Auctions: comic books May 2023

Amazing Spider-Man (2022 7th Series) 21D VF+ 8.5 Mangiatordi B&W 1:100 Variant

NOTE: This is a variant cover for Amazing Spider-Man #21, NOT Incredible Hulk. Limited 1 for 100 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover.Written by Zeb Wells. Art by John Romita Jr. and Scott Hanna. Cover by Vitale Mangiatordi. WHAT HAPPENED TO PETER AND MARY JANE?! It's time. This arc will answer your questions including…WHAT DID PETER DO?! Who caused all of this? 28 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $3.99.

Batman (2016 3rd Series) 133C CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Lau Variant Cover.

Label #4646252003

Written by Chip Zdarsky. Art by Mike Hawthorne, Adriano Di Benedetto. Cover by Stanley Artgerm Lau. Everyone goes insane eventually. And then they belong to the terrifying Red Mask! But Gotham City has a new savior. He strikes from the shadows, exhumes the dead, and is known only as...the Batman. And in our backup story, Tim Drake's search for Batman continues as he and Superman, Jon Kent, team up to stop the terror of the Toyman! 40 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $5.99.

Disney Villains Maleficent (2023 Dynamite) 1V CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Variant Cover V.

Label #4745580013

Story and Art by Soo Lee. Cover by J Scott Campbell. Disney and Dynamite proudly present Maleficent, Queen of the Forbidden Mountain! Her realm is shrouded in darkness, and evil, and full of all things that go bump in the night. Her soul is cold, hardened by a lifetime of small-minded wanderers seeking to steal her powers to satisfy their mortal greed. Her patience wears thin. Her mystical might grows. It is a matter only of time before she descends the mountain and unleashes her horrible magics upon the powerless people below. A stunning vision of villainy from writer and artist Soo Lee! 32 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $3.99.

Grimm Fairy Tales (2016 2nd Series) 72Q CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Variant Cover Q.

Label #4340267002

2023 Special Horror Box Foil Collectible Cover by Guillermo Fajardo - limited to 150 copies. Written by Dave Franchini & Various. The Star Spawn invasion has begun, and the might of Skye Mathers, along with the rest of Arcane Acre and MYSTERE-ORACLE OF THE DEAD, are the only things that stand between our world and complete annihilation-but will they be enough? 32 pages, full color. Rated T+

Joker the Man Who Stopped Laughing (2022 DC) 6C CGC 9.4

Paper: White

Lim Variant Cover.

Label #4745381018

Written by Matthew Rosenberg. Art by Carmine Di Giandomenico. Cover by Kendrick Kunkka Lim. The Joker's enjoying the sunny, warm weather of Los Angeles so much that he's decided to stay...and get involved in local politics! Kate Spencer's fists might have something to say about that, though! 40 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $5.99.

Lady Death Oblivion Kiss (2017 Coffin) 1SLAVE.B VF 8.0

"Lady Slave's Revenge" Naughty Edition Cover by Sun Khamunaki - Limited to 250 copies. Written by Brian Pulido and Mike MacLean. Art by Dheeraj Verma and Sabine Rich. To save her beloved steed Vassago from eternal torment, Lady Death is drawn the wasteland City Siduri where lust isn't a sin, it is a way of life. Instead she encounters the demon sorceress Demonika, is put under an ironclad spell and made to be a plaything to be auctioned off to the highest demon bidder. Is all hope lost? C'mon, it's Lady Death! Lady Death: Oblivion Kiss #1 is a 48-page all-new square bound graphic novel that builds on the mythology creator Brian Pulido has began in Chaos Rules #1, Damnation Game #1, and Oblivion Kiss #1. 48 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Lord of the Jungle (2022 Dynamite) 5C CGC 9.8 Burns Variant

Paper: White

Variant Cover C.

