*Marvel: What’s Old is our feature where we highlight stuff from our catalogue that you may have missed. During the lean years of the mid-1950s to early 1960s, the company that would become Marvel ran a moderately successful sci-fi/suspense line built around two tropes: one, the famous ‘Big Panty Monsters’ by Lee & Kirby lauded in many previous updates, and the other, quieter, but even more chilling, twist-ending tales reminiscent of (and often ripped off by) TV shows such as ‘The Outer Limits’ and ‘The Twilight Zone’. The latter proved so popular that the fledgling Marvel devoted an entire series just to them, Amazing Adult Fantasy, taking over the numbering of Amazing Adventures from #7 and rebranding as ‘The Magazine That Respects Your Intelligence!’, with wall-to-wall Ditko art. Lovely though they were, it didn’t catch the mass market’s eye, and the series finished with #14 (with #15, of course, it became simply ‘Amazing Fantasy’ and featured an upstart hero called Spider-Man). These low-circulation, high-quality issues are now greatly in demand, and we have #14, the final ‘Adult’ issue, a pence printed copy featuring a Professor X/Marvel mutant prototype, with slight chipping at right cover edge.
PICTURED: AMAZING ADULT FANTASY #14 VG p £110 SOLD