Auctions: comic books 2019, graded by CBCS

Blossoms 666 (2018 Archie) 1C CBCS 9.8 Francavilla Variant

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Francesco Francavilla Variant.

Label #19-23F2991-006

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Written by Cullen Bunn. Art by Laura Braga and Matt Herms. Cover by Francesco Francavilla. BRAND NEW SERIES! Cheryl and Jason Blossom are a pair of seemingly normal kids in Riverdale. They're wealthy, popular and likeable-but they also harbor a deep, dark secret-one of the Blossom Twins is the Anti-Christ. Both want the title, and no one in Riverdale is safe. 32 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

Dark Red (2019 Aftershock) 1B CBCS 9.8 Stroman 1:10 Variant

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Larry Stroman Retailer Incentive.

Label #19-1110B73-027

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Limited 1 for 10 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover. Written by Tim Seeley. Art by Corin Powell. Cover by Larry Stroman. Charles 'Chip' Ipswich isn't one of those coastal elites with a liberal arts degree and a job at a social media start-up who knows where all the best brunch places are… No, Chip is one of the 'forgotten men.' He lives in a rural area in the middle of the country where Jesus still has a place at the dinner table and where factories send jobs to Calcutta. Chip is also a vampire. Stuck working the last shift at a gas station, Chip is lonely and bored…and then his dull, bleak life is turned upside down when SHE comes to town.Tim Seeley (BRLLIANT TRASH) and Corin Powell (Ghostbusters, X-Files Origins: Scully, Bat-Mite) bring you a contemporary and horrifying tale of vampirism in the heart of America - one that'll make you jump right out of your boots. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Miles Morales Spider-Man (2019 Marvel) 1A CBCS 9.6 Stelfreeze

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Label #22-11A3106-009

Written by Saladin Ahmed. Art by Javi Garron. Cover by Brian Stelfreeze. Balancing his normal life, school, parents, etc…and super-heroing has never been easy, but when the Rhino and a cadre of mysterious criminals start plaguing Brooklyn, things take a dark turn. And Miles doesn't even know the half of it yet. Eisner Award-winner Saladin Ahmed (BLACK BOLT) and Young Gun Javier Garrón (ANT-MAN & THE WASP) bring you the latest incarnation of the coolest character in the Marvel Universe! 28 pages,full color. Rated T Cover price $3.99.

Miles Morales Spider-Man (2019 Marvel) 6A CBCS 9.8 D'Alfonso

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Label #22-0833472-004

First appearance of Starling. Written by Saladin Ahmed. Art by Javi Garron. Cover by Marco D'Alfonso. Who is STARLING?! …And is she single? Er, we mean, is she going to help stop Tombstone, or is she about to make the .45-thousand-caliber war for Brooklyn even deadlier? The last thing he needs is another complication at school. Good thing high school is, like, a very chill, logical place - oh wait. 28 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

Miles Morales Spider-Man (2019 Marvel) 6C CBCS 9.4 Garron Variant 2nd Printing

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Second Printing.

Label #22-0833472-003

2nd Printing. Written by Saladin Ahmed. Art and Cover by Javi Garron. Who is STARLING?! …And is she single? Er, we mean, is she going to help stop Tombstone, or is she about to make the .45-thousand-caliber war for Brooklyn even deadlier? The last thing he needs is another complication at school. Good thing high school is, like, a very chill, logical place - oh wait. 28 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

Miles Morales Spider-Man (2019 Marvel) 7B CBCS 7.5 Garron Variant 2nd Printing

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Second Printing.

Label #22-11A3106-011

2nd Printing cover by Javier Garron. Written by Saladin Ahmed. Art by Ron Ackins, Dexter Vines, Alitha E. Martinez, Vanesa Del Rey, and Javier Garron. After the dramatic conclusion of the first arc, Miles has to take stock in his life. What do his parents think of all of this? How do his friends, particularly Bombshell, react to what's happened? All this, a surprise return and a cover by the art director of SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE, Patrick O'Keefe! 28 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

Miles Morales Spider-Man (2019 Marvel) 8A CBCS 9.8 O'Keefe

Label #22-11A3106-012

Written by Saladin Ahmed. Art by Javi Garron. Cover by Patrick O'Keefe. Miles Morales has been TAKEN! Grabbed from the streets by an unknown assailant, bound, tested and observed, like a bug under glass. Who is responsible?! And how far will they push Miles to protect his friends and family? Don't miss this horrifying new chapter in Miles' life as his rogues' gallery continues to grow! 28 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $3.99.

