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Silver Surfer 1 |
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Silver Surfer #1 Universal |
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CGC 9.2 |
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0905446010
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Bowling Green
*Pedigree Background*
This collection consisted of full runs of marvel comics from 1961 to 1973. Most DC runs were found from the same time period, but significantly lower grades. Total collection size was 5000 books with some pre 1961 books. The entire collection was consigned to Jerry Weist when he was conducting regular Sotherby's auctions and all documented in 1999 catologue. Almost every book from 1968 on back has a small date stamp in blue or black on the front cover. Page quality was generally very good ranging from ow/w to white and all keys were mid to low grade. The collection was founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Purchase History: From Collector Society Board Member Namisqr
Rank: 4th
Story Title: "Origin of the Silver Surfer"
*Synopsis*
The Silver Surfer flies through Earth. He spots a spaceship crashing into an ocean and manages to save its pilot, who turns out to be John Jameson. The Surfer brings Jameson back to his fellow astronauts, but they think of the Surfer as an enemy an open fire on him. The battle follows the Surfer straight to China, where he decides to speed things up and manages to outmaneuver the soldiers.
Next, he recalls his first encounters with the Hulk and Dr. Doom. He also remembers his life on his birthplanet, Zenn-La, and his beloved girlfriend Shalla-Bal. Surfer also recalls how the planet was attacked by Galactus and how he made his pact to save the planet, and in exchange he would search new planets for him to feed on, as the Silver Surfer! And finally, Norrin remembers his encounter with the Fantastic Four and how they freed him from Galactus, but that he is now in exile here on Earth. But he promises not to give up and continue exploring.
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Silver Surfer 2 |
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Silver Surfer #2 Universal |
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CGC 9.4 |
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0914586016
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Twin Cities
*Pedigree Background*
The Twin Cities pedigreee was recognized by CGC in the beginning of 2011. The collection belonged to the late Gary Dahlberg of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dahlberg was a meticulous collector who also had the advantage of working at a bookstore as a high school student in the early 60's with the opportunity to buy new comics from the store before placed on the stands. Heritage brought this collection to the market.
Purchase History: Won on Heritage Auctions
Rank: 3rd
Story Title: "When Lands The Saucer"
*Synopsis*
While resting just out of Earth's atmosphere, the Surfer is jarred awake by falling meteors, and he decides that he should try and find a home among the humans he is forced to live with. Traveling to a European town, the Surfer is driven away by the panicked locals who distrust the Surfer due to his previous acts of aggression towards humanity. The Surfer once more tries to integrate into society by trying to find a home in the city, however his arrival is also met with fear and distrust.
Returning to space, the Surfer laments over humanity's many ills when he suddenly notices that arrival of a Badoon ship in Earth's space. When it lands in New York and cloaks itself, the Surfer tries to warn the people on the street, but is knocked out and locked up in a jail. Reviving, the Surfer breaks out of his cell and decides to confront the aliens directly. Meeting the Badoon in their ship, the Surfer is told by their leader the Brother Royal that they have come to Earth to end all evil, however a captive Earth girl warns the Surfer that the Badoon are really planning to invade the Earth. The girl is blasted for her troubles and the Surfer escapes the Badoon ship with the near dead girl, and puts her in status in Earth's orbit while he deals with the Badoon.
The Surfer battles the Badoon, who unleash their creature the Monster of Badoon, as Surfer battles the antagonists in the city, the people of the city are one more put in a state of panic because the Badoon's cloaking technology makes it look as though the Surfer is on another rampage. The Surfer manages to destroy the Monster but not without the military planning a strike against the Surfer. When the missiles are launched, the Badoon believe that they are being attacked by the Earth military and are forced to retreat.
When the Surfer tries to piggy back on the Badoon's ship to try and get past Galactus' barrier, however he remembers the girl he left in status and goes back for her. The Surfer return her to Earth and try to revive her with his Power Cosmic. However he is chased by the air force and is forced to abandon the girl so that no harm comes to her. While the girl is revived, the military believe that she was attacked by the Surfer, who flees.
