COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Tales of Suspense 57 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE
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Certification #:
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1032317002
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
TOS #57 has become a mega key issue because of the first appearance of Hawkeye, Clint Barton. The Clinton Barton of the comics has a little different back story from the one in the MCU. He’s an American skilled marksman, archer, and former circus performer who develops a strong friendship with the Black Widow who convinces him to go up against Iron Man-hey, it’s Scarlett Johansson, what guy wouldn’t LOL?
He invades the Stark estate and uses explosive arrows to catch Iron Man's attention. When Iron Man confronts Hawkeye, the archer uses arrows tipped with a chemical that quickly rusts Iron Man's armor upon impact, forcing him to flee, leaving behind the rusted parts. By the time Hawkeye reaches the spot where Iron Man had been, he only finds the discarded armor parts and decides to steal them in order to learn the secrets of Stark's tech.
Meanwhile, Stark gets his hands on an emergency armor duplicate and goes after Hawkeye, having heard a car speed away a few minutes ago. He sees only one car on the road, racing away from the factory and heavily damages it with an intensified blast from his power ray. Hawkeye is forced to exit the trashed vehicle, and he has ran out of rusting-fluid arrow to confront his opponent.
Iron Man easily repels Hawkeye's attacks with a magnetic repulsor ray, and dives onto his enemy at top speed. However, Hawkeye uses an arrow that expands into nylon rope strands and tangles Iron Man up. After breaking free, Iron Man follows Hawkeye to the piers at the edge of LaGuardia airport, and hits the pier Hawkeye is standing on with such strength it breaks, ultimately causing Hawkeye to fall into the water. Iron Man retrieves his enemy and leaves him lying on the floor. But Hawkeye recovers and fires his most powerful explosive arrow, a "demolition blast warhead" at Iron Man. To Hawkeye's surprise, while flooring Iron Man, the demolition blast ricochets off Iron Man's armor and hits Black Widow, who was on the pier, waiting for Hawkeye.
Fearing that Black Widow might be fatally injured, Hawkeye carries her to the boat and they escape. Iron Man recovers from the staggering blow and decides to give chase. However, the fog gets thick and he remembers he's at the edge of LaGuardia airport, and decides to not go airborne, as it would be a menace to the planes taking off and landing. Also because of the fog, Iron Man can't recognize the Black Widow as the woman ally of Hawkeye.
Our 9.6 is tied for second highest graded trailing four 9.8s. Like the 9.6s of Issue #52, those #57 9.8s are very expensive. We should have bought one before the Avengers movies.
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