Auctions: comic books October 2022

Action Comics (2016 3rd Series) 1046C CGC 9.8 Lau Swimsuit Variant

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Lau Variant Cover.

Label #4646252001

Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson. Art by Dale Eaglesham and David Lapham. Cover by Stanley Artgerm Lau. The climactic battle for the fate of Warworld is fast approaching, and the Authority is finally reunited…but no longer as allies! As Superman fights to retrieve a mythical ancient weapon that can free the people of Warworld, Natasha Irons, Midnighter, and O.M.A.C. fight for the souls of their own teammates. Meanwhile, in the Fortress of Solitude: its all hands on deck as the entire Super-family joins forces to recover the Genesis fragment from one of Supermans earliest classic enemies! 40 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $5.99.

Batman (2016 3rd Series) 126C CGC 9.6 March Variant

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March Variant Cover.

Label #4715504008

Written by Chip Zdarsky. Art by Jorge Jimenez, Belen Ortega. Cover by Guillem March. Batman has battled all manner of criminals, monsters, and super-villains, but nothing could have prepared him for whats coming with Failsafe, an unstoppable foe that can outfight and outthink the Dark Knight—but could a dark connection to Batmans past be the answer? In the backup, Catwoman is piecing together the lineage of one of Gothams most notorious criminal families...and its not for the faint of heart! 40 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $5.99.

Damn Them All (2022 Boom) 1C CGC 9.8 SS Adlard

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Signed by Charlie Adlard on 6/28/23. Foil Edition.

Label #4246486001

Written by Simon Spurrier. Art and Cover by Charlie Adlard. In this new dark supernatural thriller for fans of We Have Demons and Something is Killing the Children, meet Ellie 'Bloody El' Hawthorne: occultist-for-hire. Following the death of Ellie's uncle, an infamous magician and occult detective, the 72 devils of the Ars Goetia are mysteriously freed from their infernal realm. It's now up to Ellie to track down each of these exiled demons and damn them right back to Hell by any means necessary… holy water, conjuration, or just her trusty, rusty claw hammer. Legendary The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard teams up with Step By Bloody Step scribe Simon Spurrier to introduce your favorite new occult antihero since John Constantine! 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $3.99.

Earthdivers (2022 IDW) 1A FN- 5.5

Written by Stephen Jones. Art by Davide Gianfelice. Stephen Graham Jones—New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw—makes his ongoing comics debut with Earthdivers!The year is 2112, and its the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America.Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past, they send one of their own—a reluctant linguist named Tad—on a bloody, one-way mission to 1492 to kill Christopher Columbus before he reaches the so-called New World. But there are steep costs to disrupting the timeline, and taking down an icon isnt an easy task for an academic with no tactical training and only a wavering moral compass to guide him. As the horror of the task ahead unfolds and Tads commitment is tested, his actions could trigger a devastating new fate for his friends and the future.Join Stephen Graham Jones and artist Davide Gianfelice for Earthdivers #1, the beginning of an unforgettable ongoing sci-fi slasher spanning centuries of America's colonial past to explore the staggering forces of history and the individual choices we make to survive it. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $3.99.

GI Joe A Real American Hero (2010 IDW) 299A CGC 9.8

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Label #4725612001

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Written by Larry Hama. Art by SL Gallant. Cover by SL Gallant. All-In, Part 4! The final G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero story arc at IDW Publishing continues! Using a brand-new casino on Cobra Island as a front, Cobra has been busy resurrecting dangerous villains and heroes alike, all in the hope of creating the deadliest Cobra army ever! Itll be up to the warriors of G.I. Joe to foil their archenemys evil machinations before its too late. The fight for the fate of the world is barreling to a calamitous conclusion, and its time for every single player to go…ALL-IN!New and classic heroes and villains will fill the pages (including some shocking appearances!) as the fan-favorite creative team of Living Legend Larry Hama and SL Gallant bring us the penultimate issue on the final treacherous march to issue #300! 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Grimm Fairy Tales (2016 2nd Series) 65J CGC 9.8

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Variant Cover J.

Label #4353268022

Trick-or-Treat Wraparound Cosplay Collectible Cover by Mike Krome - Limited to 200 copies. Written by Dave Franchini. Skye Mathers is pulled into a world of primordial cults worshiping ancient deities that have existed since the dawn of time. These worshipers have been positioning themselves to fulfill their ancient prophecy and raise their god that can end the world as we know it. Only Skye can stop them, but is it already too late? 28 pages, full color. Rated T

Grimm Tales of Terror Quarterly Rise of Cthulhu (2022 Zenescope) 1M CGC 9.8

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Variant Cover M.

