Lot 110
Strange Tales #97 CGC 5.0 "When a Planet Dies!" "Mystery Pupil" "The Madness!" (Marvel Comics, 1962) Off-White to White Pages
Northern Collection: Space, Science and Magic | CB26012
Auction: 11 September AT 15.00 BST
Description
Strange Tales #97 CGC 5.0 "When a Planet Dies!" "Mystery Pupil" "The Madness!" (Marvel Comics, 1962).
Cover pencils by Jack Kirby and inks by Steve Ditko. "When a Planet Dies!". Story by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber, pencils by Jack Kirby, and inks by Dick Ayers. Humans are forced underground by the Sun's death. An approaching planet alarms many, but humans vote against destroying it: saving Earth as the new planet, really a sun, thaws the dying world. "Mystery Pupil," art by Joe Maneely; A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal. "The Madness!". Story by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber, pencils by Jack Kirby, and inks by Dick Ayers. A man is transported by a mist to the 16th century, where he is locked up as a madman; He escapes and is transported with the asylum keeper back to the present, where the keeper is taken for mad! "Goodbye to Linda Brown". Story by Stan Lee, and art by Steve Ditko. A girl in a wheelchair living with her aunt and uncle begins sleepwalking. In her sleep, she wheels herself underwater. "Behind the Dreadful Door!". Story by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber, and art by Gene Colan. A painter breaks into a room which he thinks is the source of a famous artist's inspiration; It contains supernatural beings that model for the artist, who take the intruder as their own model. 36 pgs. Full colour. Cover price $0.12.
CGC Cert: #4730402012
Grader Notes: multiple crease right bottom of front cover breaks colour, spine stress lines breaks colour, and off-white to white pages.
