*DC: At a time when the Flash is more in the public eye than he has been in decades, we’re very pleased to have back in stock one of his most significant issues: # 123, the acclaimed “Flash of Two Worlds”, which introduced us to Barry Allen’s Golden Age counterpart, Jay Garrick, and opened the interdimensional door to the entire Earth-2 legend, with the Justice Society of America and in due course their heirs and imitators, brought to new generations of readers! This is a UK-distributed pence-stamped copy, in GD/VG, very sound with excellent interiors and some spine wear, but an unimpeded cover scene. A personal favourite of all here at 30th C., and increasing in significance as the years go by. Offered at £175. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD
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American Update: Platinum Spider-Man #1
*Marvel: The debut of Todd McFarlane’s 1990 Spider-Man series is normally beyond our catalogue remit, but for the Limited Retailer’s Platinum Edition, we’ll make an exception! This extremely limited edition was distributed, one per retailer, as a ‘thank you’ for making the 1990 Spider-Man #1 launch one of the most successful comics debuts to that date. Each issue was also accompanied by a (photocopied) letter from Lou Bank, Director of the Direct Market for Marvel at the time, and this copy retains its letter. This copy is FN+, with only minor pressure marks in the upper right corner (and equivalent upper left on the back cover) indicating it’s had a slight impact somewhere along its career. Nevertheless, a very respectable copy of a genuine rarity, offered at £50. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD
American Update: What If 1st series
*Marvel: New stock of the first series of What If? Marvel’s very own ‘Imaginary Tales’. Highlights include: the first issue, with the Fantastic Four being joined by the sensational Spider-Man (VF £15); and issue #10, in which Jane Foster gains the power of Thor – an issue spiralling upward in price, owing to recent events in Thor’s own title! (NM £20). SORRY, #10 HAS NOW SOLD
American Update: World’s Finest #102-119
*DC: A consecutive run of World’s Finest, the Superman/Batman team-up book from the heart of DC’s Silver Age, when the title was at its best from #102-119 (excepting just #106). Some wonderful monster covers, a super-powered Batwoman, a Mr. Mxyzptlk/Bat-Mite team-up, plus the debuts of the villainous Clock King and the lovely Bonnie King, aka Miss Arrowette, a personal favourite here at 30th Century (anyone remember the powder-puff arrow? We bet you do!). Mostly low grade copies and priced to sell!
American Update: DC Treasury-Sized Editions
*DC: This update, a selection of the oversized treasury editions which DC released during the 1970’s and early 80’s, in titles like Limited Collector’s Edition (Secret Origin Of Super-Villains, Super-Friends, and Batman’s Strangest Cases), an aberrant oversized issue of DC Special Series (Superman and His Fortress of Solitude), and the particularly sought-after All-New Collector’s Edition (Superman – The Movie and Superman Vs. Wonder Woman). These low-or non-distributed tabloids are extremely hard to find in the UK, but not commonplace anywhere in the world, as their size leaves them more prone than most to damage. Since this range is in mid to high grades, averaging FN or better, we expect them to be swiftly snapped up!
American/British Update: Raw!
*Undergrounds: A handful (#5-8) of the tabloid sized and extremely rare issues of Raw, Spiegelman and Mouly’s ambitious attempt to create a more cerebral and intellectual alternative magazine, as opposed to the visceral and scatological approach of Crumb, Sheldon, and the like. Each of these has an instalment of Spiegelman’s groundbreaking and acclaimed parental memoir, “Maus”, as well as a plethora of other features by Charles Burns, Paul Boyer, Gary Panter, Munoz and Sampayo, and many more. All are in extraordinary Near Mint condition.
American Update: Horror/Mystery 1960-1980s from various publishers
*Horror Mystery 1960-1980’s: A selection of shocks and shudders from a plethora of publishers: ACG (Adventures Into The Unknown, Forbidden Worlds and Unknown Worlds), Charlton (Many Ghosts of Dr. Graves), DC (House of Mystery, Secrets of Haunted House), Gold Key (Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery and Ripley’s Believe It Or Not) and Marvel (Fear (including the first Man-Thing and Morbius solo issues), Man-Thing (first and second series, with the second Howard the Duck appearance in Vol.1 #1), Supernatural Thrillers, Tower of Shadows, and Werewolf By Night (with the second appearance of Moon Knight.))
