Comic books August 1973, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 9.6 $920.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #1618517020 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($27.60) will be charged at checkout.

1st appearance of Black Orchid. Cover art by Bob Oksner. Untitled Black Orchid story, script by Sheldon Mayer, art by Tony DeZuniga; introduction of Black Orchid. The Ghosts on the Glasses starring Dr. 13, the Ghost Breaker, script by Steve Skeates, art by Tony DeZuniga. Mr. Randolf mysteriously dies; Dr. 13 investigates. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $395.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #0296214010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.85) will be charged at checkout.

1st appearance of Black Orchid. Cover art by Bob Oksner. Untitled Black Orchid story, script by Sheldon Mayer, art by Tony DeZuniga; introduction of Black Orchid. The Ghosts on the Glasses starring Dr. 13, the Ghost Breaker, script by Steve Skeates, art by Tony DeZuniga. Mr. Randolf mysteriously dies; Dr. 13 investigates. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $137.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4312322012 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.11) will be charged at checkout.

1st appearance of Black Orchid. Cover art by Bob Oksner. Untitled Black Orchid story, script by Sheldon Mayer, art by Tony DeZuniga; introduction of Black Orchid. The Ghosts on the Glasses starring Dr. 13, the Ghost Breaker, script by Steve Skeates, art by Tony DeZuniga. Mr. Randolf mysteriously dies; Dr. 13 investigates. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $145.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4301798010

"...Just A Man Called Cage!" Guest-starring Luke Cage. Script by Gerry Conway. Art by Gil Kane (pencils), John Romita (pencils, inks), and Tony Mortellaro (inks). Cover by John Romita and Tony Mortellaro. While Peter Parker and his friends attend Gwen Stacy's funeral, J. Jonah Jameson plots revenge against the web-slinger for the death of Norman Osborn! The Daily Bugle publisher wants the wall-crawler captured dead or alive! And he hires the powerful Luke Cage to do it! On a Manhattan rooftop, the Hero for Hire ambushes Spider-Man! And the super slugfest begins! The two heroes trade punches, body blows, and haymakers one after another! How will they break the stalemate before they break each other in half? Cameo appearances by Mary Jane Watson, Harry Osborn, Betty Brant, Joe Robertson, Flash Thompson, Anna Watson, Aunt May, and Norman Osborn (deceased). (Notes: This issue features the first meeting between Spider-Man and Luke Cage. The plot crosses over briefly with Power Man and Iron Fist (1972 Hero for Hire) 12. This story was reprinted in Marvel Tales 100.) 32 pages. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $330.00 Paper: White Label #4477405009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.90) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by John Romita. ...And Men Shall Name Him--Victorius!, script by Mike Friedrich, pencils by Dan Adkins (pages 1-15) and Jim Starlin (pages 16-19), inks by Jack Abel; Victorius kidnaps Bobbi Morse and takes her to his AIM fortress; Nick Fury gives Ka-Zar the super-soldier serum and sends him after them. Advertisement for Monsters Unleashed #2, art by Mike Ploog. Advertisement for a subscription to FOOM. Promo for the upcoming Haunt of Horror #1 digest book. 32 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $125.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4209765016

"Night of the Swordsman" Script by Steve Englehart. Pencils by Bob Brown. Inks by Mike Esposito. Cover by John Romita, Sr. and John Costanza. Still upset over the events of last issue, the Scarlet Witch takes a walk through Manhattan to unwind. But along the way Wanda runs into trouble with some construction workers! However, a brand new heroine arrives on the scene to help her! Who is Mantis and where did she come from? When Wanda and her new friend return to the mansion, another surprise guest shows up! The Swordsman! Wow, the Avengers' long-time foe and former member of the Lethal Legion wants to join the Avengers! Captain America immediately squashes that notion, but surprisingly the remaining members of the team agree to give the Swordsman a chance! And several days later when the Lion God returns, Earth's Mightiest Heroes are glad they did! Cameo appearances by the Hulk, Hawkeye, and Zzzax. Flashback cameos by Crystal, Quicksilver, and Goliath (aka Hank Pym). Avengers Lineup: Black Panther, Captain America, Mantis, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Swordsman, Thor, and the Vision. 32 pages Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.6 $159.99 Paper: White Label #4341784003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.80) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by John Romita. War Below the Waves!, script by Steve Englehart (plot, script pages 1-7) and Len Wein (script pages 8-19), pencils by Sal Buscema, inks by Frank Bolle; Hawkeye and the Defenders try to stop an attack on Atlantic City by Attuma and end up captured by Attuma and the Red Ghost. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Defenders (1972 1st Series) 7 CGC 8.5

Paper: White

Label #4191281005

Cover pencils by John Romita. War Below the Waves!, script by Steve Englehart (plot, script pages 1-7) and Len Wein (script pages 8-19), pencils by Sal Buscema, inks by Frank Bolle; Hawkeye and the Defenders try to stop an attack on Atlantic City by Attuma and end up captured by Attuma and the Red Ghost. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $142.50 Paper: Cream to off white Label #0502496007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.28) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: The Mummy Walks: The Mind Within by Steve Skeates and Jaime Brocal; Curse of the Werewolf: This Evil Must Die by Allen Milgrom and Martin Salvador; Satanna, Daughter of Satan: Genesis of Depravity by Doug Moench and Ramon Torrents; Monarch's Return by John Jacobson and Paul Neary; Lord's Wrath by John Jacobson and Aldoma; The Disciple by Steve Skeates and Munes; and Dax the Warrior: The Secret of Pursiahz. Cover art by Manuel Sanjulian. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $2,395.00 Paper: White Label #1482275004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($71.85) will be charged at checkout.

