Captain America Comics #38 The Promise Collection Pedigree (Timely, 1944) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages....
Auction amount: $17,400.00
Sold: Nov 21, 2021
Captain America Comics #38 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1944
About Captain America Comics #38
Features a Human Torch story. Bondage / skull / Japanese war / Rising Sun cover by Alex Schomburg. Story art by Syd Shores, Al Bellman, Vince Alascia, Al Gabriele, and Don Rico.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Pencils: Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
Inks: Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Synopsis: A hundred Japanese escape from internment camps and build an airbase in Death Valley with stolen parts. They plan to conduct bombing raids on American cities, but Cap and Bucky along with some help from a desert miner named Death Valley Pete, touch off the explosives located in a mine under their base and eliminate them.
Pages: 17.000
Pencils: Syd Shores (signed)
Inks: Vince Alascia (signed)
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GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
CGC Census Report*
Grade | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.0 | Total |
Universal |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 64 |
Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Restored |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Total | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 |
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