COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Avengers 43 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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Pedigree:
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Curator
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Certification #:
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2011304009
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #43 features the first appearance by the Red Guardian, Alexei Shostakov. Quicksilver demonstrates his newfound ability to fly and Captain America has to prove himself to a skeptical Hercules before he will take orders from him. Cap easily wins Hercules' admiration in a duel.
Sometime later, while most of the Avengers are away from the mansion, Hawkeye gets information about the Black Widow's whereabouts. Anxious to help her, Hawkeye cannot wait for his fellow Avengers to return. He sets out to rescue her immediately, with only Hercules in tow.
Meanwhile, Colonel Ling shows a general his newest asset: The Red Guardian. He has been trained and conditioned to be the equal of Captain America in every way but to stand for communism.
Hercules and Hawkeye invade Ling's base. Hercules is lured into the Psychotron. Hawkeye is captured by the Red Guardian, who is dramatically revealed to be the Black Widow's husband whom she thought was dead. Meanwhile, back in the States, the Avengers learn about Hawkeye's rescue mission and depart to rescue their compatriots.
This book is actually the third 9.6 we have have owned of this issue. It comes from the Curator Collection, which is considered one of the best Silver Age collections ever discovered and 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.
Our book is tied for second highest graded, trailing a single 9.8. Hailing from the Second City Collection, this copy was acquired in the 6/11/2018 ComicConnect Auction.
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