COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Justice League of America 98 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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John G. Fantucchio
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Certification #:
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0306682017
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #98 features appearances by Sargon, the Sorcerer, Supergirl and Hawkgirl. In the story, old Flash nemesis, Sargon the Sorcerer, offers to help the JLA in the struggle against Starbreaker. He sends Aquaman and Black Canary, Batman and Hawkman to locate two duplicates of his own mystic Ruby of Life. The three rubies are then linked with Green Lantern's power ring and the combined energy of weaponry from Hawk-man's spaceship, Superman's Fortress of Solitude, and the JLA satellite forms a protective glow around the super-heroes as they battle the cosmic vampire. Splitting their forces by means of a time warp, Star-breaker battles first Green Lantern, Hawkman, and Black Canary, then Flash, Aquaman, and Green Arrow, and finally Superman and Batman, but is defeated in each encounter. Forced into this strategy by the Atom, who had influenced Starbreaker by entering his brain at microscopic size, he is now captured and drained of power by Sargon.
Our WP 9.8 comes from the John Fantucchio Collection and is one of six highest graded. Fantucchio was a well-known artist in '60s fandom, drawing covers for RBCC and the Comic Buyers Guide (including the #1 cover), and even worked as an illustrator for the CIA from 1963 to 1988. During this time he amassed full runs of Marvel, DC, Gold Key, Charlton, ACG and Dell, among others, keeping them locked away and untouched, which resulted in uniformly high grades and near perfect cover inks. After his passing in 2016, the family auctioned the collection through Comiclink. Even though the books have no distinctive markings, many were CGC graded.
We acquired the book in the 9/23/2017 CL auction.
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