Amazing Adult Fantasy #7 (Marvel, 1961) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages....
Auction amount: $5,019.00
Sold: Aug 6, 2016
Amazing Adult Fantasy #7 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1961
About Amazing Adult Fantasy #7
First issue of the title, formerly Amazing Adventures. This book is now considered by many to feature the actual first appearance of the Skrulls, thanks to a retroactive continuity change by John Byrne. It pre-dates the release of Fantastic Four #2, the original first appearance of the Skrulls, by one month. Steve Ditko cover and art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: typeset; Artie Simek ? (logo)
Notes: Logo design likely by Artie Simek. Cover has the mention "The Magazine That Respects Your Intelligence.". No specific title but art cover refer to the last story of this issue titled "The Icy Fingers of Fear".
STORY DETAILS
Synopsis: A man believes that he has discovered an alien invasion, but he is the real alien, and has amnesia.
Pages: 5.000
Script: Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)
Letters: Artie Simek
Reprints: X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #90 (October 1974)
Notes: Retold in Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #3 (December 1968) as a Tales of the Watcher story by Stan Lee and Gene Colan. Another version of this story is told in Marvel: The Lost Generation (Marvel, 2000 series) #11 by Roger Stern and John Byrne. The later story uses a Skrull as the alien and Reed Richards as the scientist who discovers the amnesiac's true identity. Story is pages 3-8 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
CGC Census Report*
| Grade | NG | PG | CVR | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.0 | Total |
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Universal |
0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 14 | 19 | 20 | 23 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 216 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
|
Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
|
CGCxJSA |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 21 | 15 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 237 |
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