Comic books December 1984, graded by CBCS

Add to cart CBCS 8.0 $50.00 CBCS Authentic Signature Paper: Off white to white Witnessed Signatures: Chris Claremont on 10/8/2021 and Jim Shooter on 10/22/2021 Direct Edition Label #22-0692A42-034 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

"Dreams Die Hard...!" Guest-starring Wolverine and the X-Men (in a flashback). Includes an 8-page excerpt from Uncanny X-Men #109. Story by John Byrne and Chris Claremont (dialogue on pages 8-11 & 13-16). Art by John Byrne and Terry Austin (inks on pages 8-11 & 13-16). Heather Hudson and her dear friend, Wolverine of the X-Men, reminisce about James Hudson and his first outing as the hero Vindicator. Meanwhile, Dr. Langkowski continues to test Aurora's abilities. All this plus Alpha Flight gets a new leader. Cover price $0.60.

Add to cart CBCS 9.8 $159.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Slab: Scuffing on front and back of case Direct Edition. Label #19-330A431-016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.77) will be charged at checkout.

"All My Pasts Remembered!" Script by Tom DeFalco. Pencils by Ron Frenz. Inks by Joe Rubinstein. Cover by Ron Frenz and Joe Rubinstein. After Mary Jane's bombshell revelation to Peter two issues ago, the pair of long-time friends takes a walk together through Central Park. MJ shares her family history with Peter...to make him comfortable with her knowing his secret identity. Where will their relationship go from here? Meanwhile, the Hobgoblin is back in business! And attempting to cut into the Kingpin's action (with help from his new ally: the Rose)! Origin of Mary Jane Watson. Cameo appearances by Mr. Fantastic, She-Hulk, and the alien symbiote. Flashback cameos by Aunt May and Anna Watson. (Notes. The Amazing Spider-Man returns to his original red and blue costume. This issue was reprinted in Marvel Tales 273.) Cover price $0.60.

Add to cart CBCS 9.8 $93.00 Paper: Off white to white Direct Edition. Label #21-273A968-005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.79) will be charged at checkout.

"All My Pasts Remembered!" Script by Tom DeFalco. Pencils by Ron Frenz. Inks by Joe Rubinstein. Cover by Ron Frenz and Joe Rubinstein. After Mary Jane's bombshell revelation to Peter two issues ago, the pair of long-time friends takes a walk together through Central Park. MJ shares her family history with Peter...to make him comfortable with her knowing his secret identity. Where will their relationship go from here? Meanwhile, the Hobgoblin is back in business! And attempting to cut into the Kingpin's action (with help from his new ally: the Rose)! Origin of Mary Jane Watson. Cameo appearances by Mr. Fantastic, She-Hulk, and the alien symbiote. Flashback cameos by Aunt May and Anna Watson. (Notes. The Amazing Spider-Man returns to his original red and blue costume. This issue was reprinted in Marvel Tales 273.) Cover price $0.60.

GI Joe (1982 Marvel) 30 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Direct Edition.

Label #21-19F6BD9-022

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1st printing - "Darkness!" Written by Larry Hama. Art by Frank Springer and Andy Mushynsky. Cover by Mike Zeck. The Dreadnoks cut loose and the Joes are not happy about it. 32 pages, FC. Cover price $0.60.

Add to cart CBCS 9.8 $53.00 Paper: White Direct Edition. Label #21-418924C-007

"The Fuse!" Written by J.M. DeMatteis. Art by Al Kupperburg and Mike Gustovich. Cover by Mike Zeck and John Beatty. He's young...He's on his own...He's out for a good time...and he's in more trouble than ever! Bobby Drake, the uncanny Iceman, steps out on his own, no X-Men, No Champions, no Defenders, can Iceman handle his first solo adventure? He better, or the world is doomed. 32 pages, FC. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart CBCS 9.8 $53.00 Paper: White Direct Edition. Label #22-0636226-008

"The Fuse!" Written by J.M. DeMatteis. Art by Al Kupperburg and Mike Gustovich. Cover by Mike Zeck and John Beatty. He's young...He's on his own...He's out for a good time...and he's in more trouble than ever! Bobby Drake, the uncanny Iceman, steps out on his own, no X-Men, No Champions, no Defenders, can Iceman handle his first solo adventure? He better, or the world is doomed. 32 pages, FC. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart CBCS 9.4 $120.00 Paper: White Label #21-17F4422-025 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.60) will be charged at checkout.