Label #4713813019

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Written by Dan Jurgens. Art by Benito Gallego. Cover by Josh Burns. In order to save his tribe of apes and other wildlife from being hauled back to England, Tarzan will journey to the Valley of Mists. Shaw's real goal is to see of the Legend of Lost Jewels is true, and if so, to retrieve them and enrich himself. But… who… and what kind of threat will Tarzan find in the Valley? 32 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

Marvel Masterworks Deluxe Library Edition Variant HC (2023 Marvel) 4th Edition 1-1ST NM- 9.2

NOTE: Limited to 841 copies.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "The Amazing Spider-Man: Book 1!" Collects Amazing Fantasy (1962) #15 and The Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998 1st Series) #1-10. Written by Stan Lee. Art by Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby. Cover by Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. Introduction by Stan Lee. By popular demand! Back in hardcover, beautifully restored to match the original comics and boasting expanded bonus material! Welcome to Marvel's ReMasterworks! In 1962, in the pages of a comic book slated for cancellation, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created one of the most enduring icons in American popular culture: the Amazing Spider-Man! Turning the concept of a super hero on its head, they imbued Peter Parker with the powers of an arachnid and the pressures of an everyday teenager. And the combination was pure magic! Join us as we present Spidey's web-slinging adventures from very beginning: the tragic origin that started it all; the debuts of the Daily Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson, Doctor Octopus, the Sandman, the Vulture and Electro; and guest appearances by the Fantastic Four! And to top it off, we've packed this volume with bonuses galore, including the original artwork to AMAZING FANTASY #15! Hardcover, 312 pages, full color. Cover price $75.00.

Poison Ivy (2022 DC) 10B CGC 9.8 SS Frison Frison Variant

Paper: White

Signed by Jenny Frison on 3/27/26. Variant Cover.

Label #4735100005

Written by G. Willow Wilson. Art by Marcio Takara. Cover by Jenny Frison. Before Ivy embarks on her trip back to Gotham, our verdant villainess sets her sights on a fungus-loving Hollywood celebrity with a lifestyle brand and spa that's raising some major red flags on Ivy's radar. All this because poor Janet from HR wanted to have some R&R before the car ride back east! Aw jeez! 32 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $4.99.

Robyn Hood Spawn of Nyarlathotep (2023 Zenescope) 1E CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Variant Cover E.

Label #4546475014

2023 Nov./Dec. Collectors Club Collectible Cover by Paul Green - limited to 250 copies. Written by Joe Brusha. New Yorkers keep disappearing...and the pile of human bones in the sewers below the city keeps growing. Robyn means to put an end to the killings but to do that she'll have to defeat an ancient evil who's power she can barely comprehend. Guest starring Ghosthawk! 32 pages of story! 40 pages, full color. Rated T+

Robyn Hood Spawn of Nyarlathotep (2023 Zenescope) 1K CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Variant Cover K.

Label #4519437015

2023 June Artists Remix Topless Collectible Cover by Keith Garvey - limited to 99 copies. Written by Joe Brusha. New Yorkers keep disappearing...and the pile of human bones in the sewers below the city keeps growing. Robyn means to put an end to the killings but to do that she'll have to defeat an ancient evil who's power she can barely comprehend. Guest starring Ghosthawk! 32 pages of story! 40 pages, full color. Rated T+

Star Wars Bounty Hunters (2020 Marvel) 32C CGC 9.8 SS Momoko

Paper: White

Signed by Peach Momoko on 7/18/23. Momoko Variant Cover.

Label #4270841002

Written by Ethan Sacks. Art by Alessandro Miracolo. Cover by Peach Momoko. Zuckuss is teetering between life and death... A mysterious event has put the Gand bounty hunter in a deep coma reliving his past. Can T'onga and 4-LOM save Zuckuss before his mind is lost? And before the Empire's most lethal unit hunting Valance catches up to them...28 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $3.99.

