First Appearance of Marvel Comics Black Knight?

 The con -and it is a con- seems to be that Avengers #48 features "the first appearance of the Black Knight"

Sellers asking (UK) £75-170 for a copy. The claim is false of course and the sellers obviously want people to believe that the appearance of Dane Whitman (the THIRD Black Knight) in the failed Eternals movie is marking his appearance as Black Knight in an upcoming movie. The fact is that Marvel Studios has already stated that they are NOT deve4lop-ing the character -following its sharp turn away from stories to virtue signalling movies.

The First Silver Age Black Knight (Sir Percy of Scandia) appeared in 1955 as shown below  

The second was a villain (Nathan Garrett), of course and Dane Whitman took over from him. Garrett's BK appeared in This villainous Black Knight appeared in The Avengers #6, #14–15 (July 1964, March–April 1965) cover below  

So do not get conned out of a huge sum of money. Search around if you really need a copy but the 1955 book is the first Black Knight.

I recall that when the Black Panther movie came out ridiculous amounts were being asked for a copy of Avengers because..."First appearance of named Wakandan". Seriously. So what about the issue with the first and only appearance of "Charlie" and his putty knife? It can go on and on and you buy a comic based on this and as people have found out before no one really wants to pay the $180 once you have!

This on Ebay is listed as US $199.99 Approximately£157.47 and, of course the $20 for postage because every cent counts 

1968 MARVEL AVENGERS #48 1ST APPEARANCE OF BLACK KNIGHT KEY GRAIL RARE GERMAN

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And there is even a high price asked for the greyscale reprint of Marvel UK Avengers Weekly with the Black Knight in it and it is not a full story but part of the story -even Power Comics from the 1960s (before Marvel UK) have suddenly had prices hiked up.  This is exploitation and the sellers are looking for saps with a lot of money who think they are buying gold in comic form.  So long as idiots spend the money asked it will continue. It reminds me of the yuppies in the 1980s pulling up to the comic shop and grabbing their box full of new comics. They never read them. All bagged and stored away. It was an investment for the future. Two of those people I met in the late 1990s/2000s at comic events selling their comics off cheap. They even told me that when their collections were valued it turned out they were not then worth half of what they had paid out for them new.