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Silver Surfer 3 |
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Silver Surfer #3 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.4 |
| Cert #: |
0981440010
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Rocky Mountain
*Pedigree Background*
The Rocky Mountain pedigree, so named based on its Colorado roots, contains over 5,000 comic books in high grade runs of Marvel and DC titles from the 1960s and up. The comic books were stored meticulously for decades in a cool, dry basement, and have bold, newsstand fresh colors and white or off-white to white pages. “One of the unique things about the Rocky Mountain pedigree is that there are photographs of it in its original state, making it one of the most thoroughly documented pedigrees. It has long runs of Marvel and DC, and because of their high grades and their market acceptance, this collection certainly has special merit.” Collection brought to market by Comiclink president Josh Nathanson.
Purchase History: From Pedigree Comics
Rank: 3rd
Story Title:"The Power and the Prize!"
*Synopsis*
Checking on the girl who's life he saved, the Surfer is chased out of the hospital. Furious over once more being treated with hostility by the human race, the Surfer lashes out and uses his powers to grind the human race to a standstill causing everything electronic to fail. This gains the attention to Mephisto, lord of the neither world who wishes to claim the Silver Surfer's soul. In order to do so, Mephisto kidnaps Shalla-Bal and uses her to make the Surfer to do his bidding and turn up his soul.
Whisking Shalla-Bal to his realm, Mephisto is shocked when the Surfer is able to follow him to his realm. Mephisto tries to tempt the Surfer with riches and women in an attempt to corrupt his soul, however the Surfer is able to resist temptation. In a final attempt to try and corrupt the Surfer, Mephisto absorbs the Surfer into his mind. However, the opposite happens and Mephisto finds that the Surfer's purity is influencing his mind. Releasing the Surfer, Mephisto admits defeat, but not before sending Shalla-Bal back to Zenn-La and the Surfer back to Earth, where he is still trapped by the barrier erected by Galactus.
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Silver Surfer 4 |
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Silver Surfer #4 Universal |
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CGC 9.4 |
| Cert #: |
0914707013
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Twin Cities
*Pedigree Background*
The Twin Cities pedigreee was recognized by CGC in the beginning of 2011. The collection belonged to the late Gary Dahlberg of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dahlberg was a meticulous collector who also had the advantage of working at a bookstore as a high school student in the early 60's with the opportunity to buy new comics from the store before placed on the stands. Heritage brought this collection to the market.
Purchase History: Won on Heritage Auctions
Rank: 3rd
Story Title: "The Good, The Bad and the Uncanny!"
*Synopsis*
Wanting to once again destroy his step brother Thor, Loki searches the Earth for a suitable pawn to use against his nemesis. Searching the Earth, Loki finds the Silver Surfer and travels to Earth and engages the hero into battling him. Convinced that the Surfer has the power to defeat his step-brother, Loki tricks the Surfer into believing that Thor is evil and is intending to conquer Asgard.
Secretly boosting the Surfer's power with his magics, Loki sends Silver Surfer to Asgard and manipulates events so that the Surfer and Thor engage in battle, and escalating things by using spells to manipulate others gathered at the banquet hall and the Surfer to escalate the battle.
However, when both parties begin to realize that something is afoot, and the Surfer begins to realize that Loki had manipulated him, Loki -- furious that the Surfer failed in defeating Thor -- returns the Surfer back to Earth, leaving Thor to believe the Surfer to be a truly noble being who had been manipulated by unseen forces.
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Silver Surfer 5 |
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Silver Surfer #5 Universal |
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CGC 9.2 |
| Cert #: |
1011479006
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Savannah
*Pedigree Background*
This collection was discovered by Shelton Drum, owner of Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find in North Carolina, and consigned to Heritage Auctions in its entirety (40,000). Drum purchased the comics from the original collector, a Savannah, GA resident who was middle-aged in the late 1950s when he began collecting in earnest, but continued purchasing every comic he could for the following 50 years.
“I was amazed by the consistent quality of the comics from 1959 and up,” Drum said. “While quite a few people have extensive collections of superhero comics from that era, almost nobody bought every genre. This collection also has all of the science fiction, horror/mystery, romance, and war comics, as well – lots of books you don’t usually see as a dealer or a collector. This guy bought everything! He collected DCs and Marvels as well as the other publishers like Charlton and Dell.”
