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First appearance of the avengers emergency headquarters. Initiative,mighty avengers,new avengers,secret avengers 42 books sep 3, 2017. The avengers is lee and kirbys renovation of a previous superhero team, allwinners squad, who appeared in comic books. Avengers for all the variations of the subject on the site. Its also famous for its cover image, which shows captain america landing a right hook on adolf hitler. Beginning in march 1974, marvel began printing a value stamp on the letters page of every title. Visit us in ma, or we are happy to do comic book appraisals on location. Comic age comic type monthly issue annual special giant size king size prestige format hard cover gn soft cover gn trade paperback published month select month january february. The 20 most expensive comic books in the world 2020. This is where the second marvel team and the first ever conceived from. The avengers are a fictional team of superheroes appearing in american comic books published by marvel comics. The first true comic books were marketed in 1933 as giveaway advertising premiums. Missing a few issues of batman, the amazing spiderman, hulk, green lantern, or the xmen and cant remember which ones. Marvel, scarlet witch, vision, wasp, and wonder man.
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Marvel, one of the original comic book producers, has since 1939 created. The first appearance of edward nigma aka the riddler, whod turn into one of batmans most interesting arch enemies later played by frank gorshin. We are always interested in buying comic book collections and original comic book art. Have a variant zombie cover or pile of old horror comics.
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