Category: Independent Iron Age

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Mirage (1984)

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was first published by Mirage Studios in 1984 in Dover, New Hampshire. The concept arose from a humorous drawing sketched out by Kevin Eastman during a casual evening of brainstorming and bad television with Peter Laird. Using money from a tax refund, together with a loan from Eastman’s uncle, the young artists self-published a single-issue comic intended to parody four of the most popular comics of the early 1980s: Marvel Comics’ Daredevil and New Mutants, Dave Sim’s Cerebus, and Frank Miller’s Ronin. The TMNT comic series has been published in various incarnations by various comic book companies since 1984.

Teenage Mutant NInja Turtles V1 #2 2nd Print VF- $159
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #4 VF $145
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #6 CGC 9.6 White Pages SS Kevin Eastman $189
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #7 CGC 9.8 White Pages $179
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #8 NM $24
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #15 VF-$15
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #19 NM- $19
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #20 VF- $19
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #25 CGC 9.6 White Pages $89
Teenage Mutant NInja Turtles #31 VF- $14
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #33 NM $19
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #34 NM $7
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #35 NM $19
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #36 NM $19
Teenage Mutant NInja Turtles #37 NM $17
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #38 NM- $12
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #40 NM $14
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #41 NM $14
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #42 NM signed by Michael Dooney $26
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle #42 NM $22
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #43 NM $22
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #44 CGC 9.8 White Pages $119
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #45 Signed Dan Berger $79
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #45 NM $59
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage #60 NM $39
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Color Special #1 NM $19
Michaelangelo Christmas Special VF-NM $19
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – The Movie NM $17
Turtle Soup #1 NM- $22
Grimjack #26 CGC 9.6 White Pages SS Kevin Eastman $89

The Tick (1989)

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The Tick was created by cartoonist Ben Edlund in 1986 as a newsletter mascot for the New England Comics chain of Boston area comic stores. He is an absurdist spoof of comic book superheroes. After its creation, the character spun off into an independent comic book series in 1988, and gained mainstream popularity through an animated TV series on Fox in 1994. A short-lived live-action TV series, video game, and various merchandise have also been based on the character. IGN‘s list of the Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time ranked The Tick as #57.

The Tick Special Edition #1 VF-NM #2252 of 5000 $425
The Tick Special Edition #2 NM- #1622 of 5000 $150
The Tick #4 3rd Print NM $8
The Tick #5 NM $12
The Tick #6 VF $8
Chroma Tick #1 VF-NM $8
Chroma Tick #3 VF-NM $5
The Tick FCBD 2014 NM $7
The Tick FCBD 2016 NM $7

Youngblood V3 (1998)

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Moore created a new, teenaged Youngblood group that was financed independently by millionaire Waxey Doyle, formerly the WWII superhero Waxman. The team was led by Shaft and was augmented by new members Big Brother, Doc Rocket, Twilight, Suprema, and Johnny Panic. Moore said he wanted Youngblood to be a “less sprawling, more dynamic team” and that “if you have more characters than [six], the action gets cluttered and it becomes increasingly difficult to establish each character as a real and solid person in their own right”. All of the new team members and most of the villains featured in this series, including Jack-A-Dandy, were Moore’s creations.

Youngblood V3 #1B VF-NM $6

Miracleman – Eclipse (1980’s)

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In August 1985, Eclipse began reprinting the Marvelman stories from Warrior, colored, and re-sized. They were renamed and re-lettered throughout as Miracleman to avoid further problems with Marvel Comics. Issues 1-6 reprinted all the Warrior content, after which Eclipse began publishing new Miracleman stories from Alan Moore and new artist Chuck Beckum (now better known as Chuck Austen), soon replaced by Rick Veitch and then John Totleben. Eclipse split the rights to the character, with 2/3 going to Eclipse and 1/3 split between the current writer and artist of the series. Moore wrote the series until issue 16.

Writer Neil Gaiman picked up the series at #17 and developed it further in the 1990s, working with artist Mark Buckingham. He planned three books, consisting of six issues each; they would be titled “The Golden Age”, “The Silver Age” and “The Dark Age”.

Miracleman #2 NM $12
Miracleman #3 VF $6
Miracleman #4 CGC 9.8 White Pages $49
Miracleman #6 NM $12
Miracleman #7 NM- $10
Miracleman #8 NM $12
Miracleman #13 NM $20
Miracleman 15 CGC 9.8 White Pages $225
Miracleman #17 NM $20
Miracleman #18 NM $15
Miracleman #19 NM $15
Miracleman #20 NM $15
Miracleman #22 NM $15
Miracleman – Apocrypha #1 NM $5

Grendel V2 (1986)

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The Grendel ongoing series published by Comico started in 1986 and lasted 40 issues. It was written by Matt Wagner and drawn by a variety of artists, including the Pander Brothers, Bernie Mireault, Tim Sale, John K. Snyder III and others. It began with a story set in the near future, with Christine Spar, Hunter’s posthumous biographer, taking on the identity of Grendel to pursue a mission of revenge. The identity passed briefly, and tragically, to her deluded boyfriend Brian Li Sung. After a brief return to stories of Hunter Rose (actually two in-universe fictional novels written by Captain Wiggins, a supporting character from the Christine Spar arc), Wagner then spun the series further into the future, with the Grendel identity affecting a variety of people. The name “Grendel” took on several meanings as the stories portrayed a dystopian future. Grendel became a synonym for The Devil with the title held by the emperor of the world, (Grendel-Khan) and members of a warrior society identical to samurai.