The collector had an ingenious way to make sure he never missed an issue: he acquired the comics directly from the distributor from the late 1950s through the 1970s.
Purchase History: Won on Heritage Auctions
Rank: 4th
Story Title: "And Who Shall Mourn For Him"
*Synopsis*
Breaking into the Baxter Building, the Silver Surfer steals Reed's space-scrambler in hopes that he can use it to break through the barrier which Galactus has put it around Earth. However, the Surfer is unaware that the device has not been perfected, and when he uses it, the device explodes knocking him unconscious and sending him back to Earth. He is recovered and brought home by physicist Al Harper, who sympathizes and can relate to the Surfers plight. Harper agrees to help the Surfer, however he needs the money to create the devices necessary to breach the barrier.
Dawning human clothing, the Surfer sets out to get the money that Al needs in order to conduct the work needed. At first the Surfer breaks into a bank to take the money he needs, but realizes that doing so would be dishonorable when he's spotted by the security guard. He then restores the damage and erases the guards memories of the incident before resuming his mission. Out in an alley he runs across a man who has been roughed up after losing all his money in an illegal gambling room after he realized the dice he was rolling were weighted. The Surfer decides that is how he will earn the money that he needs. Taken to the gambling room, the Surfer uses his cosmic powers to clean up and win more than enough money that is needed. However, the operators of the gambling room are not impressed with having lost so much money and beat up the Surfer and tries to run him down, however the man who told him of the gambling room tries to stop it and is struck himself. Fed up, the Surfer disables the mobsters car, and gives the man some of his money before returning to Al.
With the money, Harper is able to build the devices that the Surfer needs to get to Earth, however as it happens the Surfer is trying to free himself just as the Stranger has come to Earth to destroy it after his previous experiences on the planet leads him to believe the planet does not deserve to sustain life. Detecting the Surfer's presence on the Earth, the Stranger informs the Surfer of his plans to destroy the Earth with a Null-Life Bomb so that the Surfer can leave. Not wishing the destruction of the Earth, the Surfer battles the Stranger, but is easily defeated.
Deciding that he needs help in finding the bomb and defeating the Stranger, the Surfer gets Al to help him. While Al tracks down the bomb with a radiation detecting device, the Surfer battles the Stranger in the city. Although Al is attacked by a mob finding his activities suspicious, Al manages to find the bomb and disarms it, although at the cost of his own life. With the bomb destroyed, the Stranger is forced to retreat. The Surfer then tracks down his friend and gives him a proper burial, and leaves a marker of everlasting flame.
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Silver Surfer 6 |
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Silver Surfer #6 Universal |
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CGC 9.4 |
| Cert #: |
1027912002
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Suscha News
*Pedigree Background*
See link...good story!
http://www.cgccomics.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=1809
Purchase History: From Metropolis Comics
Rank: 3rd
Story Title: "World's Without End!"
*Synopsis*
Once more lamenting on his plight, and pining over Shalla-Bal once more, the Surfer travels back to Al Harper's lab to try and see if there is anything else he can find that might allow him to breach the barrier around Earth put in place by Galactus. There he learns that it's possible to travel through time if he traveled at faster than light speed. Believing that maybe in the future the barrier would have been dropped the Surfer speeds around the Earth faster than the speed of life and ends up in the distant future.
There he is horrified to find that the Earth has been decimated, but the barrier around the Earth is now gone. Traveling to Zenn-La, the Surfer also learns that his home world had also been decimated. Traveling to a work where he finds life, the Surfer learns that they've all devolved into savages. Attacked, the Surfer is soon taken prisoner of soldiers who take him to the Overlord, a indestructible mutant who has become a tyrannical ruler who has taken over most of the universe.
When the Overlord puts some of his slaves at risk, the Surfer tries to stop him and attacks him, however finds himself over powered and easily defeated. Taken to a holding cell by the last survivor of Zenn-La revives the Surfer and tells him the origins of the Overlord: That his father was irradiated by a defective nuclear reactor, and once the boy had become full grown he began rampaging across the universe taking over all because he was indestructible.
