Showcase #38 Metal Men (DC, 1962) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white Pages....
Auction amount: $6,572.50
Sold: May 4, 2007
Showcase #38 Values
Publisher: DC, 1962
About Showcase #38
Second appearance of the Metal Men. Ross Andru and Mike Esposito cover and art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: the Nightmare Menace; Gold; Lead; Platinum; Lead; Mercury; Tin; Dr. Will Magnus
Pencils: Ross Andru
Inks: Mike Esposito
Letters: Ira Schnapp
STORY DETAILS
Characters: the Nightmare Menace; Gold; Lead; Mercury; Iron; Platinum; Tin; Dr. Will Magnus; Von Vroon; Col. Henry Caspar
Synopsis: The Metal Men battle a robot built by a foreign power and designed to cause their powers to malfunction.
Pages: 25.670
Script: Robert Kanigher
Pencils: Ross Andru
Inks: Mike Esposito
Reprints: The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #34 (March 1983)
Notes: Story divided into parts: unnumbered part I (7.67 pages); Part II (4 pages), Part III (14 pages). Col. Henry Caspar was named Col. Henry Casper in the previous issue of Showcase.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
CGC Census Report*
| Grade | NG | PG | CVR | 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 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 17 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 205 |
|
Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
|
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
CGCxJSA |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
|
Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 16 | 13 | 18 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 214 |
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