Auctions: comic books published by Marvel/Star Comics, graded by CBCS

Ewoks (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 2 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Direct Edition

Label #20-2A76D7E-017

"Rites of Power!" Story by David Manak. Art by Warren Kremer. When the Ewok village comes under attack by a band of warriors only Princess Kneesaa may hold the key to victory. FC, 32 pages Cover price $0.65.

Ewoks (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 6 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

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Label #16-3717D5B-266

"The Ice Demon!" Story by David Manak. Art by Warren Kremer and Jon D'Agostino.. When Wicket falls under the thrall of the notorious Ice Demon it could spell the end for Logray, the Ewoks' Medicine Man. FC, 32 pages Cover price $0.65.

Ewoks (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 7D CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Direct Edition

Label #16-3717D5B-269

Direct Edition. "The Perilous Laughing Spell!" Story by David Manak. Art by Warren Kremer and Jon D'Agostino.. When Wicket is ensnared by a laughing spell, it's up to Teebo and Princess Kneesaa to confront the menacing Mountain Spirit! FC, 32 pages Cover price $0.75.

Ewoks (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 8 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Direct Edition.

Label #16-371E882-052

"Eye of the Kreegon!" Story by David Manak. Art by Warren Kremer and Jon D'Agostino.. When the warlock, Morag, summons forth the monstrous Kreegon, it falls to Wicket and the gang to save the day. FC, 32 pages Cover price $0.75.

Ewoks (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 10D CBCS 9.8

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Direct Edition

Label #20-2A782B7-007

Direct Edition. Written by Dave Manak. Art by John Romita, Warren Kremer and Jon D'Agostino. The unusual crossover that began in Star Wars Droids (1986 1st Series Marvel/Star Comics) #4 concludes in the prehistoric past of the Ewoks' world of Endor! How can the Ewoks, R2-D2 and C-3PO stop the destruction happening in their own time when they're faced with their own imminent destruction in the far past? Featuring "The Demons of Endor" (Part 3) and "A Race in Time" (Part 4). 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.75.

Ewoks (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 12 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Slab: See item notes

Direct Edition. Minor side/edge crack(s), less than 1".

Label #20-3B16BE9-008

The Thorn Monster - Written by Dave Manak. Art by Warren Kremer, Jon D'Agostino and Jacqueline Roettcher. Cover by Warren Kremer. Beware...the Thorn Monster! Characters in this issue: Wicket; Princess Kneesaa; Morag; Logray; Chief Chirpa. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.75.

Heathcliff (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 6 CBCS 9.8

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Direct Edition.

Label #20-2A782B7-019

Comic book version of the popular comic strip cat, Heathcliff. In this issue, Heathcliff causes Santa Claus to have an accident and then has to help deliver Christmas presents in "Santa Claws." Script by Angelo DeCesare and art by Warren Kremer & Jacqueline Roettcher. In "Operation Baby Bait," Grandma gets robbed and Heathcliff resolves to do something about it. Script by Michael Gallagher and art by Warren Kremer & Jacqueline Roettcher. Issue also has Iggy's version of the classic story "A Visit from St. Nicholas." Script by Michael Gallagher and art by Warren Kremer & Jacqueline Roettcher. Cover price $0.65.

Muppet Babies (1985-1989 Marvel/Star Comics) 7 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Direct Edition.

Label #20-262039A-011

Comic book version of the animated TV series about the Muppet Babies – Kermit, Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie, Scooter, Skeeter, Rowlf, Animal and all of the extraordinary friends who pop into their lives. In this issue, Bunsen and Beaker visit the nursery and let Fozzie try out their new invention: a funny hat. But when Fozzie uses the hat, he starts time traveling and it's up to Kermit and the other Muppet Babies to travel back in time too and help him in "Lost In Time" and Wocka Wocka." Script by Stan Kay and art by Marie Severin. Cover price $0.75.

Muppet Babies (1985-1989 Marvel/Star Comics) 8 CBCS 9.8

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Direct Edition.

