Captain Marvel 1968 #56 - 6.0 - $6.00

The energy leech Deathgrip takes 30 hostages and threatens to kill them if Captain Marvel doesn't find a cure for the villain's powers in 48 hours.

On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #153, (February 1978).

• Survival Quest! - coffee; Colorado Rockies; Denver; Florida Everglades; golf; Long Island; space observatory
• The Original Cosmic Comments - Letters from: Mike Stroud (Union, Nebraska), Dave Caffey (Memphis, Tennessee), ? [as A Fan], and Kurt Busiek (Lexington, Massachusetts).