KA-ZAR THE SAVAGE #1

Cover shows strong gloss and vibrant color with sharp corners and no visible creases or tears. There is minor surface handling wear and a faint diagonal crease line near the center spine area, and slight edge wear at the top right corner. The book is in a protective sleeve, which limits full assessment of spine stress and edge whitening; interior and back cover were not assessed.

Ka-Zar the Savage #1 launched Marvel's dedicated ongoing series for the jungle lord Ka-Zar, spinning the character out of his prior appearances in Astonishing Tales and other Marvel titles into his own book aimed at an older readership under the direction of writer Bruce Jones and artist Brent Anderson. The issue reintroduces Ka-Zar and Shanna the She-Devil in the Savage Land, continuing Marvel's long tradition of pulp-inflected adventure comics rooted in the Edgar Rice Burroughs lost-world tradition, and it stands as a minor but notable entry in the character's publication history as the formal start of his longest-running solo title.

Market activity for the issue is modest and consistent with a Bronze Age title that never achieved key-issue status: certified sales cluster in the $30-$36 range through mid grades before a jump at the 9.8 tier, where six recorded sales average in the low-to-mid $60s. This pattern reflects a common newsstand print run with steady but unspectacular collector interest, driven primarily by Ka-Zar completists and readers of the wider Savage Land corpus rather than broad crossover demand.

The book trades as an affordable series-starter rather than an investment-grade key, appealing mainly to character-focused collectors building a run of Ka-Zar the Savage or Bronze Age jungle-adventure titles. Raw copies in low and mid grades remain inexpensive and readily available, while top-census 9.8 slabs command a real but limited premium reflecting genuine scarcity at the very top of the grading scale rather than any first-appearance or landmark-content driver.