Timely

If this were a Centaur from 1939 with this cover it would be worth 7-10k. Great value here imo!

Dynamic Science Stories #2 Hitler cover from 4/39... 2 years before Cap #1. You also get the devil on the cover, a girl in bondage & some odd science experiment. Cover by Normal Saunders. The pages are Off-White to White! VG copy. Ebay has one copy, a trimmed copy for $320. Mine is unrestored. $350 with free shipping to the ConUS. Payment by paypal or check. 7 day return privilege.

A Lloyd Jacquet File Copy FYI!

That’s the first thing I notice. All American 16 worth more than Cap 1, Marvel 1 and tied with Batman 1? Not in my world! The second thing I noticed was that only 7 out of the top 100 books had growth at or above 10%! Not in this world!

$200-300

...and my collection!

I remember a prominent collector/dealer had the Windy City copy of Captain America Comics #1 (VF+) priced at $65k and he sat on it for years! I think he eventually traded it away. Different times back then!

I believe both of these are owned by...

Someone needs to make t-shirts with this on it!

I watched Avatar with my 10y/o last weekend, he LOVED it!

I can’t say to what it will sell for, but it had a price tag in SD 2018 of $75,000.

Then I would say reread the story. The entire first half of the series culminates on this page! After this page the entire focus and storyline changes from Warlocks plan to the secondary one and all the “gods” and entities come in. Before this page it was your basic superheroes in the fight. Definitely a pivotal moment!

None of those are key pages in the book. All are nice, but I think the seller priced it based on art AND story content. The page that sold for 31k was artistically average too (nice), but it went for that amount because it was well advertised as the page before Thanos snaps his fingers. Key page to the storyline and the movies.

There may be regional variants on some books. For example, if you are a store in NYC and you place an ad in DC Comics, you may not want to pay for an ad in comics that are being distributed in California. Mainly when differences are spotted, it’s on the quarterly books that are on the stands for 3 months, and when they sell out the venders reorder. If DC is out of stock, they would have to print more copies to fill demand. During that 3 month time span some advertisers would cease advertising and a new ad would be made. On many of the back covers you can see a specific department number that is associated to that comic book and that coupon ad. That was done so advertisers could see what comics were actually producing sales when those coupons were cut out of the comics and sent in.

“Greatest” OA in existence is too generic a word. Great could mean expensive, artistically rendered, impactful or historically significant. Often times with nostalgia, that is entirely impactful. Something you had as kid that impacted you, and now as an adult, has an impact on you again… and perhaps only you, perhaps not! There are many comics I remember reading as a kid that impacted me, such as Thing #13. I doubt now anyone really cares about that particular issue at all, but because I remember that as one of the first 8 comics I ever read, it’s high on my list. There are a lot of artistically great pieces of comic art that are bordering on genius, but have very little value compared to other, less visually appealing pieces that have sold. Its pretty easy to pick out historically important pieces, but as collectors, some place higher significance on one piece vs. another. Again, no right or wrong answer. Bottom line is there are way too many variables in art (and from collector to collector) to ever have any concise and “correct” evaluation, but it’s fun to talk about!

Looks like “96” on the bottom right corner. 1996.

One could also say that the artist intentionally wanted the most dynamic part of the page to be the Surfer’s missed attempt and any further dynamic piece added to the page would diminish that! The fact that swatting Captain America and killing him in such a trivial and meaningless way is brilliant IMO. Could the page be better? Sure. Could every art page ever made be better? Sure.

300k was my thoughts, but I’m not in that market much.

A key page for the series, but not a key page for the movie tie-in. I had a chance to buy the Infinity Gauntlet #1 page that sold in Heritage for 22k a few months back right before it was submitted to HA for WAY, WAY less than its sale price. I didn’t buy it because several people I talked to said it was worth in the 6-9k range. I also passed because it was not a key moment in the movie. It is the page where Thanos kills Death’s mouthpiece minion. Great page!… but had nothing to do with the movies. Its hard to determine value on this title as pages and prices are all over the map!

Is there a link to view the art and prices?

He’s got 6 claws ya know! Deduct 5/6ths!

I can agree to disagree. That’s what makes art interesting. It’s all objective. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

I think they are on par with each other. Both Sandman & Kraven are A- to B+ villains. The ASM #34 page had the cover image which was nice. It is also a full battle page! This page has the 1/3rd splash at the bottom which is great. It isn't easy to find those 1/3rd Spider-Man Ditko splashes, ESPECIALLY on a full battle page! You also get sound effects on every panel! WHUMP! WHAM! THUD! BAM! POW! What more could ya ask for I tells ya!?!

Should go for $140-165k.