When the Overlord discovers that his slave has revived the Surfer, he kills him, and sends his troops to attack the Surfer. The Surfer easily defeats the soldiers but unable to destroy the Overlord, the Surfer does something drastic: He travels back in time prior to the Overlord's father being effected by radiation, and destroys the device, causing the Overlord's future to no longer exist, and erasing the Overlord from existence. The Surfer returns to his own time, to find himself once more trapped on Earth.
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Silver Surfer 7 |
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Silver Surfer #7 Universal |
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CGC 9.4 |
| Cert #: |
1029777002
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Suscha News
*Pedigree Background*
See link...good story!
http://www.cgccomics.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle
Purchase History: Won on ComicConnect Auctions
Rank: 3rd
Story Title: "The Heir of Frankenstein"
*Synopsis*
Ludwig Frankenstein, the modern descendant of Victor von Frankenstein and his hunchbacked assistant Borgo attempt to create life using modern scientific technology. But the local villagers have had their fill of the Frankenstein legacy and storm the castle. Frankenstein decides to activate his latest project, Experiment X. But in order to do so, he needs a powerful living host – one that is strong enough to survive the process.
The Silver Surfer, flying through the Alps, sees the villagers storming the castle and believing them to be aggressors, repels them with his cosmic blasts. Count Frankenstein invites him into his castle and pretends to befriend him. The Silver Surfer is reluctant to trust him at first, but agrees to help him. Frankenstein tricks him into becoming the host for Experiment X. Trapping the Surfer and strapping him to a table, he begins to siphon the power cosmic from him and redirect it into a lifeless clay model. Imbued with half the power of the Silver Surfer, the creation comes to life and assumes the Surfer's form. Frankenstein sends the false Surfer into the village to avenge himself against them.
The Silver Surfer frees himself and flies outside to stop his evil doppelganger. Their fight rages throughout the village and eventually carries out into Earth’s atmosphere. Both combatants are evenly matched. Eventually however, the false Surfer's energy begins to drain away until he loses all power and cohesion. Before long, there is nothing left of him.
Back in the Alps, the diminutive Borgo decides that he has taken Count Frankenstein's abuse long enough. He tackles Frankenstein and both of them topple out of the castle window where they fall to their deaths.
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Silver Surfer 8 |
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Silver Surfer #8 Universal |
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CGC 9.6 |
| Cert #: |
0029734012
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Oakland
*Pedigree Background*
The Oakland collection is a rather large collection that surfaced in the late 90’s (at least 4,000 books), of mostly high grade superhero books from 1967 to 1972. Many collectors consider this collection a “warehouse find” as opposed to a pedigree collection.
This collection obviously originates from the city of Oakland, California. The original owner purchased the books from a local liquor store in exchange for racking the books for the store. He was always careful about how he handled the books, and being the first one with access to the books he was privileged to have the first crack at taking the copies he wanted. He actually wore gloves and used a clean towel as a place mat when handling the books outside of the store. The collection surfaced at Wonder Con in 1998, and three months later was purchased by two dealers; Mike Carbonaro of Neatstuff Collectibles primarily.
Purchase History: From Collector Society Board Member Ghost Town
Rank: 2nd
Story Title: "Now Strikes The Ghost"
*Synopsis*
Furious over his previous attempt to collect the Silver Surfer's soul having met failure, Mephisto decides to try once more. Appearing before an amateur mystic attempting to summon Mephisto, Mephisto then uses his power to summon the wandering ghost of Joost van Straaten, the legendary Flying Dutchman.
Mephisto uses his powers to transform the ghost of Joost into the Ghost, a super-powerful entity to battle the Silver Surfer in Mephisto's bid to collect the Surfer's goal. After taunting the Surfer with visions of Shalla-Bal, Mephisto then kills the mystic and sends the Ghost into the city to terrorize people in order to lure the Surfer to Earth for another battle.
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Silver Surfer 9 |
| Item: |
Silver Surfer #9 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.4 |
| Cert #: |
1032002019
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Owner Comments
Signature: Stan Lee
Pedigree: Rocky Mountain
*Pedigree Background*
The Rocky Mountain pedigree, so named based on its Colorado roots, contains over 5,000 comic books in high grade runs of Marvel and DC titles from the 1960s and up. The comic books were stored meticulously for decades in a cool, dry basement, and have bold, newsstand fresh colors and white or off-white to white pages. “One of the unique things about the Rocky Mountain pedigree is that there are photographs of it in its original state, making it one of the most thoroughly documented pedigrees. It has long runs of Marvel and DC, and because of their high grades and their market acceptance, this collection certainly has special merit.” Collection brought to market by Comiclink president Josh Nathanson.
