| Slot: |
Astonishing Tales 25 |
| Item: |
Astonishing Tales 25 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
3833670017
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Owner Comments
1st Deathlok! 1st George Perez artwork also on the last 2 pages! Going on the premise of a type of a cyborg. These machines will combine their wisdom, man-made, to the individual! I hope they get along. Deathlok and machine, go at it as a team! Giving some love to my boy, another bronze 1st from around the CGC cutoff for modern submissions, currently anyway. These 70's 1sts all kind of sprouted like trees, only to be recently farmed as fodder to people's speculation. Some great original ideas, given style for the Marvel usual, and they had let in new talent. Given the conditions at the time, they still got nice or great stuff out the door. Rich Buckler? Art. Make mine Marvel but hardly heard of him. Klaus Janson? Now I've heard of him! Classic artist that went on to "bigger and greater" things but had the starts of something here to prove worthy of being the "go to" when the time came. Do not despise "small" beginnings!
 Seemingly a supporting character for a while, Deathlok became ongoing in his own title when I was young.
Complete with a back cover picture of the last issue of this run, which is also, the first "Newsstand Marked" available for this run, issue #36. Some dislike the barcode, but they are "markings" of what was the original distribution system for comics, and yet, having it 1st on Newsstands as the last issue? It was probably "always on the newsstand distribution", but this probably being the 1st issue of the run to show the "Newsstand BARCODE", which could have been a jolt for collectors at the time. Nuances! Cards, Cards, Cards, they're "On Lock!"
Grader Notes:
crease right bottom of front cover breaks color;
crease right top of front cover breaks color;
spine stress lines breaks color.
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