Thunderbolts Omnibus HC (2021 Marvel) 3B-1ST VF+ 8.5

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects Thunderbolts (1997-2012 Marvel) #64-75 and #100-109, Avengers/Thunderbolts (2004) #1-6, New Thunderbolts (2005) #1-18 and Thunderbolts Presents: Zemo - Born Better (2007) #1-4. Written by Fabian Nicieza and Kurt Busiek. Art by Patrick Zircher, Chris Batista, Jean Jacques Dzialowski, Stefano Caselli, Manuel Garcia, Tom Grummett, Dale Ross, Barry Kitson, Cliff Richards, Rick Leonardi, Al Vey, Rich Perrotta, Sandu Florea, Scott Hanna, Gary Erskine, Cam Smith, Karl Kesel, and Bill Sienkiewicz. Cover by Tom Grummett. The Thunderbolts have been divided between two worlds! Can they find their way back onto the road to redemption? Trapped on the ravaged Counter-Earth, Baron Zemo and his team of semi-reformed villains must choose between returning home or becoming the planet's unlikely champions! Meanwhile, Hawkeye and Songbird assemble a new crew to face the Masters of Evil! But will the Thunderbolts reunite only to fall apart? An encounter with the Avengers changes everything for the T-Bolts, and a new day will dawn - but not if Baron Strucker, the Purple Man and the Squadron Sinister have anything to say about it! Plus: The superhuman Civil War throws the team's heroic hopes into disarray! And when the cosmic Grandmaster strikes, can Zemo rise to the occasion - or is he forever tainted by his legacy of evil? Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 1,216 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $125.00.

Vampirella vs. The Superpowers (2023 Dynamite) 1A CGC 9.6

Paper: White

Label #4750158015

Written by Dan Abnett. Art by Pasquale Qualano. Cover by Sozomaika. It's full-throttle throwback action, courtesy of superstar writer Dan Abnett (Avengers, Warhammer) and red-hot artist Pasquale Qualano (DC Vs. Vampires)! Vampirella and her trusty sidekick Dyna Might have become superheroes, and are assigned to save a world that looks strangely similar to 1940s Earth, rife with crime and corruption, and two-fisted superheroes who don't take kindly to meddling from interdimensional vampire aliens! Can Vampirella survive an onslaught of conflict from villains and heroes alike, all while solving a murder mystery and keeping her precocious sidekick alive? 40 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

Vampirella vs. The Superpowers (2023 Dynamite) 1B CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Variant Cover B.

Label #4714243025

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Written by Dan Abnett. Art by Pasquale Qualano. Cover Art by Leirix. It's full-throttle throwback action, courtesy of superstar writer Dan Abnett (Avengers, Warhammer) and red-hot artist Pasquale Qualano (DC Vs. Vampires)! Vampirella and her trusty sidekick Dyna Might have become superheroes, and are assigned to save a world that looks strangely similar to 1940s Earth, rife with crime and corruption, and two-fisted superheroes who don't take kindly to meddling from interdimensional vampire aliens! Can Vampirella survive an onslaught of conflict from villains and heroes alike, all while solving a murder mystery and keeping her precocious sidekick alive? 40 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

Vampirella vs. The Superpowers (2023 Dynamite) 1C CGC 9.4

Paper: White

Variant Cover C.

Label #4750157010

Written by Dan Abnett. Art by Pasquale Qualano. Cover Art by Jung-Geun Yoon. It's full-throttle throwback action, courtesy of superstar writer Dan Abnett (Avengers, Warhammer) and red-hot artist Pasquale Qualano (DC Vs. Vampires)! Vampirella and her trusty sidekick Dyna Might have become superheroes, and are assigned to save a world that looks strangely similar to 1940s Earth, rife with crime and corruption, and two-fisted superheroes who don't take kindly to meddling from interdimensional vampire aliens! Can Vampirella survive an onslaught of conflict from villains and heroes alike, all while solving a murder mystery and keeping her precocious sidekick alive? 40 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

Van Helsing Finding Neverland (2023 Zenescope) 1E CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Variant Cover E.

Label #4713587023

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2023 Fall Zenbox Collectible Cover by Elias Chatzoudis - limited to 200 copies. Written by Pat Shand. Art by Hakan Aydin. Liesel Van Helsing journeys to Neverland in search of an object that could destroy all that she holds dear. Alone and in a world unknown to her, even the shadows present great hazards to the famed vampire hunter-when she must take on the most dangerous tyrant of Neverland - Pan! 40 pages, full color. Rated T+

Venom Lethal Protector II (2023 Marvel) 1D CGC 9.6 SS Ross Ross Virgin 1:100 Variant

Paper: White

Signed by Alex Ross on 5/30/23. Ross Sketch Cover.

Label #4246094001

Limited 1 for 100 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover. (W) David Michelinie (A) Farid Karami (CA) Alex Ross BROCK VS. DOOM. 'NUFF SAID! Venom co-creator DAVID MICHELINIE returns with a brand-new story set in the sinister symbiote's past when brains - and Spider-Man - were still on the menu! This time, he's uniting with rising star FARID KARAMI to weave an epic, blockbuster story that will take Venom from the streets of NYC to the kingdom of Latveria as EDDIE BROCK is challenged like never before! What (or WHO) will Venom need to overcome the fiercest foe in the Marvel U? One thing's for certain, this monster's bringing the mayhem! Cover price $4.99.

Venom Lethal Protector II (2023 Marvel) 1SHATTERED.A NM 9.4 DiMasi Shattered Gold Variant

Shattered Comics Exclusive Gold Tile Mosaic Cover by Matt DiMasi. Written by David Michelinie. Art by Farid Karami. BROCK VS. DOOM. 'NUFF SAID! Venom co-creator DAVID MICHELINIE returns with a brand-new story set in the sinister symbiote's past when brains - and Spider-Man - were still on the menu! This time, he's uniting with rising star FARID KARAMI to weave an epic, blockbuster story that will take Venom from the streets of NYC to the kingdom of Latveria as EDDIE BROCK is challenged like never before! What (or WHO) will Venom need to overcome the fiercest foe in the Marvel U? One thing's for certain, this monster's bringing the mayhem! 40 pages, full color. Rated Teen+ Cover price $4.99.

Venom Lethal Protector II (2023 Marvel) 1SHATTERED.A NM 9.4 DiMasi Shattered Gold Variant

Shattered Comics Exclusive Gold Tile Mosaic Cover by Matt DiMasi. Written by David Michelinie. Art by Farid Karami. BROCK VS. DOOM. 'NUFF SAID! Venom co-creator DAVID MICHELINIE returns with a brand-new story set in the sinister symbiote's past when brains - and Spider-Man - were still on the menu! This time, he's uniting with rising star FARID KARAMI to weave an epic, blockbuster story that will take Venom from the streets of NYC to the kingdom of Latveria as EDDIE BROCK is challenged like never before! What (or WHO) will Venom need to overcome the fiercest foe in the Marvel U? One thing's for certain, this monster's bringing the mayhem! 40 pages, full color. Rated Teen+ Cover price $4.99.

Venom Lethal Protector II (2023 Marvel) 1SHATTERED.A NM 9.4 DiMasi Shattered Gold Variant

Shattered Comics Exclusive Gold Tile Mosaic Cover by Matt DiMasi. Written by David Michelinie. Art by Farid Karami. BROCK VS. DOOM. 'NUFF SAID! Venom co-creator DAVID MICHELINIE returns with a brand-new story set in the sinister symbiote's past when brains - and Spider-Man - were still on the menu! This time, he's uniting with rising star FARID KARAMI to weave an epic, blockbuster story that will take Venom from the streets of NYC to the kingdom of Latveria as EDDIE BROCK is challenged like never before! What (or WHO) will Venom need to overcome the fiercest foe in the Marvel U? One thing's for certain, this monster's bringing the mayhem! 40 pages, full color. Rated Teen+ Cover price $4.99.

Venom Lethal Protector II (2023 Marvel) 1SHATTERED.C CGC 9.8 SS Rosa/DiMasi DiMasi Shattered White Variant

Paper: White

Signed by Sam de la Rosa & Matthew DiMasi on 4/11/26. Shattered Comics Edition C.

Label #4730828005

Shattered Comics Exclusive White Tile Mosaic Cover by Matt DiMasi. Written by David Michelinie. Art by Farid Karami. BROCK VS. DOOM. 'NUFF SAID! Venom co-creator DAVID MICHELINIE returns with a brand-new story set in the sinister symbiote's past when brains - and Spider-Man - were still on the menu! This time, he's uniting with rising star FARID KARAMI to weave an epic, blockbuster story that will take Venom from the streets of NYC to the kingdom of Latveria as EDDIE BROCK is challenged like never before! What (or WHO) will Venom need to overcome the fiercest foe in the Marvel U? One thing's for certain, this monster's bringing the mayhem! 40 pages, full color. Rated Teen+ Cover price $4.99.