American Update: Avengers Assemble! Slab Happy Meets Mighty Marvel Firsts — Debut of Wonder Man in Avengers #9
*Marvel: This week, we ‘look back in wonder’ in our Slab Happy third party graded book extravaganza. One of the things that ‘everyone knows’ – which means it’s only 50% likely to be true at best – is that when Marvel introduced Wonder Man as a misunderstood reluctant villain, DC, who of course publish Wonder Woman, said ‘Oi! No!’, and forced Marvel to kill off Wonder Man for fear of reprisals from DC (whose distributors were also handling Marvel at the time.). Later, when Marvel were free from DC’s yoke, they reintroduced Wonder Man, giving Simon Williams a convoluted history of being related to both the villainous Grim Reaper and the android Vision (family dinners are a right larf in the Marvel Universe…), and establishing him as a long-running Avenger and star of his own series. This is where Wonder Man’s strange history began, and this copy is a CGC blue label (no restoration), 4.5 (VG+ equivalent), on sale at £135.