Auctions: comic books July 1969

Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 74 CGC 3.0

Paper: Cream to off white

Slab: Chipped/broken bracket

Label #4539807016

Last 12¢ cover price. "If This Be Bedlam!" Plot by John Romita. Script by Stan Lee. Art by John Buscema (layouts) and Jim Mooney (finishes). Cover by John Romita. With his family held captive by the Maggia, Dr. Curt Connors must do the bidding of Silvermane! The elderly crime boss demandsthat Dr. Connors unlock the mystery of the petrified tablet -- which might be related to the mystical fountain of youth (of Ponce de León fame). In the meantime across Manhattan, the web-slinger frantically searches for the Connors family. He follows a lead to Caesar Cicero's office...and a fiercegun battle erupts! While Spider-Man is dodging bullets from the Maggia, will Dr. Connors have a breakthrough with the ancient tablet? Cameo appearances by Man-Mountain Marko, Martha Connors, Billy Connors, Harry Osborn, and Gwen Stacy. (Note: This issue was reprinted in Marvel Tales #55.) 36 pages. Cover price $0.12.

Heart Throbs (1949 Quality/DC) 120 GD/VG 3.0

Water spotting.

Last 12c cover priced issue. Cover by Neal Adams. Stories by Barbara Friedlander. Art by Jay Scott Pike & Vince Colletta, Colletta & John Celardo, Win Mortimer and Arthur Peddy & Bernard Sachs? He'll see her dead...before he lets anyone else have her! Read Episode 19 of "3 Girls--Their Lives--Their Loves"! Plus: Denise is sad when her new boyfriend Warren relocates to another town, but he introduces her to his friend Peter who takes an immediate interest in her in "Give Me Something to Remember You By!" Also: Peggy is devastated when Richard breaks up with her, but by the time he changes his mind and wants her back, she realizes that she is over him in "Memory of Heartbreak"! And: Shy Roseanne is attracted to David, but then she learns that her sister set things up with him to bring Roseanne out of her shell in the reprint story "For Love Alone"! Plus: Poetry by Judy Long, Lynne Drapkin, Margaret Harold, Dora Ann Winter, Barbara Jennings and Melody Doman. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.