07 May Madame Hydra: A Prime Case for Silver Age Spec?

Madame Hydra? When Julia Louis-Dreyfus first appeared on Episode 5 of Falcon and the Winter Soldier, no less than three long-forgotten key issues started to spike. And while this reminds us that 80+ years of Marvel Comics has given us hundreds of characters, what can we learn from this one casting? Will it help us spec on the investment potential of MCU characters we’ve already seen on screen?

Tales of Suspense, literally…

Much of what has made the MCU an exciting and successful franchise is the mix of old and new material that keeps fans guessing. The title of the third Captain America film was announced as Civil War. Readers of the comics were expecting an adaptation of the 2006 Mark Millar penned series of the same name with some kind of twist. Would they really kill Captain America? Would they kill Iron Man instead to recoup the sizable budget eaten-up by Robert Downey Jr’s salary?

What fans got instead was a well-written, if morally complex, introduction to Baron Zemo. (That’s in place of the Red Skull-driven plot.) This has already proven to be a catalyst of great storytelling. The potential remains for elements from Ed Brubaker’s parallel run on Captain America to be woven into the recent reveal of (spoiler alert!) Sharon Carter (aka Agent 13) as The Power Broker. That unmasking pretty much torpedoed the investment spec on Machine Man #7, since that Power Broker is a completely different character (named Curtis Jackson). But expect high-grade copies of Tales of Suspense #75, the first appearance of Sharon Carter and Batroc (as well as the first cameo appearance of Peggy Carter) to go supernova, as it has been almost a decade since the last registered sale of a 9.8…

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