COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Avengers 8 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0720661006
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #8 features the first appearance of Kang the Conqueror. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the Conqueror is most frequently depicted as an opponent of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. A time-traveler, several alternate versions of Kang have appeared throughout Marvel Comics titles over the years, such as Rama-Tut, Immortus, Scarlet Centurion, Victor Timely, Iron Lad, and Mister Gryphon.
Kang the Conqueror has been described as one of Marvel's most notable and powerful villains. Kang has made media appearances in animated television and video games. He made his feature film debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in 2023), in which he was portrayed by Jonathan Majors, who also played alternate versions of the character in the Loki series.
Of course, no comic book character enters the MCU without a few tweaks, and the big screen version of Kang was reimagined as a threat that existed in every universe of the Multiverse and threatened to collapse all of existence into an unimaginably destructive war unless he was somehow stopped.
Since his Ant-Man cinematic debut, Jonathan Majors was arrested in New York City on charges of assault, strangulation, and harassment charges and later convicted of third-degree reckless assault as well as harassment. While majors avoided jail time, he was ordered to attend a 52-week-long domestic violence intervention program. Unsurprisingly, Disney fired the actor in December 2023, presumably to avoid tarnishing the family-friendly image of Marvel Studios.
However, it appears that Marvel still intends to utilize Kang as a character, even without Jonathan Majors. It helps that Kang, as a Multiversal entity, is uniquely suited to be recast with another actor with minimal explanation as to how the character changed, and speculation has been rampant of who could replace Majors.
BTW, while this is considered a Marvel key as the first appearance of a Kang the Conqueror, while going by another name, it seems his first appearance in any Marvel comic was a year earlier as Rama Tut in FF #19.
Our 9.6 is tied for second highest graded, bested by four 9.8s, two of which have come to the market lately, but sold at dear prices. As recently as 2020, you could pick-up a 9.8 copy of Issue #8 for about $15,000-Pedigree Comics had one available at that price, which we thought at the time was overpriced LOL. But I guess spurred by the info that Kang was going to be the next big baddie to appear in the MCU, prices of this issue skyrocket with a 9.6 selling for $21,600 in 2022.
We acquired our WP 9.6 from the 3/14/2017 CL Auction, which cost us around $5k at the time, showing again how cinematic appearances can that affect prices of issues where villains make their first appearance.
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