COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Avengers 82 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Twin Cities
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Certification #:
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1204648012
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Daredevil, the FF, Peter Parker and Aunt May all make appearances in Issue #82. In the story, the entire city of New York has been captured and is being ransomed for a billion dollars by the Zodiac member named Aries and his private army. He has successfully captured Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, and Quicksilver, and most of New York's other heroes are unable to get into action to fight off Aries' army. With Vision, Goliath, and Scarlet Witch stuck in New Jersey, the only remaining Avenger that is free is the Black Panther.
The Panther seeks out the only ally he has, Matt Murdock, whom he knows is really the costumed crime-fighter known as Daredevil. Helping Murdock fight off a group of Aries' private militants, the two team up to save the city. Tracking down Aries to his secret lair, the two heroes are unable to match the power unleashed by the Zodiac Key, which Aries is harnessing as a weapon and the two heroes are forced to retreat.
The next day, the people of New York are herded to Madison Square Gardens to witness the execution of the captured Avengers. There, in his civilian guise of Matt Murdock, Daredevil incites a riot by rallying the people against Aries and his army. The riot is quickly broken up and Murdock is taken to Aries to be executed as well. Murdock uses this as a means to get close enough to the Avengers to free them using his radar sense and firing a cable line from his billy club.
With the Avengers free, they make quick work of the militants, but Aries escapes to set the force-field keeping New York hostage to close in itself and crush everyone in the city, however, this is stopped by the magic power of Thor's hammer, presumably killing Aries in the process.
With Aries' army rounded up by the US Military, the Avengers and Daredevil return to Avengers Mansion, where Vision, Goliath, and Scarlet Witch recount their adventure in Arizona. After wrapping up their catch-up session, Daredevil pays his leave to the Avengers.
Our 9.8 comes from the Twin Cities Collection and is one of six highest graded. The Twin Cities Collection was the product of Gary Dahlberg who spent his life carefully buying, reading and storing comic books away throughout the '60s and '70s, with aspirations to become a cartoonist one day. Sadly, he died in a fire in 2010, but to the astonishment of his family his collection was appraised at more than $1 million by Heritage, who auctioned the books in 2011. Consisting of mainly Marvel and DC, this accumulation has no identifying marks but yielded some of the highest grades of the early Marvel period with considerably high page quality. The collection ultimately brought over $2.4 million at auction.
We acquired our book from the 8/11/2015 Pedigree Comics auction.
2024 Update: To say there has been grade inflation in these later issues would be a gross understatement. In this case, there are now 11 9.8s in the Census.
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