Auctions: comic books September 1989

Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 320 CGC 9.6

Paper: White

Label #0161226003

The Assassin Nation Plot begins in "License Invoked" Part 1 of 6. Guest-starring Paladin. Script by David Michelinie. Art by Todd McFarlane. Cover by Todd McFarlane. What starts as a simple investigation into a Lower Manhattan robbery takes the Amazing Spider-Man on a journey across the globe and into a web of international espionage and murder! After seeing bodies lying on the ground, the web-slinger busts inside a warehouse and discovers his erstwhile ally Paladin! What is the purple-clad mercenary doing in this neck of the woods? He's probing into the Life Foundation --- an organization the wall-crawler knows all too well! The doomsday profiteers always play for keeps...as Paladin and Spidey find out...the hard way! Cameo appearances by Mary Jane Watson, Harry Osborn, Aunt May, and Silver Sable. (Notes: Paladin and the web-slinger previously worked together in Spectacular Spider-Man 105 & 106. The letters page includes a letter from Topps comics publisher Charles Novinskie.) 32 pages. Cover price $1.00.

Predator (1989) 1REP.2ND CBCS 9.6 2nd Printing

Paper: White

Second Printing

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Second Printing. Written by Mark Verheiden. Art by Chris Warner and Sam de la Rosa. The Predators are back, only this time their hunting ground isn't the tropical jungles of South America--it's the concrete and street jungles of New York City! It's the hottest summer on record, and Detective Schaefer suspects that his brother's disappearance is somehow tied to the wave of gruesome murders plaguing New York! 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.25.

Silver Surfer (1987 2nd Series) 27 CBCS 8.5

Paper: Off white to white

Newsstand Edition

Label #19-47253CB-021

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Kree/Skrull War. "The R Complex!" Guest-starring the Super-Skrull. Story by Steve Englehart. Art by Ron Lim and Tom Christopher. The cosmic deity the Stranger has come for Empress S'Byll, the woman who will return the Skrull Empire to glory. Can even the combined might of the Silver Surfer and the Super Skrull dissuade this being of immeasurable power? 32 pages. Cover price $1.00.