{"id":1143,"date":"2012-05-03T04:43:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T12:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2012-05-02T19:45:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:45:40","slug":"a-sleeper-awakes-iron-man-55-finally-hits-it-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/advanced-comic-book-topics\/most-valuable-comic-books\/a-sleeper-awakes-iron-man-55-finally-hits-it-big\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sleeper Awakes &#8211; Iron Man 55 Finally Hits it Big!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Man 55, first Thanos, has long been called a &#8220;sleeper&#8221; issue ready to rise further into the stratospheric heights of key comics, but although a key and more expensive than surrounding issues, this comic hasn&#8217;t really hit the big time &#8211; until now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>!!!!Potential Spoiler Alert!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rumor patrol says the upcoming Avengers movie hints at Thanos as the next villain.  We&#8217;ll see on Friday, but Iron Man #55 did break out this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Iron Man #55 Breaks Out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On April 30th a CGC 9.6 copy of Iron Man #55 finished at $1,424.  The winning bidder has 0 feedback, we&#8217;ll see if final payment is actually made.  Looking at the bid history there was a more reliable bidder that chimed in with a max bid of $1,399.  We&#8217;ll see if the winning bid holds.  The previous high bid was around $899.<\/p>\n<p>The importance of this comic was mentioned back in November in the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-movies\/avengers-movie-gets-a-new-villain\/\">Avengers Movie Gets a New Villain?<\/a>&#8221; post.  It will be fun to watch this play out.<\/p>\n<p>You can find other copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-books-for-sale\/iron-man-55-for-sale\/\" title=\"Iron Man #55 For Sale\">Iron Man #55 for sale here<\/a> and check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/most-valuable-comic-books\/iron-man-55-value-and-investment-survey\/\" title=\"Iron Man 55 Value and Investment Survey\">Iron Man 55 Value and Investment Survey here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Man 55, first Thanos, has long been called a &#8220;sleeper&#8221; issue ready to rise further into the stratospheric heights of key comics, but although a key and more expensive than surrounding issues, this comic hasn&#8217;t really hit the big time &#8211; until now. !!!!Potential Spoiler Alert!!!! The rumor patrol says the upcoming Avengers movie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/advanced-comic-book-topics\/most-valuable-comic-books\/a-sleeper-awakes-iron-man-55-finally-hits-it-big\/\">Read the rest of this entry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-most-valuable-comic-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}