Amazing Adventures #2 (Marvel, 1961) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages....
Auction amount: $2,640.00
Sold: Sep 13, 2025
Amazing Adventures #2 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1961
About Amazing Adventures #2
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Manoo; Jones
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Sol Brodsky
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek
Notes: Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (11 March 2009); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers. The Official Index To The Marvel Universe #14 (February 2010) credits Dick Ayers as the cover inker.
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Manoo; Billy Jones; Mr. Miller
Synopsis: A college student aids an alien policeman hunt down an alien criminal hiding on earth, or is it the other way around?
Pages: 13.000
Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks: Dick Ayers (signed)
Letters: Artie Simek
Notes: This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (7 pp) and part two—"The Secret of Manoo!" (6 pp). Data contributed by Joseph Marek via the GCD Main List (20 May 2003). Possible Lee plot/Lieber script per Nick Caputo. Larry Lieber is credited as sole writer in The Official Index To The Marvel Universe #14 (February 2010). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 13).
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
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CGC Census Report*
Grade | 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 |
Universal |
1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 23 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148 |
Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Signature Series |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Restored |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
Total | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 16 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 24 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167 |
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