Marvel Premiere Issue-by-Issue #41 to #61
Comic Book Price Guide to Marvel Premiere #41-#61
This is the final part of the comic price guide. Use the links below to find the other books in this series.
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Premiere #1-#20 | Premiere #21-#40
Marvel Premiere #41 (April, 1978): Seeker 3000
"The Dying Sun!"
A group of future humans flees the earth, which is nearly uninhabitable, in search of a new home.
Marvel Premiere #41
Record Sale: $130
Minimum Value: $10
Premiere #42 (June, 1978): Tigra
"Nightmare's Evolution"
Tigra, formerly Greer Nelson, the Cat, gets drawn into a case in New Orleans during Mardi Gras.
Marvel Premiere #42
Record Sale: $340
Minimum Value: $20
Premiere #43 (August, 1978): Paladin
"In Manhattan, They Play for Keeps"
A spin-off from Daredevil. Paladin, a mercenary and private investigator, battles the Phantasm.
Marvel Premiere #43
Record Sale: $200
Minimum Value: $10
Premiere #44 (October, 1978): Jack of Hearts; First Appearance, Hemlock
Marvel Premiere #44
Record Sale: $160
Minimum Value: $10
"The Jack of Hearts!"
Keith Giffen provided pencils for the sole issue of Jack Hart's outing in Marvel Premiere.
Jack of Hearts would not get catapulted into his own title as a result. In this story, he battles the villain Hemlock (first appearance).
Premiere #45 (December, 1978): Man-Wolf
Marvel Premiere #45
Record Sale: $350
Minimum Value: $10
"Otherwar!"
John J. Jameson Junior, in his white werewolf (Man-Wolf -- first seen in Amazing Spider-Man #124) incarnation, finds a portal to the "Other-Realm" on the moon. There, he retains his human intelligence, even though he is in wolf form.
John learns that a being named Stargod created the gem that has been making him change into a wolf for so long, and now, in the Other-Realm, he gains Stargod's strength, and becomes his successor.
Premiere #46 (February, 1979): Man-Wolf
Marvel Premiere #46
Record Sale: $130
Minimum Value: $10
"Stargod!"
John learns the full story of Stargod and helps to defend the people of the Other-Realm from the evil Arisen Tyrk, who seeks to conquer them.
Marvel Premiere #47(April, 1979): Ant-Man (Scott Lang); First Appearance as Ant-Man
Marvel Premiere #47
Record Sale: $1,700
Minimum Value: $20
"To Steal an Ant-Man!"
This is not Henry Pym, but his successor, Scott Lang, reformed thief and electronics expert.
Lang goes back to his thieving ways when he needs to find a cure for his sick daughter. He breaks into Henry Pym's lab, and steals the Ant-Man uniform and several canisters of shrinking gas. Using them, he breaks into Cross Technological Enterprises.
See more Ant-Man comic book values here.
Marvel Premiere #48 (June, 1979): Ant-Man
Marvel Premiere #48
Record Sale: $350
Minimum Value: $10
"The Price of a Heart!"
Scott frees scientist Erica Sondheim, who was being held prisoner at Cross Technological Enterprises, and she cures his daughter.
Henry Pym finds out about what Scott did, and offers to let him continue as Ant-Man if he agrees to uphold the law. John Byrne pencils.
Premiere #49 (August, 1979): The Falcon
Marvel Premiere #49
Record Sale: $300
Minimum Value: $10
"Sound of the Silencer"
Captain America's sidekick finally gets his first solo outing.
Frank Miller drew the cover for Falcon's only issue of Marvel Premiere, in which Falc battles the Silencer in the Eastern European country of Bodavia.
Marvel Premiere #50 (October, 1979): Alice Cooper
Marvel Premiere #50
Record Sale: $420
Minimum Value: $20
"From the Inside"
A comics adaptation of the Alice Cooper album "From the Inside," and an odd thing in almost every way.
