American Update: Mighty Marvel Firsts: Debut of Boba Fett in Star Wars #42
*Marvel: After #1, issue #42 is probably the most sought after of all the issues of Marvel’s original Star Wars series, featuring as it does the first comic appearance of Boba Fett, with our bounty hunting hero centrally featured on the cover, despite being only seen on the splash page and a couple of interior panels as Marvel continued its comics adaptation of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’. Fett-o-philes have driven the cost of this issue up over the last decade or so, and this is a high grade example – flat, tight and unmarked, with a brilliant white background, great cover colour and gloss and white to off-white pages. Sharp corners and virtually no wear. Although technically this doesn’t affect the grade, we have resisted an even higher grading due to a slight mis-cut (see white spine edge on image), but really this is a thing of beauty (and the hand of Al Williamson on art duties further enhances that). Still cheaper to acquire than the original Boba Fett costume, judging by this week’s auction results!
PICTURED: STAR WARS #42 VF+ £200 SOLD