American Update: Bronze Age Marvel Annuals with First Appearances!
*Marvel: A trio of Bronze/Modern Age Marvel Annuals delight our palates this week. We open with Avengers Annual #10, a Claremmont & Golden extravaganza co-featuring the X-Men, Spider-Woman and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and bringing us the debut of the Brotherhood’s newest ‘sister’, Rogue, the Southern succubus who eventually joined the good guys. This copy is a sparkling NM at £70. New Mutants Annual #2 also featured the debut of a future Lady X-Man, in the form of Psylocke – not the first appearance of Betsy Braddock herself (she’d been a supporting character in Captain Britain for yonks), but in this Claremont & Davis thriller, she assumes the identity of Psylocke for the first time; FN/VF at £25, very minor wear at lower right corner, and one small ‘break’ in the mid-spine. Finally, Eternals Annual #1 (and only), not by Chris Claremont – shocker! – but from the mind of the legendary Jack Kirby, with Thena, Karkas and the Reject up against the menace of the Time Killers – bargainacious at VG £3!