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CGC certified: Fine- (5.5). White pages. Cover: Wally Wood. Story and art: Wally Wood, Bob Powell. 1st appearance: The Ani-Men. GPAnalysis: A 5.5 sold for $99 in March 2021; a 5.0 sold for $125 in July 2021. Daredevil fights the Ani-Men, four cheap hoods in animal costumes (Ape Man, Bird Man, Cat Man, Frog Man). Wally Wood would revisit this concept in his Animan strip, which debuted in the first issue of his self-published Witzend (1966). According to EC scholar Bill Mason, there was a strong autobiographical aspect to Wood's recurrent animal-man motif: "Wood was famously withdrawn and emotionally bottled up, and the images of Animan looking down from his tree branch or glaring — intelligent and inhuman — at the outside world, came from a deep place in his imagination." — Bill Mason, "Any Idea In Any Form," Witzend vol.1, p. viii. Fantagraphics: 2014. A deluxe limited edition of 12 hardcover catalogues is available, in addition to a small number of softcovers. 400 lots, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcover $40, deluxe hardcover with dust jacket and limitation plate $200. Eight of the 12 hardcovers are pre-ordered and the rest will go quickly, so reserve yours now. To order, contact [email protected] . Consignments welcome for PBA's Spring 2022 Comic Book sale. Top prices for Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age, Silver Age, original art and ephemera. Find out why PBA is the new fan-fave of comics auctioneers. "This is some of the best commentary I've yet seen on the quality of the content of comic books... Priceless." — R. Crumb. Send inquiries to [email protected] .