COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Aquaman 7 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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Pacific Coast
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Certification #:
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4242420001
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Aquaman battles the Creatures from Atlantis in Issue #7. In "The Sea Beasts from Atlantis", Pomoxis embarks upon another daring plan to seize control of Atlantis. He works with the surface pirate, Captain Clay, and provides him with a special variety of seafood. Clay plants the food on several cargo vessels, which lures several large sea beasts to the area. The beasts attack the ships for the food, and Captain Clay comes along later to steal any booty he can find.
Stamar, the ruler of Atlantis, tells Aquaman and Aqualad of the various disasters and they swim off to investigate. When they attempt to calm down the destructive sea creatures, Pomoxis makes his move and takes command of Atlantis and arrests both Aquaman annd Aqualad throwing them into a dungeon. But Aquaman uses his telepathy to summon the sea beasts to aid him, who break down the prison walls allowing Aquaman to once again defeat Pomoxis, after which Stamar is reinstated as ruler of Atlantis.
Our 9.8 comes from the Pacific Coast Collection, which is generally considered to be the greatest Silver Age collection to ever surface. It was brought to market by Robert Roter after he discovered portions of it for sale on E-Bay in 1999. The books were marketed through PCE over the next several years and contained over 7,000 comics and magazines that included Marvel, DC, and Gold Key among others, covering a time span between 1961 and 1977. Many of the highest graded Marvel and DC issues from the early '60s hail from this collection with exceptional page quality. The books do not exhibit any distinguishing markings.
Our book is currently tied with one other copy for highest graded. We acquired the book in the August 4, 2019 Heritage Auction.*
2024 Update: The copy of Issue #7 in the new cache of books only graded 9.6, so our book is still one of two highest graded.
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