Captain America Comics #59 The Promise Collection Pedigree (Timely, 1946) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages....
Auction amount: $50,400.00
Sold: Jun 19, 2021
Captain America Comics #59 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1946
About Captain America Comics #59
The origin of Captain America and Bucky is retold. Human Torch backup story. Contains a spanking panel. Syd Shores cover and art. Carmine Infantino and Vince Alascia art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Pencils: Syd Shores
Inks: Syd Shores
Letters: Artie Simek ?
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Captain America [Steve Rogers] (origin retold); Bucky [Bucky Barnes] (origin retold); Professor Reinstein (flashback)
Synopsis: The recently discharged Cap resumes his public school teaching job and administers corporal punishment to a kid named Snipe. Snipe empties his pockets and reveals a bottle of perfume. The other kids make fun of him but it turns out crooks are using kids to sell perfume bottles that act as timed incendiary grenades in order to impersonate firemen and rob buildings. Cap and Bucky put a stop to this scheme with the help of Snipe.
Pages: 16.000
Script: Bill Finger
Pencils: Mike Sekowsky
Inks: George Klein ?
Notes: Sekowsky pencils per Michael J. Vassallo. Previous indexer credited Jack Binder. Steve Rogers becomes a schoolteacher and Bucky one of his pupils.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
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 |
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Universal |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 87 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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Restored |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Total | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 106 |
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