Auctions: comic books 2000, graded by CGC

Batman Gotham Adventures (1998) 22 CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Label #4176881002

WRITTEN BY SCOTT PETERSON; ART BY TIM LEVINS AND TERRY BEATTY; COVER BY BOB SMITH AND BEATTY. Gotham's toughest father-daughter team takes center stage in a special issue starring Commissioner Gordon and Batgirl! Keeping it all in the family, our heroes must track down a pair of criminal siblings who have escaped from jail and are now somewhere in Gotham City. FC, 32 PG." Cover price $1.99.

Bettie Page Queen of the Nile (1999) 2 CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Label #4388395012

by Jim Silke; cover by Dave Stevens Whoops! This time, Bettie is the one falling in love. She runs smack into the Roman general, Julius Caesar, and is overcome by his animal magnetism. But there's a problem: Cleopatra has a serious "thing" for Caesar. And he can't decide between the two of them. So the two nubile lovelies battle it out to become "The Queen of the Nile"! On sale February 2 FC, 24pg (2 of 3)" Cover price $2.95.

Deadpool (1997 1st Series) 42 CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Label #4420540013

cover by jim calafiore & mark mckenna. glenn herdling/jim calafiore/mark mckenna. A silent (but deadly) interlude! In this homage to the classic G.I. JOE "silent issue", the Merc-With-A-Mouth becomes the Merc-Without-A-Mouth when he faces off against the psychotic villainy of... Humbug?! What could the insect-loving Humbug possibly do to everyone's favorite jokester? How about shut him up for once?! So in the words of Dr. Evil, "Shush!" (And don't miss Deadpool in GAMBIT #18!) Cover price $2.25.

Deadpool (1997 1st Series) 46 CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Label #0357758009

"cruel summer" part 1 (of 3). painted cover by joe jusko. jimmy palmiotti/paul chadwick/ron randall. ?THE SCOOP: Sparks fly as writer Jimmy Palmiotti (PUNISHER) and penciler Paul Chadwick (Concrete) drag Deadpool into the mean streets of crime fiction! THE STORY: Wade Wilson takes a job from one of New York's Finest?an assignment that just might get him whacked by the mob! Of course, these wiseguys have never had to deal with the Merc-With-The-Mouth before! And the topping off this tasty cake is a fully painted cover by Joe Jusko! Cover price $2.25.

Marvel Boy (2000) 1 CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Label #3995034006

Grant Morrison script; J.G. Jones art. THE SCOOP: The dream team of writer Grant Morrison (JLA) and J.G. Jones (BLACK WIDOW) unleash a new Marvel hero for the 21st Century! THE STORY: Forget everything you know about the name Marvel Boy! Burn the toga and the headband! Shred the cape and wave goodbye to Uranus! This is a very different character. The new Marvel Boy is Noh-Varr, the youngest member of a Kree Diplomatic team. After voyaging for years, these alien super heroes reach Earth, only to be blown out of the sky. Only Noh-Varr survives, and is captured and tortured by the mysterious Midas Organization. Escaping, he vows vengeance on all mankind. But with Morrison weaving this tale, don't expect cliche superheroics or a squeaky clean protagonist. Instead, get ready for Dr. Midas, a criminal billionare who's so obsessed with Cosmic Rays that he bathes in them... Exterminatrix, who arrives in issue #3 to make life heaven and hell for Marvel Boy... the Plex Intelligence, a clone of the Supreme Intelligence, but with Multiple Personality options... Hexus, the Living Corporation... Bannermen, a trio of U.N. super soldiers whose bodies are laced with adamantium and enhanced by gamma-rays... and have we talked about our ticked off protagonist yet? Hey, why don't we just listen to the words of Morrison instead? THE WRITER SPEAKS: "We're always being told that super hero books are nothing but adolescent power fantasies. Fine. Here comes the ultimate adolescent power fantasy! The Marvel Style began with the Sub-Mariner... and like Bill Everett's Prince Namor, I wanted my hero to be an outcast, a fiery rebel with an appetite for righteous mass destruction. Marvel Boy is not one of the Kree we're familiar with from books like AVENGERS and CAPTAIN MARVEL. He's a super diplomat who's spent a few years adventuring across numerous alternate realities and bizarre dimensions. Now, in the Marvel Universe, he must use all of his skills and powers just to stay alive and continue his one-man guerrila war against our planet. Like Marvel Boy himself, I'm a newcomer to this Universe and I'm having fun using stuff like S.H.I.E.L.D. or the Mindless Ones and finding new takes on it, things we haven't seen or thought before. I got sick of seeing what I call ?DadComics.' It's time to say goodbye to all those boring, nostalgic books. We're here to trash the past and make something new that's relevant to our lives today." ? THE FORMAT: Six-issue monthly limited series. Cover price $2.99.

