; couple very slight downward slanting binding stresses in Marvel box, and 3mm one at M in Marvel; couple 1-2mm stresses between staples; 1.25" shallow, almost unnoticeable vertical indent/bend at bottom near spine, goes up through E in "The"; very slight abrasions along some of bottom edge; 1/4" hard to find crease/stress line at bottom right corner, corner tip has tiny piece off; some normal light dirtiness in Galactus, as most have, with some scattered dull spots and swipes you can see when glinted, but very light, hard to tell if they're production gloss problems or from old handling, but don't appear to be foxing related, and most I've seen have some of this in the white area; one apparent little 2-3mm moisture spot on Galactus' shoulder, Thor's pointing to it. Back cover has a 1/8" edge tear and vertical 1.75" thumbed crease line with it, middle of open edge, but barely shows on outside, but shows more on inside. 2008 OPG VF is $32...$21 (View)

Save 10% more and get Thor #162, 168, 169 for $53.

New! Tomb of Dracula #50 - 1972 series. Silver Surfer vs. Dracula cover and story, Blade appearance too. Gene Colan art. VF/NM, off-white pages. Looks even better, but back cover has a 1" vertical bend/crease on top left corner (open edge), but all in the white; 2 maybe 2mm production tears along bottom edge on front and bottom spine corner has tick tear on back; 3.5" horizontal indent line across Dracula's chest, probably a production thing, noticeable when glinted, but razor thin, no color breaks, not a printing crease, won't show on scan; two very minor spine kinks, 1 in mid-spine, 1 in top banner. Apparently now $35 in OPG in NM-, $27 in VF/NM, but that other online guide says $18 in NM? Let's try 33% off OPG...$18 (View front) (View back)

Warlock (Power of, 1972 series):
#10 VF/VF+ 8.0-8.5. Recap of Thanos origin, and Thanos vs the Magus battle. Very nice, but has a light indent line in lower left in Thanos' jaw (runs vertically at slight angle), about 2" long, and another short light 3/8" one near mid-spine, otherwise nice spine, pretty kink free; top right edge has 1.5" light bend curl to it, due to that edge/corner getting bent over, and back cover shows the bend line on it. $21 VF in OPG, so how about almost 1/2 that...$11 (View)

#11 VF- 7.5. About 6-7 minor 1-2mm white stress marks along spine; back cover has 1/8" edge tear top edge, '1.75' in pencil and little 'K' in red marker in upper left corner, and couple darkish blotches midway down, near spine. OPG VF price is $15...$7 (View front) (View back)

Wolverine regular series, 1988, well below guide:
#41 (Sabretooth app.)...$3
#42, 43 (Sabretooth app.'s)...$2 ea.

X-Factor #92 - Fatal Attractions, Havok hologram cover...$3.50 (View)

X-Men (Uncanny):
#148 VF/NM 9.0 (Dazzler and Spider-Woman guest star)...$7 (View)
#245 - 1st Liefeld art, but do you care?...$2
#248 - 1st Jim Lee art. 1st print. $22 in guides?! Still only...$8 (View)
#268 VF/NM 9.0 copy - Captain America, Black Widow and Wolverine story by Jim Lee. This copy has a very light indent line running down the length, like the kind a comic gets from a polybag seam (although this was not packed with any polybagged stuff as far as I know, but I've seen this type line from the factory too), plus a short corner bend (not creased) in upper right tip that shows when glinted...$6 (View)
#275 double size, 1st print...$3
#280, 281 (1st print), 285, 288, 332, 335 (Onslaught x-over)...$2 ea.

Annual #14, NM. Actual first appearance of Gambit, NOT a "cameo" either! Days of Future Past part 4, from 1990. Published before Uncanny X-Men #266, Gambit is in 5 pages and 14 or so panels, so clearly not a cameo like some guides note, so why isn't this guiding for more than #266? And why is it $6 in one guide, and $25 in another? Art Adams art, appearances by the Fantastic Four, New Mutants, and X-Factor. Seems to be plenty around on the low end though, so get my last one for only...$5 (View)

X-Men (1991 series, Jim Lee art):
#1E ($3.95 gatefold cover, has all four covers), 50% off cover at...$2
#2...$1
#25 NM- 9.2 (one spine kink w/stress wrinkle, and a short wrinkle line in Wolvy's hair.) Wolverine loses adamantium, Fatal Attractions/Onslaught starts. Gambit hologram on cover. 73% off OPG guide at...$4 (View)

X-Men Prime special, with fancy chromium/foil wrap-around cover, 1995. $4.95 cover, yours for...$3 (View)

