WONDER WOMAN #6
CGC VF-: 7.5
(Stock Image)
SOLD ON: Friday, 08/28/2020 11:31 PM
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H.G Peter cvr/art; 1st app. of the CheetahAnd you thought modern supervillain origin stories were crazy? Check out the Cheetah, aka Priscilla Rich, a socialite and general all-around nutcase whose criminal inspiration was a split personality that manifested itself when Wonder Woman upstaged her at a charity event. Her alter ego, the Cheetah, appears as a hallucination in a damaged full-length mirror, causing the already unstable Rich to go full-on bugnuts, dress in a leopard-print leotard, and turn traitor, selling military secrets to the Axis. Told with William Moulton Marston's usual propulsive prose and illustrated by H.G. Peter's florid, hyper-surreal style, this is a neglected classic of the Golden Age, the kind of story that burned into young readers' brains and refused to let go. Later writers and artists would try to rework and re-imagine the Cheetah's origin, leaning into more mystic and fantastic realms, but the sheer unadulterated lunacy of this early gem is mighty hard to top.
Most early Wonder Woman issues fell victim to wartime paper drives, spotty distribution, and neglect from boy comic hoarders who didn't like icky girl books (and man, were they wrong). Thus, this comic is incredibly rare, maybe in the top-five-rarest Golden Age DC keys -- there are just over 75 copies on the census, and if more than 100 to 125 copies are in existence, we'd be shocked. When copies do surface, throw out the price guide.
The staff here at ComicConnect would likely be hard pressed to name another book with as much heat on it as this comic is attracting right now, with just under 75 copies on the census, competition for this issue is guaranteed to be intense. Presenting strong colors, this example is in extremely nice shape given its age, while some shadowing does exist around the edges of the book, the comic is structurally sound, with a nice tight spine. We anticipate a lot of interest in the two copies of this newly minted key at auction.
Overstreet Guide 2019 VF- (7.5) value = $4,712.
H.G Peter cvr/art; 1st app. of the CheetahAnd you thought modern supervillain origin stories were crazy? Check out the Cheetah, aka Priscilla Rich, a socialite and general all-around nutcase whose criminal inspiration was a split personality that manifested itself when Wonder Woman upstaged her at a charity event. Her alter ego, the Cheetah, appears as a hallucination in a damaged full-length mirror, causing the already unstable Rich to go full-on bugnuts, dress in a leopard-print leotard, and turn traitor, selling military secrets to the Axis. Told with William Moulton Marston's usual propulsive prose and illustrated by H.G. Peter's florid, hyper-surreal style, this is a neglected classic of the Golden Age, the kind of story that burned into young readers' brains and refused to let go. Later writers and artists would try to rework and re-imagine the Cheetah's origin, leaning into more mystic and fantastic realms, but the sheer unadulterated lunacy of this early gem is mighty hard to top.
Most early Wonder Woman issues fell victim to wartime paper drives, spotty distribution, and neglect from boy comic hoarders who didn't like icky girl books (and man, were they wrong). Thus, this comic is incredibly rare, maybe in the top-five-rarest Golden Age DC keys -- there are just over 75 copies on the census, and if more than 100 to 125 copies are in existence, we'd be shocked. When copies do surface, throw out the price guide.
The staff here at ComicConnect would likely be hard pressed to name another book with as much heat on it as this comic is attracting right now, with just under 75 copies on the census, competition for this issue is guaranteed to be intense. Presenting strong colors, this example is in extremely nice shape given its age, while some shadowing does exist around the edges of the book, the comic is structurally sound, with a nice tight spine. We anticipate a lot of interest in the two copies of this newly minted key at auction.
Overstreet Guide 2019 VF- (7.5) value = $4,712.