Comic books in 'Octopus', graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $225.00 Paper: White Label #4761755020 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.75) will be charged at checkout.

First 35c cover-priced issue. Aquaman will not let the murder of someone close to him go unavenged, and so he takes the fight to Black Manta, the murderer himself, in "A Life For a Life." Fisherman cameo. Script by David Michelinie, art & cover by Jim Aparo. Instead of letters, the 'Aquamail' page features autobiographies of Michelinie (first published in Claw the Unconquered (1975 1st Series DC) #1) and Aparo (first published in Brave and the Bold (1955-1983 1st Series) #113). Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $36.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #1993581006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.08) will be charged at checkout.

Epic Illustrated was touted as a new experience in adult fantasy and science fiction adventure. Published by Marvel Comics, this magazine was aimed at a more mature audience. Issue #12 includes: Weirdworld: The Dark Stratagem by Doug Moench, John Buscema, Marie Severin, and Steve Oliff, Small Gifts by Jon Jay Muth, Pursuit by Jon Jay Muth, Marada the She-Wolf: Royal Hunt by Chris Claremont and John Bolton, Abraxas and the Earthman: The Hunt by Rick Veitch, The Transition by Bruce Sakow and Gerald Slater, Spacehawk: The Superhuman Enemy of Crime Basil Wolverton and Rick Veitch, Cabin Fever by Ralph Reese, and To Slay a Dragon by Zoran Vanjaka. Also includes Basil Wolverton article. Cover art by Frank Brunner. June 1982. Cover price $2.50.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $230.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4467461025 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.90) will be charged at checkout.

Bill Woggon art. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $695.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4688927023 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($20.85) will be charged at checkout.

Schomburg cover. The Young Allies star in "The Corpse Came F.O.B." Jap Buster Johnson stars in "The Vanishing Island." The Destroyer in "The Robot Boomerang!" 36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.6 $60.00 Paper: White Label #4761729021 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.80) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Joe Kubert. "Blood Brothers," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Murphy Anderson; Korak searches for Meriem; He comes to the Land of Tabu, where hes attacked by a hydra; During the battle, a stranger slays the hydra; They travel to the stranger's village, and they become friends; Meanwhile, medicine men prepare a ceremony where the two friends must fight one another to see who should be chief; Korak reluctantly agrees, and the two battle in a watery pit containing an octopus. "Into the Land of Noobol," script and art by Mike Kaluta; A winged fury (Klangan) grabs Princess Duare; A band of Thorist warriors, lead by the evil Moosko, attack Carson and take him down; Adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Lost On Venus. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.6 $270.75 or Best Offer Paper: White Slab: Chipped/broken bracket Label #4646210021 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.12) will be charged at checkout.

1990 series with $1.95 cover price, barcode on the right side of the cover. Cover price $1.95.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $349.99 Paper: Off white to white Label #4735054007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.50) will be charged at checkout.

