Auctions: comic books May 1976

Marvel Team-Up (1972 1st Series) 45 CGC 9.4

Paper: White

Label #4408162006

"Future-Shock!" Guest-starring Spider-Man and Kill-raven. Script by Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema (breakdowns), Mike Esposito (finishes), and Dave Hunt (finishes). Cover by Gil Kane. The cataclysmic confrontation with the Dark Rider is over. And the exhausted web-slinger is ready to get back to modern day Manhattan! When the wall-crawler hops on the time machine platform, he returns to New York...but it's the year 2019! And the city lies in smoldering ruins! Is Spider-Man prepared to join Killraven in the fight for freedom against the Martians? Dream sequence appearances by Volcana Ash, the Green Goblin, and Mary Jane Watson. Cameo appearance by Cotton Mather. (Notes: The letters page includes a letter from comics publisher Dean Mullaney. The letters page also includes Marvel Value Stamp series B #75 Spider-Man. A 30-cent cover price variant exists for this issue.) 32 pages Cover price $0.25.

Power Man and Iron Fist (1972 Hero for Hire) 31 CBCS 7.5

Paper: White

Label #21-279B3E2-018

"Over the Years they Murdered the Stars!" Part 3 of 3. Story by Don McGregor. Art by Sal Buscema and the Crusty Bunkers (your guess is a s good as mine). This is it, the epic conclusion to Luke Cage's confrontation with Piranha Jones and Cockroach Hamilton. Will Power Man survive the experience? For that matter, will New York City survive the experience? Cover price $0.25.