Grendel #1 VF- $16
Grendel #2 VF $6
Grendel #3 VF+ $3
Grendel #4 NM-$3
Grendel #5 NM $4
Grendel #6 NM $5
Grendel #7 NM $4
Grendel #8 NM $4
Grendel #9 NM $4
Grendel #10 NM $4
Grendel #11 NM $4
Grendel #12 NM $4
Grendel V2 #13 NM $4
Grendel V2 #14 NM $4
Grendel V2 #17 VF- $4
Grendel #18 NM $6
Grendel V2 #19 NM $6
Grendel V2 #20 NM $4
Grendel V2 #21 NM $4
Grendel #22 NM- $3
Grendel #23 NM $4
Grendel #24 NM $4
Grendel #25 NM $4
Grendel #26 NM $4
Grendel #27 NM $4
Grendel #28 NM $4
Grendel #29 NM $4
Grendel #30 NM $4
Grendel #31 NM $4
Grendel #32 NM $4
Grendel #33 NM $4
Grendel #34 NM $4
Grendel #35 NM $5
Grendel #36 NM $6
Grendel #37 NM $6
Grendel #38 VF $4
Grendel #39 NM $9
Grendel #40 NM $12

Mars Attacks V1 (1994)

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In conjunction with the expanded Mars Attacks trading card set released in 1994, Topps issued a six-issue limited comic book series written by Keith Giffen and drawn by Charles Adlard. The series featured a “flip-cover” format, with 22 pages of the book following the story of the card set and six pages detailing previous encounters leading up to the invasion. The limited series was successful and led Topps to continue it as a regular series.

Mars Attacks #1 (1994) NM $7
Mars Attacks #2 (1994) NM $5
Mars Attacks #3 (1994) NM $4
Mars Attacks #4 (1994) NM $4

Eightball (1989)

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Eightball is an alternative comic book series written and drawn by Daniel Clowes. The first issue was published by Fantagraphics Books in 1989, soon after the end of Clowes’s previous comic series, Lloyd Llewellyn. It has consistently been among the best-selling independently authored comics.

Eightball #1 1st print VF $149
Eightball #2 NM- $34
Eightball #3 NM- $24
Eightball #5 NM- $24
Eightball #6 NM $24
Eightball #7 NM $19
Eightball #8 NM $19
Eightball #9 NM- $17
Eightball #10 NM $19
Eightball #12 NM $19
Eightball #13 VF-NM $15
Eightball #14 NM $19
Eightball #15 NM $19
Eightball #16 NM $19

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2019) – Boom Studios

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High school student Buffy Summers has recently moved to the small town of Sunnydale, California with her mother Joyce and Joyce’s doctor boyfriend Eric. Secretly, Buffy is in fact a Vampire Slayer, chosen to battle supernatural forces of evil, and undergoes training by her Watcher and school librarian Rupert Giles. Three weeks after arriving in Sunnydale, Buffy accidentally blows her cover saving Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris from a vampire outside Tunaverse, the fast food restaurant where she works part-time. Giles is disappointed in her lack of discretion, but Willow and Xander prove to be reliable allies when they aid Buffy in battle against the new vampires in town, Spike and his Mistress Drusilla.

X-O Manowar (1992)

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X-O Manowar began as an original character by Valiant Comics with issue #1 with a cover date of February 1992. Less than a year after it began, with the Unity crossover and quality storytelling bringing attention to Valiant books, back issue prices rose dramatically due to limited early print runs. With comic book speculators buying multiple copies of each issue, sales reached as high as 800,000 copies for X-O Manowar #0 (August 1993) before dropping off. This original series ran for 68 issues before being canceled after the Sept. 1996 issue, of which only approximately 14,000 were printed.

X-O Manowar #0 NM $3
X-O Manowar #1 NM $36
X-O Manowar #2 NM $13
X-O Manowar #3 NM $6
X-O Manowar #7 CGC 9.8 White Pages $59
X-O Manowar #8 NM $3
X-O Manowar #15 Pink Variant NM $8

Monster Kill Squad(2021)

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Once upon a time, monster attacks were rare. A forest witch might murder a few hikers, a killer clown might eat a few children, or a malevolent ghost might drive a young couple insane just for the hell of it. But these events were scarce, easily covered up, and soon faded into campfire stories good for a laugh. But no one’s laughing now. Over the past 90 days, cryptozoological attacks have increased a hundredfold, and the arcane has become everyday. Monsters of every shape and size strike at will, and the good, taxpaying folks of the US of A have had enough of this nonsense. Enter: THE MONSTER KILL SQUAD. A Government Unit of the most dangerous motherf-ckers on the planet, the deadliest folks alive are here to put a bullet in the brain of everything that walks, crawls, flies, or hides in shadows. And if it doesn’t have a brain, all the better — we’ve got a gun for that, too. Witches and wraiths. Demons and deadites. Goblins and ghosts. There have always been monsters. Now there are monster killers, and the MKS will kill it, and kill it good.

Monster Kill Squad #2 NM $7
Monster Kill Squad #3 NM $7