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A 15% BUYER'S PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO THIS ITEM AT CONCLUSION OF THE AUCTION
cream to off-white pages; CGC Signature Series; signed by Mike Ploog on 5/15/24
Jack Kirby cover/art; 1st app/origin of Dr. Droom, later becomes Dr. Druid; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 7 (CBI)
Mike Ploog Collection


Amazing Adventures #1 marks the first appearance of Dr. Droom — still remembered as the first superhero of Marvel's Silver Age! There's still much more to Droom's role as the cornerstone of what became a towering collection of characters. The mystic originally had a mere a four-issue run in Amazing Adventures. Shortly afterwards, though, Steve Ditko met with Stan Lee to pitch a magician named Mr. Strange. This issue's origin of Droom would ultimately serve as a prototype for what Lee and Ditko developed into Dr. Strange. Droom himself would famously get a Bronze Age retconning as Dr. Druid. Amazing Adventures, meanwhile, transformed into Amazing Adult Fantasy and then on to Amazing Fantasy justam in time for issue #15. By then, both the Silver Age and Marvel Age of Comics were taking off in the wake of this important and underrated collectible.
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