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Aquaman 4
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Aquaman 4 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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2051715011
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #4 features a story, "The Menace of Alien Island", in which a race of aliens known as the Suvians lands their space ship in the waters near a coastal community. Aquaman and Aqualad investigate only to discover that they are in fact a race of scientifically advanced conquerors, in control of a powerful weapon. Quisp the water-sprite, appears and aids them in combating the alien forces. It appears as if the aliens kill Quisp, but the sprite manages to survive and aids Aquaman in driving the invaders off.
Our 9.8 gem is one of the highlights of our Aquaman collection, being the single highest graded copy of this 1962 issue. We acquired the book from the 9/9/2019 CL Auction.
2024 Update: A second 9.8 of this issue with OW/W pages was graded by CGC in April 2024 and auctioned off by Heritage in June 2024, knocking our book down to 1/2 highest graded. As usual, the second book went for almost 50% less than the first 9.8. We considered buying it and averaging down, or at least bidding and hopefully driving the price up, but there were too many books we wanted in the auction to spend our money on duplicates. Again, the hazards of buying a single highest graded book strike again. You may think that a 60-year old book will be immune from such things, but it happens far too frequently.
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