A Feather in AAMoW's Cap

How many comics transcend the comic book industry? I mean REALLY transcend to the point where they become monumental. Action Comics #1 is famous outside comic circles but it's famous for its place in comic history and I guess its colossal value. What I'm talking about is something beyond comics. Let me introduce "All American Men of War" issue 89, perhaps the most famous comic most comic collectors have never heard of. If you saw it in a comic shop would you give it a second glance?

This issue is the inspiration for not one but TWO Roy Lichtenstein paintings. Lichtenstein used the bottom right frame of the cover for his painting 'Jet Pilot'. This cover was drawn by Jerry Grandenetti. Lichtenstein also used an interior frame by Russ Heath to produce arguably his most famous painting 'Whaam!' In a looking around I couldn't find a single copy of issue 89 for sale in any condition CGC graded or not but I found a completed sale from 2009 selling a CGC graded 9.2 copy for $250.00. I would pay that in a heartbeat. There are in fact only two CGC graded copies of issue 89 both 9.2.

I don't know that value of Whaam! but given it's fame it wouldn't surprise me at all if it exceeded the cost of Action Comics #1 CGC 9.0.