American Update: A soupcon of Pre-Code Horror
*Horror 1940-1959: We’re in-between courses on our Pre-Code Horror Fests at the moment, but here’s a fistful of five fear-fests from the Fifties, with new stock of Beware Terror Tales (Fawcett), Journey Into Fear (Superior), Nightmare (St. John), Unknown World (Fawcett) and Web of Evil (Quality); these very affordable mid-to-low grade copies are a ‘taster menu’ for future horrors to come!
American Update: Enter – the Defenders
*Marvel: Not one, but two, first issues for the World’s Greatest Non-Team! In Marvel Feature (1st Series) #1, Roy Thomas, Ross Andru and Bill Everett brought us the first appearance of the Defenders, an unlikely alliance of Marvel’s greatest loners – Dr. Strange, Sub-Mariner and the Hulk, a seemingly mismatched concept which caught on for decades. In addition to the Defenders’ debut, Marvel Feature #1 has another new tale of how & why Dr. Strange ditched his temporary ‘super-hero’ persona. Ballast ink at the top and spine is the only thing precluding a higher grade on this very tempting FN- squarebound. Not content with that, we also have the first issue of the Defenders’ ongoing series, in a glorious NM-, with vivid cover colour and gloss and excellent interior page quality, the issue which kicked off a run of more than 150 numbers, and which still influences the Marvel Universe today.
British Update: Picture Libraries for Big Girls
*Girls’ Picture Libraries: A shimmering sextette of romantic picture libraries this update, with new listings for Confessions, Famous Romance, Love Story, Star, True Life and – a title entirely new to our inventory – Valentine, which follows the lead of its weekly sister by featuring stories inspired by pop songs of the time. With frequently lovely painted covers and come-on titles such as “I Vowed Vengeance”, “Never Give All”, “He Wrecked Her Life”, and “Prisoner of Love”, these shine an interesting retrospective spotlight on the Battle of the Sexes.
British Update: Spellbound! The Super-Cats are back!
*Girls’ Comics: Out of stock here for far too long, we’re delighted to have at least a small quantity of the wonderful Spellbound series back into stock, commencing with a FN copy of #1 at £40, and including a handful of later issues from 1976 to 1977. As well as rivalling Misty for the quality of its spooky stories, Spellbound also had the bonus of the nubile Super-Cats, drawn by Romero (super-heroines in space science-fiction adventures) that were no doubt furtively enjoyed by many readers’ brothers (and dads!). As an added bonus, we also have the issue of Bunty (#976 from 1976) complete with its Promotional Flyer advertising the launch of Spellbound. A quick trip to your email outbox or telephonic communication device is advised in order to secure these!
Alan Class Signing: Ally Sloper – Special original art ‘auction’
In 1976, Alan Class joined forces with the foremost collector and historian of British comics, Denis Gifford to revive the character generally regarded as the first British comics character Ally Sloper. Ally Sloper was a blustery, lazy, scheming ne’er-do-well who debuted in 1867 in Judy, a ‘companion’ paper to Punch. The revival was sadly short-lived, lasting only 4 issues, despite boasting the cream of British artistic talent of the time, headlined by Frank Bellamy.
To launch the series, a party was held on a boat on the Thames, with many artists attending. There was a commemorative board and a large promotional board which many of the comics’ artists adorned with their rendition of Ally Sloper.
Left: Ally Sloper #1
1: 91cm x 125 cm
2: 104cm x 124 cm
Attendees included (left to right below, showing details of their Ally Sloper renditions): Denis Gifford, Hunt Emerson, Kevin O’Neill (faint on reverse of board), Ann Spano , Ed McHenry and many others.
On June 7th at our Alan Class signing session, these promotional boards will be on display and available (as a single lot, together with a copy of Ally Sloper #1) to the highest bidder. Simply contact us before 4 pm on June 7th with your bid (or make a bid on the day if you’re attending) and the best offer will win. Please note that the boards are too big to be posted and MUST be collected and taken away from our shop on June 7th (or within one week thereafter); you’ll need a car to take them, as they’ll be too large for public transport.
American Update: Complete run of Haunt Of Horror #1-5
*Vintage Magazine-Sized Comics: Another classic Marvel black and white magazine title added this week. From 1974, the complete five issue run of Haunt Of Horror, starring Gabriel, Devil-Hunter and Satana, among others. Issues #3-5 feature art by Neal Adams.
