Strange Tales #89 (Marvel, 1961) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages....
Auction amount: $18,600.00
Sold: Jul 18, 2022
Strange Tales #89 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1961
About Strange Tales #89
First appearance of Fin Fang Foom. Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers cover. Kirby, Ayers, and Steve Ditko art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Fin Fang Foom
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Dick Ayers
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek
Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #21 (May 1973), | Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #2 (April 1966)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Fin Fang Foom (introduction); Chan Liuchow; Chung Liuchow
Synopsis: A young historian from Taiwan crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom and foil a communist invasion. He lures the dragon to the coast to wreck the invasion fleet, and then lures it back to its layer before restoring its mystical slumber.
Pages: 13.000
Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Dick Ayers
Letters: Ray Holloway ?; Artie Simek
Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #21 (May 1973), | Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #2 (April 1966), | Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #73 (April 1981), | Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (April 1974)
Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: part one (6 pp) and part two (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13). Fin Fang Foom next appears in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (April 1974).
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 |
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Universal |
14 | 9 | 19 | 17 | 26 | 35 | 76 | 56 | 68 | 55 | 48 | 31 | 26 | 15 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 549 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| Total | 14 | 10 | 23 | 18 | 30 | 37 | 81 | 60 | 74 | 62 | 49 | 34 | 26 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 596 |
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