*DC: From 1947/48, two more encapsulated issues of the Man of Steel taken from the Midas Collection this week. 
PICTURED: SUPERMAN
#49 CBCS 2.5 GD+ £165. Cover by Wayne Boring. Stories by Don C Cameron and Al Schwartz, art by John Sikela. Superman & Toyman team-up to capture the criminal who is framing the latter; Clark Kent goes on a dangerous expedition; Lois Lane attempts to go round the world in 80 days. This CBCS copy is graded at 2.5 GD+ and is unrestored. Case perfect, off-white to white pages, CBCS serial number 17-244BEBC-052. One can discern what appears to be water staining on the front and back covers, which would have been taken into account by the grader. 
#50 CGC 4.5 VG+ £400. Cover by Wayne Boring. Stories by Edmond Hamilton & Don C Cameron, art by Win Mortimer. Superman is set a series of tasks designed to stump him, the Prankster launches a new series of crimes and Superman helps some old hunters into the Hunters Club. This CGC copy is graded at 4.5 VG+ and is unrestored blue label. Case perfect, white pages, CGC serial number 0158174008. 

*DC: 14 continuous issues of DC’s longest-running science fiction series Strange Adventures. From #217 onwards, the last few years of this venerable title became reprint, featuring some classic stories of Adam Strange from Showcase and Mystery In Space, Atomic Knights from Strange Adventures itself, plus a wealth of other stories by the greatest talent assembled by editor Julius Schwartz. Issues from #226 onwards in this selection are all Giant issues. #222 features a brand new Adam Strange story and #226 has a new Adam Strange illustrated text story by Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson. A treasure trove of wonderful stories.
IN THIS UPDATE: STRANGE ADVENTURES ALL SOLD
#217 FN p £9 (PICTURED) 
#218 FN £7.50
#219 VG+ £5.75
#220 VG/FN p £5.75
#221 VG- p £4 Small cover scuff
#222 VG p £6.75  New Adam Strange story
#223 GD p £2.50
#224 FA p £1.50 Book shop stamps
#225 GD/VG p £3.50
#226 FN £7.50 Giant. New illustrated text Adam Strange story. 
#227 VG/FN £6.25 Giant
#228 VG/FN p £5.75 Giant
#229 VG £5 Giant
#230 VG+ £5.75 Giant

*Marvel: From the Bute Collection, we present Amazing Spider-Man #100, the Anniversary issue of Marvel’s solo super-star. Dated September 1971, this Stan Lee/Gil Kane epic features – behind an iconic John Romita cover – our tortured hero debating his roles in life, and endeavouring to choose, as the title suggests, between ‘The Spider… Or The Man?’ Ironically, the issue ends with him becoming an eerie amalgam of both! A very decent pence printed copy, bright and colourful, with very minor wear in from the spine. The black background cover is unmarked except for a couple of tiny central creases just breaking colour on Spidey’s head and body. Staples are tight and firm, pages are near white.  
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #100 VG/FN p £95 SOLD

*IW/Super: We continue with our series of updates from that most esoteric publisher IW/Super. IW Publications was a short-lived comic book publisher in the late 1950s and early 1960s, named for the company’s owner Israel Waldman. Comics were published under both the IW and Super imprints and were notable for publishing unauthorised Golden Age reprints of other company’s properties. Usually these companies were out of business, but not always. Basically, it seemed to be whatever they could get their hands on that determined the esoteric nature of their output. Thus you get super-heroes, war, romance, western, funny animals, crime, horror, science fiction and just about every genre within their pages. Full details of what was reprinted in what are listed in our website catalogue. NB usually with newly-drawn covers. Inasmuch as most IW/Super titles were portmanteau series, Fantastic Adventures, with its mix of war, crime, horror, good girl, jungle, adventure etc, all from different sources, was a typical example. 5 out of the 7 known issues here, starting at #11 and running to #18, the final issue. NB we don’t have the first issue, #10, nor #17 and there were no issues #13 or #14  (we told you that the IW numbering system was esoteric, right?)
IN THIS UPDATE: FANTASTIC ADVENTURES ALL SOLD
#11 VG+ £7.50 Reprints Blue Bolt Weird Tales #118 Star 1951. New cover by Ross Andru.
#12 GD £5 Not reprints. Unused Chesler material, most likely would have been Zor the Mighty #3. Cover by Ross Andru.
#15 FN- £6.75 Reprints Spook #23 Star 1953. New cover by Ross Andru. 
#16 VG+ £5.75 (PICTURED) Reprints Dark Shadows #2 Farrell 1958. New cover by Ross Andru. 
#18 FA £2 Reprints Superior Stories #1 Nesbit 1955 New cover by Ross Andru

