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Captain America’s First Comic Book Sells for $3.1M


Fri 08 Apr 2022 | 01:45 PM
Yara Sameh

The first comic book that featured Captain America sold Thursday for a total of $3,120,000 million.

The comic is sold as part of Heritage Auctions’ comics and comic art events that runs through Sunday. The issue is now one of the top five most expensive comics ever sold.

The comic was released in December 1940, a full year before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that would thrust the United States into World War II, and features one of the most iconic covers: the hero punching Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

First Appearance Flashback: Captain America

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Captain America for Timely Comics, the predecessor to Marvel Comics.

The comic followed the famous tale of Steve Rogers, a frail young man artist who is injected with a serum that turns him into a super-soldier. It also introduced Cap’s sidekick, Bucky Barnes, who in modern times would become the hero known as the Winter Soldier.

The heroes were featured prominently in Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Barnes getting his own series titled "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" on Disney+.

The comic was an instant hit and sold multitudinous copies a month.

Last month, the book “Marvel Comics No. 1” published in 1939 sold for $2.4 million, while two copies of Action Comics have made sales in that range; a Batman No. 1 sold in January 2021 for $2.2 million.