COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Tales of Suspense 43 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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1039352010
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #43 features the first appearance of Kala, Queen of, the Netherworld. Kala was the youthful beautiful ruler of a Netherworld, a great underground kingdom. Before the continent of Atlantis sank about 20,000 years ago, its civilization had reached great technological heights. The priests and intellectuals of the city of Netheria in the southern part of the Atlantean continent foresaw that Atlantis would be attacked by the Deviant Empire based in Lemuria. Therefore, the people of Netheria enclosed their city in a dome of an unknown plastic like substance and excavated and fortified their city's foundations. Consequently, when Atlantis sank, Netheria remained intact, and its people survived, having discovered a means a recycling their air supply.
Netheria sank more deeply over the years until it finally came to rest in a huge sub-sea cavern. The Netherians renamed their realm the Netherworld, and were thereafter known as Netherworlders. They remained unnoticed by the surface world until Tony Stark found himself enveloped within a strange, crystal-like substance which sank into the Earth, taking him with it. The large crystal transported him to the Netherworld, whose people had been monitoring the events in the surface world for centuries with their technological devices.
Queen Kala intended to use her armies and highly advanced weaponry to conquer the surface world, but had no means of transporting all of her invasion forces and weaponry to the surface. She demanded that Stark create such a means, or else she would execute him, and two other hostages, and claimed she would activate devices that would devastate the surface world with earthquakes. Stark agreed, but actually used the laboratory facilities that Kala assigned him to create a duplicate of his Iron Man armor. Once inside the armor, Stark captured Kala and flew her to Earth's surface. There, as Stark had theorized Kala quickly aged into an elderly woman due to the difference in atmospheric conditions between Earth's surface and the Netherworld. Realizing that the Netherworlders could not live on the surface without becoming old and weak, Kala renounced her plans of conquest. Iron Man returned her to the Netherworld, where she regained her youth through unknown means.
Our 9.6 was given that graded by CGC on 06/22/2011 and is one of only two 9.6s in existence, with none higher. It marks the fourth of five issues in a row (#40-#44) where we have a highest graded copy where there are only two or three examples topping the census.
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