What’s Old: Slab Happy/Mighty Marvel Firsts: Fantastic Four #52 – Debut of Black Panther
*Marvel: Occasionally, we will feature an item in this What’s Old slot if we think it’s been overlooked or if, as in this case, prices have fallen from a peak and we’ve re-priced it. Lee & Kirby’s Fantastic Four added to its many innovations in 1966’s FF #52, when they introduced the first black super-hero in comics. Previously, the vanishingly rare heroic black characters in comics had been either embarrassing sidekicks or ‘noble savages’, but the Black Panther was the monarch of a highly sophisticated and technologically advanced African nation, Wakanda, and was to become not only one of the FF’s greatest allies, but a mainstay of their fellow heroes, the Avengers. This copy is CGC 5.0, unrestored blue label, a pence printed copy, off-white to white pages and a totally undamaged case.
PICTURED: FANTASTIC FOUR #52 CGC 5.0 VG/FN p £550 SOLD