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Item Specifications
Title: The Avengers #100 ("The Mightiest 100th Issue of All!")
Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Cover Date: June 1972 (Bronze Age)
Cover Price: $0.20
Key Significance: Milestone 100th issue celebration; massive historic roster gathering including Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Hawkeye, Vision, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Black Panther, Hercules, and more.
Creative Team: Roy Thomas (Story), Barry Windsor-Smith (Cover & Pencils), Joe Sinnott & Syd Shores (Inks).
Condition & Archival Integrity
Completeness: Exceptional, fully intact collector's archive copy. An authentic unread survivor with every interior story leaf, period advertisement, and mail-order coupon present, crisp, and firmly attached.
Grading & Slab Potential: Outstanding candidate for third-party certification (CGC / CBCS). Boasting unread paper freshness and fully intact structural cohesion, this copy exhibits excellent upside potential under standard professional pressing prior to encapsulation.
Cover Appeal: Exceptional display pop featuring brilliant, sun-drenched canary-yellow backgrounds. Inks remain deeply saturated with clean registration and striking contrast across the central hero montage.
Spine & Binding: Original factory staples remain firmly seated at both the spine and centerfold, maintaining square alignment with zero staple pull or loose leaves.
Surface & Edge Notes: Exhibits honest, minor vintage handling from initial distribution and long-term storage, including light, non-color-breaking surface impressions and micro-ticks along the spine typical of early 1970s newsprint stock, balanced by clean margins and supple off-white interior pages.
The Reserve Standard
Every piece cataloged by NightRidge Reserve undergoes rigorous multi-point physical verification for page completeness, centerfold security, coupon and advertisement integrity, and authentic vintage preservation. Ships flat and armored between rigid, puncture-resistant reinforcement to guarantee total edge and corner defense during transit.
Curator’s Fact
Milestone anniversary issues in modern comics are almost universally released as oversized, double-priced "giant" specials, but Avengers #100 holds a unique place in Bronze Age publishing history by achieving its legendary scope within standard 36-page comic book parameters. To orchestrate the sprawling Olympian storyline alongside the massive cast, artist Barry Windsor-Smith drew what became an instant-classic cover featuring every superhero who had claimed Avengers membership over the title's first nine years—establishing the very visual standard that future milestone comic crossovers would spend decades trying to replicate.
