Lot 69
Strange Tales #158 CGC 7.5 1st Full Appearance of the Living Tribunal (Marvel Comics, 1967) Off-White to White Pages
Northern Collection: Space, Science and Magic | CB26012
Auction: 11 September AT 15.00 BST
Description
Strange Tales #158 CGC 7.5 1st Full Appearance of the Living Tribunal (Marvel Comics, 1967).
Cover pencils by Marie Severin. Nick Fury stars in "Final Encounter!", Story and art by Jim Steranko. The battle between Fury & Strucker rages until Fury manages to remove his Satan glove. Minutes later, as HYDRA thugs enter the room, they discover 2 Strucker's! One of them is revealed to be wearing a mask, panics, and is incinerated in an Alpha-Particle Reactor Cube. The other orders Laura put aboard the Dyna-Soar and takes off from Hydra Island, despite the imminent detonation of The Death Spore bomb.
1st full appearance of The Living Tribunal in "The Sands of Death". Story by Roy Thomas and Marie Severin, pencils by Marie Severin, and inks by Herb Trimpe. The Living Tribunal decrees that because Doctor Strange has unleashed a menace to the cosmos Earth must be destroyed. Before he recites the Incantation of Oblivion he recounts events leading up to his decision, agreed upon by his 3 faces of Equity, Revenge & Necessity. Doctor Strange challenges the Tribunal to let him deal with the menace, having defeated the forces of darkness in the past. Strange is granted a reprieve for as long as it takes the Sands of Death to run out of a mystic Hourglass resting in the middle of Stonehenge. 36 pgs. Full colour. Cover price $0.12.
CGC Cert: #4730404003
Grader Notes: tanning interior cover, crease right top of front cover breaks colour, spine stress lines breaks colour, crease right bottom of front cover breaks colour, crease left bottom of back cover, and off-white to white pages.