Miles Morales Spider-Man (2019 Marvel) 10A CBCS 9.4 Asrar

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Label #22-11A3106-010

Written by Saladin Ahmed. Art by Javi Garron and Annie Wu. Cover by Mahmud Asrar. SPIDER-SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL OR BIG 250th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE? That's right, it's our 250th issue and it's Miles Morales' birthday! But YOU'RE getting all the gifts! A mystery dating back to Miles' first appearance? Answered! A terrifying villain destined to become one of Miles' greatest adversaries? Revealed! Special guests, like maybe Peter Parker: Spider-Man? YOU KNOW IT! All busting out of 25 pages by main series storytellers Saladin Ahmed and Javier Garrón, PLUS a bonus back-up by Ahmed and a special guest artist delving into the history of your new favorite character, STARLING! Your FOMO is well-founded! DON'T MISS IT! 36 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $4.99.

Rick and Morty (2015 Oni Press) 50B CBCS 9.6 SS Matt Horak

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Witnessed Signature: Matt Horak (with sketch) on 7/25/2021. Matt Horak Variant.

Label #21-4692EB1-026

Written by Kyle Starks & Various. Art by Marc Ellerby & Various. Cover by Matt Horak. It's just Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty and their adventures, Morty... Rick and Morty, forever and forever, FIFTY ISSUES Rick and MortyTM! Join us as we celebrate this milestone with a special, super oversized MORTY'S MINDBLOWER issue! Featuring creators from the previous 49 issues! 40 pages, full color. Cover price $6.99.

Silver Surfer Black (2019 Marvel) 1UNKNOWN.A CBCS 9.8

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Unknown Comics Exclusive Variant.

Label #21-3246A82-018

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Unknown Comics exclusive cover by Lucio Parrillo. Written by Donny Cates. Art by Tradd Moore. Spinning out of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #1, almost the entire galaxy's defenders have been blown through a black hole, including the Silver Surfer! But the story doesn't end there… In order to fight back the oblivion, Surfer will have to fight to save his own soul and not lose himself to the void. Follow the Sentinel of the Spaceways on a journey that will change him forever! From superstars Donny Cates (VENOM, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY) and Tradd Moore (ALL-NEW GHOST RIDER, VENOM)! 28 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

Something Is Killing the Children (2019 Boom) 1A CBCS 9.8 SS Dell'Edera/ Tynion IV Dell'Edera 1st Printing

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Witnessed Signatures: Werther Dell'Edera on 12/19/2020 and James Tynion IV on 1/17/2021

Label #20-38CC762-002

Written by James Tynion IV. Art and Cover by Werther Dell'Edera. GLAAD Award-winning writer James Tynion IV (Memetic, Batman: Detective Comics) teams with artist Werther Dell'Edera (Briggs Land) for an all-new limited series about staring into the abyss to find your worst fears staring back. When the children of Archer's Peak begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories-impossible stories of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to see what they can see. Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters. That is all she does, and she bears the cost because it MUST be done. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Something Is Killing the Children (2019 Boom) 2A CBCS 9.6 SS Dell'Edera/ Tynion IV Dell'Edera

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Witnessed Signatures: Werther Dell'Edera on 12/19/2020 and James Tynion IV on 1/17/2021.

Label #20-38CC762-003

Written by James Tynion IV. Art and Cover by Werther Dell'Edera. Children are dying in the town of Archer's Peak and the ones who survive bring back terrible stories. A strange woman named Erica Slaughter has appeared and says she fights these monsters behind the murders, but that can't possibly be true. Monsters aren't real… are they? 24 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Something Is Killing the Children (2019 Boom) 3A CBCS 9.8 SS Dell'Edera/ Tynion IV Dell'Edera

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Witnessed Signatures: Werther Dell'Edera on 12/19/2020 and James Tynion IV on 1/17/2021

Label #20-38CC762-004

Written by James Tynion IV. Art and Cover by Werther Dell'Edera. Things in Archer's Peak are only growing worse. Erica Slaughter is on the hunt, but the children are still dying. Angry and afraid, the inhabitants turn their suspicions on the stranger in their midst, the woman who arrived just as the killings began. Will Erica be able to save the town, or will the very people she is trying to protect turn on her? 28 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order Dark Temple (2019 Marvel) 1A CBCS 9.2

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Label #22-11A3106-029

Written by Matthew Rosenberg. Art by Paolo Villanelli. Cover by Marco Checchetto. IN THE GLORY DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC, TWO JEDI WILL GET CAUGHT UP IN A BATTLE THEY CAN'T UNDERSTAND - A BATTLE FOR THEIR LIVES! Leading into Jedi: Fallen Order the upcoming third-person action-adventure Star Wars title from Lucasfilm and Respawn Entertainment, DARK TEMPLE follows the Jedi Master ENO CORDOVA and his impulsive Padawan CERE JUNDA on their most dangerous mission yet. The Jedi Council has sent them to the remote planet Ontotho to oversee the peaceful excavation of a mysterious temple that has been uncovered. But they will come to find that what surrounds the temple may be even more dangerous than the mysteries within it. Clandestine local resistance forces and ruthless corporate security troops in a war for the fate of Ontotho - and the Jedi are caught in the middle! 28 pages, full color. Rating T Cover price $3.99.

Sword Master (2019 Marvel) 1E CBCS 9.4 Remenar Variant 2nd Printing

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Second Printing.

