STRANGE ADVENTURES #134

Cover shows notable wear consistent with a well-read Silver Age book: staples appear slightly rusted with a small tear/stress point at the top staple, moderate corner softness on the top right, and general handling wear along the edges. There is minor surface toning to the cover but colors remain relatively bright with no major creases or color breaks visible. The book is housed in a protective sleeve, which limits full assessment of spine stress and edge chipping; interior and back cover were not assessed.

Strange Adventures #134 is a November 1961 issue of DC's long-running science-fiction anthology title, cover-dated during the heart of the Silver Age. The issue falls within the run of "The Atomic Knights," the post-apocalyptic serial written by John Broome with art by Murphy Anderson that appeared as a recurring back-up feature in the title from the late 1950s into the early 1960s. It is a mid-serial chapter rather than a first appearance, origin story, or landmark single issue, and it carries no notable cover distinction beyond Anderson's clean, representative science-fiction house style of the period.

The certified population is small, with only 23 copies graded and no examples above 9.4 on record, and even that top copy has no logged sale. Sales that do exist cluster in the $70 to $200 range across grades 5.0 through 9.0, with a gradual, unspectacular climb that reflects steady but limited collector competition rather than active bidding pressure. The scarcity of high-grade material is more a function of low survival and low submission volume for a mid-run anthology issue than of outsized demand, which keeps the FMV curve comparatively flat through the mid grades before any meaningful acceleration near the top of the census.

This issue appeals primarily to Silver Age DC completists and readers assembling a run of the Atomic Knights serial rather than to speculators chasing a recognized key. Raw copies in low and mid grade trade as affordable filler for genre and imprint collections, while a 9.8 would represent a condition census outlier commanding a premium disproportionate to the book's underlying demand, since no such copy has yet surfaced to test the market.