*Teen Humour/Funny Girls: A fab and much overdue update to this grooviest of categories. The Bute Collection deals us a lucky seven issues of Millie’s spin-off title Modeling with Millie. Starting out with pure romance, the issues in this update soon morphed into a poptastic 1960s miasma of go-go disco happenings, not forgetting the fun fashion pages. In #54, the final issue of the series, not only do we get the return of the Gears, those ‘madcap musicians with the hard-driving Liverpool sound’, but Millie dreams she has an adventure as the costumed super-heroine known as Millie the Marvel. Ginchy, cats and kittens! 
IN THIS UPDATE: MODELING WITH MILLIE
#39 GD/VG £7.50
#43 VG+ £11
#45 VG £10
#49 VG- £8.75
#50 GD/VG £7.50 
#53 VG- £8.75 
#54 VG p £9 (PICTURED)

*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for this books category, with an image for each book. This week, the second of three updates devoted to the work of H P Lovecraft. H P Lovecraft is now seen as a natural successor to Edgar Allan Poe, but his life followed the tragic arc typically expected of artists. The bulk of his work was originally published in pulp fiction, most notably Weird Tales, so it was usually considered not be ‘literature’. Lovecraft is most famous for his Cthulhu stories, and the literary group that gathered around him, notably Robert E Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth and E Hoffman Price all contributed to that mythos. During the 1960s Lovecraft’s work was revived and re-evaluated, becoming far more popular, and granting him cult status as a highly influential author. Four volumes of his famous short stories this week. For many books about H P Lovecraft, see our Books About Books category. The final part of our HPL re-working coming soon. 
PICTURED: ALL BY H P LOVECRAFT
DAGON Panther 1973 3rd UK PB GD £9
MORE ANNOTATED H P LOVECRAFT Dell 1999 1st US PB FN £12
THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH Scholastic 1971 US PB GD £8
THE TOMB AND OTHER TALES Panther 1975 1975 4th UK PB VG £8

*DC: One of the least explored of Batman’s classic villains is the sinister Scarecrow, who appeared but once in the 1940s, then stayed in limbo until resurrected for Batman #189 in 1967. Psychology professor Johnathan Crane used the mechanics of fear in his crime sprees, and despite numerous appearances since his revival, remains – certainly by comparison with the much-loved but over-used ‘Big Four’ Batman villains – enigmatic and compelling. This pence stamped copy has quite a bit of handling wear at spine and edges, where there are small colour-breaking creases. Small felt tip price drawn on cover moon. Staples are tight and firm, off-white pages fairly nice. 
PICTURED: BATMAN #189 GD/VG p £120 SOLD

*DC: Three decades of DC (50s, 60s, 70s) in this very diverse grab bag.
IN THIS UPDATE: ALL SOLD
ACTION COMICS #317 GD p £6.75 Superman & Supergirl; off lower staple. 
ADVENTURE COMICS #410 GD+ p £3 Giant; Supergirl and Legion of Super-Heroes
ALL STAR COMICS #71 GD+ £3.25 with the Justice Society of America
HOUSE OF MYSTERY #79 FA £7.25 Horror/mystery. Taped spine; large corner off back cover. 
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED #32 PR £4 Sci-fi. Taped spine. 
WORLD’S FINEST #188 FN+ £14.75 Giant; some of the best Superman/Batman team-ups. 

