American Update: Avengers #112 – First Appearance of Mantis
*Marvel: Although she was not cover-featured, the enigmatic woman known as Mantis made her debut in Avengers #112, and rapidly became both a thorn in the side of the Avengers and a crucial ally, deploying her empathic skills and her martial-arts mastery in a succession of adventures, primarily the ‘Celestial Madonna’ story arc written by Steve Englehart, before marrying a sentient plant inhabited by the ghost of her dead boyfriend and becoming one with the cosmos. As you do. Having been reiterated (albeit in somewhat altered form) as one of the Guardians of the Galaxy in the second GOTG movie, Mantis’ early appearances are spiralling up in value, so this FN/VF cents copy is relatively bargainaceous at £50. Buy it now – ‘This one’ says so! SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD