American Comics Update: Mighty Marvel Firsts: Legion of Monsters in Marvel Premiere #28
*Marvel: After a one-off black & white magazine in 1975, Legion of Monsters, used up a rag-bag of separate inventory stories starring Frankenstein’s Monster, Dracula, Manphibian and other horror heroes, someone at Marvel decided that the title was nifty enough to merit a further outing, and therefore the bizarre and otherwise inexplicable Marvel Premiere #28 came about. Unlike the Legion of Monsters one-shot, which featured unrelated stories, Marvel Premiere #28 brought Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, Werewolf By Night and Morbius the Living Vampire together as an actual team, albeit one even more mismatched than the Champions! From the team of Bill Mantlo and Frank Robbins, it’s… everything you might expect! For decades discarded in bargain boxes everywhere, this issue has acquired white-hot collector’s status in the last decade. This is an outstanding copy from an original owner collection, bought new in 1976 on a New York newsstand, and carefully preserved ever since. Great colour and gloss, perfect staples and white to off-white pages. Square corners. The only sign of wear is a shallow, narrow crease of about 4 cm across the top right corner of cover which is hard to spot and does not break colour.
PICTURED: MARVEL PREMIERE #28 VF+ £135 SOLD