Spotlight on the Vulture: Weekly PWCC Auction Ending May 14th

Except for Batman, I feel most individuals would agree that Spider-Man has the finest rogues gallery of villains in comedian ebook historical past. Although not as well-known as the Green Goblin or Doctor Octopus, the Vulture’s first look truly occurred earlier than both of these characters in Amazing Spider-Man #2. GameRant ranked the Vulture #7 on its checklist of The 25 Best Spider-Man Villains Of All Time, Ranked. We additionally noticed Michael Keaton ship a gangbusters efficiency of the Vulture in Amazing Spider-Man: Homecoming.

If you gather key points from the Amazing Spider-Man run, this week’s PWCC public sale options a number of minor keys associated to the Vulture. Let’s take a better have a look at these comics.

This minor key options the first look of Blackie Drago, the second incarnation of the Vulture. Created by Stan Lee and John Romita, Sr., Blackie Drago was a youthful, extra bodily imposing model of the character, particularly compared to the geriatric Adrian Toomes (the first Vulture). Drago meets Toomes in jail and later manages to steal Toomes’ flight swimsuit which he makes use of to battle Spider-Man.

According to GoCollect, the FMV of a 5.0 copy of this ebook is at present $110. One bought for $112 again on March eleventh, and one other bought for $134 on January twenty seventh. Both have been fixed-price gross sales on eBay. As of Saturday, May thirteenth, the present bid on PWCC is barely $27. Right now, this seems like a steal.

PWCC has additionally Amazing Spider-Man #49 on the market which continues Blackie Drago’s storyline from situation #48. This situation has a villain cross-over the place Drago joins forces with Kraven the Hunter to struggle Spider-Man. Not surprisingly, Spider-Man manages to defeat them each and Drago is distributed again to jail.

During the previous few months, the gross sales worth of a 4.5 copy of this ebook situation has various fairly a bit. For instance, on March twenty ninth, one purchaser bought a 4.5 for $75 via a fixed-price sale on eBay. Roughly a month earlier on February thirteenth, one other purchaser bought a 4.5 for simply $54 via an public sale hosted by eBay. And then again in August, one other purchased a 4.5 for nearly 2.5x that quantity ($112).

According to GoCollect, the FMV for a 4.5 is $75. As of Saturday, May thirteenth, the present bid on PWCC is barely $27.

In this situation, we lastly see Adrian Toomes regain the mantle of the Vulture fro Drago. Toomes frees Drago from jail, however solely so Toomes might show himself to the superior model of the Vulture. Although not a serious key, this situation nonetheless has an important cowl that includes each variations of the Vulture of their flight fits captured in the mild of Spider-Man’s Spider Signal.

According to GoCollect, the FMV of a 5.5 is $85. Looking at the authentic checklist costs for the “best offer” gross sales (from $275 to $320), $240 sounds about proper to me. As of Saturday, May sixth, the present bid on PWCC is barely $26.