*Marvel: One of Marvel’s most successful attempts at diversifying their line in the 1970s was their cash-in on the Martial Arts craze, with Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu! His inauspicious debut in Special Marvel Edition, a series previously devoted to reprints, indicated that there wasn’t much faith in Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin’s co-creation, but readers took him to their collective hearts, and more than 100 issues ensued, with a star roster of creators including Doug Moench, Gene Day and Paul Gulacy. Here, however, was where it all started, in Special Marvel Edition #15, December 1973, with the Son of Fu Manchu discovering his villainous heritage, and setting out to oppose his father. Never distributed in the UK, and therefore doubly sought after on these shores. This is a mid-grade copy (no pence copies of this, of course) with strong cover colours and gloss. There is some minor corner blunting and minor edge and spine wear. A few handling and pressure marks and a faint but noticeable 12 cm crease breaking colour across the top right corner. Tight, firm staples and nice off-white pages. 
PICTURED: SPECIAL MARVEL EDITION #15 VG+ £70 SOLD

*Charlton: The Blue Beetle has had a long and distinguished career with many publishers and many aliases. the Charlton series from 1967/68 featured the Ted Kord version of the character (almost certainly the most celebrated) and had the great fortune to be drawn by Steve Ditko (from the Marvel Spider to the Charlton Beetle). The fate of the first Beetle (Dan Garrett) is revealed in #2 of this series. In wall-to-wall art on this run, Ditko also drew the Question back-up stories, the character in fact debuting in #1. Here’s a chance to enquire the entire 5 issue run in mixed grade of this fan favourite series.
IN THIS UPDATE: BLUE BEETLE #1-5 £115 SOLD
#1 (PICTURED) GD+ 1st Question. Off lower staple; small chip out at base of spine. Two felt tip pen letters central cover.  
#2 GD/VG Small lower spine split; cover creases
#3 VG- Minor cover creases
#4 VG+ Long subscription-like crease
#5 VG- Minor cover creases

*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: A prime example of British gangster pulp. The novels of Darcy Glinto (Harold Ernest Kelly) are infamous. Full of gangsters and women of easy virtue, they were frequently banned and removed from circulation, and are now quite rare and sought after. Road Floozie was first published in 1941 – both author and publisher were found guilty of publishing obscene books at an Old Bailey trial the following year and heavily fined, the book characterised as ‘coarse and brutal’, and remanded in custody until payment had been made. The book’s synopsis tells you what you need to know: ‘The great civilization of the US has its seamy side along the open roads as well as in the confines of its cities. Eileen had to meet it, yield to it, or starve. She suffered the worst humiliations, the crudest brutalities. It soured her, but with her Irish blood she had to fight back.’ This second edition from 1950 is a nice copy with solid spine, just a 3 cm tear without loss down from top edge (and on flyleaf). Clean, clear pages and firm staples. 
PICTURED: 
DARCY GLINTO: ROAD FLOOZIE Robin Hood Press 1950 2nd UK PB VG £60 SOLD
 

*DC: The debut of a major Batman villain from the Midas Collection this week. Although he was known as Mr Zero on his debut in 1959, he was re-named Mr Freeze for the Batman TV show in 1966 and the name changed in the comics thereafter. Mr Freeze has a long and infamous career in the DCU and portrayed as a tragic super-villain whose main motivation was preserving his wife’s life. He was created by Dave Wood (writer) and Sheldon Moldoff and Bob Kane (artists). Batman #121 features an evocative cover featuring Mr Zero by Curt Swan. Alongside the Mr Zero debut and origin story, there are two more Batman thrillers by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff: Batman & Robin discover a criminal’s dead body in the Bat Cave, and a railway story featuring circus and prison trains. Not a bad copy here, although there are some flaws, which keep it relatively affordable for a major key issue. The cover has bright colours with a white background. Minor handling and edge wear with one or two small nicks. Upper 3.5 cm spine split. Small creases break colour over the second ‘A’ in the logo and across the bottom right cover corner. A small figure ’10’ in pencil has been written in the white background above Mr Zero’s head, and there is a 1 cm circular white stain over the first ‘A’ in the logo. Staples are firm and the pages are a clean off-white. Overall, presents very well. High resolution images are available on request. 
PICTURED: BATMAN #121 GD+ £1,200