Label #20-077742A-051

Comic book version of the animated TV series about the Muppet Babies – Kermit, Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie, Scooter, Skeeter, Rowlf, Animal and all of the extraordinary friends who pop into their lives. In this issue, Piggy gives a birthday party in the nursery even though it's no one's birthday. But when they make a wish and blow out the candles on the birthday cake, they are magically transported to a strange land and have to figure out how to get back home in "The Storyland Caper" and "The Chicken Dragon." Script by Stan Kay and art by Marie Severin. Cover price $0.75.

Muppet Babies (1985-1989 Marvel/Star Comics) 16 CBCS 9.8

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Direct Edition.

Label #20-077742A-041

Stories by Laura Hitchcock. Art and Cover by Marie Severin. Comic book version of the animated TV series about the Muppet Babies -- Kermit, Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie, Scooter, Skeeter, Rowlf, Animal and all of the extraordinary friends who pop into their lives. In this issue: A new Secret Agent "Double-O-F" mystery! Ever wonder what the face of the Muppet Babies' Nanny looks like? Well, in the off-the-wall spy mystery "We Spy or The Spy in Striped Socks," the Muppet Babies have to describe Nanny, and the result is full of surprises! Plus: "The Big Mess-take"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.00.

Muppet Babies (1985-1989 Marvel/Star Comics) 17 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Direct Edition.

Label #20-2A79B15-006

Comic book version of the animated TV series about the Muppet Babies – Kermit, Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie, Scooter, Skeeter, Rowlf, Animal and all of the extraordinary friends who pop into their lives. In this issue, after the Muppet Babies learn all about dinosaurs, they are surprised when they get a dinosaur visitor and their nursery transforms into a dinosaur swamp where it's time for the "Dinosaur Party." Issue also has "Company Halt" in which Bunsen and Beaker visit the nursery and team up with Piggy to start their own beauty company. Scripts by Laura Hitchcock and art by Marie Severin. Cover price $1.00.

Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 6D CBCS 9.4 SS Larry Hama

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Witnessed Signature: Larry Hama on 3/23/2021. Direct Edition.

Label #21-21F617C-019

Direct Edition. Last 65-cent cover price. Cover by Joe Albelo. "Salad Daze," script by Steve Skeates, art by Joe Albelo; After spoiling a jewel robbery, Spider-Ham returns home, and surprises Aunt May, who falls into a coma; A robbery at the hospital puts him on the trail of the Master Conniver, who turns out to be Ducktor Doom, and the three interns on the trail of Spider-Ham; He battles gun-toting giant vegetables, Doom escapes, and a vegetable-to-May transfusion saves her. "Awful Flight," script by Steve Skeates, art by Steve Mellor; Snow-Youse awakens from a bad dream and finds herself in Walrus's home, where they are joined by Aroma, Trinket, and Hockeypuck. Heading out to fight acid rain, the team ponders their fate, finds a US Dollar, and spends it on root beer. Letter from comics artist Todd Nauck. 36 pgs., full color. $0.65. Cover price $0.65.

Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 8 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Direct Edition.

Label #20-261F254-010

Cover by Joe Albelo. "Pigs Over Tokyo, or Kimono My House," script by Steve Mellor, pencils by Tony Salmons, inks by Joe Albelo; Raymond Bear reports on Jacques Gooseteau's brush with terror, so Jonah calls Peter and the three interns into action, and they go to Japan, where they witness the emergence of Hog-zilla!; The monster goes on an eating binge, so the army sends in Mechano-Hog-Zilla, but the robot is defeated; Spider-Ham defeats the monster, but the director Cur-Asawa hires him, and our heroes head for home. "Silver Squirrel," script by Mike Mellor, art by Steve Mellor; The Watchdog introduces us to The Silver Squirrel, a reprehensible character who zaps everyone and everything by use of the Power Cosmic. After several zaps, The Watchdog gets fed up, and turns the Squirrel into a silver-plated water fountain. 36 pgs., full color. $0.75. Cover price $0.75.

Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 10 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Direct Edition.

Label #20-077742A-094

Cover by Joe Albelo. "The Lost Temple of the Golden Retriever!", script by Steve Skeates, pencils by Joe Albelo, inks by Pierre Fournier; The bank-robbing Terrible Terriers escape while Spider-Ham stops a building from collapsing; Jonah gets a lead on a jungle story (with the Terriers listening in), so he takes Peter and the interns to the Temple of the Golden Retriever; The "god" in charge turns out to be former reporter Winston Caribou, now insane. "Prince Kaymar, The Sub-Merchandizer!!", script by Steve Skeates, art by Howard Bender; Forced from his throne, Kaymar is now a salesman, traveling with Markup, his pet saber-toothed tiger shark. J. Hamilton Hampster falls into the bay, where nuclear waste turns him into a man-thing; He wanders past Kaymar, but remains oblivious, so Kaymar sells to a passing frogman. Star Signals ad. 36 pgs., full color. $0.75. Cover price $0.75.

Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 11 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Direct Edition

Label #20-077742A-098

Cover by Joe Albelo. Dog Dame Afternoon, script by Mike Carlin, pencils by Art Nichols, inks by Vince Colletta; Jonah is hooked on "Die-Nasty" with Joan Collie, so it's up to the interns to send Peter to photo the giant mechanical wolf terrorizing the city; Spider-Ham races into action, and discovers Dragon-Lassy controlling the robot; He transforms the wolf-robot into a sheep-robot and gets kissed by Joan Collie, but Jonah is captured by Dragon-Lassy. Ant Ant, script and pencils by Michael Mellor, inks by Vince Colletta; Ant Ant, an ant with all the power of an ant, is taunted at the beach by Sandmanatee, embarassing him before his girlfriend Waspbunny; He tries various insect-power formulas, but Sandmanatee still wins, until Ant Ant turns himself into an unstoppable cockroach. 36 pgs., full color. $0.75. Cover price $0.75.

Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 14 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Direct Edition

Label #20-26624C1-001

Cover by Joe Albelo. "Heavy Mental Music!", script by Mike Carlin, pencils by Joe Albelo, inks by Pierre Fournier; At an Ozzy Ostrich concert, the interns love the music, but Peter doesn't; all are impressed when Ozzy bites the head off a chocolate bunny; Spider-Ham fights Ozzy, but leaves when it turns out there was no crime; Ozzy's new guitar hypnotizes the crowd, but Peter has cotton in his ears. "Captain Americat," script by Mike Mellor, art by Steve Mellor; French sculptor Gopher Baroque turns himself into the stone-like Grey Gopher; when Captain Americat tries to stop him, he's turned into stone and becomes the Grey Gopher's slave, until the transformation wears off and the Gopher is captured. 36 pgs., full color. $0.75. Cover price $0.75.

Strawberry Shortcake (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 1D CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Newsstand Edition

Label #20-2A7AF4A-010

Direct Edition. Strawberry Shortcake, Huckleberry Pie and Blueberry Muffin decide to enter a pie-baking contest but are unaware the contest is a scheme by the Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak in a two-part story, "The Great Pie-Baking Contest" and "Secret Land." Script by Stan Kay and art by Howie Post & Roberta Edelman. Cover price $0.65.

Wally the Wizard (1985 Marvel/Star Comics) 1 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Newsstand Edition.

Label #20-2A7AF4A-017

Wally, the apprentice to the wizard Marlin -- and that's Marlin NOT Merlin – is introduced. Wally tries to do all of his duties as an apprentice and also live his life with his friends, Jay and Conrad, figure out who and what Gorg (the scary looking critter that appeared) is and make friends with Princess Penelope. And while doing all of that, Wally has to do a favor for a dragon and save the kingdom from a deadly gigantic mechanical locust created by those villains, Vastar the Vile, Sybilious the Bilious and the wicked wizard Erasmo. All of this and more takes place in "A Plague of Locust." Script and art by Bill Bolling. Cover price $0.65.