Marvel Boy (2000) 1 CGC 9.6

Paper: White

Label #4084192018

Grant Morrison script; J.G. Jones art. THE SCOOP: The dream team of writer Grant Morrison (JLA) and J.G. Jones (BLACK WIDOW) unleash a new Marvel hero for the 21st Century! THE STORY: Forget everything you know about the name Marvel Boy! Burn the toga and the headband! Shred the cape and wave goodbye to Uranus! This is a very different character. The new Marvel Boy is Noh-Varr, the youngest member of a Kree Diplomatic team. After voyaging for years, these alien super heroes reach Earth, only to be blown out of the sky. Only Noh-Varr survives, and is captured and tortured by the mysterious Midas Organization. Escaping, he vows vengeance on all mankind. But with Morrison weaving this tale, don't expect cliche superheroics or a squeaky clean protagonist. Instead, get ready for Dr. Midas, a criminal billionare who's so obsessed with Cosmic Rays that he bathes in them... Exterminatrix, who arrives in issue #3 to make life heaven and hell for Marvel Boy... the Plex Intelligence, a clone of the Supreme Intelligence, but with Multiple Personality options... Hexus, the Living Corporation... Bannermen, a trio of U.N. super soldiers whose bodies are laced with adamantium and enhanced by gamma-rays... and have we talked about our ticked off protagonist yet? Hey, why don't we just listen to the words of Morrison instead? THE WRITER SPEAKS: "We're always being told that super hero books are nothing but adolescent power fantasies. Fine. Here comes the ultimate adolescent power fantasy! The Marvel Style began with the Sub-Mariner... and like Bill Everett's Prince Namor, I wanted my hero to be an outcast, a fiery rebel with an appetite for righteous mass destruction. Marvel Boy is not one of the Kree we're familiar with from books like AVENGERS and CAPTAIN MARVEL. He's a super diplomat who's spent a few years adventuring across numerous alternate realities and bizarre dimensions. Now, in the Marvel Universe, he must use all of his skills and powers just to stay alive and continue his one-man guerrila war against our planet. Like Marvel Boy himself, I'm a newcomer to this Universe and I'm having fun using stuff like S.H.I.E.L.D. or the Mindless Ones and finding new takes on it, things we haven't seen or thought before. I got sick of seeing what I call ?DadComics.' It's time to say goodbye to all those boring, nostalgic books. We're here to trash the past and make something new that's relevant to our lives today." ? THE FORMAT: Six-issue monthly limited series. Cover price $2.99.

Millennium Edition All Star Comics (2000) 3 CGC 9.2

Paper: White

Label #4427498003

WRITTEN BY GARDNER FOX; ART BY EVERETT E. HIBBARD, SHELDON MOLDOFF, BERNARD BAILY, SHELDON MAYER, MARTIN NODELL, CRAIG FLESSEL, HOWARD SHERMAN, AND BEN FLINTON; COVER BY HIBBARD. A non-enhanced version of the reprint of the JSA's debut, one of the most important issues in comic-book history.FC, 64 PG. Cover price $3.95.

Millennium Edition Brave and the Bold (2000) 85 CGC 9.0

Paper: White

Label #4427498008

WRITTEN BY BOB HANEY; ART AND COVER BY NEAL ADAMS. Selected by online voting! Green Arrow first donned his new costume in this 1969 story in which the Emerald Archer teamed up with Batman. Featuring spectacular artwork by Neal Adams, this issue stands as one of DC's first "relevant" comics stories. FC, 32 PG. Cover price $2.50.