*DC: Edited in the 1950s by Whitney Ellsworth, My Greatest Adventure was one of a series of science fiction/weird mystery adventure titles from DC, which presented a consistent standard of story and art. The editorial reins passed to Jack Schiff with the issues in this update from 1959/60. 
IN THIS UPDATE: MY GREATEST ADVENTURE
#27 GD £14.75 (PICTURED) Loose centrefolds SOLD
#28 FA £11.25 Jack Kirby art; loose pages SOLD
#29 FA £7.75 SOLD
#30 GD+ £18.50 SOLD
#32 GD/VG £18.25 SOLD
#41 VG p £20.50 SOLD

*Marvel: Okay, so 2009 is quite a way too modern for us normally, but we’ll make an exception for Amazing Spider-Man #601, with its stunning and much-prized Mary Jane cover by fan favourite artist J Scott Campbell. This is the lovely sort of high grade you would expect from an issue from this time, flat and glossy with square corners and white, glossy pages. There is just one tiny stress mark at centre spine preventing a grade that includes the word ‘mint’. 
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #601 VF+ £125

*Harvey: During the 1960s, probably as a reaction to the Marvel Age of Comics, Harvey produced a series of short run super-hero titles, featuring characters that may by now be forgotten, but which had distinction and charm, were often by famous creators and were more than just a bit on the wacky side. The Giant-Sized Double-Dare Adventures headlined B(ee)-Man, and featured the Glowing Gladiator (art by Bob Powell), Magicmaster (with art by Jack Sparling and scripts by that famous magician Jim Steranko), plus a Jack Kirby sci-fi short. Fighting American (also Giant-Size) featured many stories of the patriotic Golden Age hero with his sidekick Speedboy, by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Spyman, the super-hero spy, featured scripts and a limited amount of art by Jim Steranko in #1 (his first pro-art), who was probably a spy when he wasn’t being a magician. Unearthly Spectaculars (Giant-Size) headlined Jack Q Frost by Sparling and and Gil Kane, Clawfang the Barbarian by Wally Wood and Al Williamson, Tiger Boy by Gil Kane, Miracles Inc by Wally Wood, Three Rocketeers by Mike Sekowsky and Earthman by Wally Wood. We expect demand for these to be, um, wacky… 
PICTURED: ALL SOLD
DOUBLE-DARE ADVENTURES #1 VG+ £15 Small book shop stamp
FIGHTING AMERICAN #1 VG £12.50 Small book shop stamp
SPYMAN
#1 VG £40
#3 VG £20
UNEARTHLY SPECTACULARS #2 GD/VG £10

*Alan Class Reprints: Long-time visitors to our site will remember that we’ve been selling the Printing Plates from Alan Class’s Private Archive for many years. Although they ran out in 2023 (apart from two high-end key issues shown in our listings), there has always been the possibility of a few more being located with the co-operation of Alan himself. Such has now happened with two issues of Suspense, starring Daredevil and the Silver Surfer, but please note that only two plates from each set have been located. Suspense #60 has no cover colour plates, but features a wonderful Daredevil splash page plate and a further inside back cover plate for a fantasy story. Suspense #108 has two of the cover colour plates, including the main plate with most of the image. Both sets come with copies of the comics from the Alan Class Personal Archive, and a signed certificate of authenticity signed by Alan Class himself. These are packaged in a special protective presentation case. Full details follow (please remember that these sets are not available for postage to addresses outside the UK).
PICTURED: SUSPENSE BOTH SOLD
#60 £60
Comic FA with taped spine. Reprints Daredevil #8 (1st Stilt Man). Cover and lead by Wally Wood, plus Atlas, 1 Chameleon, 1 Young King Cole, 1 Target. Pre-decimal.
Internal Plates: 2 inc dynamic Daredevil splash page by Wood.
Signed certificate of authenticity
Presentation case
#108 £90
Comic VG+ Reprints Silver Surfer #10. Cover and lead by John Buscema, plus ACG. Both pre and post decimal priced. 
Colour cover plates: 2 inc main plate, good colour inks.
Signed certificate of authenticity
Presentation case