Purchase History: From Pristine Comics
Rank: 3rd
Story Title: "To Steal The Surfer's Soul"
*Synopsis*
With the Ghost as his pawn, Mephisto lures the Surfer back to Earth, and forces him into battling the Ghost who has been terrorizing the people of New York City. As the two battle, the Surfer and the Ghost appear to be equally matched, with the Surfer refusing to give up his soul.
When the Ghost grabs a human hostage, the Surfer is bombarded by an attacks from the Ghost, not wanting to attack for far of harming the Ghost hostage. Finally figuring a way to strike the Ghost without harming his hostage, the Ghost fails in collecting the Surfers soul. Wrought with guilt over the Surfer's chastising for using an innocent against the Surfer, the Ghost renounces Mephisto, who then begins to banish the Ghost back to Limbo. However, the Surfer, truly understanding the torment of the Ghost's soul, sheds a single tear, which breaks the Ghost's curse freeing him from Mephisto's control and allows him to finally reach his eternal rest while Mephisto retreats.
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Silver Surfer 10 |
| Item: |
Silver Surfer #10 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.4 |
| Cert #: |
1011480010
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Savannah
*Pedigree Background*
This collection was discovered by Shelton Drum, owner of Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find in North Carolina, and consigned to Heritage Auctions in its entirety (40,000). Drum purchased the comics from the original collector, a Savannah, GA resident who was middle-aged in the late 1950s when he began collecting in earnest, but continued purchasing every comic he could for the following 50 years.
“I was amazed by the consistent quality of the comics from 1959 and up,” Drum said. “While quite a few people have extensive collections of superhero comics from that era, almost nobody bought every genre. This collection also has all of the science fiction, horror/mystery, romance, and war comics, as well – lots of books you don’t usually see as a dealer or a collector. This guy bought everything! He collected DCs and Marvels as well as the other publishers like Charlton and Dell.”
The collector had an ingenious way to make sure he never missed an issue: he acquired the comics directly from the distributor from the late 1950s through the 1970s.
Purchase History: Won on Heritage Auctions
Rank: 3rd
Story Title: "A World He Never Made!"
*Synopsis*
In order to prove that the Silver Surfer is either destroyed or has moved on to a new lover in order to get Shalla-Bal to agree to marrying him, Yarro Gort -- Zenn-La's most wealthy man -- has built a ship to take both of them to Earth.
Meanwhile, the Surfer decides to make another attempt to integrate himself into human society. Taking some clothes and left over money from the late Al Harper's home, the Surfer travels to a small South American town where he finds that it is under the control of an evil dictator. After defeating some soldiers who tried to arrest him for being out after curfew, the Surfer is brought in by a freedom fighter named Maria and hidden in her attic while she prepares to meet with her fellow resistance fighters.
However, Maria is captured, and when the Surfer awakens later, he travels to the dictator's ("El Capitan") castle and fights past the guards, and frees Maria. As they escape the castle, Maria kisses the Surfer in thanks, a sight which is seen by Shalla-Bal and Yarro as they arrive in Earth's atmosphere.
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Silver Surfer 11 |
| Item: |
Silver Surfer #11 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.4 |
| Cert #: |
0914714011
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Twin Cities
*Pedigree Background*
The Twin Cities pedigreee was recognized by CGC in the beginning of 2011. The collection belonged to the late Gary Dahlberg of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dahlberg was a meticulous collector who also had the advantage of working at a bookstore as a high school student in the early 60's with the opportunity to buy new comics from the store before placed on the stands. Heritage brought this collection to the market.
Purchase History: Won on Heritage Auctions
Rank: 3rd
Story Title: "O, Bitter Victory!"
*Synopsis*
With the dictator army fighting back resistance forces, the ship piloted by Yarro Gort is spotted and shot out of the sky, prompting Yarro and Shalla-Bal to abandon ship. The Surfer, noticing the ship prevents it from crashing and realizes that it's a ship from Zenn-La, and realizes that some of his people may now be prisoners of the dictator of this South American nation.
