Mudcats’ 12-cent Avengers
Avengers 22
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Avengers 22 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Twin Cities
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Certification #:
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0914684007
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Both Power Man and the Enchantress appear in Issue #22. In the story continued from Issue #21, the Avengers try to find out who framed them and disband for the time being. The Scarlet Witch briefly considers becoming a lounge singer, but instead she, Quicksilver and Hawkeye are enticed to join the circus, which turns out to be the superpowered criminals the "Circus of Crime" (then called the "Masters of Menace).
The Circus of Crime poses as a normal circus and then call the police, claiming that the three Avengers were trying to rob them. Again they flee.
Meanwhile, Captain America, posing as a publicity man, catches Power Man admitting the frame-up on tape. He and the rest of the Avengers then defeat Power Man and the Enchantress in battle and use the proof to get pardoned by the government.
Afterwards, Captain America decides to leave the Avengers.
Our WP 9.8 comes from the Twin Cities Collection and is one of five highest graded copies. The Twin Cities Collection was the product of Gary Dahlberg who spent his life carefully buying, reading and storing comic books away throughout the '60s and '70s, with aspirations to become a cartoonist one day. Sadly, he died in a fire in 2010, but to the astonishment of his family his collection was appraised at more than $1 million by Heritage, who auctioned the books in 2011. Consisting of mainly Marvel and DC, this accumulation has no identifying marks but yielded some of the highest grades of the early Marvel period with considerably high page quality. The collection ultimately brought over $2.4 million at auction.
We acquired the book in the 7/1/2018 CL Auction.
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