Tales to Astonish #97 (Marvel, 1967) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages....
Auction amount: $1,680.00
Sold: May 30, 2022
Tales to Astonish #97 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1967
About Tales to Astonish #97
Plunderer appearance. X-Men cameo. Marie Severin and Herb Trimpe cover and art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Hulk [Bruce Banner]
Pencils: Marie Severin
Inks: Marie Severin ?
Colors: Marie Severin ?
Letters: Sam Rosen
Notes: Possible Severin inks per Nick Caputo, December 2017; the original indexer credited the pencils to Jack Kirby and the inks to Severin and Trimpe. Possible Severin colors per Nick Caputo, who notes that Marie has mentioned in interviews that she usually colored most of the work she drew.
Reprints: Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #52 (September 1975)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Lady Dorma; Lord Vashti; Swamp Men; Plunderer [Edgar Plunder] (villain); Ka-Zar (cameo, flashback); Zabu (saber-toothed cat, cameo, flashback) ; X-Men [Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Beast; Iceman; Angel] (cameo, flashback); Logar
Synopsis: Namor is on Skull Island in the Savage Land as a prisoner of the Plunderer. The villain tries to entice the Sub-Mariner into becoming his partner in world conquest by trying to impress him with his powerful vibra-gun constructed from Plunderstone (the Savage Land's version of vibranium). When the local Swamp Men attack, Namor is freed and the Plunderer's base begins to burn to the ground. Namor escapes from the inferno but not in time to stop the Plunderer from escaping in his powerful submarine. The villain decides to attack Atlantis in retribution for all of the trouble Namor has caused him.
Pages: 12.000
Script: Roy Thomas
Pencils: Werner Roth
Inks: Dan Adkins
Letters: Gaspar Saladino [as LP Gregory]
Reprints: Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #52 (September 1975)
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 19 | 15 | 24 | 28 | 30 | 26 | 19 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 228 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 21 | 16 | 25 | 30 | 32 | 30 | 19 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 251 |
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