Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #3 (Marvel, 1963) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages....
Auction amount: $5,975.00
Sold: Nov 19, 2010
Sgt. Fury #3 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1963
About Sgt. Fury #3
Reed Richards crossover. Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers cover and art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Sergeant Nick Fury; the Howling Commandos [Corporal Dum Dum Dugan; Dino Manelli; Jonathan Juniper; Robert Ralston [Rebel Ralston]; Izzy Cohen; Gabe Jones]
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Jack Kirby ?; Steve Ditko ? (see notes)
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek
Notes: Conflicting credits; Steve Ditko per (Bob Bailey, 2005-03-19 & Nick Caputo 2006-08-31); Jack Kirby (Nick Caputo, 2005-01-05) (Per Sandell ed.) // Inker comment by Bob Bailey: While he was not well known for doing war comics Ditko did do a few. If you compare the inking on the cover to Sgt Fury #14 which was inked by Ditko over Ayers (or any of his other Kirby-Ditko collaborations i.e FF 14 cover, FF 13 interior) you get the same effect in the muscles, clothing, sand, water and Dum-Dum's hand. Also Nick Fury's rounded shoulder and facial wrinkles are definite Ditko. Per Caputo: I've read Bob Bailey's comments about Ditko being the inker for this cover,and I have to admit that I suspected him as well, although I'm not entirely convinced. There were times that Ditko basically went over Kirby's lines instead of embellishing them, as he usually did (A Giant-Man story and Strange Tales Annual 2 are two instances), so its possible the sparse line I see in Kirby's inking may be Ditko following the lines. Chris Boyko: Steve Ditko (in litt., 18 Oct. 2014) states he did not do the inks on this cover and also does not think it to be the work of Dick Ayers. Original indexer credited Dick Ayers.
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Sergeant Nick Fury; the Howling Commandos [Corporal Dum Dum Dugan; Robert Ralston [Rebel Ralston]; Jonathan Juniper; Gabe Jones; Izzy Cohen; Dino Manelli]; Captain Happy Sam Sawyer; Sergeant Bull McGiveney (unnamed, introduction); Major Reed Richards; General Curtis (introduction); Hans Schmidt (mostly as Hank Smith, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Fury and his Commandos are ordered in Italy where an army divison is bottled up behind Massacre Mountain.
Pages: 22.000
Script: Stan Lee
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Dick Ayers
Letters: Sam Rosen
Reprints: Special Marvel Edition (Marvel, 1971 series) #5 (July 1972)
Notes: Job number per original art.
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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 |
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Universal |
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 186 |
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Qualified |
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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Signature Series |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 18 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 198 |
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