"A Woman Possessed!" Guest-starring Daimon Hellstrom (Son of Satan). Story by Gary Friedrich. Art by Tom Sutton and Syd Shores. Cover by Gil Kane. This issue picks up after the events in Marvel Spotlight (1971-1977 1st Series) #11. Johnny Blaze races against the clock to save a woman from a fate worse than death. Featuring the evil of Mephisto (as Satan). 32 pages, FC. NOTE: 1st appearance of Daimon Hellstrom (Son of Satan). Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $1,699.00 Paper: White Label #4216832002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($50.97) will be charged at checkout.

"A Woman Possessed!" Guest-starring Daimon Hellstrom (Son of Satan). Story by Gary Friedrich. Art by Tom Sutton and Syd Shores. Cover by Gil Kane. This issue picks up after the events in Marvel Spotlight (1971-1977 1st Series) #11. Johnny Blaze races against the clock to save a woman from a fate worse than death. Featuring the evil of Mephisto (as Satan). 32 pages, FC. NOTE: 1st appearance of Daimon Hellstrom (Son of Satan). Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $849.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #1270002002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($25.47) will be charged at checkout.

"A Woman Possessed!" Guest-starring Daimon Hellstrom (Son of Satan). Story by Gary Friedrich. Art by Tom Sutton and Syd Shores. Cover by Gil Kane. This issue picks up after the events in Marvel Spotlight (1971-1977 1st Series) #11. Johnny Blaze races against the clock to save a woman from a fate worse than death. Featuring the evil of Mephisto (as Satan). 32 pages, FC. NOTE: 1st appearance of Daimon Hellstrom (Son of Satan). Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $1,099.00 Paper: White Label #4438087005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($32.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Steve Ditko. Stories and art by Steve Ditko, Nicola Cuti, Joe Gill, Fred Himes, and Warren Sattler. A horror anthology from Charlton, with a stable of artists that included Steve Ditko. A thief thinks an elderly woman is easy prey, but he didn't reckon on her cat, in a story with art (and cover) by Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. The special plants in Dr. Pryboff's backyard garden have an appetite for people, as Pryboff's assistant learns too late. Everyone wonders how Eustace gets his marionettes to look so lifelike. Plus one-panel gags The Hungry Garden; The Puppet Master; The Treasure of Tenochtilio; The Weirdlings; A Little Witchcraft! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Little Dot's Uncles and Aunts (1961) 48 CGC 9.6

Paper: Off white to white

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Label #1040702001

Harvey's Little Dot, known for her dot-obsession, also had an infinite number of eccentric relatives with names befitting their quirks. Little Dot's Uncle Branes has a new invention that makes anyone smarter. Little Lotta decides she wants to be just like Dot. Little Dot's shifty Uncle Alias appears to be on the run from the improbably named Sherlock Watson. The Intelligence Increaser; Call Me Dotta!; Richie Rich; Little Lotta: Never Refuse A Gift; Manpower; Dot Rhymes; Rush! Rush! Rush! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $140.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #2033998004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.20) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Rich Buckler, inks by Mike Esposito. Season of the Witch-Woman, script by Gary Friedrich, pencils by Tom Sutton, inks by Syd Shores; Witch-Woman reveals her origins to Ghost Rider, who she easily defeats; Satan forces Witch-Woman to turn her own Satanic power against herself. Continued in Ghost Rider (1973 series) #1. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $99.00 Paper: White Label #4152184010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby and John Romita (alterations), inks by Dick Ayers and John Romita (alterations). The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magnetor!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A strong but dim man is exploited for profit by a con man and then abandoned, unable to find work except in a freak show; His unusual size is thought to make him the perfect passenger for an experimental space flight, but a strange cloud gives him magnetic powers. Shangri-La, art by Bill Everett; A man makes it back from Shangri-La only to be informed that the man he spoke with, whom he takes to be mad, actually left for the valley four hundred years ago. They Met on Mars!, art by Steve Ditko; Two unrecognizable beings land on Mars and fight; One of them destroys the other's ship and escapes. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $375.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #4475227010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.25) will be charged at checkout.

"Chemistro!" Spider-Man cameo. Story by Steve Englehart. Art by George Tuska and Billy Graham. Luke Cage battles Chemistro the Master of Alchemy. Can the Hero for Hire defeat a man who can alter the chemical make up of matter? Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $65.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4474997007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.95) will be charged at checkout.

"Chemistro!" Spider-Man cameo. Story by Steve Englehart. Art by George Tuska and Billy Graham. Luke Cage battles Chemistro the Master of Alchemy. Can the Hero for Hire defeat a man who can alter the chemical make up of matter? Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $59.99 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4325408011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.80) will be charged at checkout.