American Update: Iron Man, Iron Man, does whatever an iron can…
*Marvel: A long overdue update to our Silver/Bronze stocks of the Golden Avenger as we present new issues in of Iron Man between #8 and #70, with an emphasis on issues between #30 and #50, less often seen in the UK. In keeping with many of its contemporaries, the Iron Man title had a bewildering range of writer and artist changes during this period, resulting in some memorable highs and some equally memorable lows. Check them out in our online catalogue!
British Update: Air Ace Picture Library Flies Again!
*Boys’ Adventure & War Picture Libraries: We’re seeing lots of demand for this title lately, so here’s another bunch of wartime aviators in action in Air Ace Picture Library. A new selection now available, with dozens added as early as #2, all the way up to #349. As we invariably say, chocks away, chums!
Alan Class Signing: Printing Plate Sets Video
We’ve made a short video explaining and showing what’s in an Alan Class Printing Plate set. You can view that from our Alan Class Page in our Extras section.
British Update: Alan Class Printing Plate Sets
*Alan Class Reprints: In anticipation of our exclusive signing by Alan Class at our shop on Sunday 7th June (2-5 pm), we’re delighted to unveil a further baker’s dozen of his Printing Plate Sets. Frequent visitors to our site will know by now just what these are: an original Alan Class comic plus the lead plates used to print the cover, plus a certificate of authenticity, all encased in a presentation box, very often with extras. This release sees many popular titles such as Astounding, Outer Space, Out Of This World, Secrets Of the Unknown, Sinister Tales, Suspense and Uncanny, with much Marvel super-hero (and pre-hero) reprints alongside fantasy/horror from other publishers; big helpings of Kirby and in particular Ditko are included. This takes our tally of stock up to around 50 of these beautiful one-off items, the most we’ve ever assembled at the same time, all here for you to relish on the signing day (or sooner, if it takes your fancy!)
British Update: Large intake of Valiant
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: There’s a wealth of issues of the long-running classic Boys’ Adventure & War title Valiant added to our catalogue this week; significant numbers of issues from the early years of 1964, 1965 & 1966, as well as representations from 1967, 1968, 1973 & 1974.
British Update: 2000 AD #5, #6, #8 & #9
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: 2000 AD has become a British classic comic in recent decades and is undergoing something of a renaissance sales-wise here at 30th Century (for early issues), so we’re very pleased to have nice-graded copies of #5, #6, #8 & #9 new into stock. All FN except #5 (VG).
Window Update: Alan Class signing
We’re gearing up now for the Alan Class signing event here on 7th June, and in celebration of this, our exclusive window designer, Dr. Evilla, has arranged an informative and visual display in our window space showing and explaining the Alan Class Comic Printing Plate Sets. Much more to come on this event, but in the meantime, here’s a couple of images from our current window:
Housekeeping Update
On a regular cycle, we sweep through our entire stock to delete sold items and keep our listing as up to date as possible. We’ve just finished deleting sold items from the following file in our British section:
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics (titles beginning with S-Z, completing this category)
As of the time of writing, this category is bang up to date, with every item listed available.
American Update: 2nd App. Groot in Hulk Annual #5 VF
*Marvel: Still unacknowledged by most guides, 1976’s Hulk Annual #5, features the second ever appearance of Groot, the breakout character from the Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Scripter Chris Claremont had the idea of pitting old Jade-Jaws against a variety of the menacing creatures from the pre-Marvel era of Tales to Astonish, Strange Tales, Journey Into Mystery and the like, and thus this issue featured a sextet of what we at 30th C. have lovingly dubbed ‘Big-Panty Monsters’! In rapid succession, our chartreuse champion fights Xemnu, Goom, Taboo, Diablo, the Blip and, yes, Groot, in his first on-panel experience since 1960’s Tales to Astonish #13! A faint long diagonal crease – an original printing defect, rather than wear or misuse – is the only flaw preventing a higher grade on this VF copy, which we offer at £30. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD
American Update: A Bronze Age Bonanza of Marvel First Issues!