Yarro and Shalla-Bal are indeed taken prisoner, however Yarro bargains with the subordinates to reveal secrets of Zenn-La technology to the dictator of the land in exchange for their continued freedom. As the Surfer aids the resistance fighters in freeing their country, Yarro would in turn build weapons for the dictator in hopes of destroying the Silver Surfer.
In the final battle, Shalla-Bal, not willing harm to come to the Surfer tries to stop Yarro from turning a powerful cannon on the Surfer and is shot for her troubled. Rescued by the Surfer, the enraged Surfer is forced to fight back and kill Yarro when Yarro tries to blast the Surfer with the cannon. The dictators army is quickly defeated shortly after and the resistance fighters take control back to their own country. With his powers depleted from the battle, the Surfer repairs the space shuttle and sends Shalla-Bal back to Zenn-La where their science may save her from her near fatal gun shot wound.
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Silver Surfer 12 |
| Item: |
Silver Surfer #12 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.2 |
| Cert #: |
0098084033
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Bowling Green
*Pedigree Background*
This collection consisted of full runs of marvel comics from 1961 to 1973. Most DC runs were found from the same time period, but significantly lower grades. Total collection size was 5000 books with some pre 1961 books. The entire collection was consigned to Jerry Weist when he was conducting regular Sotherby's auctions and all documented in 1999 catologue. Almost every book from 1968 on back has a small date stamp in blue or black on the front cover. Page quality was generally very good ranging from ow/w to white and all keys were mid to low grade. The collection was founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Purchase History: From Ebay User marvelmovers
Rank: 4th
Story Title: "Gather, Ye Witches!"
*Synopsis*
A coven of witches seeks to prove their power by killing the alien Silver Surfer and hopes to summon a "tool" capable of doing so. They rescue the Abomination from exile, but the Abomination refuses to obey the coven's commands. He leaves with his own agenda to subjugate and rule the world. The Silver Surfer similarly escapes the coven and battles the Abomination. Eventually defeated, the Abomination returns to the planet of the Stranger.
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Silver Surfer 13 |
| Item: |
Silver Surfer #13 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.4 |
| Cert #: |
0098084034
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Bowling Green
*Pedigree Background*
This collection consisted of full runs of marvel comics from 1961 to 1973. Most DC runs were found from the same time period, but significantly lower grades. Total collection size was 5000 books with some pre 1961 books. The entire collection was consigned to Jerry Weist when he was conducting regular Sotherby's auctions and all documented in 1999 catologue. Almost every book from 1968 on back has a small date stamp in blue or black on the front cover. Page quality was generally very good ranging from ow/w to white and all keys were mid to low grade. The collection was founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Purchase History: Won on Heritage Auction
Rank: 3rd
Story Title: "The Dawn of the Doomsday Man!"
*Synopsis*
With the threat of the Doomsday Man, a powerful robot built by Dr. Kronton to be the US Army's ultimate defensive robot. However after the robot was completed, the military decided they had gone too far and sealed the robot into a large concrete prison on an uninhabited island. When news of the robot being activated makes national headlines the Surfer decides to get involved and try to stop the robot to get back on humanities good graces.
When offering his aid, the United Nations agree to let the Surfer try and defuse the situation but send Dr. Kronton along with them. Soon the Surfer learns that the Kronton intended the robot to become free and that he had armed it with a Cobalt Bomb in hopes that it would reach the United States and detonate.
However, when the Surfer tries to trap the Doomsday Man in the Earth's core, Kronton tries to save it, but the machine ends up killing him. With the Doomsday Man trapped in the Earth, the Surfer throws the Cobalt bomb into space where it detonates safely. However, in spite of the fact that the Surfer saved the Earth, the people watching the Surfer's battle blame him for allowing the Doomsday Man to kill Kronton. Instead of defending himself, the Surfer silently walks away from the scene.
