American Update: The Good Doctor Collection: Steranko A Go-Go: X-Men #49-51 inc Mighty Marvel Firsts: Lorna Dane
*Marvel: Our Good Doctor update this week continues our new Steranko A Go-Go feature showcasing the Silver Age Marvel super-hero work of Jim Steranko, one of our favourite artists and one of the most innovative. His storytelling, both words and pictures, sums up the spirit of the late 1960s, and his all too brief body of work has always left his fans clamouring for more. Although Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD constituted his main body of work, he did dip a toe into the water of other titles, including three issues of Marvel’s Merry Mutants, the X-Men (covers on all, interior art on #50 & #51).
PICTURED: X-MEN ALL SOLD
#49 FN/VF £350 1st Lorna Dane (later Polaris). Steranko cover. A lovely copy with a totally unmarked cover image and a brilliant, pure white background. Great cover colour and gloss, very little corner blunting, off-white to white supple pages and tight, firmly attached staples. Only minor handling and edge wear.
#50 FN- £250 1st Lorna Dane in costume. Steranko cover and interior art. Dynamic green-tinted cover, one of the great iconic masterpieces of the later Marvel Silver Age. Unmarked cover image with great colour. Off-white to white supple pages and tight, firmly attached staples. A couple of small creases at spine do not break colour; small bit of handling wear near right edge. Very minor edge and corner wear.
#51 VG/FN £50 Steranko cover and interior art. Great cover colour and off-white to white supple pages and tight, firmly attached staples. Minor handling wear faintly shows across cover; spine wear with tiny colour-breaking creases; some corner blunting.