X-Men and the New Teen Titans #1 (A.K.A. "Marvel and DC Present The Uncanny X-Men and the New Teen Titans #1"). 1st print, 1982, NM. Claremont writing, Simonson art. Early Deathstroke appearance. 64 pages, no ads. Darkseid is the villain they team up against. Lots of battle scenes, on nice Baxter paper, but this is one of the most overpriced modern comics, has been for decades now. $20 in guides, yet has anyone sold one for that in 10 years? No. Get this NM one for only...$5 (View)

Pro Action magazine #1, 1994. A collaborative effort from Marvel Comics and NFL Properties, "Where Pro football, comics, and pop culture collide," this 48 page mag has features on NFL stuff, and Marvel stuff. Has Troy Aikman cover and article, with Wolverine slashing "through" it. The 2 neat features it has are an original Uncanny X-Men comic book bound in, with a Wolverine cover. 16 page story featuring Callisto and the Morlocks, ("My Enemy, My Friend," by Ralph Macchio and Chris Marrinin), and two 4-card sheets of high quality trading cards: One sheet has Cyclops, Storm, Gambit, and Wolverine, other sheet has NFL Quarterbacks Randall Cunningham (Eagles), Steve Young (49ers), Phil Simms (Giants), and Warren Moon (Oilers) (View cards). Also articles on rookie 49ers player Todd Kelley, interview with coach Dave Shula (Don Shula's son), Junior Seau's workout routine, and more. I have several, in NM, VF/NM, VF, VF- and one in about Fine, due to it's back cover getting several creases, and some spine wear on the front, but insides are ok. The defects on the others are just a few spine kinks of various sizes. $2.95 cover. This should be a lot more valuable by now, due to the original comic and exclusive cards, and I didn't find very many for sale now on the net, but seems there's not a lot of demand for it still. Since I have several, let's go $6 on the NM ones, $5 on VF/NM, $4 on VF/VF-, and $2 on the Fine.  (View mag & comic)

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Treasury size comics:
Marvel Treasury Edition:

Produced from 1974 to 1981, these are large 10"x13.5" or so comics, with 48-96 pages (publisher usually counts covers too, I don't, so page counts may differ from what you see in guides, but all pages are there), and heavy cardstock covers. Keep the size in mind when reading defects size, as it's all relative. I've always thought these were very neat comics, undervalued for the all-new story ones, so I collected these back in the late '80's/early '90's at shows and via mail order. From what I've seen on auctions, most people selling these can't grade to save their lives, and are not comic people, and are misrepresenting the condition, or not even stating a condition, and have lousy pics, so auctions prices are sometimes very high for junk copies, and very low for high grade ones. Ask for grade details people, and don't bid if they won't provide them or they "don't know about grading"! The DC & Marvel crossovers are below the regular treasuries. Larger pics available.

#1 - Spectacular Spider-Man - 1974. NM 9.4, off-white to light tan pages, with only a little tick on top edge above the M. Reprints multiple Amazing Spider-Man stories, some edited down, including #8, #14, #42, #90, and Marvel Super-Heroes #14, plus 1 page stuff. 96 paper pages, but Marvel counts the covers and calls it 100. Cover by John Romita. $70 in NM- in 2008 OPG, but all reprints, so methinks that's high, although it is first in the series...$45 (View)

#25 - Spider-Man vs. Hulk at the Winter Olympics - ALL NEW STORY. 64 pages, 1980. 2 copies, VF/NM 9.0 and VF-- 7.5-7.2? Bill Mantlo, Gruenwald and Grant story, art by Herb Trimpe, covers by Milgrom and Sienkiewicz. Spidey and Hulk battle each other and the Mole Man and Lava Men at the Winter Olympics, above and below ground.
VF/NM copy just has a corner tip bend in top right, but on front it barely shows at all, mostly as lighter color patch; back cover shows nearly invisible 1/4" wrinkle crease at same corner; also has has a 1.25" reading kink wrinkle near right edge at tip of pole that Hulk is swinging. Tiny bit of color break in part of it, but hardly shows in the blue background, easy to miss. Does go through the book, shows on back as very slight hump bend with 1/4" stress/fold line coming off it, but hard to see unless glinted. 2008 OPG upped these to $24 from $18 in NM-, finally breaking it out of the #11-25 group, but that's still too low, since any other Spidey and Whoever team-up treasury with a new story is $55-$110, Batman vs. Hulk is $45, and even Flintstones are $50! And #25's certainly aren't more common than the other all new-story Spidey ones, and seem to be scarcer to me. So am pricing mine based on the lower end of $50-55 for NM like it should be, so VF/NM should be about $40-42. Get this one for...$30 (View)
VF-- copy has little corner dings at all four corners, although 2 only show on back. Top corners on front look fine; back top spine corner has a vertical 3/8" stress line with a shallow kink spot there; other top corner has light 3/8" crease/wrinkle across it; some light reading kinks on front left side in title and price box area with couple/3 light stress marks; bottom right corner has 1/4" crease with some kink to it; bottom back spine corner shows 3 little wrinkles and outline of a bump hump. Both have nice light off-white pages...$18 (View)

