American Comics Update: The Good Doctor Collection: X-Men #60-63: The Sauron/Savage Land/Magneto Quartet by Neal Adams
*Marvel: Almost the swan song of Neal Adams remarkable and acclaimed run on the X-Men, four consecutive issues from the Good Doctor Collection. Bitten by mutant pterodactyls (watch out for them, kids!), Dr Karl Lykos was transformed into the hybrid pteranodon known as Sauron, who debuted in #60, leading to an adventure for the X-Men with Ka-Zar in the Savage Land, where Magneto and his new Evil Mutants were hanging out. It’s a great shame that this quality run on the title didn’t save it from cancellation just a few months later.
PICTURED: X-MEN
#60 VG+ £55 1st Sauron. Decent copy with some spine and edge wear Firm staples and white to off-white pages and a crease across the bottom right cover corner which just breaks colour. Small arrival date in wax crayon over the ‘X’ in logo.
#61 FN/VF p £60 Nice pence printed copy with great colour and gloss. Firm staples and white to off-white pages. Small dink with no colour break top right corner; minor corner blunting.
#62 VF+ p £100 Excellent fresh pence-printed copy with great colour and gloss. Firm staples and near white pages. Tiny amounts of edge wear at spine and just a little more at top edge.
#63 VG+ p £25 Decent pence-printed copy with some pressure marks to cover, not breaking colour. Nice staples but off at lower centrefold. Nice near white pages. Minor edge wear.