This is actually Robotech The Macross Saga #1. Fully repaired and ready for a test flight, the Macross ignores its own crew and fires its guns at unsuspecting Zentraedis scout vessels in the 28-page "Booby Trap." Continued in Robotech The Macross Saga (1985) #2. Script & editing by Carl Macek. Pencils by Svea Stauch. Inks, colors & production by Phil Lasorda & Gerry Giovinco, with Vince Argondezzi & Dotty Linberg. Wraparound cover. Cover price $1.50.

Add to cart CBCS 9.2 $139.99 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #22-0B3765E-015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.20) will be charged at checkout.

This is actually Robotech The Macross Saga #1. Fully repaired and ready for a test flight, the Macross ignores its own crew and fires its guns at unsuspecting Zentraedis scout vessels in the 28-page "Booby Trap." Continued in Robotech The Macross Saga (1985) #2. Script & editing by Carl Macek. Pencils by Svea Stauch. Inks, colors & production by Phil Lasorda & Gerry Giovinco, with Vince Argondezzi & Dotty Linberg. Wraparound cover. Cover price $1.50.

Add to cart CBCS 9.4 $197.00 Paper: White Newsstand Edition. Label #23-15781A3-016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.91) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by SlabSmart

Conan the Destroyer. The official comic book adaptation of the second Conan movie, which was plotted by comics writers Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway. This version is written by Michael Fleisher, with art by regular Conan artist John Buscema. Story later reprinted in Conan the Destroyer #1-2. Includes movie stills and behind-the-scenes material, as well as some spot art by Barry Windsor-Smith. Cover price $2.50.

Marvel Comics Super Special (1977) 35 CBCS 9.2

Paper: White

Newsstand Edition.

Label #23-15781A3-018

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Conan the Destroyer. The official comic book adaptation of the second Conan movie, which was plotted by comics writers Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway. This version is written by Michael Fleisher, with art by regular Conan artist John Buscema. Story later reprinted in Conan the Destroyer #1-2. Includes movie stills and behind-the-scenes material, as well as some spot art by Barry Windsor-Smith. Cover price $2.50.

Add to cart CBCS 9.2 $108.00 Paper: Off white to white Newsstand Edition. Label #23-15781A3-009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.24) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by SlabSmart

Conan the Destroyer. The official comic book adaptation of the second Conan movie, which was plotted by comics writers Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway. This version is written by Michael Fleisher, with art by regular Conan artist John Buscema. Story later reprinted in Conan the Destroyer #1-2. Includes movie stills and behind-the-scenes material, as well as some spot art by Barry Windsor-Smith. Cover price $2.50.

Marvel Comics Super Special (1977) 35 CBCS 9.2

Paper: White

Newsstand Edition.

Label #23-15781A3-013

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Conan the Destroyer. The official comic book adaptation of the second Conan movie, which was plotted by comics writers Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway. This version is written by Michael Fleisher, with art by regular Conan artist John Buscema. Story later reprinted in Conan the Destroyer #1-2. Includes movie stills and behind-the-scenes material, as well as some spot art by Barry Windsor-Smith. Cover price $2.50.

Add to cart CBCS 9.8 $750.00 or Best Offer CBCS Authentic Signature Paper: White Verified Signature: Michael Zeck. Direct Edition. Label #21-21C8D49-006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($22.50) will be charged at checkout.