Millennium Edition Detective Comics (2001) 38D CGC 9.6

Paper: White

Label #4427498011

Direct Edition. WRITTEN BY BILL FINGER; ART BY BOB KANE, JERRY ROBINSON AND VARIOUS; COVER BY KANE AND ROBINSON. Reprinting the 1940 debut of the Dark Knight's partner in crime-fighting, Robin, among other classic stories of the Golden Age. FC, 64 PG.$3.95 " Cover price $3.95.

Millennium Edition Detective Comics (2001) 38D CGC 9.4

Paper: White

Label #4427498012

Direct Edition. WRITTEN BY BILL FINGER; ART BY BOB KANE, JERRY ROBINSON AND VARIOUS; COVER BY KANE AND ROBINSON. Reprinting the 1940 debut of the Dark Knight's partner in crime-fighting, Robin, among other classic stories of the Golden Age. FC, 64 PG.$3.95 " Cover price $3.95.

Millennium Edition Detective Comics (2001) 359 CGC 7.5

Paper: White

Label #4427498004

Written by Gardner Fox. Art by Carmine Infantino, Sid Greene and Murphy Anderson. Cover by Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson. Because online voters demanded it, the first appearance of Barbara Gordon as the Silver Age Batgirl! This 1967 issue saw the future Oracle's debut as the "dominoed daredoll," joining Batman and Robin against the threat of Killer Moth. Also: the Elongated Man stars in the backup story "Riddle of the Sleepytime Taxi!" Notes retailer Jamie Graham of Naperville, Illinois' Graham Crackers Comics Ltd., "Cool issue. All us guys love Batgirl!" Visit www.dccomics.com to vote on future MILLENNIUM EDITIONS. Look for a signed version of this issue in the Dynamic Forces section of Previews.FC, 32 PG. Cover price $2.50.

Millennium Edition Justice League (2000) 1CHROME CGC 9.4

Paper: White

Chromium Edition.

Label #4427498017

Special Chromium Cover Edition of Millennium Justice League # 1. No cover price.

Millennium Edition Sensation Comics (2000) 1 CGC 9.0

Paper: White

Label #4427342023

WRITTEN BY WILLIAM MOULTON MARSTON, GARDNER FOX, CHARLES REIZENSTEIN, GEORGE S. HURST JR., AND BILL FINGER; ART BY HARRY G. PETER, SHELDON MOLDOFF, HAL SHARP, IRWIN HASEN, AND VARIOUS; COVER BY PETER. The Golden Age Wonder Woman meets Steve Trevor for the first time in this historic Golden Age title. In addition to the Amazon Princess' first full-fledged adventure after her debut in ALL STAR COMICS #8, this immortal 1942 issue introduced Wildcat, Mr. Terrific, and several other DC heroes. Says retailer Tony Morigi of Seattle, WA's Golden Age Collectables, "This comic showed girls that it's possible for a woman to be strong and confident without a man leading the way and introduced timeless characters." FC, 64 PG. Cover price $3.95.

Millennium Edition Superman (2000) 1A CGC 9.4

Paper: White

Label #4427498002

WRITTEN BY JERRY SIEGEL; ART AND COVER BY JOE SHUSTER. The Man of Steel's phenomenally successful debut in 1938's ACTION COMICS #1 was followed one year later by this incredible first issue ? the first time a single character carried an entire comic book by himself! Readers were enthralled as they watched Superman become a "champion of the oppressed," a football hero, a fighter for miners' safety, and much more! Cover price $3.95.

Millennium Edition The Man of Steel (2000) 1 CGC 9.4

Paper: White

Label #4427498016

WRITTEN BY JOHN BYRNE; ART AND COVER BY BYRNE AND DICK GIORDANO. The first issue of the 1986 miniseries that redefined Superman for the post-CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS DC Universe, written and pencilled by John Byrne with inks by Dick Giordano. For more information, see the feature article. FC, 32 PG." Cover price $2.50.