Conan stars in "Torrent of Doom." Script by Roy Thomas, pencils by John Buscema, inks by Alfredo Alcala. Concluding the adaptation of the Robert E. Howard story "The Pool of the Black One." King Kull stars in "The Striking of the Gong." Script by Thomas, pencils by Rick Hoberg, inks by Bill Wray. Adapted from the story by Howard. Red Sonja stars in "Wizards of the Black Sun." Script by Thomas and Clara Noto, art by Frank Thorne. "A New Song of Sonja." Poem and art by Wendy Pini. "Red Sonja at the Mall" by Chris Padovano and Bob Pinaha; photos of Wendy Pini and Linda Behrle as Red Sonja, plus Frank Thorne, Rudy Nebres, Dave Cockrum, and Ernie Chan. Full-page illustrations by Nebres and Thorne. "Stygia, Serpent of the South." Article by Robert Yaple with illustrations by Rick Hoberg. Steve Leialoha/Al Gordon frontispiece. Earl Norem cover. Cover price $1.00.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $4,000.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #1136773002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($120.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Russ Heath. "The Sea Devils vs. the Octopus Man!", script by Robert Kanigher, art by Russ Heath; Producer Wendel Wales is shooting a movie about the Sea Devils; His mechanical Octopus Man is destroyed when the real version appears and attacks the movie set. "Secret of the Emerald Whale!", script by Bob Haney, art by Russ Heath; The Sea Devils find an iceberg with the Emerald Whale and Captain Shark frozen inside. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $114.95 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #4378568017 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.45) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Sal Buscema. "Call Her Llyra, Call Her Legend," script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Sal Buscema, inks by Jim Mooney; Seeking an undersea ally, Namor makes his way to the undersea realm of Lemuria; Namor meets Llyra, the empress of Lemuria, who has overthrown Karthon; She tells him of her origin in hopes of persuading him to join her conquest of the sea; Namor wants nothing to do with it and is caught off guard and captured; Namor meets Llyra's sister, Laurie, who frees him; Namor battles with the sea creatures Llyra can control and their battle ends in her death; However, Llyra changes back to Laurie and he realized that they both shared one body; Namor meets her mother and learns that it was her that had actually freed him. 36 pgs., full color. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $89.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #4595419008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.67) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Siggy’s Comics

Cover art by Sal Buscema. "Call Her Llyra, Call Her Legend," script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Sal Buscema, inks by Jim Mooney; Seeking an undersea ally, Namor makes his way to the undersea realm of Lemuria; Namor meets Llyra, the empress of Lemuria, who has overthrown Karthon; She tells him of her origin in hopes of persuading him to join her conquest of the sea; Namor wants nothing to do with it and is caught off guard and captured; Namor meets Llyra's sister, Laurie, who frees him; Namor battles with the sea creatures Llyra can control and their battle ends in her death; However, Llyra changes back to Laurie and he realized that they both shared one body; Namor meets her mother and learns that it was her that had actually freed him. 36 pgs., full color. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Sub-Mariner (1968 1st Series) 32 CGC 7.5

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4739176003

Cover art by Sal Buscema. "Call Her Llyra, Call Her Legend," script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Sal Buscema, inks by Jim Mooney; Seeking an undersea ally, Namor makes his way to the undersea realm of Lemuria; Namor meets Llyra, the empress of Lemuria, who has overthrown Karthon; She tells him of her origin in hopes of persuading him to join her conquest of the sea; Namor wants nothing to do with it and is caught off guard and captured; Namor meets Llyra's sister, Laurie, who frees him; Namor battles with the sea creatures Llyra can control and their battle ends in her death; However, Llyra changes back to Laurie and he realized that they both shared one body; Namor meets her mother and learns that it was her that had actually freed him. 36 pgs., full color. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $300.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #0047768003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Edd Ashe and others. Biography and history stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. Genghis Khan uses brute force and strategy to conquer vast territory; The Marie Celeste is found adrift with all hands missing, a mystery that was never solved; Attorney Abe Lincoln defends a murder suspect. Star of Stanford: Hank Luisetti; The Mystery of the Marie Celeste; Genghis Khan: Empire Builder; Wolves Can Be Tough; Shotgun Bank Robbers; Abraham Lincoln: Murder by Moonlight; The Truth about Cattle Rustling. 32 pages, Full Color. NOTE: #80-84 are all newsprint editions that were distributed by mail only to subscribers (no newstand distribution). Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $625.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4477260017 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($18.75) will be charged at checkout.

Mart Bailey art. 3 pages of Ogden Whitney art. Beginning with a cover showing a tentacled Tojo getting fried by a U.S. Marine's flame thrower, this undated World War II era comic is chock-full of the U.S. anti-Japanese sentiment of that era. A bit larger than the typical comic book at 7-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches; content is a mix of color comic book war stories and black-and-white text and photo articles covering the Marines in action. Cover price $0.10.