*Marvel: This trilogy of issues is renowned not just for the debut of Lorna Dane (Polaris), a significant addition to the X-Men mythos, but also for the artwork by Jim Steranko, one of our favourite artists and one of the most innovative. His storytelling sums up the spirit of the late 1960s, and his all too brief body of work has always left his fans clamouring for more. Although Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD constituted his main body of work, he did dip a toe into the water of other titles, including these three issues of Marvel’s Merry Mutants (covers on all, interior art on #50 & #51). Think psychedelia, West Coast, pop/rock posters, drop-out culture – Steranko A Go Go!
PICTURED: X-MEN
#49 VF- p £185 1st Lorna Dane (later Polaris). Steranko cover. Pence stamped. Glossy and bright, with only minor corner blunting and edge wear. Firm staples, supple white to off-white pages.  
#50 VG+ £190 1st Lorna Dane in costume. Steranko cover and interior art. Dynamic green-tinted cover, one of the great iconic masterpieces of the later Marvel Silver Age. Some minor edge wear with tiny colour-breaking creases at extremities. Slightly dinked at top of spine with corner blunting. Firm staples, supple white to off-white pages.  
#51 VG p £55 Steranko cover and interior art. Pence stamped. Some wear and narrow colour-breaking creasing at right corners. Short vertical crease above Marvel Girl. Corner blunting and minor handling wear. Firm staples and supple off-white pages.