*Marvel: Not a lot of people know this: Mar-Vell, agent of the Kree Empire, began his career as a copyright-saving device when another 1960s publisher put out a ‘Captain Marvel’ comic which appeared to threaten the entire Marvel trademark. A new character was rapidly created, and after test appearances in Marvel Super-Heroes #12 and #13, launched into his own magazine in 1968, the year of the great Marvel expansion. In the series’ 62 issues, the character went through a lot of changes, reflected in this selection between #7 and #43, including #34 by Jim Starlin (FN p £20), which featured the debut of Nitro and is the issue in which Captain M. contracts the cancer which eventually kills him. Please consult our catalogue for full details.