*Marvel: Not a lot of people know this: Mar-Vell, agent of the Kree Empire, began his career as a copyright-saving device when another 1960’s publisher put out a ‘Captain Marvel’ comic which appeared to threaten the entire Marvel trademark. A new character was rapidly created, and after test appearances in Marvel Super-Heroes #12 and #13, launched into his own magazine, with perhaps more haste than sales figures would normally have justified. Captain Marvel was a somewhat hit & miss series, despite a dynamic costume redesign with #16, and rather floundered until a certain Jim Starlin took over with #25, and introduced the cosmic tropes which have become the character’s watchword. We have the first 53 of the good Captain’s own series, in addition to the 1975 one-off Giant-Size Captain Marvel, all cents copies, and including all of the Starlin ‘Cosmic Odyssey’ (with Thanos, Drax, the Avengers, and all Cap’s wacky chums) issues, #25-34, mostly in high grades. Many of these issues were low or non-distributed in the UK, so are doubly desirable here in the Old Country. A key member of the Captain’s earliest supporting cast was Carol Danvers, later Ms. Marvel and currently holder of the Captain Marvel title, so the early issues are now gathering sales momentum with the announcement of a Captain (Carol) Marvel movie in the works. pictured below: #1 FN- £30, #25 VF £30, #26 VF £35.