Strange Tales #157 (Marvel, 1967) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages....
Auction amount: $1,320.00
Sold: Jun 29, 2020
Strange Tales #157 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1967
About Strange Tales #157
Intro of the Living Tribunal. Features Nick Fury and Doctor Strange. Baron Strucker appearance. Jim Steranko cover and art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Supreme Hydra [Baron Wolfgang von Strucker]; Laura Brown; Nick Fury
Pencils: Jim Steranko (signed)
Inks: Jim Steranko (signed)
Colors: Jim Steranko ?
Letters: Jim Steranko
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Supreme Hydra [Baron Wolfgang von Strucker]; Laura Brown; HYDRA; Jasper Sitwell; ESP Division (cameo); Gabe Jones; Dum Dum Dugan; Nick Fury
Synopsis: Strucker announces that the impregnable dome over Hydra Island will keep them safe from the "Death Spore" plague, and plans to use Fury's body as the basis for an army of HYDRA androids to "police" the world, once he's dead from the Alpha Ray beam. But Fury escapes! As SHIELD searches the Heli-Carrier for the bomb with no result, Fury, "playing it by ear", takes on one group of HYDRA thugs after another, until Strucker faces him one-on-one. Thanks to his deadly "Satan Claw", Strucker gains the upper hand, and it looks like it might be the end...!
Pages: 12.000
Script: Jim Steranko
Pencils: Jim Steranko
Inks: Jim Steranko
Letters: Sam Rosen
Notes: In the introduction to Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury Agent of Shield Volume 2 Steranko says he took over the color chores with Strange Tales # 165. Part 8 of 9. 1st appearance of The Satan Claw. The nine-panel fight scene on page 7, as well as the lead-in final panel from page 6 appear to be an intentional homage to the Simon and Kirby scene of Jimmy Woo fighting the Yellow Claw's microscopic soldiers in Yellow Claw (Marvel, 1956 series) #3 (February 1957).
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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 |
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Universal |
2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 28 | 22 | 27 | 43 | 45 | 50 | 62 | 56 | 43 | 36 | 21 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 506 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 31 | 27 | 31 | 54 | 50 | 56 | 71 | 61 | 50 | 37 | 24 | 24 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 573 |
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