American Update: “Okay, Axis, Here We Come!” – Early Non-Distrib. Invaders issues!
*Marvel: In 1975, Roy Thomas, notorious aficionado of the Golden Age, launched one of his pet projects – ‘untold tales’ of the Golden Age Timely/Atlas heroes set in the days of World War II. Banding Captain America & Bucky, the Sub-Mariner, and the original Human Torch & Toro together as the Invaders, he kicked off (including spin-offs and crossovers) more than 50 issues of all-new ‘old’ adventures, and a series of revivals which has continued into the 21st Century. We are pleased to have not one, but three different copies in stock of Giant-Size Invaders #1 – the ‘prequel’ which ran into the ongoing comic, and introduced the team to the world. One of them, with an unverified Roy Thomas signature on the front cover, is FN/VF at £20. We also have the first three issues of the on-going back in, with the premier issue being FN+ at £20. Giant-Size Invaders #1 and Invaders #1 & 2 were never distributed at all in the UK, and are therefore proportionately rarer here than in the ‘New World,’, so having these all come along at once is quite serendipitous.