Lot 178
Strange Tales #143 CGC 7.5 Cover by Jack Kirby "To Free a Brain Slave" (Marvel Comics, 1966) Off-White to White Pages
Timed Sale: Mirror Dimensions | CBE26013
Auction: 21 August 18.00 BST - 21 September 16.00 BST
Description
Strange Tales #143 CGC 7.5 Cover by Jack Kirby "To Free a Brain Slave" (Marvel Comics, 1966).
Cover pencils by Jack Kirby andinks by Mike Esposito. Nick Fury stars in "To Free a Brain Slave". Story by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, pencils by Jack Kirby and Howard Purcell, and inks by Mike Esposito. SHIELD HQ is taken over by Mentallo & The Fixer who hold Fury prisoner. Tony Stark takes command of the combat unit, preparing his Neutralizer while the ESP Division is unable to pick up Fury's thoughts. Meanwhile the villains attach a miniature H-Bomb to Fury's wrists and remove the mind-control mask; Fury is able to send a signal to the ESP team allowing SHIELD to retaliate and Stark's Neutralizer dissolves the H-Bomb.
"With None Beside Me!", script by Steve Ditko and Roy Thomas, and art by Steve Ditko. Strange hides his bound body in a rooftop water tank, as The Demon & his men search for him. At their HQ, Strange retrieves his Cloak Of Levitation, and uses it to capture one of Mordo's men. But his body has been found by the witch; The complex cat-and-mouse game continues until Strange finally regains control of his body and Amulet, and he hypnotizes Mordo's minions into forgetting all they know of black magic. 36 pgs. Full colour. Cover price $0.12.
CGC Cert: #4730403019
Grader Notes: crease left bottom of back cover, spine stress lines breaks colour, multiple crease right bottom of front cover breaks colour, and off-white to white pages.