Millennium Edition Wonder Woman 1987 Series (2000) 1 CGC 8.0

Paper: White

Label #4427498006

WRITTEN BY GEORGE PERÉZ; ART BY PÉREZ AND BOB MCLEOD; COVER BY PÉREZ. Writer/artist George Perez's unforgettable run began with this 1987 issue, reintroducing the Amazon Princess with a stunningly rendered retelling of her origin. FC, 32 PG. Cover price $2.50.

Sentry (2000 1st Series) 1A CGC 9.8 Lee

Paper: White

Label #4240440018

1st appearance of Sentry. cover by Jae Lee. Paul Jenkins/Jae Lee. THE SCOOP: In 1961, Stan Lee introduced the Fantastic Four. One week earlier he invented something else! Find out what as Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee (the same creative team that brought you the Eisner-award-winning INHUMANS limited series) reunite to tell a new adventure! THE STORY: In an amazing twist of fate, Marvel Comics and the Marvel Knights have unearthed what could be the most shattering conspiracy perpetrated on the comic book community! Our creative founding fathers introduced us to a pantheon of characters rivaled only by those of Greek mythology itself. One week prior to that, Stan?along with artist Artie Rosen?launched what should have been Marvel's flagship title. A title that contained within its four-color pages a being so powerful and so full of beauty and grace that it somehow didn't fit in the Marvel Universe as we know it. Somehow, somewhere, we were all forced to forget?made to simply pretend the title never existed. What was it about this god amongst human heroes that set these events in motion? What was it about this character that threatened the very fabric of the Marvel Universe? Find out in the new limited series that will uncover the life of this long-lost character, guest-stars our greatest heroes, and takes you on a journey of dark mysteries, heart-wrenching realization and ultimate heroism! THE CREATORS: Bringing you this tale of discovery is the award-winning INHUMANS creative team of writer Paul Jenkins and artist Jae Lee. With several years of research?and the help of the legendary Stan "The Man" Lee himself?Jenkins and Lee will uncover the truth... and attempt to preserve our very existence! THE FORMAT: Each issue of this five-part limited series will be 32 pages, with ads. Cover price $2.99.

Untold Tales of Chastity (2000) 1A CGC 9.6 Vale

Paper: White

Label #0132117021

by Steven Grant & Peter Vale It's Halloween in New York, 1982. Sweet talkin' ladies man, Slade, lost his life ? and his world ? in a gangland hit that stole his niece's young life as well. On the anniversary of his death, Slade returns from the dead to exact his revenge. Can Chastity Marks, the lovable vampire assassin, save her dear friend Slade from a head-on collision with a life of crime? Or is it too late already? Regardless, she's gonna have to go undercover to get the job done. It's a pop-cultural melting pot as the goth scene meets blaxploitation (with a dash of hip hop thrown in for good measure!), all with a supernatural twist! FC, 32pg Cover price $2.95.

Untold Tales of Chastity (2000) 1G CGC 9.6 Glow Variant

Paper: White

Slab: Significant scuff(s) front or back

Premium Edition

Label #0132117026

Glow-in-the-dark cover edition.

Weather Woman (2000) 1B CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Variant Cover

Label #4424337022

By Tetsu Adachi. Translated by Dan Newman. Variant Cover by J.G. Jones. What's a girl gonna do these days to make it in the competitive world of TV? Well, the Weather Woman has an answer, and it's the basis for this all-new manga series, and the fabulously funny, erotic, cult film hit from Japan, also called Weather Woman! It's a funny, sexy, delightful romp through the high-pressure world of TV personalities! It's awfully hot under those TV lights, and when your ratings are what you live and die by, you need a gimmick. If you're a gorgeous Weather Woman, maybe you'll find those ratings will rise if your skirt does, too! 32 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $2.95.

Wolverine (1988 1st Series) 155D CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Label #4329428005

Direct Edition. "All Along the Watchtower" part 2. Plot and pencils by Rob Liefeld, script by Eric Stephenson, inks by Norm Rapmund. Liefeld cover.STORY: Captured by the mysterious group of zealots known as the Watchtower, can Wolverine free his fellow prisoners before they're martyred? And will Deadpool help him?or stand in the way? All this, and Siryn! Cover price $2.25.