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Heavy Metal #276
Cover art by Jack Kirby featuring concept art for the unmade film, "Lord of Light"
Kirby's art would later be used as a prop in the CIA rescue mission of six Americans who escaped Iran in 1980 by posing as the film crew of a fake movie called "Argo"
Cover art by Jack Kirby featuring concept art for the unmade film, "Lord of Light"
Kirby's art would later be used as a prop in the CIA rescue mission of six Americans who escaped Iran in 1980 by posing as the film crew of a fake movie called "Argo"
Blank sketch variant
The Deluxe Edition of the first Garbage Pail Kids comic was polybagged with a GPK trading card/sticker. There are three versions of the Comic Con Ron card: a white border, a black border and the rarest, red border
Blank sketch variant
The Deluxe Edition of the first Garbage Pail Kids comic was polybagged with a GPK trading card/sticker. There are three versions of the Comic Con Ron card: a white border, a black border and the rarest, red border
Whitman edition, distributed in three-packs
Similar covers exist with a colorless moon and star but do not command significant value
Whitman edition, distributed in three-packs
Similar covers exist with a colorless moon and star but do not command significant value
Second printing
218-page, softcover price guide published in 1970 by Robert M. Overstreet
Print run: 800 copies
Original retail price: $5.00
Fading is common with the blue cover to where it may appear white but ‘second printing’ is notated on the first page
Second printing
218-page, softcover price guide published in 1970 by Robert M. Overstreet
Print run: 800 copies
Original retail price: $5.00
Fading is common with the blue cover to where it may appear white but ‘second printing’ is notated on the first page
Daredevil #196
First meeting and team-up of Daredevil and Wolverine
1st appearance of Lord Dark Wind, a scientist who invented the process of adamantium bonding to bone
There are 5 types of adamantium in the mainstream Marvel universe:
Proto - Captain America's shield is made of this kind
Primary - the kind that's bonded to Wolverine's skeleton
Secondary - an adamantium/steel alloy
Beta - a version of True adamantium that changes on a molecular level when grafted to bone
Adamantine - an adamantium/gold alloy
First meeting and team-up of Daredevil and Wolverine
1st appearance of Lord Dark Wind, a scientist who invented the process of adamantium bonding to bone
There are 5 types of adamantium in the mainstream Marvel universe:
Proto - Captain America's shield is made of this kind
Primary - the kind that's bonded to Wolverine's skeleton
Secondary - an adamantium/steel alloy
Beta - a version of True adamantium that changes on a molecular level when grafted to bone
Adamantine - an adamantium/gold alloy
Veronica #201
Cover art by Dan Parent
Copies ordered by retailers: 6,000
Supreme #67
Crossover appearance of Omni-Man
Cover art inspired by Superman #276 (1974)
Crossover appearance of Omni-Man
Cover art inspired by Superman #276 (1974)
Variant cover art by Jake Myler
Treehouse of Horror #11
The Simpsons annual anthology of Halloween stories including:
The Sub-Basement of Dracula written by Marv Wolfman, illustrated by Gene Colan
Squish Thing written by Len Wein, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson
Additional writers and artists: Bill Morrison, Angelo Torres, John Severin, Mark Schultz and Al Williamson
Copies ordered by retailers: 12,266
The Simpsons annual anthology of Halloween stories including:
The Sub-Basement of Dracula written by Marv Wolfman, illustrated by Gene Colan
Squish Thing written by Len Wein, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson
Additional writers and artists: Bill Morrison, Angelo Torres, John Severin, Mark Schultz and Al Williamson
Copies ordered by retailers: 12,266
Oversized 11x7 collected edition of Tokyo Ghost #1 and #2
Presented with original inks by Sean Murphy
Oversized 11x7 collected edition of Tokyo Ghost #1 and #2
Presented with original inks by Sean Murphy
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