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Silver Surfer 14 |
| Item: |
Silver Surfer #14 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.2 |
| Cert #: |
0988507012
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Winnipeg
*Pedigree Background*
The Winnipeg Collection, an original owner collection that surfaced in Winnipeg, Canada. This collection consists of a complete run of Marvel Comics and a near complete run of DC comics (from 1960 on) purchased by original owners Dennis Kjolso & Joseph Krolic. The collection runs through 1996. The collection was sold in its entirety to Showcase New England in December of 1996. Most copies from 1961-1965 have krlic and kjelso names written in blue ball point on the cover or on the top front cover.
Purchase History: Won on Comiclink Auction
Rank: 4th
Story Title: "The Surfer and the Spider!"
*Synopsis*
The Surfer is knocked out when trying to stop a meteor from crashing into Earth, and ends up being knocked into New York Harbor. Reviving shortly after, he flies about in New York and is spotted by a young boy named Henry who is a super-hero fan, who's father is against the notion of his son idolizing costumed heroes. The boy goes out onto his roof where he can get a closer look at the Surfer.
Meanwhile, the Surfer believes he is being attacked when Spider-Man accidentally shoots a web line that gets snagged on the Surfer's board. This leads to the two heroes getting into a battle, leaving the Surfer's board unattended on the roof of Henry's building. The curious boy decides to try it out, however when the Surfer summons his board back in the middle of his battle against Spider-Man, he pulls the boy into battle as well.
When the military gets involved, the Surfer uses his powers to protect the boy instead of himself, when all realize that the Surfer put himself at risk to save a young boy, they all stop their attack and leave the Surfer to mourn over what happened, Spider-Man also leaves realizing that he was mistaken about the Surfer.
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Silver Surfer 15 |
| Item: |
Silver Surfer #15 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.6 |
| Cert #: |
0776912008
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Owner Comments
Pedigree: Mass. Copy
*Pedigree Background*
The Massachusetts pedigreed collection of comic books (now affectionately referred to as the Mass. Collection) is a high grade run of Silver Age Marvel and DC titles, with also many books from other publishers including ACG, Gold Key and Charlton.
The collection, approximately 4,000 comic books (and full runs of Marvel magazines) was founded in 1993 by Marnin Rosenberg, a longtime collector and dealer out of Great Neck, New York. Mr. Rosenberg responded to an advertisement in the Comic Buyer’s Guide placed by the original owner (Dennis Richard), who began selling piecemeal portions of his runs of comic books to Mr. Rosenberg, starting with the Marvels.
The books were originally stored in careful and meticulous fashion, stacked on top of one another in near one foot piles in the original owner’s basement. This helps explain the unbelievable freshness and appeal of the books, most of which have superb ink reflectivity and supple, near white to white pages.
Although many of the Marvels first purchased by Mr. Rosenberg were not sold as “Mass.” copies, a very detailed and precise inventory has been preserved as well as accurate sales records, keeping the whereabouts and tracking of individual issues intact.
Many of the early Marvels are in beautiful, high grade condition and amongst the highest so far graded by the Comics Guaranty Corporation (CGC).
Collectively, the Mass. Collection is among the nicest Silver Age pedigrees in the world. Out of the known original owner collections with almost complete Marvel runs, it ranks in the top 5 for overall consistency and high grade percentage of books found in the collection.
Purchase History: Won on Comiclink Auctions
Rank: Highest graded 1st!
Story Title: "The Flame and the Fury!"
*Synopsis*
Once more deciding to become part of humanity once again, the Surfer goes to a tailor to get a set of clothing. "Convincing" the tailors to find him the perfect outfit, the Surfer reflects on his recent adventures and recalls his battle against the Galactus with the Fantastic Four. The Surfer decides that he should contact the Fantastic Four to see if there is anything they can do to destroy the barrier that Galactus had erected.
Traveling to the Baxter Building, the Surfer overhears the FF agreeing to help the military in finding the Silver Surfer. Believing himself to have been betrayed, the Surfer flees, and Johnny is allowed to follow after the Surfer as the Human Torch.
The two battle across the city, however the Surfer eventually over powers the Torch injuring him in battle. However, the Surfer flees when the military arrives on the scene. The Surfer overhears the Torch tell the military that they were trying to contact the Surfer to get him to help them with their space program, not to take him prisoner. The Surfer, ashamed of his actions, flees.
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