Amazing Adventures #6 (Marvel, 1961) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages....
Record Price at Heritage Auctions: $2,640.00
Sold: Sep 14, 2020
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Publisher: Marvel, 1961
About Amazing Adventures #6
Last issue of the title before becoming Amazing Adult Fantasy. Contents include a story featuring Dr. Droom (the first Marvel-Age superhero), with art by Paul Reinman. Monster cover by Jack Kirby. Kirby and Steve Ditko art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Sserpo
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: George Klein
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek
Notes: Klein credit per Nick Caputo, May 2012.
Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #27 (November 1973)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Sserpo; Thomas Burke; Henry Burke; Anne Burke
Synopsis: A growth serum is abandoned and eaten by a lizard, which grows big enough to menace the Earth. The world is only saved when a scientist, the great-grandson of the inventor of the serum, contacts aliens on Jupiter, who use their advanced technology to restore the creature to normal.
Pages: 13.000
Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: George Klein
Letters: Artie Simek
Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #27 (November 1973)
Notes: This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Sserpo" (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. Klein inks per Nick Caputo and Atlas Tales. Original indexer credited Dick Ayers. Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 13).
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