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Astonishing Tales 3 |
| Item: |
Astonishing Tales 3 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
1010208029
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Owner Comments
This book has near-perfect cover centering and cover orientation, and with pure White Pages, it is one of the best-looking Astonishing Tales #3 book, I have seen. Furthermore this book marks the entry of Barry White to the series, thus for collectors of Barry Smith books this book is a key issue (together with the origin of Garokk). According to Wikipedia:
"Garokk, also known as the Petrified Man, is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Astonishing Tales vol. 1 #2 (November 1970) and was created by Roy Thomas and Jack Kirby".
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garokk
Thus the first appearance of Garokk was in Astonishing Tales #2, although his origin was first explained in this book.
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| Slot: |
Astonishing Tales 4 |
| Item: |
Astonishing Tales 4 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0749500014
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Owner Comments
Recently got a 9.8 WP copy of this book - but in 2012, when I bought the 9.6, there really was nothing better - my old text from 2012:
"In Marts 2012 according to the CGC Census there were 6 books at 9.6 and none higher. During an investigation I found out that the remaining five 9.6 books had serials 0607539010, 1039416004, 0915544016 (Twin Cities Pedigree), 1002643012 and 0700133001, and quite surprisingly they all had OW-W page quality.
In short, there is currently no evidence that Astonishing Tales #4 exists in a better quality than 9.6 OW-W."
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