*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for this books category, with an image for each book. This week, the first of many updates devoted to the work of H P Lovecraft. H P Lovecraft is now seen as a natural successor to Edgar Allan Poe, but his life followed the tragic arc typically expected of artists. The bulk of his work was originally published in pulp fiction, most notably Weird Tales, so it was usually considered not be ‘literature’. Lovecraft is most famous for his Cthulhu stories, and the literary group that gathered around him, notably Robert E Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth and E Hoffman Price all contributed to that mythos. During the 1960s Lovecraft’s work was revived and re-evaluated, becoming far more popular, and granting him cult status as a highly influential author. Two prestigious hardcover volumes to start. The Ancient Track – The Complete Poetical Works ‘does what it says on the tin’, collected in one volume for the first time. The Dunwich Horror And Others, from the legendary Arkham House, contains many of his most famous stories; prepared by S T Joshi following consultation with original manuscripts and early publications. Both in good quality dust jackets protected with removable archival film. For many books about H P Lovecraft, see our Books About Books category. The second part of our HPL re-working coming soon. 
PICTURED: BY H P LOVECRAFT
THE ANCIENT TRACK – THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS Night Shade Books 2001 1st US Hardcover, 2nd printing VF £45 With DJ VF
THE DUNWICH HORROR AND OTHERS Arkham House 1984 11th US HC FN £40 With DJ VF

*DC: From the Bute Collection this week, an early Detective Comic, #46 from 1940. Headlining Batman, of course, with Robin the Boy Wonder, this issue also features Spy, Crimson Avenger, Speed Saunders, Larry Steele, Steve Malone, Cliff Crosby and Slam Bradley. A dynamic Batman cover by Bob Kane is followed by the Batman lead (Professor Strange’s Fear Dust), written by Bill Finger, with art by Kane, Jerry Robinson and George Roussos. This was Hugo Strange’s third Golden Age clash with the Caped Crusader, and although he apparently falls off a cliff to his apparent death, you and I know that he would return time after time as one of Batman’s most enduring foes. This is a miscut copy, presumably a victim of the production line, cut at an angle off-centre as can be seen in the scans below. Nevertheless it has bright colours and nice off-white pages. There are a few internal page tears restricted to the margins. There are small splits to top and bottom spine; the lower staple is off and the upper is reinforced by small pieces of tape on the inside covers. It presents reasonably well despite all that, with a striking cover image (and what a classic logo!). High resolution images are available on request.   
PICTURED: DETECTIVE COMICS #46 GD £900

*DC: In the wake of the Justice League/Justice Society crossovers, interest was revived in the 1940s heroes of the JSA, and one of several revivals was the Spectre, a literal ghost who wandered the Earth, battling evil with mighty supernatural abilities. Brought back for solo try-outs in Showcase #60, by the superb team of Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson, the Ghostly Guardian’s powers were elevated to almost godlike levels, to the point where the writer must have strained to come up with credible opposition for him – but the epic clashes between mystical and demonic forces pioneered ‘cosmic’ themes in comics. The Spectre swiftly graduated to his own title in 1967, begun by Fox and Anderson, before Neal Adams took over on art for issues #2-5. Accomplished art was a prime feature for this series and in this update we have the complete ten issues available as a set. A rare chance to get hold of a complete Silver Age series of a significant DC character. 
IN THIS UPDATE: THE SPECTRE COMPLETE SERIES #1-10 Av VG/VG+ £145 SOLD
#1 VG (PICTURED)
#2 VG+
#3 VG+
#4 VG+
#5 FN
#6 VG
#7 GD/VG
#8 VG+
#9 GD-
#10 VG-

*Marvel: 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 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!’. 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, of whom you may have heard). These low-circulation, high-quality issues are now greatly in demand, and we have two of them newly listed.
PICTURED: AMAZING ADULT FANTASY
#8 GD- £50 SOLD A worn copy with book shop stamps, edge wear, corner creases breaking colour and corner blunting. Staples are firm and tight; pages are decent, off-white to cream. 
#12 GD/VG p £80 SOLD Pence printed. Some edge wear but mostly unmarked. A 7 cm crease across bottom right cover breaks colour, and there is a small discoloured patch over the word ‘intelligence’ in the bottom edge blurb. But a sound copy with tight, firm staples and supple off-white pages. 

