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A 15% BUYER'S PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO THIS ITEM AT CONCLUSION OF THE AUCTION
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1st app of Silver Age Vision; Black Widow and Ultron app. COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 8 (CBI)
"Behold the Vision!" There's pretty much no better way to sum up the iconic cover of this comic, a book that looms large in the mythology of the Marvel Universe, and served as the inspiration for the international blockbuster film "Avengers: Age of Ultron." The Vision was created in collaboration between Stan Lee and Roy Thomas, who decided to revive the Golden Age character as an android and stick him into the Avengers as a new team member. Thomas claims he was influenced by Adam Link, a robot with humanistic qualities that appeared in Amazing Stories pulp magazines, and not Mr. Spock from Star Trek as many have theorized.


Artists Information

'The Michelangelo of comics.' Buscema was one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s heyday, best known for his run on the The Avengers and The Silver Surfer, and for over 200 stories featuring the sword-and-sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. In addition, he penciled at least one issue of nearly every major Marvel title, including long runs on two of the company's top books, Fantastic Four and Thor.

Marie Severin was an American comics artist and colorist best known for her work for Marvel Comics and the 1950s' EC Comics. She is an inductee of the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame and the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame. Frank Jacobs, in his 1972 biography of EC publisher William M. Gaines, wrote, "There was Marie Severin, Gaines's colorist, and a very moral Catholic, who made her feelings known by coloring dark blue any panel she thought was in bad taste. [EC editor Al] Feldstein called her 'the conscience of EC."'