#26 - The Rampaging Hulk. VF 8.0, maybe VF+ 8.5. Reprints Hulk #167-170 vs. Modok, Harpy, and the ever popular Bi-Beast, even has a naked Betty Talbot! Story by Englehart, art by Trimpe. 80 pages. But the main collectible part is a NEW 6 pg. Hercules & Wolverine backup story. Bar fight! Inside cover margins are tanning some, pages are off-white to light yellowish. Corner dings are the main defects (wish people would pack better!). Bottom front corner, about 1/2" in, has a 3/4" light wrinkle line from old bend, doesn't go across whole corner, no color break, and corner is flat; top edge near middle has 2 thumbed wrinkle lines in same spot, top one is 1/4", one below it is maybe 1", but only slight kink there, hides fairly well in the green; light reading kink/wrinkle in L in Hulk; back cover top left corner shows 5/16" crease across it, and bottom left corner has a light 3/8" crease; some very light shelfwear scuffing along the spine front and back. $13 in VF in 2008 OPG, get mine for...$10 (View)

Captain America's Bicentennial Battles (Marvel Treasury Special), ALL NEW STORY, 2 copies, both VF/NM 9.0. Jack Kirby writing and art. 80 pages of Captain America action as some guy named Buda transports Cap through history and to the future. Slightly better one has one 1/8" thin stress mark at price box, and a co kinks here and there, and an extremely faint vertical indent bendy between Cap's shield and 'Jack Kirby' blurb box, seen better inside. Back cover has a "ghost" of a corner bend at top left (open edge), but flat there, barely shows an under 1/2" wrinkle line near tip, and another 1" light wrinkle line about 1.5" in from tip, from the 'secondary' bend, but still flat; there's the faintest hint of this bump on the front cover corner tip too; and a 3/4" shallow kink with some wrinkle line to it near bottom spine in Uncle Sam's leg, but light. Pages vary, as the first 66 have an odd very very light bluish tint to them, others are normal off-white, likely a production thing. Beautiful glossy bright covers. Only $28 in NM- in 2008 OPG, $22 in VF/NM 9.0, not sure why so low compared to some other all new editions. The trade paperback reprint retails for $19.95, so why buy a reprint when you can get the LARGE original for less? Get the better one for over 30% off guide at...$15 (View).
Second copy has a few things in lower part that are just big enough that I can't give it a NM-. There's a vertical 1.5" long thin patch of lighter color right near spine near bottom in the blue-green background, may be production thing, or color pull from another comic long ago. Doesn't show in pic, but is whitish; faintest hint of an old curved kink, about 1.5" up from the bottom, in the blue-green background, so it hardly shows unless glinted. To its right, in Cap's ankle, is another slight kink with curved wrinkle line, about 1" long, no color break. Goes through the book (a "flop kink" from holding it there), shows on back as a minor hump bend. Back cover has couple/3 minor spine stresses, 1-2 light reading kinks. White pages, beautiful glossy bright covers. Get this one for...$14 (View)

Flintstones Christmas Party (Under "Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera #1" in your Overstreet guide), all new I think. 1977, 48 pages. VF 8.0. Features most of the bigger Hanna-Barbera characters in various Christmas stories, by Mark Evanier. Flintstones, Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Top Cat, Magilla Gorilla, and many more. Spine has about 4 stress marks, 3/8" to 1/4", slight kinks with them; 3/16" curved white color flake near top edge; back cover bottom spine corner has little bump bend and 1/4" wrinkle with it, couple very light reading kinks front and back. Bright, clean cover, off-white to white pages. $24 for VF in 2008 OPG, yours for...$18 (View)

"DC & Marvel Present" Treasuries:

Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk (a.k.a. DC Special Series #27) - ALL NEW STORY, "The Monster and the Madman". 1981, 64 pages, no ads. Have 2 copies, both VF- 7.5. Story by Len Wein and great art by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez. The Joker and the Shaper of Worlds pit Batman against the Hulk, who have to team up later to try and defeat an all-powerful Joker. $45 in NM-, $22 in VF in 2008 OPG.
VF- 'A' copy has a couple 3/8" spine stress lines, one at mid-spine, and one near B in Batman that has a 3/8" length depression kink with it; and some other shorter ones that blend in well, but seen when glinted; 3/16" diameter very faded moisture stain spot at mid-spine in white; little indent/kink spot at bottom spine corner; 1/8" tip crease bottom right corner...$16 (View)
VF- 'B' copy has about 6 spine stress marks you notice, longest is 5/16", rest are 3/8" to 1/4", lighter to no kink with them; bottom right corner tip has 1/16" mush ding/crease, very slight bend outside of it; back cover shows about the same kind/size stress marks; and there's a 2" white surface scratch line through Hulk's chest (great full cover battle scene on back too), and some other very fine shelfwear scratches like many do; very light 1.5" vertical indent/bend line near bottom spine corner, through the "Collector's Edition" box...$14 (View)

Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man - All new story, 1976, NM- 9.2. The first official Marvel/DC crossover. 92 pages, no ads! Written by Gerry Conway, classic style art by Ross Andru. Lex Luthor and Dr. Octopus team up to pit Superman against Spider-Man in "The Battle of the Century!". Features most regular supporting characters from the newspapers and their personal lives. Off-white to white pages. Top third of the spine is starting to pull away from the cover due to the glue drying up, this is very common on these, so handle gently. Has that "barely there" reading wrinkle about 1/4" in from spine all the way down, and shows heavier on back cover, but that's normal and can't be helped; 1/8" tip ding/bend in top right corner, shows on front and back; 1"+ light wrinkle line below Spidey's fist near edge, from mild kink/handling there, but is in the white so doesn't show well on front, matches on back too; little 1/2" vertical indent line in Spidey's fist near edge too; bottom corner has a very mild 3/8" not-quite-creased bend/tiny mush there. Now up to $110 in NM- 9.2 in 2008 OPG. But for you, my NM- one is...$70 (View)

Superman and Spider-Man (a.k.a. Marvel Treasury #28) - All new story, 1981, have 3 copies, NM 9.4, NM- 9.2, and VF 8.0. 62 story pages, 64 pages total. Painted cover by Bob Larkin. Written by Jim Shooter, art by John Buscema, inks by lots of people. Dr. Doom and the Parasite team up against Superman and Spider-Man, with appearances by the Hulk (fights Superman) and Wonder Woman (fights Spider-Man). Battle scene city! All mine have white or light off-white pages, tight spines.
NM 9.4 one has a slight raised hump down some of the spine on front, this is from the extra glue underneath, and is very common; minor little corner bump on bottom spine tip. $55 in NM- in 2008 OPG, but we know better, but it should be getting that!...$38 (View)
NM- 9.2 one has some of that usual 'reading wrinkle' line down the spine, about 1/4" in, pretty faint; couple light spine glue humps; back cover upper left corner shows 'ghost' of a bend about 1/2" in from tip, about 1.5" long, but flat there, and so faint it's hardly worth knocking much off for; and has 1/4" edge mush at that tip; bottom edge on back near spine has a little thumbed spot, with 1/16" tear...$32 (View)
VF 8.0 one is like the other two, except somehow it has a straight 3.25" horizontal slight ridge line from Doom's shoulder to Spidey's forearm. No wrinkle, no color cracks, so it doesn't really stand out, but it's there. Another lighter 1/2" one on top of Doom's head. Back cover has matching 3" wrinkle line in same area, looks more like a printing crease, and more wavy, so my guess is it's a production defect, as I don't see how you could bend the cover in that direction and only make a partial line. Even a close-up scan doesn't show it, but that's a scanner angle limitation. Bottom right corner got lightly bent once, but flat still, but front shows barely perceptible 1/2" wrinkle across corner, with another on back. $26 in VF in 2008 OPG...15 (View)

The Marvelous Land of Oz - A 1975 "Marvel Treasury of Oz" 80 page adaptation of the second Oz book, NM-- 9.2-ish, off-white pages. Top and bottom spine tips have slight ding bump; spine has 4 or so hard to see stress wrinkle marks; 1 production nick on the page edges, 2/3rds of the way down, with tiny cover nick there too. Inside front cover has b&w photo of Dorothy, Tin Man and Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz movie; inside back cover an illustration from the original book, art by John R. Neil; and two page map of the Land of Oz. John Romita Sr. art on front and back covers. $26 in NM- in 2008 OPG, yours for only...$15 (View)