*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: An unusual attempt at a villainous protagonist was the Yellow Claw, an Oriental scientist whose relentless attempts to conquer the world were thwarted by the vigilance of FBI Agent Jimmy Woo – the company’s first Asian-American hero, historians please note. Resemblance to Sax Rohmer’s legendary Doctor Fu Manchu is entirely coincidental, ahem ahem. In this fourth and final issue of the Claw’s series from 1957, he launches four separate attacks upon democracy: the Living Shadows, solidified thought-projections, the unnerving bird-human hybrids the Skreemies, and his most fiendish plot yet – brainwashing by television! All four tales are illustrated by Jack Kirby and John Severin (behind a solo Sev cover), and the combination of the two artists gives a compelling air of palpable menace, highly appropriate to the narrative. The Yellow Claw returned to the Marvel Universe in the 1960s (sort of) as a nemesis of SHIELD and in the 1970s as an antagonist of Captain America, and Jimmy Woo became one of the Agents of SHIELD (and then Atlas), so both hero and villain have a lengthy pedigree. This is a reasonable copy of #4 with some cover wear including corner blunting, edge wear and a couple of cover creases which break colour but do not interfere with the cover image; small nick out of bottom centre cover and small tear without loss to right edge. Staples are firm and pages are a decent white to off-white.
PICTURED: YELLOW CLAW #4 GD/VG £240 

*Vintage UK/Australian Reprints of US Material: Three heroes with military overtones in UK reprints from the American originals this week. Captain Midnight appeared in two series in the 1950s and 1960s from Miller, having appeared in Dell and Fawcett originals after originating in US radio and TV. He was an aviator, super-hero and (eventually) spaceman. Captain Video was a science fiction hero from an American TV series starting in 1949 and the US original comic series from Fawcett. Commander Battle (& His Atomic Sub) was just one Miller issue from the ACG original; it always makes me think of those atomic submarines American kids could send off for from the ads on the back of comic books and in which two children could fit…
IN THIS UPDATE:
CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT 
(1st series)
#42 VG/FN £11
(2nd series)
#5 GD £10 Off staples
#10 GD/VG £12 (PICTURED)
CAPTAIN VIDEO
#2 VG £9 (PICTURED) Book shop stamp. 
#5 VG £9
COMMANDER BATTLE AND HIS ATOMIC SUB
#1 VG £12 (PICTURED) 

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*DC: Also from the Midas Collection this week, issue #51 of Wonder Woman from 1952, with a novel Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor cover by Irwin Hasen. Three stories written by Robert Kanigher and drawn by Harry Peter. The Daily Globe runs a contest to discover Wonder Woman’s secret identity, an Amazon demands the right to go to Man’s World and fight crime like Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman volunteers to go to nursing school to convince young girls it’s a glamorous occupation. Not a bad copy, with slight spine roll, cover almost off lower staple, and a small doodle by the logo. Bright cover colours and decent off-white pages. Small splits at both ends of spine. Small chips and nicks out back cover with small chip out right edge centre. Colour breaking crease across Wonder Woman’s cleavage. 
PICTURED: WONDER WOMAN #51 GD+ £100

*Marvel: Following his return to active service in Avengers #4, Captain America became a companion feature of Iron Man in Tales of Suspense. After the division of the Marvel double-feature books in 1968, when distribution embargoes were slackened, Cap gained his own series again, though it retained the numbering of Tales of Suspense, premiering with #100. Featuring the talents of Lee, Kirby and Shores, this re-introduced the Sentinel of Liberty in solo action to the modern age (though between the retelling of his origins and his ongoing plotlines, he certainly had enough pals along in his first issue!). This is an okay copy; although it is not pence priced there is an ‘8c’ stamp beside Cap’s figure on the cover. The inside covers have edge tan, with what looks like water damage at outer edges, which is not too bad, although you can notice marks on the right cover edge towards the bottom. Staples are tight and firm; creamy pages. 
PICTURED: CAPTAIN AMERICA #100 GD/VG £120 SOLD