National Comics #1 Mile High pedigree (Quality, 1940) CGC VF- 7.5 White pages....
Auction amount: $7,170.00
Sold: May 4, 2007
National Comics #1 Values
Publisher: Quality Comics, 1940
About National Comics #1
Origin and first appearance of Uncle Sam. Origins of Wonder Boy, Merlin the Magician, and Buddy and Kid Dixon. Lou Fine cover. Will Eisner and Klaus Nordling story and art. George Tuska and Henry Kiefer art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Pencils: Lou Fine
Inks: Lou Fine
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Uncle Sam (introduction); Buddy Smith (introduction); Ezra Smith (Buddy's father, introduction, death); President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Andel Cobra (villain, introduction); Scar (villain, introduction); Snyle (villain, introduction); Gatch Gozan (villain, introduction); the Purple Shirts (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: Andel Cobra tries to organize American dust bowl refugees into his own version of Hitler's Brown Shirts, called the Purple Shirts. The Purple Shirts manage to kidnap President Roosevelt, and later Uncle Sam. But Sam's rhetoric stirred some of the recruits, inciting them to rebel against the Purple Shirts. Unfortunately, these "terrorists" killed the father of young Buddy Smith, whom Uncle Sam adopted as his sidekick.
Pages: 9.000
Script: Will Eisner; Dave Berg
Pencils: Will Eisner (layouts); Dave Berg
Inks: Will Eisner
Notes: Credits from Ken Quattro, in an article in Alter Ego #127 (August 2014), stating this story was written and laid out by Eisner, and Berg did the finishes. Uncle Sam was created by Will Eisner and Lou Fine.
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Restored |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Total | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
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