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Green Lantern (1960 2nd Series DC) 115 CGC 8.5

Paper: White

Label #1992107011

"The Vengeance of the Crumbler." Part 2 of 2. Guest-starring Black Canary. Green Lantern, Green Arrow, and Black Canary attempt to prevent the Crumbler from exacting vengeance on his father. Script by Denny O'Neil, pencils by Alex Saviuk, inks by Dave Hunt. Cover by Alex Saviuk and Dick Giordano. Cover price $0.40.

Howard the Duck (1976 1st Series) 6 CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Slab: Chipped/broken bracket

Label #4700965023

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Cover by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer. Written by Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes. Art by Gene Colan and Steve Leialoha. The Secret House of Forbidden Cookies!; After a stormy argument, Beverly finally has had enough of Howards stubbornness and splits!; And when Howard goes for a stroll and is discovered by religious extremists who believe him to be a demon, things go from bad to worse. 36 pgs., full color. $0.30. Cover price $0.30.

Howard the Duck (1976 1st Series) 6 CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Label #4700965022

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Cover by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer. Written by Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes. Art by Gene Colan and Steve Leialoha. The Secret House of Forbidden Cookies!; After a stormy argument, Beverly finally has had enough of Howards stubbornness and splits!; And when Howard goes for a stroll and is discovered by religious extremists who believe him to be a demon, things go from bad to worse. 36 pgs., full color. $0.30. Cover price $0.30.

Journey into Mystery (1972 2nd series) 7 FN/VF 7.0

Cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. The Scorpion Strikes!, art by Jack Kirby and Paul Reinman; A scorpion is mutated by radiation and grows giant, gaining an evil intelligence; It is transformed back with another burst of radiation after being tricked into position by a hypnotist. Won't You Step into My Parlor...??, art by and Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers; Herr Krumhausen prepares a giant room to deceive a business competitor into believing he has shrunk to miniature size, only to really shrink himself. Take a Chair, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A furniture maker gets more than he bargained for when he attempts to eliminate a rival chair producer and finds out he is an alien in disguise creating robotic spies on humans. Ad for Monsters Unleashed and Vampire Tales. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Justice League of America (1960 1st Series) 24 VG+ 4.5

Cover art by Murphy Anderson. Decoy Missions of the Justice League, script by Gardner Fox, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Bernard Sachs; Kanjar Ro gains the ability to split off an aural form of himself and draw off aural forms of the JLA; He leaves his own aural form in his place in jail and uses the aural JLAers to lure their physical forms into traps; Adam Strange learns Kanjar Ro's plot and helps the JLA defeat him. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Kickers Inc. (1986) 1D CGC 8.5

Paper: White

Label #4558298008

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Direct Edition. "This Legend Born!" Story by Tom DeFalco. Art by Ron Frenz and Sal Buscema. It's a world not unlike our own. Words like paranormal or super-hero are euphemisms only used in comic books and movies. That was until the White Event! In one blinding moment the landscape of the universe changed. Welcome to the New Universe. Jack Magniconte is one of the greatest professional football players to ever play the game. The fans call him "Mr. Magnificent!" However, after the White Event, Jack develops physical abilities far beyond those of normal men. He forms a team of trusted friends and top operatives, and Kickers, Inc., the worlds premier paranormal investigators, is born! Cover price $0.75.

Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD (1968 1st Series) 2 GD/VG 3.0

Cover by Jim Steranko. "So Shall Ye Reap... Death!", script and pencils by Jim Steranko, inks by Frank Giacoia and Joe Giella (assist); (Page 5, panels 9 and 11 redrawn by John Romita Sr. to allow the issue to pass the Comics Code Authority); Jimmy Woo goes through a death-trap laden "fun house" as his initiation as a SHIELD agent; Later, in his apartment, Fury & Val get romantic; The next day, off the Pacific Coast, en route to the Heli-Carrier in a bizarre twin-bodied jet, Fury & Jimmy are knocked out of the sky and wind up on a volcanic island transformed into a "Garden of Eden" and biological laboratory by "Centurius" - formerly Dr. Noah Black, a scientist who disappeared in the 1930s when his theories were scoffed at; After creating both new & extinct forms of life and sending them into space, he plans to rain down fire on the entire Earth, for forty days and forty nights, cleansing it so his creations can start anew on a world "without the threat of mass murder, intimidation, fear"; With the help of a visiting movie company and their robot gorilla prop, Fury & Woo put the kibosh on his plans. 36 pgs., full color. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Spectacular Spider-Man (1976 1st Series) 27 CGC 9.4

Paper: White

Label #4596313009

1st Printing. "The Blind Leading The Blind" Guest-starring Daredevil. Script by Bill Mantlo. Pencils by Frank Miller (1st work on Daredevil). Inks by Frank Springer. Cover by Dave Cockrum and Al Milgrom. One of the classic issues of the bronze age. Two blind super-heroes are on the trail of the Masked Marauder and the Tri-Man! Can Daredevil lead Spider-Man to the secret lair of the Maggia? The Man Without Fear and the web-slinger must hurry, because the Masked Marauder is set to launch his atomic bombdroid to destroy the city! Cameo appearances by Mary Jane Watson and Carrion. (Notes: This issue includes a one-page retelling of Daredevil's origin. This issue was reprinted in 1984 in Spider-Man and Daredevil 1, in 1993 through JC Penney Catalog identifiable by having the words "The Amazing Spider-Man" printed in the UPC box, and again in 1994 in The Complete Frank Miller Spider-Man). 36 pages Cover price $0.35.

Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 22 #1 FR 1.0

Near complete spine split.

Volume 22, Issue 1 - September, 1950. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Raymond F. Jones, Edmond Hamilton (Captain Future story "The Harpers of Titan"), Arthur K. Barnes and Henry Kuttner, Jack Vance, Mack Reynolds, and Matt Lee. Virgil Finlay illustration. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 166 pages. Cover price $0.25.

Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 25 #3 GD/VG 3.0

The Glory That Was" by L. Sprague de Camp, and "The Last Days of Shandakor" a novelette by Leigh Brackett, plus "Looking for Something" a short story by Frank Herbert. Alex Schomburg Cover.

Vol. 25, No. 3 - April 1952. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by L. Sprague de Camp, Leigh Brackett, Oliver Saari, Charles E. Fritch, and Frank Herbert (first published science fiction story, "Looking for Something?"). Alex Schomburg illustration. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 150 pages. Cover price $0.25.

Sub-Mariner (1968 1st Series) 49 CGC 7.0

Paper: Off white

Label #4739176005

Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Frank Giacoia. "The Dreamstone," script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Gene Colan, inks by Frank Giacoia; Namor falls beneath the might of Modok and his androids; Doctor Doom is forced to confront Modok directly; Namor manages to free himself and reach the Cosmic Cube; Doom meets up with him, but Namor has secured the destruction of the Cosmic Cube; They both flee as the Cosmic Cube's explosion destroys the A.I.M. base. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Sub-Mariner (1968 1st Series) 62 CGC 6.0

Paper: Off white

Label #4739176009

Cover by John Romita. "A Realm Besieged," script and art by Steve Gerber, pencils by Sam Kweskin, inks by Frank Giacoia; Namorita finds Namor and frees him from Dr. Hydro's prison; Meanwhile, Dr. Hydro and his amphibians have attacked Atlantis; Tamara leads Atlantis into battle and with the return of Namor and Namorita, the tide of the battle is turned; Dr. Hydro dies and reveals that there is no cure for the amphibians; Namor is left pondering the future of this new race of people. "Tales of Atlantis," script by Howard Chaykin and Steve Gerber, pencils by Howard Chaykin, inks by Joe Sinnott; Almost 20,000 years prior to Namor's reign, Atlantis still existed above the surface; Emperor Kamuu leads the city's defense against the raiding Lemurians; In order to defeat them, he releases Magma from the earth below, but in so doing, destroys the Sea Wall, and dooms Atlantis to sink beneath the waves. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen (1954) 135 CGC 8.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4584116013

2nd appearance of Darkseid (cameo). Cover art by Neal Adams. Evil Factory!, script by Jack Kirby, pencils by Jack Kirby and Al Plastino (Superman heads), inks by Vince Colletta; Superman leads Jimmy and the Newsboy Legion to The Project where the original Newsboy Legion work as scientists to crack the DNA code and create clones; Meanwhile, minions of Darkseid, Mokkari and Simyan, dispatch their own clone of Jimmy to The Project complex. The Hairies -- Super-Race -- Or Man's Second Chance article. Snoopy with Sopwith Camel plane--model ad from Monogram. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Tales of Suspense (1959) 41 CGC 5.0 SS Stan Lee

Paper: Cream to off white

Signed by Stan Lee on 7/24/09.

Label #0986341018

Cover by Jack Kirby. In the third appearance of Iron Man, he battles an evil genius named Doctor Strange - but it's not the Stephen Strange later introduced in Strange Tales - in "The Stronghold of Dr. Strange!", script by Stan Lee (plot) and Robert Bernstein (as R Berns), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An imprisoned criminal scientist takes control of Iron Man in order to free himself; He threatens to blow up the world unless he is made world ruler. "Music Master" text story. "The Sorcerer's Spell," script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), pencils by Larry Lieber, inks by Sol Brodsky; A wicked general plots the overthrow of his king, but is too afraid to try; He forces a gypsy sorcerer to enchant him to remove his fear. "The End of the Universe!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; In the year 3000 a faster than light space ship is developed to take man to the very end of the universe; Since the scientists think the chances of returning are slim, they choose a pilot with an unhappy life of no family, friends, or job who doesn't really care if he can return as long as he learns the secret of the universe. 36 pgs., full color. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.