Direct Edition. "Invasion!" Part 8 of 12. Story by Jim Shooter. Art by Mike Zeck, John Beatty, Jack Abel, and Mike Esposito. Tired of being the villains' punching bags, the heroes take the fight to their deadly foes' own doorstep. What follows is one of the most titanic super hero/villain tussles of all time. Plus, Spidey gets a new costume. 1st in continuity appearance of Spider-Man's black costume. See Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #252, Marvel Team-Up #141, & Spectacular Spider-Man #90 for the first appearances from 7 months earlier. NOTE: This costume turns out to be an alien symbiote that will later bond with Eddie Brock and become the tenacious Spidey villain known as Venom. See Amazing Spider-Man #300. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart CBCS 9.6 $775.00 CBCS Authentic Signature Paper: White Witnessed Sigs: Michael Zeck and John Beatty on 4/29/2017 and Jim Shooter on 2/7/2018. Label #18-079C7D4-052 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($23.25) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Direct Edition. "Invasion!" Part 8 of 12. Story by Jim Shooter. Art by Mike Zeck, John Beatty, Jack Abel, and Mike Esposito. Tired of being the villains' punching bags, the heroes take the fight to their deadly foes' own doorstep. What follows is one of the most titanic super hero/villain tussles of all time. Plus, Spidey gets a new costume. 1st in continuity appearance of Spider-Man's black costume. See Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #252, Marvel Team-Up #141, & Spectacular Spider-Man #90 for the first appearances from 7 months earlier. NOTE: This costume turns out to be an alien symbiote that will later bond with Eddie Brock and become the tenacious Spidey villain known as Venom. See Amazing Spider-Man #300. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart CBCS 9.0 $455.00 CBCS Authentic Signature Paper: White Witnessed Sigs: Michael Zeck and John Beatty on 4/29/2017 and Jim Shooter on 2/7/2018 Label #18-079C7D4-054 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($13.65) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Direct Edition. "Invasion!" Part 8 of 12. Story by Jim Shooter. Art by Mike Zeck, John Beatty, Jack Abel, and Mike Esposito. Tired of being the villains' punching bags, the heroes take the fight to their deadly foes' own doorstep. What follows is one of the most titanic super hero/villain tussles of all time. Plus, Spidey gets a new costume. 1st in continuity appearance of Spider-Man's black costume. See Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #252, Marvel Team-Up #141, & Spectacular Spider-Man #90 for the first appearances from 7 months earlier. NOTE: This costume turns out to be an alien symbiote that will later bond with Eddie Brock and become the tenacious Spidey villain known as Venom. See Amazing Spider-Man #300. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart CBCS 8.5 $270.00 CBCS Authentic Signature Paper: White Witnessed Sigs: Michael Zeck and John Beatty on 4/29/2017 Label #18-079C7D4-055 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.10) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Direct Edition. "Invasion!" Part 8 of 12. Story by Jim Shooter. Art by Mike Zeck, John Beatty, Jack Abel, and Mike Esposito. Tired of being the villains' punching bags, the heroes take the fight to their deadly foes' own doorstep. What follows is one of the most titanic super hero/villain tussles of all time. Plus, Spidey gets a new costume. 1st in continuity appearance of Spider-Man's black costume. See Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #252, Marvel Team-Up #141, & Spectacular Spider-Man #90 for the first appearances from 7 months earlier. NOTE: This costume turns out to be an alien symbiote that will later bond with Eddie Brock and become the tenacious Spidey villain known as Venom. See Amazing Spider-Man #300. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart CBCS 5.5 $250.00 CBCS Authentic Signature Paper: White Witnessed Signatures: Jim Shooter, John Beatty and Michael Zeck on 10/22/2021 Direct Edition Label #22-0692A42-375 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Direct Edition. "Invasion!" Part 8 of 12. Story by Jim Shooter. Art by Mike Zeck, John Beatty, Jack Abel, and Mike Esposito. Tired of being the villains' punching bags, the heroes take the fight to their deadly foes' own doorstep. What follows is one of the most titanic super hero/villain tussles of all time. Plus, Spidey gets a new costume. 1st in continuity appearance of Spider-Man's black costume. See Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #252, Marvel Team-Up #141, & Spectacular Spider-Man #90 for the first appearances from 7 months earlier. NOTE: This costume turns out to be an alien symbiote that will later bond with Eddie Brock and become the tenacious Spidey villain known as Venom. See Amazing Spider-Man #300. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart CBCS 9.8 $1,795.00 or Best Offer CBCS Authentic Signature Paper: White Signed by Jim Shooter on 1st page. Label #16-1D1A918-003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($53.85) will be charged at checkout.

Newsstand Edition. "Invasion!" Part 8 of 12. Story by Jim Shooter. Art by Mike Zeck, John Beatty, Jack Abel, and Mike Esposito. Tired of being the villains' punching bags, the heroes take the fight to their deadly foes' own doorstep. What follows is one of the most titanic super hero/villain tussles of all time. Plus, Spidey gets a new costume. 1st in continuity appearance of Spider-Man's black costume. See Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #252, Marvel Team-Up #141, & Spectacular Spider-Man #90 for the first appearances from 7 months earlier. NOTE: This costume turns out to be an alien symbiote that will later bond with Eddie Brock and become the tenacious Spidey villain known as Venom. See Amazing Spider-Man #300. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.75.

New Mutants (1983 1st Series) 22 CBCS 9.6

Paper: White

Direct Edition.

