American Update: Slab Happy Meets Mighty Marvel Firsts: Iron Fist #14 – Debut of the Savage Sabretooth
*Marvel: Iron Fist’s 1977 title, though critically acclaimed and well-received, failed to catch a mass audience, and was cancelled with its fifteenth issue. But in retrospect, its next-to-last issue, #14, has become hugely sought after as the debut of Sabretooth, one of the X-Men’s most popular enemies, and sometimes related to Wolverine in some sense – depending on what continuity was in force in a given week. Ironically, it’s only Sabretooth’s premier appearance by accident – he was intended to appear first in Ms. Marvel #24, but that series was cancelled with issue #23, so here he is, in all his feral glory! This is a CGC Blue Label (no restoration) copy, graded 9.6 (NM+ equivalent), but – full disclosure – there is a crack in the ‘shell’ of the CGC casing, at the lower rear left of the case. The case remains intact, with no exposure of the comic, and the comic itself is untouched, but nevertheless, in view of the case not being pristine, we have adjusted the asking price to £400. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD