Mudcats’ 12-cent Avengers
Avengers 37
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Avengers 37 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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Curator
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Certification #:
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0056888001
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Once again, Issue #37 continues the story from the prior issue where the Avengers were captured by the Ultroids and the Black Widow is being taken away to be destroyed.
The Ultroid's spaceship takes off and Goliath changes size to escape and sets the rest of the Avengers free. They fight the Ultroids to a stalemate. But they stop short of defeating them since, if they go any further, Ixar will kill the burgomeister of the village.
Ixar absorbs the power of all the Ultroids, giving himself a colossal-size body. The Avengers attack but are all defeated except for Hawkeye and the Black Widow. They theorized that Ixar is somehow connected to the burgomeister. Acting on this hunch, they threaten to kill him. Ixar speculates that Hawkeye cannot carry out that threat as he is bound by Avenger's moral code, which forbids them from taking life. The Black Widow, however, reminds Ixar that she is not an Avenger. Realizing she can carry out this threat, Ixar is forced to release all the Avengers.
Our 9.8 is yet another book from the Curator Collection and is one of only two highest graded in the Census. Considered one of the best Silver Age collections ever discovered, the Curator boasts an Avengers #1 in 9.4, an Amazing Spider-Man #1 in 9.8, an X-men #1 in 9.8 and a Tales of Suspense #47 in 9.9, among many others. The collection began in the late '50s and continued into the '80s, its condition peaking in 1962. They were amassed by an employee of a museum (hence the name), who stored the comics in tight packs on the museum's premises. John Hauser acquired most of them in the '90s but sold many without a pedigree identification. As a result some copies have lost their pedigree as the books do not have any distinctive markings.
We acquired our book from the 6/8/2017 CL Auction.
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