*Marvel: Ten premier issues ranging from 1968 to 1988, but mostly fixed firmly in the Bronze Age decade of the 1970’s; Captain Marvel, with the space-born super-hero spinning out of his Marvel Super-Heroes tryout series; Dr. Strange, with the exquisite artwork of Frank Brunner; Iron Fist, Marvel’s *other* martial-arts adventurer; Machine Man, one of the kookier Kirby creations; Marvel Premiere, with the first solo story of Warlock; Marvel-Team-Up and Marvel Two-In-One, which respectively teamed Spider-Man and the Thing with a plethora of Marvel super-stars; Super-Villain Team-Up, featuring Dr. Doom and the Sub-Mariner’s lethal alliance; Warlock, starring the hero of Counter-Earth; and Wolverine, the first issue of the popular X-Man’s ongoing series. In a variety of grades from an affordable GD to a coveted VF, these debut editions will sell through quickly, so act now!
Books Update: Mad: They’re coming to take me away! Ha ha! Hee hee..
*Mad Books: ..But not before I tell you about the latest excellent update to the Mad Books section, featuring a selction of titles (nearly 20 in total), in a minimum of VG grade, and two in NM.
Open Bank Holiday Monday 25th May
As usual, we shall be open during our normal hours 10:30-18:00 this coming Bank Holiday Monday 25th May.
Housekeeping Update
On a regular cycle, we sweep through our entire stock to delete sold items and keep our listing as up to date as possible. We’ve just finished deleting sold items from the following file in our Books section:
*Mad Books
As of the time of writing, this category is bang up to date, with every item listed available.
American/British Update: UK Mad #121-160 High Grade
*Mad & Other Parody: Forty consecutive issues of the UK version of Mad magazine fresh into stock between #121 and #160 (excepting only #149), almost all in VF condition, apart from a handful of FN.
American Update: Marvel’s Dracula Lives Magazine
*Vintage Magazine-Sized Comics: We present a near complete run of Dracula Lives from Marvel (1973), all issues of the 13 issue run (except #10), but including Annual #1. Classy covers, accomplished stories and art and full of movie vampire features. What’s not to like? (But we recommend taking with a clove or two of garlic!)
British Update: Knockout (both series)
*Humour Comics: A chunky update to both the first and second series of Knockout, the comic that in its first series never seemed quite sure if it was mainly humour with some adventure or mainly adventure with some humour (we’ve plumped for humour in our listings). The first series ran from 1939-1963 and the second (which was firmly humour!) from 1971-1973. We have issues from 1951, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1971 & 1972 new into stock.
British Update: Princess Picture Library
*Girls’ Picture Libraries: A new selection in of Princess Picture Library between #2 & #58, all featuring young ballerina Sally Doyle in dance-related adventures. This range is characterised by high grades, with most being Fine — you’d not want for better copies in your collection!
British Update: Lion 1952/53
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: A small batch of Lion, one of the most famous Boys’ Adventure titles, added to our stocks from thes first 2 years of publication 1952 & 1953. These have wonderfully evocative science fiction covers featuring space-ship pilot Captain Condor.
American Update: Huge intake of 1970’s Charlton & DC Horror/Mystery titles
*Horror Mystery 1960-1980’s: Following recent extensive sales, we are very pleased to restock this perennially favourite category with hundreds of Charlton & DC issues fresh in. Titles include: Charlton: Creepy Things, Ghostly Haunts, Ghostly Tales, Ghost Manor, Haunted, Many Ghosts Of Dr. Graves & Scary Things; DC: Black Magic, Ghosts, House Of Mystery, House Of Secrets, Plop, Secrets Of Haunted House, Secrets Of Sinister House, Tales Of Ghost Castle, Weird Mystery Tales & Witching Hour. Of particular note here are extensive runs of high grade House of Mystery and House Of Secrets following their 1970’s makeovers as horror titles, and featuring much artwork by Neal Adams, Berni Wrightson and many other talents.
British Update: Beano & Dandy Annuals from the 1950’s
*Annuals: Additions to our stock of vintage annuals from D.C. Thomson’s ‘Big Two’ humour weeklies; Beano Books from 1951-1959, and Dandy Books from 1955-1958. Join all the well-known characters such as Korky the Cat, Biffo the Bear, Dennis the Menace, Black Bob, Minnie the Minx, Desparate Dan, and the Bash Street Kids, as well as less well-remembered features Bird Boy, Jimmy and His Magic Patch, Rip Snorter (the Ugliest Pig In The World), Jack Flash, Tin Lizzie, Waif of the Wild West and Mickey From the Moon, to name but a few. Oddball antics and adventures abound, all in collectable mid-grade, with story pages unmarred. Left to right below: (Top) Beano 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 (Bottom) 1957, 1958, 1959, Dandy 1955, 1957.