Alice was at a career lowpoint in 1979, and this issue of Marvel Premiere is little more than an advertisement for the new album, which was surprisingly slick and MOR-oriented.
Premiere #51 (December, 1979): Black Panther
Marvel Premiere #51
Record Sale: $200
Minimum Value: $10
"The Killing of Windeagle!"
The Black Panther's own series had been cancelled with the storyline unresolved, and so "Marvel's #1 Black Super-Hero" was moved to Marvel Premiere for three issues.
In this issue, T'Challa defeats Windeagle in a story that would have run in The Black Panther #16,
had it ever appeared.
Premiere #52 (February, 1980): Black Panther
Marvel Premiere #52
Record Sale: $440
Minimum Value: $10
"Journey Through the Past"
T'Challa again faces the Ku Klux Klan in this story, along with the Soul-Strangler, a klansman-like supernatural being.
Marvel Premiere #53 (April, 1980): Black Panther
Marvel Premiere #53
Record Sale: $460
Minimum Value: $10
"The Ending, In Anger!"
T'Challa defeats the Soul-Strangler, along the way revealing the secret Klan membership of several people he had counted as friends.
Marvel Premiere #54 (June, 1980): Caleb Hammer; First Appearance
Marvel Premiere #54
Record Sale: $80
Minimum Value: $10
"The Devil's Starry Anvil!"
This issue would be the first and only appearance of Caleb Hammer, an Old West cowboy character, for almost 20 years. Caleb is a Pinkerton agent and a dead shot.
Premiere #55 (August, 1980): Wonder Man
Marvel Premiere #55
Record Sale: $200
Minimum Value: $10
"A Force of Two!"
Simon Williams, aka Wonder Man, re-animated and attached to the Avengers in the late '70s, gets his first solo outing in Premiere #55.
In the story, Wonder Man must battle the robot known as Dreadnought, sent by a high-ranking Maggia (!) boss (the word "Mafia" was outlawed by the Comics Code Authority...).
Marvel Premiere #56 (October, 1980): Dominic Fortune
Marvel Premiere #56
Record Sale: $140
Minimum Value: $10
"The Big Top Barter Resolution"
This story, a leftover from the "Dominic Fortune, Brigand for Hire" backup feature in the black and white Marvel magazine The Rampaging Hulk.
It was started by Len Wein and Howard Chaykin (the latter was the creator of the character) and later finished by David Michelinie and Terry Austin.
Marvel Premiere #57 (December, 1980): Doctor Who;
First American Dr. Who Comic Book Appearance
Marvel Premiere #57
Record Sale: $250
Minimum Value: $10
"Doctor Who and the Iron Legion"
The first issue of the Dr. Who comic in the USA features a Walt Simonson cover and interior art by Dave Gibbons, and is reprinted from the first four issues of the British Dr. Who Weekly.
Premiere #58 (February, 1981): Doctor Who
Marvel Premiere #58
Record Sale: $70
Minimum Value: $10
"Against the Gods!"
This issue features stories reprinted from Dr. Who Weekly #s 5, 6, 7, 8, and 12.
Premiere #59 (April, 1981): Doctor Who
Marvel Premiere #59
Record Sale: $130
Minimum Value: $10
"City of the Cursed"
This issue features stories reprinted from Dr. Who Weekly #s 9, 10, and 11.
Marvel Premiere #60: (June, 1981): Doctor Who
Marvel Premiere #60
Record Sale: $70
Minimum Value: $10
"City of the Cursed"
This issue features stories reprinted from Dr. Who Weekly #12, 13, 14, 15, and 16.
It was also the final appearance of Doctor Who in US comic books until the self-titled series began in 1984.
Marvel Premiere #61 (August, 1981): Star-Lord
Marvel Premiere #61
Record Sale: $150
Minimum Value: $10
"Planet Story"
This is an early appearance (although not the first) by the character Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord, the half-alien/half-human lead character in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
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