Key Collector Comics

May 16 2024

Featuring comic books that have spiked in interest by number of copies purchased this week versus the previous week.

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X-Men #185
Marvel ⋅ 2006
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X-Men #185
 
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1st full appearance of Gambit as Death, a Horseman of Apocalypse

Rise of Apocalypse #1
Marvel ⋅ 1996
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Rise of Apocalypse #1
 
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Origin of Apocalypse

Introduction of Akkaba, the place of Apocalypse's birth

Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix, The #1
Marvel ⋅ 1994
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Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix, The #1
 
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1st appearance of Ch'Vayre, a soldier of Apocalypse

Origin of Cable

Revival #1
Image ⋅ 2012
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Revival #1
 
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Officer Cypress leads the Revitalized Citizen Arbitration Team charged with killing zombies

[May 2024 - SyFy to adapt Revival for a TV series]

Spider-Man Noir #1
Marvel ⋅ 2009
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Spider-Man Noir #1
 
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1st appearance of Spider-Man Noir, an alternate reality version of Spider-Man who operated during The Great Depression

1st appearance of Vulture Noir

[February 2023 - a live-action Spider-Man Noir series is in development at Amazon featuring an older, grizzled superhero in 1930s New York City]

🏅#8 on the Hot 10

Transactions from this week that sold for higher than the previous twelve-month average:

9.8 sold for $628 vs the average $439 (+43%)

Six copies in 9.8 outsold the average

9.6 sold for $275 vs the average $237 (+16%)

NEWSSTAND 9.6 sold for $400 vs the average $325 (+23%)

9.4 sold for $299 vs the average $213 (+40%)

It has been reported that Nicholas Cage will step into the live-action shoes of Spider-Man Noir for the Amazon TV series

Spider-Man: Legend of the Spider-Clan #1
Marvel ⋅ 2002
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Spider-Man: Legend of the Spider-Clan #1
 
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Five-issue limited series

Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #64
Marvel ⋅ 1982
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Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #64
 
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1st appearance and origin of Cloak and Dagger

Wolverine #145
Marvel ⋅ 1999
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Wolverine #145
 
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In X-Men #25 (1993) Magneto stripped the adamantium that was fused to Logan's bones by the Weapon X Project, returning the mutant to his natural form

Six years later, in this anniversary issue celebrating 25 years of Wolverine, the adamantium is re-laced to his skeleton by Apocalypse, extracting it from Sabretooth and transferring it to Logan to serve as the Horseman of Death

X-Men #24
Marvel ⋅ 1993
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X-Men #24
 
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Iconic cover art by Andy Kubert

Mad Max: Fury Road Furiosa #1
DC Vertigo ⋅ 2015
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Mad Max: Fury Road Furiosa #1
 
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1st appearance of Furiosa, the female lead of the Mad Max: Fury Road franchise

Copies ordered by retailers: 20,733

X-Factor #6
Marvel ⋅ 1986
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X-Factor #6
 
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1st full appearance and cover of Apocalypse

X-Men Adventures #1
Marvel ⋅ 1992
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X-Men Adventures #1
 
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1st appearance of Morph from the animated X-Men Adventures series and the comic book universe version of Changeling (X-Men #35)

Comic book series based on the Fox animated TV show

Lawsuit: In late 2019, a lawsuit was filed against Disney/Marvel for stealing the theme song to the 90s animated series from a Hungarian police show called ‘Linda’

Strange Academy: Blood Hunt #1
Variant ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2024
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Strange Academy: Blood Hunt #1
 
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1st appearance and cover of Pia, a Strange Academy student

New Mutants #1
Marvel ⋅ 1983
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New Mutants #1
 
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3rd team appearance of the New Mutants

Origin of Karma

Fantastic Four #52
Marvel ⋅ 1966
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Fantastic Four #52
 
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1st appearance of the Black Panther, T'Challa, king of Wakanda

Redcoat #1
Non-Key
Image ⋅ 2024
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Redcoat #1
 
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Premiere issue of a series connected to the Unnamed Universe

Thor #337
Marvel ⋅ 1983
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Thor #337
 
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1st appearance of Beta Ray Bill, a Korbinite alien worthy of picking up Mjolnir

1st appearance of Lorelai, the sister of Enchantress

X-Factor #24
Marvel ⋅ 1988
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X-Factor #24
 
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1st cover and second appearance of Angel as the Horseman, Death

In X-Factor #38, Beast gives Warren Worthington III the new codename Archangel

Worthington appears in full as the Horseman, Death in X-Factor #23 and in multiple cameos leading up to the issue

Batman #497
DC ⋅ 1993
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Batman #497
 
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Bane breaks Batman's back

Knightfall Part Eleven

📖 Knightfall Reading Order: next Detective Comics #664

X-Men '97 #1
Marvel ⋅ 2024
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X-Men '97 #1
 
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Prelude to the Disney+ animated reboot

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