Auctions: comic books August 1964

Adventures Into the Unknown (1948 ACG) 150 CGC 3.5

Paper: Off white

Label #4698989024

"Taboo Territory!" (script by Richard Hughes as "Ace Aquila," art by Bob Jenney); "We Are Being Invaded!" (script by Hughes as "Zev Zimmer," art by Citron/Costanza); and "Happy New Year." Cover price $0.12.

Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 15 CBCS 1.5

Paper: Off white to white

Piece Missing from 2nd page, affects story: Incomplete.

Label #20-0B182CC-002

Cover art by Steve Ditko. First appearance of Kraven the Hunter in Kraven the Hunter!, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; The Chameleon hires his old friend Kraven the Hunter to hunt down Spider-Man. Reprinted in Marvel Tales # 10 and 153. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Fantastic Four (1961 1st Series) 29 GD+ 2.5

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Chic Stone. It Started on Yancy Street!, script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Chic Stone; the FF run from the jeers and pranks of the Yancy Street Gang; the FF battles the Red Ghost; the Super Apes take off in FFs ship, leaving them abandoned; the Watcher returns them home. Cameos by the Puppet Master, the Mole Man, the Super-Skrull, the Miracle Man, Doctor Doom, the Sub-Mariner, and the Mad Thinker. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Justice League of America (1960 1st Series) 29 CGC 7.5

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4443813005

Cover pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Murphy Anderson. Crisis on Earth-Three, script by Gardner Fox, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Bernard Sachs; The Crime Syndicate is so bored of life on their Earth as supreme villains, designated as Earth-3, that they come to the JLA's Earth for a new challenge after Ultraman accidentally discovers it when exposed to Green Kryptonite (which gives him a new power with every exposure to it); Just as it looks like the JLA has the upper hand, the Crime Syndicate teleports them to Earth-3, where they have the advantage; To secure a level battlefield the Crime Syndicate plans to go to the Earth-2 and eliminate the JSA. 1st Silver Age appearance of Star Man; Justice Society cross-over. Rocky and Bullwinkle star in a one-page Cheerios ad. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Justice League of America (1960 1st Series) 29 FN- 5.5

Cover pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Murphy Anderson. Crisis on Earth-Three, script by Gardner Fox, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Bernard Sachs; The Crime Syndicate is so bored of life on their Earth as supreme villains, designated as Earth-3, that they come to the JLA's Earth for a new challenge after Ultraman accidentally discovers it when exposed to Green Kryptonite (which gives him a new power with every exposure to it); Just as it looks like the JLA has the upper hand, the Crime Syndicate teleports them to Earth-3, where they have the advantage; To secure a level battlefield the Crime Syndicate plans to go to the Earth-2 and eliminate the JSA. 1st Silver Age appearance of Star Man; Justice Society cross-over. Rocky and Bullwinkle star in a one-page Cheerios ad. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Thor (1962 Marvel 1st Series Journey Into Mystery) 107 GD 2.0

1.5" Spine split from bottom. Centerfold coming loose at both staples.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Chic Stone. First appearance of the Grey Gargoyle in "When the Grey Gargoyle Strikes!", script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Chic Stone; A scientist accidentally gains the power to turn himself into living stone, and to turn others into stone statues; He comes to New York to attack Thor, hoping to gain the secret of immortality; Jane Foster appearance. The first half of a two-page text story, "Traveling Sam." "Balder Must Die!" [Origin of Balder Part 2], script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Vince Colletta; Loki forces the Norn Queen to tell him of Balder's weakness to mistletoe and tries to kill him with a mistletoe dart, but the Norn Queen herself stops him; Loki appearance. 36 pgs., full color. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Wonder Woman (1942 1st Series DC) 148 VG 4.0

Centerfold detached at one staple.

Cover pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito. "Olympics of the Doomed," script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito; The Duke of Deception makes Wonder Woman unable to distinguish reality from illusion by creating realistic illusions that deceive her; Finally, he tricks her into a trap that brings her back to Mars, where she is imprisoned in a cage which, he says, will not free her unless he takes her place, and made to participate in the Olympics of the Doomed before the Martian people; Despite being in a cage, Wonder Woman triumphs, and finds that she can transmit her own illusions; Thus she makes the Duke believe she has escaped the cage, whereupon he opens it to check, frees her, and imprisons himself; Wonder Woman returns to Earth in a borrowed space ship. Rocky and Bullwinkle star in a one-page Cheerios ad. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.