Label #21-42810A3-011

Cover art by Bill Sienkiewicz. The Shadow Within, script by Chris Claremont, art by Bill Sienkiewicz; Sunspot starts acting funny while training with Colossus; Professor X and Moira study Warlock; Selene makes a connection with the Hellfire Club; Wolfsbane writes a fairy tale, in which her beloved is consumed by shadow, and she kills the one responsible. Brief Colossus appearance. Wolfsbane, Mirage, and Magma pin-ups, art by Bill Sienkiewicz. 36 pgs. $0.60. Cover price $0.60.

Add to cart CBCS 7.0 $130.00 CBCS Authentic Signature Paper: White Witnessed Signatures: Jim Shooter on 7/29/2022 & Bill Sienkiewicz & Chris Claremont on 10/8/2022. Newsstand Edition. Label #23-0B0CC15-012 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.90) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover art by Bill Sienkiewicz. The Shadow Within, script by Chris Claremont, art by Bill Sienkiewicz; Sunspot starts acting funny while training with Colossus; Professor X and Moira study Warlock; Selene makes a connection with the Hellfire Club; Wolfsbane writes a fairy tale, in which her beloved is consumed by shadow, and she kills the one responsible. Brief Colossus appearance. Wolfsbane, Mirage, and Magma pin-ups, art by Bill Sienkiewicz. 36 pgs. $0.60. Cover price $0.60.

Add to cart CBCS 9.8 $65.00 Paper: White Direct Edition. Label #21-2CD7919-025 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.95) will be charged at checkout.

Wally West and Frances Kane take on Dr. Light in "The Light That Failed". Script and co-plot by Marv Wolfman, co-plot by George Perez, pencils by Carmine Infantino and Perez, inks by Mike DeCarlo. Flash (Barry Allen). Letters column includes 1-page illustration of Terry Long and Donna Troy by Perez to set up their wedding in #50. Perez cover. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart CBCS 9.8 $73.00 Paper: White Direct Edition. Label #21-273EEAB-013 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.19) will be charged at checkout.

"The Legacy of Bad Ned!" Guest-starring Falcon and Captain Hero. Story by Jim Owsley. Art by Greg LeRocque and Jerry Acerno. Cover by John Byrne. Luke Cage fights for his life against a cadre of high tech terrorist known as Control 7 for the life of a kid he can not stand. Cover price $0.60.

Add to cart CBCS 9.4 $51.92 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #22-069BD64-033 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.56) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by SlabSmart

Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Steve Ditko and Jackson Guice. Continued from Rom Annual #3. Rom confronts a vast flock of Wraiths in the form Deathwings in "The Beginning of the End of the World!" Plus, government Agent Henry Gyrich, oft nemesis of the Avengers and X-Men, arrives to tell the military and Rom that there is a man who has successfully duplicated Rom's most powerful weapon, the Neutralizer. That man's name is Forge. 32 Cover price $0.60.

Add to cart CBCS 9.8 $110.00 Paper: White Slab: Significant scuff(s) front or back Direct Edition. Label #18-39EBB61-078 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.30) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover pencils by Eduardo Barreto. How Do You Hide a Superman?, script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Bob Oksner; Justin Moore sees a bearded, bedraggled Superman in an alley and tries to restore his memory. Jor-El: Superman!, script by E. Nelson Bridwell, pencils by Wayne Boring, inks by Pablo Marcos. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart CBCS 9.8 $68.00 Paper: White Direct Edition. Label #21-2EE2D90-013 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.04) will be charged at checkout.

Direct Edition. "Legacy of the Lost!" Part 2 of 2. Story by Chris Claremont. Art by John Romita, Jr. and Dan Green. The X-Men and Forge fight for their lives against the Dire Wraith's dark magic. Lee makes a starling discovery in the Bermuda Triangle. And, Rachel reveals the terrible fate that awaits the X-Men in her future (a future that can been seen in the classic "Days of Future Past" storyline from Uncanny X-Men #141-142). Cover price $0.60.

Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 188D CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Direct Edition.

Label #21-2EE2D90-012

Direct Edition. "Legacy of the Lost!" Part 2 of 2. Story by Chris Claremont. Art by John Romita, Jr. and Dan Green. The X-Men and Forge fight for their lives against the Dire Wraith's dark magic. Lee makes a starling discovery in the Bermuda Triangle. And, Rachel reveals the terrible fate that awaits the X-Men in her future (a future that can been seen in the classic "Days of Future Past" storyline from Uncanny X-Men #141-142). Cover price $0.60.