Amazing Adventures #5 (Marvel, 1961) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages....
Auction amount: $3,107.00
Sold: Jul 28, 2012
Amazing Adventures #5 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1961
About Amazing Adventures #5
Monsteroso appearance. Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko cover and art. Don Heck and Dick Ayers art. Stan Lee story.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Monsteroso
Pencils: Jack Kirby; Steve Ditko (alterations)
Inks: Dick Ayers; Steve Ditko (alterations)
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek
Notes: Cover is taken from interior splash. Art is extended and Steve Ditko made the alterations, including the man on the lower right corner. Info per Nick Caputo, July 2012.
Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #28 (June 1974)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Monsteroso; Phil; Ethel
Synopsis: A circus owner finds a dead alien in Africa and brings it to the United States for a museum. The alien turns out to be alive, and then goes on a rampage. It turns out that it is only a confused child, and its parents arrive to retrieve it.
Pages: 13.000
Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Dick Ayers
Letters: Artie Simek
Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #28 (June 1974)
Notes: This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Monsteroso" (7 pp). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Possible Lee plot/Lieber script per Nick Caputo. George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee as sole writer. Job number (miscredited V-207 on the first page of Part 2). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 12, last page not numbered).
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
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 |
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Universal |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 127 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
|
Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 137 |
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