"Chemistro!" Spider-Man cameo. Story by Steve Englehart. Art by George Tuska and Billy Graham. Luke Cage battles Chemistro the Master of Alchemy. Can the Hero for Hire defeat a man who can alter the chemical make up of matter? Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $110.00 Paper: White Label #4465410015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.30) will be charged at checkout.

Painted cover art. With Murderous Intent, art by Frank Bolle. Actors and Ghosts text story, art by Joe Certa. The Silent Witness, art by Tom Gill. The Ghost of Violets, art by Oscar Novelle. The Moveable Wrath, art by Win Mortimer. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $249.00 Paper: White Slab: Other - see grading notes Scuffing to inner well. Label #0905630009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Rich Buckler and John Romita (alterations), inks by Bill Everett and John Romita (alterations). First appearance of the warrior-woman called Virago in "Voyage Into Chaos!", script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Don Heck, inks by Don Perlin; The Council of Elders has decided to segregate the Hydro-Men in a prison camp outside of Atlantis; Namor frees them, and decrees that they should be free to mingle with the Atlantean people; A delegation from another underwater world arrives in Atlantis; They meet with Namor and implore his help as their world has fallen under the tyranny of the warrior queen, Virago. Tales of Atlantis back-up story, "In the Wake of the Warriors!", script by Howard Chaykin and Steve Gerber, pencils by Howard Chaykin, inks by Joe Sinnott. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $175.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #0930486012 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Rich Buckler and John Romita (alterations), inks by Bill Everett and John Romita (alterations). First appearance of the warrior-woman called Virago in "Voyage Into Chaos!", script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Don Heck, inks by Don Perlin; The Council of Elders has decided to segregate the Hydro-Men in a prison camp outside of Atlantis; Namor frees them, and decrees that they should be free to mingle with the Atlantean people; A delegation from another underwater world arrives in Atlantis; They meet with Namor and implore his help as their world has fallen under the tyranny of the warrior queen, Virago. Tales of Atlantis back-up story, "In the Wake of the Warriors!", script by Howard Chaykin and Steve Gerber, pencils by Howard Chaykin, inks by Joe Sinnott. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $37.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3831440001

Cover art by Nick Cardy. The Arena of Death, script by Leo Dorfman, art by Kurt Schaffenberger; The Star of Cathay magically transports Jimmy back to ancient Rome where he becomes Spartacus and leads a gladiator revolt. A Grave-Digger for Jimmy Olsen, script by Leo Dorfman [as David George], art by Kurt Schaffenberger; Lena Lawrence accidentally saves Jimmy Olsen from three different attempts to end his life by the gang named Gravediggers Inc. The Day They Unmasked Mr. Action, script by Leo Dorfman [as David George], art by Kurt Schaffenberger. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $2,250.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #0107223001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($67.50) will be charged at checkout.

First appearance of The Living Mummy! Script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Rich Buckler, inks by Frank Chiaramonte; The Living Mummy comes to life and seeks out a descendant of the man that cursed him 3000 years ago. 32 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $299.00 Paper: White Label #4341806011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.97) will be charged at checkout.

First appearance of The Living Mummy! Script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Rich Buckler, inks by Frank Chiaramonte; The Living Mummy comes to life and seeks out a descendant of the man that cursed him 3000 years ago. 32 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $149.00 Paper: Off white Label #4254540015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.47) will be charged at checkout.

First appearance of The Living Mummy! Script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Rich Buckler, inks by Frank Chiaramonte; The Living Mummy comes to life and seeks out a descendant of the man that cursed him 3000 years ago. 32 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $114.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4224223001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.42) will be charged at checkout.

First appearance of The Living Mummy! Script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Rich Buckler, inks by Frank Chiaramonte; The Living Mummy comes to life and seeks out a descendant of the man that cursed him 3000 years ago. 32 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.6 $300.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #1618526023 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout.

"The Voodoo-Man!" Written by Marv Wolfman. Art by Gene Colan and Jacki Abel. Cover by Gil Kane and Tom Palmer. Dracula and Quincy Harker find themselves reluctant allies when a gang of bikers attack! 32 pages, FC. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $225.00 Paper: White Label #4307005008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.75) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Dan Adkins. Along Came a Spider, script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Werner Roth, inks by Dan Adkins; Banshee calls to the X-Men for help against a mysterious spider creature, and when the young mutants run across Spider-Man, they mistake him for their foe and a battle ensues; reprinted from issue 35. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $165.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4393692009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.95) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Dan Adkins. Along Came a Spider, script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Werner Roth, inks by Dan Adkins; Banshee calls to the X-Men for help against a mysterious spider creature, and when the young mutants run across Spider-Man, they mistake him for their foe and a battle ensues; reprinted from issue 35. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $274.00 Paper: White Label #4448369010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.22) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Mike Ploog. The Lurker Behind The Door!, script by Len Wein, pencils by Werner Roth, inks by Paul Reinman; Jack Russell accidentally releases Krogg from the cave where he was trapped. 32 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.