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Marvel Comics #1 (Timely, 1939) CGC Apparent VF/NM 9.0 Moderate (P) Cream to off-white pages....
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Description
Marvel Comics #1 (Timely, 1939) CGC Apparent VF/NM 9.0 Moderate (P) Cream to off-white pages. The very first Marvel (Timely Comics at the time) comic book is on a very short list of collectors' most coveted issues of all time. Over the decades since its original 1939 printing, this issue has vied with Action Comics #1 and Detective Comics #27 as the most valuable among Overstreet's "Top Golden Age Books" list. Bill Everett's Sub-Mariner's origin is featured, as are the first appearances of the Human Torch by Carl Burgos and the Angel by Paul Gustavson. About this beautiful, professionally restored copy CGC notes, "Restoration includes: color touch, pieces added, tear seals, reinforced, cleaned." Overstreet 2009 GD 2.0 value = $23,000; VG 4.0 value = $46,000; FN 6.0 value = $69,000; VF 8.0 value = $155,000; VF/NM 9.0 value = $270,000.CGC Grader Notes:
Back Cover Wear All Corners
Front Cover Restoration Color Touch
Front Cover Wear All Corners
Interior Tape Pull
Left Center Back Cover Restoration Tear Seal
Spine Restoration Color Touch
View the certification for CGC Certification ID 0010971005, including grader's notes if available and a link to the latest full census report for the issue.*
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Auction Info
2010 February Signature Comics & Comic Art Auction #7017 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
February, 2010
25th-27th
Thursday-Saturday
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