Misc:

Wild Agents of Marvel, or "WAM" Fan Club kits. Marvel's 1991/92 attempt to start a new Marvel Fan Club like the old Merry Marvel Marching Society. Kits came in colorful 9"x12" folders, with X-Men team members Cable, Havok, Storm, Cyclops and Nightcrawler on the front, and a partial Wolverine on the back. All the paper stuff features Wolverine in the WAM logo. I have 3 complete kits, in excellent condition, but they vary some due to shipping and packing, so not all contents are near mint, but most are. The club only lasted about two years, and not sure how many actually joined up. I hardly find any for sale now, with some priced as much as $50! It was $12.99 to join the club, and they sent out newsletters and previews of upcoming comics and other stuff. If you're a Marvel memorabilia or X-Men/Wolverine fanatic, or have a child that is, you need these!

Standard contents included in all kits (View most kit items):
1) A nice 8.5"x11" color print of X-Men's Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Havok and Cable, by Whilce Portacio.
2) Collectible WAM 7/8" diameter metal pin with a silver & black image of Wolverine on it. (View)
3) Ten 8.5"x11" sheets of stationery and envelopes.
4) 50 pack of 3"x5" WAM post-it/sticky notes.
5) Credit card size plastic numbered membership card.
6) 8.5"x11" Certificate with message from Stan Lee (printed signature).
7) 8.5"x11" Welcome letter from Stan Lee (printed signature). (View)
8) WAM logo black plastic pen.

The "extra" paper stuff is all 8.5"x11", mostly black & white, and larger pics are available (View all):
1) WAM Recruitment button. 3" diameter metal button, with "WAM Wants You!" on it.
2) WAM Newsline Vol. 1 #1, 1992 - Spider-Man's 30th Ann. and new X-Men trading cards coverage; advance unedited whole issue of Terror Inc. #1 in black & white (Jorge Zaffino art); messages from Tom DeFalco and Stan Lee.
3) WAM Newsline Vol. 1 #2. Covers the 2099 line, with interviews with Stan Lee, Joey Cavalieri, and Peter David, with advance b&w previews of pages from Spider-Man, Ravage, Punisher and Doom 2099.
4) A longer "uncorrected" version of #2 with more preview art.
5) An advance unedited 24 page black & white preview of Punisher War Zone #1, so for you people who like original art (John Romita Jr. in this case), this shows you the whole book in pen & ink form.
6) "Project X", a detailed 98 page report about the design of the 1992 X-Men toy line from Toy Biz, with transcript of design meetings, and LOTS of design sketches of X-Men figures and weapons, for you toy fanatics.
7) 1992 Marvel Update 4 page color flyer about new Marvel toys, comics, movies etc.
8) A hand-signed letter on Marvel stationery from WAM guy Paul Curtis to me, with a small hand-drawn sketch of Ghost Rider on it, and printed image of Spider-Man.
9) An 11"x17" folded in half promo poster for the X-Men animated TV series. Text only, with "X-Men on TV" in big red letters coming out through a TV. No pic, not worth scanning and piecing together.

Since I have duplicates of some of the extras, I'll divide them up among the 3 kits, with the best condition kit having the most extras. The folders all have some kinks and stresses from shipping etc., but not creased up, no tears, all are pretty similar shape:

WAM kit #1, #6430 - Best overall condition. Contents are all pretty much NM. X-Men print has minor mild bend in upper left corner in margin, couple dimple spots in top margin. Extras included are the WAM Recruitment button, Newsline #1, #2, uncorrected #2, Project X toy report, Punisher War Zone preview, Marvel Update flyer, "X-Men on TV" poster, signed Paul Curtis letter, and unsigned Editor trading cards of #5 Craig Anderson and #17 Mike Rockwitz. If you don't want ALL the extras, we can figure something out...$35

WAM kit #2, #6431 - Second best condition, most paper stuff is NM. X-Men print has 2 dot size dimples in Wolverine's lower half, and very light vertical bend down through his head. Extras included are Newsline #1, #2, and unsigned Editor trading cards of #5 Craig Anderson and #17 Mike Rockwitz...$18

WAM kit #3, #7011 - X-Men print has a 2.5" creased line in top left side margin, in gold border line, easily matted or framed out. Also a very mild 1" indent/bend in Wolverine's chest. Some envelopes have 1-2 dings/indents in them from the pinback and pen. Certificate has minor bend along top edge right corner. Sticky note pad has a few sheets with little corner tip folds, unbent now. NO extras, so just the basic kit...$15

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