ADVENTURE COMICS (1938-83) #247
CGC VF+: 8.5
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SOLD ON: Monday, 12/12/2016 4:03 PM
$17,405
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PUBLISHER: DC
COMMENTS: off white pgs
1st appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes; Curt Swan cover; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 9 (CBI)
Marc Lasry Collection
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1st appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes; Curt Swan cover; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 9 (CBI)
Marc Lasry Collection
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off white pgs
1st appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes; Curt Swan cover; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 9 (CBI)
Marc Lasry Collection
Adventure Comics #247 is both the first appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes and a launching pad for a massive roster of DC's favorite characters. "The Legion of Super-Heroes" begins with Cosmic Boy, Lightning Boy, and Saturn Girl traveling back to Smallville from the 30th Century, where they invite Superboy to join their futuristic super team. The running gag through the story is that Superboy's simply not super enough to join the Legion. Of course, things would still work out with yet another outlet for Superboy to have super adventures. The well-received Legion first returned several issues later for an encore. From there, the futuristic super team (and their backup Legion of Substitute Heroes) would go on to appear in issues of Action and Adventure, with Superboy just occasionally appearing as a supporting character. The Legion have remained favorites in the DC Universe, and most recently had their own title running through 2019 through 2021.
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The Marc Lasry Collection boasts a full run of the Boy of Steel's exploits, no mean feat considering the rarity of many of the 1950s and early 1960s appearances of the character. This run of classic Adventure issues includes backup stories from Green Arrow and Aquaman, and is stuffed to the gills with rare appearances by collectible characters like Krypto and Supergirl. Plus, a slew of secondary keys like Speedy's origin, the first appearance of Beast Boy, and the first appearance of Timber Wolf. Far and away the highlight of the Lasry Adventure Comics collection is the simply astonishing Adventure 247, a bright, clean, crisp 8.5 copy of an avidly sought key which never, seriously never, turns up in condition like this.
Overstreet Guide 2016 VF+ (8.5) value = $10,100.
We realize many of you would like to bid on this auction lot, so for this listing, ComicConnect.com offers a 6 month, interest free, time payment plan with a 20% non-refundable deposit. Time Payments invoices can only be paid by cash, check, money order or wire transfer. LEARN MORE
Artist Information
Swan was a house artist at DC working on titles like Tommy Tomorrow, he began gravitating towards Superman and his related books, Superboy, World's Finest and Jimmy Olsen, he would eventually leave DC thanks to his personality issue with Editor In Chief Mort Weisinger. He would eventually return and go on to be the artist that defined the look of Superman in the Silver Age, eventually becoming the editor of the title, but after thirty years of keeping up standards of all things Superman, Swan was given the boot in favor of John Byrne's Superman reboot, Swan's comic work began to taper off after this dismissal and he eventually retired, but will forever be recognized as the Silver Age Superman's finest artist.
1st appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes; Curt Swan cover; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 9 (CBI)
Marc Lasry Collection
Adventure Comics #247 is both the first appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes and a launching pad for a massive roster of DC's favorite characters. "The Legion of Super-Heroes" begins with Cosmic Boy, Lightning Boy, and Saturn Girl traveling back to Smallville from the 30th Century, where they invite Superboy to join their futuristic super team. The running gag through the story is that Superboy's simply not super enough to join the Legion. Of course, things would still work out with yet another outlet for Superboy to have super adventures. The well-received Legion first returned several issues later for an encore. From there, the futuristic super team (and their backup Legion of Substitute Heroes) would go on to appear in issues of Action and Adventure, with Superboy just occasionally appearing as a supporting character. The Legion have remained favorites in the DC Universe, and most recently had their own title running through 2019 through 2021.
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The Marc Lasry Collection boasts a full run of the Boy of Steel's exploits, no mean feat considering the rarity of many of the 1950s and early 1960s appearances of the character. This run of classic Adventure issues includes backup stories from Green Arrow and Aquaman, and is stuffed to the gills with rare appearances by collectible characters like Krypto and Supergirl. Plus, a slew of secondary keys like Speedy's origin, the first appearance of Beast Boy, and the first appearance of Timber Wolf. Far and away the highlight of the Lasry Adventure Comics collection is the simply astonishing Adventure 247, a bright, clean, crisp 8.5 copy of an avidly sought key which never, seriously never, turns up in condition like this.
Overstreet Guide 2016 VF+ (8.5) value = $10,100.
We realize many of you would like to bid on this auction lot, so for this listing, ComicConnect.com offers a 6 month, interest free, time payment plan with a 20% non-refundable deposit. Time Payments invoices can only be paid by cash, check, money order or wire transfer. LEARN MORE
Artist Information
Swan was a house artist at DC working on titles like Tommy Tomorrow, he began gravitating towards Superman and his related books, Superboy, World's Finest and Jimmy Olsen, he would eventually leave DC thanks to his personality issue with Editor In Chief Mort Weisinger. He would eventually return and go on to be the artist that defined the look of Superman in the Silver Age, eventually becoming the editor of the title, but after thirty years of keeping up standards of all things Superman, Swan was given the boot in favor of John Byrne's Superman reboot, Swan's comic work began to taper off after this dismissal and he eventually retired, but will forever be recognized as the Silver Age Superman's finest artist.