COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Avengers 78 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Don Rosa Collection
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Certification #:
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1204648011
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #78 marks the first appearance of the Lethal Legion. In the story, Captain America arrives at Avengers Mansion and is ambushed by the Man-Ape. Perimeter security devices alert Goliath, Quicksilver, and the Scarlet Witch to the melee and they rush to the roof, where the struggle is taking place. The Man-Ape escapes, but the Avengers wonder why the Man-Ape would target Captain America, an Avenger he's never encountered before.
Elsewhere, the Black Panther pays a visit to Monica Lynn and tells her of his activities as a school teacher. He leaves her to go to Avengers Mansion and Monica is then kidnapped by Man-Ape. Black Panther arrives at Avengers Mansion and learns about the Man-Ape's earlier attack. The Avengers are then contacted by the Ape himself who informs them that he has captured Lynn and demands to battle the Black Panther alone.
The Panther goes to a pre-planned location to combat Man-Ape one on one. But the Man-Ape's henchman N'Gamo helps defeat him The Ape gloats about his victory to the Avengers before bringing his defeated foe to an abandoned tunnel below New York City. The captive Black Panther learns that this is all part of a scheme concocted by the Grim Reaper, who has united a number of the Avengers' previous foes - Man-Ape, the Living Laser, Power Man, and Swordsman - as the Lethal Legion!
High grade copies of this one are very common. Ours comes from the Don Rosa Collection and is one of 16 atop the census. A writer and illustrator for Disney that carried on the tradition of Carl Barks' famous works on Donald Duck, Rosa also assembled complete runs of every comic book published between 1966 and the late '80s, purchasing his books from local newsstands in Louisville, Kentucky. He decided to part with the 1970-present portion of his collection in 1995, which were sold through Steve Wyatt at San Diego Comic-Con that year. Rosa's remaining collection also contains a large, high grade accumulation of comics from the '50s, purchased complete by Rosa, which possibly represents a "pedigree within a pedigree." His collection has no identifying markings.
We acquired the book from the 8/11/2015 Pedigree Comics Auction.
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