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CLOSED Flash Sale! One GA Cap Left! — Captain America Comics #76 (complete, low-grade, and weird)
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5 Simple Rules (Please, please read)

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1st :takeit: wins; tie/indeterminate goes to the thread.

Payment is Check or Money Order (yeah, yeah I know I'm a dinosaur, troglodyte, luddite, mennonite, hermaphrodite etc. - I just don't have or want e-payments.)

Shipping: U.S. priority shipping included

Don't be listy (tsk) including the little one in my head.

Returns: Sure, just notify me within three days of receipt and get it back to me in the same shape, on your dime.

(Kudos thread linked under my avatar.)

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Before I post it, it’s a weird one — someone used tape to wrap both covers in some sort of translucent paper (parchment paper? Wax paper?). Here’s a link to a full discussion on it in the Can You Spare a Grade forum, with lots of boardies weighing in. 
The short story: it’s a low-grade but complete copy with a neatly detached centerfold. It’s supple and readable. It’s got odd paper taped on that probably would cause damage to remove. Not sure if one would consider it amateur resto/conservation. Here’s the link:

 

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Here’s the book:

Captain America Comics #76, (May 1954) first of the three-issue 1950’s Atlas Comics revival; complete, centerfold neatly detached, covers wrapped in translucent/opaque paper with lots of tape. This copy is not for everyone.

Comps tough; eBay no help. Three from HA — a 6.5 restored went $1,320 in April 2022; a 2.5 blue went $1440 in March 2020, and a cbcs 1.5 went $552 in January 2020.

$600 shipped within U.S. 

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I should add that I am completely open to offers here as it is a tough book to price and not for everyone given its oddities. Then again, it’s also a Cap 76, and there’s not enough of them for everyone either. So it’s a complete, entry-level copy for someone who wants one. (I got it in part of a much larger all or nothing deal for a bunch of Timelys, from a collector who parted with them to fund an OA purchase.)

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On 8/7/2022 at 9:16 AM, ChasingKingKirby said:

Got any war covers in your stash?  Or a 74…. :whee:

 

No luck on a 74, and no war covers to spare. Just intermittently adding a couple incompletes so I hopefully don’t have too many Golden Age books that I’m trying to complete via marriages, and maybe will add a couple later-run issues, but with Timely Caps I hem and haw over letting go of any issue, complete, incomplete, war or non-war, nice or beater…

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On 8/7/2022 at 9:24 AM, Readcomix said:

No luck on a 74, and no war covers to spare. Just intermittently adding a couple incompletes so I hopefully don’t have too many Golden Age books that I’m trying to complete via marriages, and maybe will add a couple later-run issues, but with Timely Caps I hem and haw over letting go of any issue, complete, incomplete, war or non-war, nice or beater…

Same here.   I dont have any incompletes, but I also only have a handful.  And theyre very, very hard to let go.

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:news: SOLD via PM! Captain America Comics #66 complete, probably in the GVG to VG- range, but, I think, has some amateur color touch. (Again, I bought it in that all or nothing deal; seller was not OO, my knowledge of provenance stops there). Anyway, what we do know…look at the missing upper right corner, then look at the inside front cover. Looks like the piece was once taped back and is now missing. Looks like some red bleed from front, and if you look at the front the red appears to have two shades. Piece missing from lower corner of back cover is included and was not taped.

That said, Bucky gets shot, 1st Golden Girl; an affordable Timely key.

Again, data is sparse. HA sold a cgc 4.5 blue label in July 2020 for $1,200 and an incomplete raw in Feb 2021 for $504.

$1000 shipped within U.S. here.

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