Strange Tales #114 Twin Cities pedigree (Marvel, 1963) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages....
Auction amount: $14,340.00
Sold: May 6, 2011
Strange Tales #114 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1963
About Strange Tales #114
Featuring the Human Torch. The Acrobat appears in disguise as Captain America (first Cap appearance since 1954). First appearance of Victoria Bentley. Third appearance of Doctor Strange, whose series begins. Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers cover and art. Steve Ditko and George Roussos art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Captain America [Carl Zante; also as The Acrobat]
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Dick Ayers
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Acrobat [Carl Zante; disguised as Captain America]; Doris Evans; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo)
Synopsis: The Human Torch is upstaged by the return of Captain America, but the Torch realizes that it is his old enemy the Acrobat in disguise and defeats him.
Pages: 18.000
Script: Stan Lee (co-plot, dialogue); Jack Kirby (co-plot, uncredited)
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Dick Ayers
Letters: Sam Rosen
Reprints: Captain America (Marvel, 1968 series) #216 (December 1977), | Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #17 (November 1968)
Notes: Acrobat last appears in issue #106 (March 1963). This story involving a Captain America imposter was a try-out to test the idea of reviving him. The real Cap would return only 4 months later in Avengers, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #4 (March 1964). Winner of the 1963 "Favorite Short Story" Alley Award. "Cap" wears red trunks in this story instead of the usual blue.
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 |
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Universal |
0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 25 | 51 | 64 | 78 | 74 | 91 | 82 | 70 | 89 | 90 | 87 | 59 | 43 | 50 | 27 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1035 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
|
Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 |
|
CGCxJSA |
0 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 1 |
|
Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 |
| Total | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 27 | 56 | 69 | 86 | 80 | 97 | 86 | 75 | 94 | 96 | 97 | 65 | 48 | 53 | 31 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1123 |
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