Housekeeping Update
On a regular cycle, we sweep through our entire stock to delete sold items and keep our listing as up to date as possible. We’ve just finished deleting sold items from the following file in our British section:
*Horror/Mystery 1960-1980’s
As of the time of writing, this category is bang up to date, with every item listed available.
American Update: Hulk #102-200 High Grade (complete except for Wolverine!)
*Marvel: New in, every issue of Hulk from #102 (1st issue) to #200 (except for the Wolverine ‘trilogy’ in #180-182). Lots to savour, including the first appearances of friends: Doc Samson, Barbara Norris aka Valkyrie, Jim Wilson, Jarella and foes: the Missing Link, the Glob, the Wendigo, the Gremlin, Zzzaxx, the Harpy and many more, plus a couple of notable ‘deaths’: Warlock and the Mimic. The vast majority of issues in this collection are a sparkling high grade quality, with VF, VF+, VF/NM, NM- and NM all plentiful. A selection of scans shown below:
Hulk #102 FN+ £65
Hulk #104 VF+ £65
Hulk #106 VF/NM £58
Hulk #111 NM p £62
Hulk #112 NM p £62
Hulk #141 VF+ £60
Hulk #162 NM p £100
British Update: Classic Eagle
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: A chunky update to our stocks of the original home of Dan Dare (and so much more!), the Eagle, with new issues in from the 1950’s and 1960’s: from Volume 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14 and in particular Volume 16, which was sorely underrepresented in our listings.
British Update: Crikey & Scraps
*Magazines/Books About Vintage UK Comics: It’s far too seldom that we get to add much here due to the paucity of stuff on this subject, so we’re very pleased to have issue #1 of Scraps, a slick and glossy fanzine with an emphasis on UK reprints of vintage US material. Also, a couple of issues of Crikey fresh in that were missing from our listings.
British Update: Magic-Beano Books for 1947 & 1950
*Annuals: For the years 1943-1950, the Beano Book (Annual) was merged with the Magic Fun Book, resulting in Magic-Beano Books for those years. We have two low grade examples fresh into stock for the years 1947 and 1950. They are both quite tatty (1947 PR/FA £90) and 1950 (FA £60), but are complete, rarely seen and at affordable prices. More full descriptions may be seen in our website catalogue (under Beano Annuals).
British Update: Alan Class Printing Plate Sets
*Alan Class Reprints: In preparation for our Alan Class signing session here on Sunday 7th June, we’re very pleased to announce a further release of his Printing Plate Sets. Each of these unique items from the personal archive of Alan Class comprises the four lead printing plates used in the original comics’ colour printing, a copy of the comic printed with these plates and a signed certificate of authenticity signed by Alan Class himself. These are packaged in a special protective case. Several sets (as noted) have additional historical artefacts such as colour proofs, interior page plates, printers’ photostats, additional comics reprinted later in the series, original American comic featured etc. Most sets also feature handwritten anecdotes on separate cards with Alan Class’s reminiscences about a particular comic. Titles in this release are Astounding, Secrets Of the Unknown, Suspense, Uncanny & Weird Planets. Heavily featured are super-hero covers and lead stories, including the favourite Marvel characters Spider-Man, the Avengers, Daredevil and the Silver Surfer, as well as other publishers’ heroes: the Jaguar, Judo Master, Mandrake and the Phantom. There are also many horror/mystery covers beloved of Alan Class collectors, including some with evocative Steve Ditko covers. A piece of comics history, not just for the comic itself but also for the process in its manufacture!
Housekeeping Update
On a regular cycle, we sweep through our entire stock to delete sold items and keep our listing as up to date as possible. We’ve just finished deleting sold items from the following file in our British section:
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics (titles beginning with A-R)
As of the time of writing, this category is bang up to date (for the letters listed), with every item listed available. S-Z to follow soon.
American Update: 1960’s/70’s Archies
*Archie: A small update from the Riverdale scene from the 1960’s and 1970’s in the following titles: Archie & Me, Archie’s Joke Book, Archie’s Mad House & Life With Archie.
American Update: Low grade Silver/Bronze Marvel top-up
*Marvel: Several dozen mainly lower graded Silver/Bronze Marvel additions to the following titles: Captain America, Captain Marvel, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Silver Surfer, Amazing Spider-Man, Strange Tales and Tales Of Suspense.