Label #22-0833E94-008

2nd Printing. Written by Shuizhu and Greg Pak. Art by Gunji and Ario Anindito. Cover by Valentina Remenar. MIGHTY MARVEL MARTIAL ARTS DOUBLE TROUBLE! ALL NEW ONGOING SERIES! You saw him tear through Fire Goblins in WAR OF THE REALMS with his big, damn magic sword! Now learn the mysterious origins of LIN LIE, A.K.A. SWORD MASTER, Marvel's newest Chinese superhero, in the English language debut of the original series written by Shuizhu and drawn by Gunji! Haunted by dreams of demons, Lin Lie hunts for his missing archeologist father - and for the secret of the black sword he left behind. And in a brand new story written by Greg Pak (NEW AGENTS OF ATLAS), Sword Master teams up with SHANG-CHI! What happens when an undisciplined, untrained kid with a magic sword tangles with the one and only, undisputed MASTER OF KUNG FU? (Spoiler alert: they will indeed drive each other crazy, with huge ramifications for the Marvel Universe!) 36 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

Usagi Yojimbo (2019 4th Series IDW) 1HEROESCON.A CBCS 9.4 SS Sakai/Vess

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Witnessed Sigs: Stan Sakai (with sketch) & Charles Vess on 6/14/2019. Charles Vess Exclusive Variant.

Label #19-23FC923-005

Heroes Con exclusive cover by Charles Vess. Story, Art by Stan Sakai. Follow the adventures of rabbit ronin Miyamoto Usagi as he wanders Edo period Japan on his warrior's journey. In the start of this three-part story, Usagi becomes embroiled in a puppet drama where the players are not quite what they seem! Written, drawn, and lettered by comics legend Stan Sakai! Colors by Tom Luth (Groo the Wanderer)! The start of an exciting new chapter in the epic ongoing saga of Usagi, now published by IDW! This series will be in all color! 28 pages, full color.

Venom (2018 Marvel) 9A CBCS 9.6 Stegman

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Label #21-2E62824-017

Written by Donny Cates. Art and Cover by Ryan Stegman. The smash hit of the summer continues with… VENOM NO MORE?! 'Nuff said! 28 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

Walking Dead (2003 Image) 192C CBCS 9.8 SS Kirkman Adlard Commemorative Variant

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Verified Signature: Robert Kirkman Special Commemorative Edition

Label #23-17E8610-086

Special Commemorative Edition. Written by Robert Kirkman. Art by Charlie Adlard & Various. Cover by Charlie Adlard and Dave Stewart. 'AFTERMATH': Carl fights for the Commonwealth… but who is he fighting against? 36 pages, full color. Rated M Cover price $3.99.

Walking Dead (2003 Image) 192C CBCS 9.6 SS Kirkman Adlard Commemorative Variant

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Verified Signature: Robert Kirkman. Special Commemorative Edition

Label #23-17E8610-094

Special Commemorative Edition. Written by Robert Kirkman. Art by Charlie Adlard & Various. Cover by Charlie Adlard and Dave Stewart. 'AFTERMATH': Carl fights for the Commonwealth… but who is he fighting against? 36 pages, full color. Rated M Cover price $3.99.

Walking Dead (2003 Image) 192C CBCS 9.4 SS Kirkman Adlard Commemorative Variant

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Verified Signature: Robert Kirkman Special Commemorative Edition

Label #23-17E8610-074

Special Commemorative Edition. Written by Robert Kirkman. Art by Charlie Adlard & Various. Cover by Charlie Adlard and Dave Stewart. 'AFTERMATH': Carl fights for the Commonwealth… but who is he fighting against? 36 pages, full color. Rated M Cover price $3.99.

Walking Dead (2003 Image) 192C CBCS 9.2 SS Kirkman Adlard Commemorative Variant

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Verified Signature: Robert Kirkman Special Commemorative Edition

Label #23-17E8610-079

Special Commemorative Edition. Written by Robert Kirkman. Art by Charlie Adlard & Various. Cover by Charlie Adlard and Dave Stewart. 'AFTERMATH': Carl fights for the Commonwealth… but who is he fighting against? 36 pages, full color. Rated M Cover price $3.99.

War of the Realms New Agents of Atlas (2019 Marvel) 3C CBCS 9.6 Lim Variant 2nd Printing

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Second Printing.

Label #22-0833E94-012

2nd Printing. Written by Greg Pak. Art and Cover by Gang Hyuk Lim. BURN, BABY, BURN! AMADEUS CHO has always been the cocky rebel, bucking authority to do the right thing. But now he's the authority - the de facto leader of a disparate group of heroes from all over the Pacific - each of whom has their own idea of the best way to free their countries from the fiery rule of the QUEEN OF CINDERS! Can Amadeus pull these NEW AGENTS OF ATLAS together - or will QUEEN SINDR succeed in her ultimate plan to drive north and turn all of Earth into NEW MUSPELHEIM? 28 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.