Before Doctor Who reached American newsstands and decades before time travel became a Marvel event-movie engine, DC had Rip Hunter — a scientist-adventurer who treated the centuries like a road map. This second issue, from 1961, sends his Time-Sphere into prehistory to face “The Alien Beasts from 500 B.C.,” and the cover delivers exactly the lurid promise the era specialized in.
Highlights:
• “The Alien Beasts from 500 B.C.!” — early Silver Age DC time-travel adventure
• Rip Hunter, Bonnie, Corky and the Time-Sphere venture into prehistory
• “3-16” inked on the cover in a child’s hand — a 1961 ownership mark noted on the CGC label
• Cream to Off-White pages
• Graded CGC 8.0 (Very Fine)
Look closely at the cover and you’ll find “3-16” inked in a child’s hand — a small mark of ownership from 1961, noted by CGC on the label. We’ve never minded these. A book that survived sixty-four years carrying a kid’s pen stroke has a provenance a warehouse copy can’t fake. What you get is a genuine Very Fine copy of an early, increasingly hard-to-find Silver Age issue.
Shipped fully insured in a graded-comic mailer with tracking.
Before Doctor Who reached American newsstands and decades before time travel became a Marvel event-movie engine, DC had Rip Hunter — a scientist-adventurer who treated the centuries like a road map. This second issue, from 1961, sends his Time-Sphere into prehistory to face “The Alien Beasts from 500 B.C.,” and the cover delivers exactly the lurid promise the era specialized in.
Highlights:
• “The Alien Beasts from 500 B.C.!” — early Silver Age DC time-travel adventure
• Rip Hunter, Bonnie, Corky and the Time-Sphere venture into prehistory
• “3-16” inked on the cover in a child’s hand — a 1961 ownership mark noted on the CGC label
• Cream to Off-White pages
• Graded CGC 8.0 (Very Fine)
Look closely at the cover and you’ll find “3-16” inked in a child’s hand — a small mark of ownership from 1961, noted by CGC on the label. We’ve never minded these. A book that survived sixty-four years carrying a kid’s pen stroke has a provenance a warehouse copy can’t fake. What you get is a genuine Very Fine copy of an early, increasingly hard-to-find Silver Age issue.
Shipped fully insured in a graded-comic mailer with tracking.