American Update: Famous First Edition reprints of Superman #1 & Flash #1
*DC: From 1974, a brace of Treasury-sized reprints of the Golden Age Superman #1 & Flash #1 under the Famous First Editions banner. We actually have 2 copies of C61 (Superman #1) in VF and FN/VF; F8 (Flash #1) is FN/VF. These have become increasingly scarce in this nice a grade.
American Update: 1960’s Action Comics
*DC: A title at its absolute best in the Silver Age, we think, with both the Superman & Supergirl features of memorable quality, we are delighted to have restocked on Action Comics, a substantial number of issues between #262 (shown here) & #380 in mixed grades, filling many erstwhile gaps in our inventory.
American Update: Deadly Hands Of Kung Fu
*Vintage Magazine-Sized Comics: From 1974 and the height of the martial arts craze comes a near complete run of Deadly Hands Of Kung Fu, the Marvel watershed black and white magazine for all its martial arts characters, including Master Of Kung Fu, Sons Of the Tiger, Iron Fist, the White Tiger and debuts for the Daughters Of the Dragon and Jack Of Hearts. There’s also a lot about Bruce Lee (inc the special issue #28 pictured here), David Carradine and Chuck Norris (perhaps lesser known Marvel Characters!) and tons of features on films of the time. Our resident martial artist, Dr. Evilla, feels that authentic martial art accuracy was perhaps sacrificed for the sake of fancy action poses, and she should know!
British Update: Humour Comics from 1979 inc Summer Specials
*Humour Comics: Complementing this week’s Girls’ Comics update, we have a selection of popular Humour titles from 1979: Beano (inc Summer Special), Beezer (inc Summer Special), Jackpot, Whizzer & Chips and Whoopee (inc Summer Special).
British Update: Girls’ comics from 1979 plus earlier Judys
*Girls’ Comics: A selection of favourite titles from 1979: Bunty, Debbie, Jinty, Mandy, Misty and Tammy, as well as Judy, plus some additional Judys from 1968 & 1969.
American Update: Superman Vs Muhammad Ali VF
*DC: You’ve heard of the Rumble in the Jungle? You’ve heard of the Thriller in Manila? Now, get ready for the Uproarium in the Emporium as we bring you Superman Vs Muhammad Ali in the Treasury-sized All New Collectors’ Edition C56. Highly sought after by both comic and boxing enthusiasts, this one-off issue is gorgeously illustrated by the incomparable Neal Adams, whose art looks amazing at this size. In a rare VF grade, this is an item set only to rise in price as the years go by. Yours currently for £50. And it won’t be here long, so float like a butterfly and get your order in, or you’ll be stung by a bee. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD
Alan Class Signing Update
As previously announced, Alan Class will be signing copies of his comics and collectors’ printing plate sets at our shop on Sunday 7th June (we are opening on that one Sunday only especially for this event). The signing session will last from 2pm to 5pm, and we will only be open for those hours. This is timed so that those of you visiting central London for the Comic Mart that day can come along to the signing after the mart. If you’re unable to attend, Alan will be happy to sign and dedicate any of his comics or sets for you on the day that you can buy from us in advance (as shown in our website catalogue), which can if required be posted to you after the event. There will be more announcements about this special event as we get nearer the date!
American Update: Let’s Visit the X-Men!
*Marvel: From the earliest days of the ‘proper’ X-Men, as we know them here at 30th C. (none of your Storm and Wolverine gubbins ‘ere), these are the founders and originals! Sixteen new issues in, commencing with the second issue (1st Vanisher), which is an attractive Fine, and would grade higher but for the suspicion of very slight right edge trim. Other highlights of this selection include the Sub-Mariner/Evil Mutants team-up in #6, the first Juggernaut in #12, the deadly debut of the Sentinels in #14, the first Mimic in #19, and the loveable Locust in #24 – well, they can’t all be winners! With a couple of exceptions, this new range is averaging Fine or better, with attractive covers with unbroken cover and gloss, eminently collectable. Highlights shown below:
X-Men #2 FN cents £300
X-Men #6 FN pence £90
X-Men #12 VG- cents £55
X-Men #13 VG/FN cents £50
X-Men #14 FN+ cents £84
X-Men #18 FN+ cents £51
X-Men #19 FN+ cents £51
X-Men #26 VF+ cents £95