*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: Have you ever dreamed of owning a Golden Age issue of Captain America, but have been frustrated by their rarity, not to mention the fact that when one does turn up, the price is way out of your budget? Well, this week’s curiosity from the Bute Collection might just be your dream fulfilment, with not just one, but two issues of Captain America for one price… (in a manner of speaking). Let me be clear: this is the covers of Captain America #37 (1944) surrounding the pages of #68 (1948), so you get a classic crazily-busy Alex Schomburg cover and the complete contents of #68, when Bucky had been replaced by Golden Girl as Cap’s sidekick: two Cap stories, a Sub-Mariner story and a crime story from Cap’s files. The pages are in really nice clean condition, amazingly not far off-white. The cover has fared less well, with tape all along the inner cover at spine and a tear sealed by tape, about 7 cm from the central right edge. There is also some raggedness at the bottom edge and what looks like a grease stain over the right side of the logo. Still, one (or possibly two) of a kind!
PICTURED: CAPTAIN AMERICA #37/68 App PR/FA £375 SOLD