Undervalued & Overlooked Silver Age Comics - 5/31

It’s time as soon as extra for Undervalued and Overlooked Comics! This time we’ll be wanting on the Silver Age. Take a have a look at the comics which are flying below most collectors’ radar.

First Appearance of a Legionnaire

One of the extra common members of the Legion of Super-Heroes since his debut in Adventure Comics #327 is Timber Wolf. Brin Londo – initially launched as Lone Wolf on this problem – had lots of the similar attributes as Wolverine (minus the claws, after all) lengthy earlier than that character even existed.

When utilizing his powers, he would usually tackle wolf-like traits, and would finally go utterly feral, changing into Furball in later Legion of Super-Heroes points.

There are a mere 72 graded copies of Adventure Comics #327 within the CGC census, and it’s a really reasonably priced comedian. A 9.0 graded copy bought for a slashed $500 on February 25, the one sale up to now this yr. However, that sale strikes me as an outlier.

More telling is the 9.2 promoting in a November 2022 Heritage public sale for $288. With so few graded copies, we solely see a number of gross sales of this problem per yr. That 9.2 sale ought to be your information relating to honest present pricing. It’s undoubtedly an neglected comedian; simply don’t overpay for it.

First Steranko Comic Work?

For a few years there was some debate relating to the primary paintings by Jim Steranko in a comic book ebook. His first full shaggy dog story is regarded by many to be Strange Tales #151, a difficulty through which he completed and inked Jack Kirby’s pencils. However, Steranko did some work for Harvey previous to this, conceiving of and designing characters for his or her superhero line.

Whether or not he drew – or not less than supplied tough pencils – for the story, “The Legend of the Glowing Gladiator,” within the pages of Double-Dare Adventures #1 has been a bone of competition amongst Steranko followers.

There are solely 24 graded copies of this comedian within the CGC census, and there have been no gross sales this yr, marking this definitively as an neglected comedian. The lone sale in 2022 was a 6.5 going for $55. The highest worth paid was $359 for a 9.6 approach again in 2015.

Whether or not you think about this undervalued has the whole lot to do with the place you stand on Steranko’s contribution to the paintings. We know he scripted the story. But was he the artist? That’s so that you can resolve.

First Appearance of the Second Rawhide Kid

In 1960, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby revamped the character of the Rawhide Kid, giving him a brand new title – Johnny Bart – and his distinctive purple hair within the pages of The Rawhide Kid #17.

There are 96 graded copies of this oft-neglected traditional. While not essentially the most cheap of comics, in comparison with Marvel’s superheroes of the time, it’s filth low-cost.

The solely sale this yr is a 2.5 going for $395 in a March 18 eBay sale. This is a troublesome one to seek out in excessive grade; the highest 10% of graded copies are these at 7.5 and above. So, you’re extra more likely to discover – and pay quite a bit much less – for the decrease grades.

The highest worth paid for this comedian was for the singular 9.4 graded copy: $20,600 in a May 2020 ComicJoin public sale. Kind of makes $395 for a 2.5 seem to be fairly a discount, particularly when you think about Rawhide Kid’s relationship to the Avengers and their mid-Nineteen Seventies battles with Kang.