Label #4522206007

2022 Diamond Retailer October Silver Collectible Cover by Michael Dooney - Limited to 299 copies. Written by Joe Brusha. For millennia it has slept while the Grimm Universe grew around it. Remembered only in myth and legend, its name has been whispered throughout time…Cthulhu. It is evil incarnate and its awakening foretells the end of mankind. The beginning of the end of the Grimm Universe is here…Dread Cthulhu's slumber is over. 80 pages, full color. Rated M Cover price $8.99.

Predator (2022 Marvel) 1C CGC 9.8 Camo 1:200 Variant

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Variant Edition C.

Label #4121580020

Limited 1 for 200 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover. Written by Ed Brisson. Art by Kev Walker. HUNT. KILL. REPEAT. In the near future, a young girl sees her family slaughtered by the deadliest and most feared hunter in the universe: a PREDATOR. Years later, though her ship is barely holding together and food is running short, Theta won't stop stalking the spaceways until the Yautja monster who killed her family is dead…or she is. Ed Brisson (IRON FIST, GHOST RIDER) and Kev Walker (DR. STRANGE, DOCTOR APHRA) forge a violent, heartbreaking and unforgettable new chapter in the PREDATOR saga not to be missed! 36 pages, full color. Parental Advisory Cover price $4.99.

Wakanda World of Black Panther Omnibus HC (2022 Marvel) 1A-1ST NM- 9.2

Sanford Greene Cover

1st printing. Collects Rise of the Black Panther (2018) #1-6, Black Panther: World of Wakanda (2016) #1-6, Black Panther and the Crew (2017) #1-6, Black Panther: Long Live the King TPB (2018 Marvel) A Marvel Premiere Graphic Novel, Black Panther (2017 6th Series) Annual #1, Wakanda Forever: Amazing Spider-Man (2018) , Wakanda Forever: X-Men (2018), Wakanda Forever: Avengers (2018), Black Panther vs. Deadpool (2018) #1-5, Shuri (2018) #1-10, Killmonger (2018) #1-5, Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda (2019 Marvel) #1-8, King in Black: Black Panther (2021 Marvel) and The Last Annihilation: Wakanda (2021 Marvel) - plus material from Venomverse: War Stories (2017), Marvel Comics (2019 Marvel) #1000, Marvel's Voices (2020 Marvel), Marvel's Voices Legacy (2021 Marvel) and Black Panther (2018 7th Series) #23-25.

Cover by Sanford Greene.

The wondrous nation of Wakanda is full of stories - whether they star the Black Panther, his staunchest allies or his fiercest foes!

Relive the rise of T'Challa through tragedy and triumph! Join his sister, Shuri, as she balances her spiritual side with her technological genius! Discover how the boy named N'Jadaka became the deadly Erik Killmonger! See the Black Panther battle Deadpool, assemble the mighty Agents of Wakanda and tackle a Harlem murder mystery along with his Crew - Storm, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Manifold!

Plus: action-packed tales featuring the Dora Milaje, the Midnight Angels and more from the world of Wakanda!

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 1,376 pages, full color. Rated T+

Credits:

Written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Evan Narcisse, Roxane Gay, Yona Harvey, Rembert Browne, Nnedi Okorafor, Aaron Covington, Christopher Priest, Don McGregor, Rggie Hudlin, Daniel Kibblesmith, Vita Ayala, Bryan Edward Hill, Jim Zub, Saint Bodhi, Bobby Sessions, Kaash Paige, Danny Lore, and Geoffrey Thorne.

Art by Paul Renaud, Javier Pina, Edgar Salazar, Keith Champagne, Alitha Martinez, Roberto Poggi, Afua Richardson, Jackson "Butch" Guice, Joe Bennett, Mack Chater, Stephen Thompson, André Lima Araújo, Mario Del Pennino, Tana Ford, Terry Pallo, Scott Hanna, Daniel Acuna, Ken Lashley, Mike Perkins, Alberto Alburquerque, Ray-Anthony Height, Juan Vlassco, Oleg Okunev, Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, Leonardo Romero, Paul Davidson, Rachael Stott, Juan Ferreyra, Lan Medina, Craig Yeung, Scott Eaton, Sean Parsons, Brian Stelfreeze, Bernard Chang, ChrisCross, and German Peralta.

Cover price $125.00.

X-Men (2021 Marvel) 14A FN Coccolo

Written by Gerry Duggan. Art by C.F. Villa. Cover by Martin Coccolo. WAS CYCLOPS RIGHT? - AN A.X.E. TIE-IN! Are ANY of the X-Men right? Only one can judge them and the Day of Judgment is here, for good or ill, and the newest team of X-Men must face the truth about themselves and what they have done. 28 page, full color. RATED T+ Cover price $3.99.