Marvel Super-Heroes #18 Guardians of the Galaxy - Don/Maggie Thompson Collection pedigree (Marvel, 1969) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pag...

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Marvel Super-Heroes #18 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1969

About Marvel Super-Heroes #18

Origin and first appearance of the Guardians of the Galaxy (Major Vance Astro, Yondu Udonta, Charlie-27, and Martinex T'Naga). Gene Colan and Mike Esposito cover and art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Guardians of the Galaxy [Vance Astro; Yondu; Charlie-27; Martinex]

Pencils: Gene Colan

Inks: Mike Esposito

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Sam Rosen (logo)

Notes: Sam Rosen logo credit per Nick Caputo, Aug 2012. Original indexer listed Herb Cooper as possible letterer.

Reprints: Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #29 (April 1975)

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: Guardians of the Galaxy!

Characters: Guardians of the Galaxy [Vance Astro; Martinex; Charlie-27; Yondu]; Drang; the Baddoon; Betina Marsh

Pages: 22.000

Script: Arnold Drake

Pencils: Gene Colan

Inks: Mike Esposito [as Mickey Demeo]

Letters: Herb Cooper

Reprints: Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #29 (April 1975)

Notes: next appearance in MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #4

Characters: Phantom Eagle; Guardians of the Galaxy [Vance Astro; Yondu; Charlie-27; Martinex]

Pages: 1.000

Pencils: Herb Trimpe; Gene Colan (illustrations)

Inks: Herb Trimpe; Mike Esposito (illustrations)

Letters: typeset; ?

Notes: Letters from Steven Grant, Jim Meschwitz, David Anglin, Jimmy Golden and Gary Dahlberg are printed, along with an illustration from the cover and Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #16.

Title: Wave of Destruction! [Chapter 4]

Characters: Namor the Sub-Mariner; un-named Mermaid; Future Man; Madame Death; the Pacific Pirates (introduction for all)

Synopsis: Namor arrives in Asia along the China coast, and soon discovers the presence of the Pacific Pirates, modern day raiders who use a submarine as their weapon of attack. They are secretly saved from Namor and enlisted by Madame Death and Future Man to help create a massive tidal wave that will wipe out most of the population of Asia.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Otto Binder

Pencils: Syd Shores; ?

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: The Living Dead! [Chapter 5]

Characters: Miss America [Madeline Joyce]; Future Man; Madame Death; living mummies (introduction, all die)

Synopsis: Miss America, while flying over the continent of Africa, notices a caravan below being attacked apparently by living mummies. The mummies have been revived by Future Man's "life battery", which has been converted to give off "life currents", allowing the villain to use thousands of these mummies from unknown tombs to sweep, like an Army, over the entire continent, wiping out all living souls.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Otto Binder

Pencils: Syd Shores; ?

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Job number SL-840 likely indicates Stan Lee's editorial involvement.

Title: Flames of Fury! [Chapter 6]

Characters: The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; Future Man; Madame Death; desert gang of badmen (introduction for all)

Synopsis: Future Man uses a common incendiary bomb to start a huge forest fire in North America for the purpose of decoying the Torch and Toro long enough so that he and Madame Death can enlist the aid of desert badmen, who supply the villains with Uranium-235 so that they can produce an atomic match.....a match that will burn anything that has atoms.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Otto Binder

Pencils: Syd Shores; ?

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: War Between the Worlds! [Chapter 7]

Characters: The All-Winners Squad [Captain America (see note); Bucky (see note); Miss America [Madeline Joyce]; Whizzer [Robert Frank]; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro]; Future Man; Madame Death

Synopsis: When Future Man is seemingly stopped at every turn by the All-Winners Squad members, he threatens to make a call for help into the future, requesting hundreds of future men be sent by giant spaceships armed with Neutronic Bombs! However, the Squad attacks before this can happen, and, by a quirk of fate, controls on the villain's ship are locked to keep going far in the past, thus ending the threat of future attackers.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Otto Binder

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: The next All-Winners Squad story is in What If? (Marvel, 1977 series) #4, which occurs chronologically before this one and retroactively establishes that the post-war Captain America and Bucky here are Jeff Mace (a.k.a. The Patriot) and Fred Davis. The next chronological appearance of the All-Winners Squad, Future Man and Madame Death is in All Winners Comics 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2009 Series) #1.

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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
Universal	0	2	0	5	3	1	9	11	26	69	84	141	149	176	209	214	264	258	224	143	145	70	46	29	12	5	0	0	2293
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	3	4	7	7	10	12	12	14	14	13	11	6	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	126
CGCxJSA	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	0	0	0	2
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	3	1	2	4	5	1	5	8	7	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	48
Total	0	2	0	5	4	2	11	12	29	76	91	150	159	191	227	227	283	281	244	158	152	78	47	30	12	5	0	0	2474

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