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Marvel · Captain America · #194 · Bronze Age · ID-3229253
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Captain America #194 demonstrates disciplined liquidity depth and stable sovereign grade spread characteristics across current secondary market trading.
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Janice Cohen
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Jack Kirby
| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| 10.0 | $255.00 |
| 9.8 | $196.05 |
| 9.6 | $58.81 |
| 9.4 | $60.00 |
| 9.2 | $61.27 |
| 8.0 | $21.25 |
| 6.0 | $20.08 |
| 4.0 | $5.68 |
| 3.0 | $5.00 |
| 2.0 | $4.00 |
| Raw | $5.38 |
| Grade | Dealer buy | Retail sell | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | $6.60 | $21.99 | 70.0% |
| 4.0 | $1.30 | $6.29 | 79.3% |
| Raw | $1.20 | $5.89 | 79.6% |
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Speculative micro-allocation with high-beta risk/reward characteristics.
Home of Spider-Man, X-Men, Avengers, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Comics grow darker and more socially aware. Wolverine, Punisher, Swamp Thing debut. Creator-driven storytelling emerges.
Newsstand variants carry meaningful scarcity premiums. First appearances from this era are blue-chip investments.
A pricing discrepancy between an auction listing and the prevailing cleared consensus value across organized exchanges, allowing rapid liquidity capture before market equilibrium reconverges.
At "Madbomb Control," Captain America and Falcon receive the maximum charge from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s brain-bolt machine in order to prepare them for their upcoming mission. Meanwhile, William Taurey, who wishes to return the USA to a pre-American Revolution aristocracy, telis the leader of his mercenaries, General Heshin, that he seeks revenge on Steve Rogers whose Continental Army ancestor killed Sir William Taurey in a duel after Taurey tried to warn the British of George Washington's approach. Following an SOS from a missing S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Cap and Falcon, wearing flight suits, fly to the South Dakota Badlands. Landing, they encounter a mutated giant and discover foam rubber boulders concealing the entrance to an underground base. Royalist mercenaries emerge, herd the giant inside, and use a mind-wave launcher on Cap and Falcon who, injured by their brain-bolt treatment, feign unconsciousness. The mercenaries take them to their Manual Labor Pool housing the missing S.H.I.E.L.D. agents turned into freakish mutations by Royalist scientists. Removing their flight suits to reveal their costumes underneath, Cap and Falcon prepare for action.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for Captain America #194.
CGC, CBCS, PSA Universal certified high-grade specimens (9.8 / 9.6 / 9.4). The gold standard for institutional alternative investment.
Official witnessed creator-signed slabs (Yellow label). Valued based on creator historical stature and inscription provenance.
Certified specimens from landmark historical collections (Edgar Church / Mile High, White Mountain, Kansas City, Pacific Coast).
Original newsstand barcode distribution copies. Extremely scarce in high grade due to newsstand rack wear and unsold return pulping.
Regional price test market copies (Canadian 75¢/95¢ variants, Marvel 30¢/35¢ test variants). Highly coveted micro-population rarities.
Exclusively allocated copies requiring retailer orders of 1:25, 1:50, 1:100, or 1:500 standard copies. Immediate manufactured scarcity.
Unslabbed collector copies inspected under standard Overstreet physical guidelines. The primary pool for grading arbitrage.
Alternative artistic interpretations, virgin covers, metal foil, and convention exclusives with dedicated collector followings.
Standard specialty comic shop printings sold through non-returnable distribution. The baseline circulation foundation.
Green label copies with significant manufacturing flaws, unwitnessed signatures, or missing coupons that do not affect the main story.
Purple label copies with professional or amateur color touch, tear seals, piece fill, or spine rebuilds.
Blue/Grey label copies treated exclusively with archival preservation techniques (leaf-casting, rice paper tear reinforcement, solvent wash).
Official second, third, or later printings released to satisfy secondary market sellouts. Distinct cover art and trade dress.
International editions licensed by La Prensa (Mexico), Editora Abril (Brazil), Panini (Europe), or Titan (UK).
Certified printing oddities (missing foil, inverted interior, double covers, foil color error). Unique curiosity pieces.
Advance promotional black-and-white booklets, ashcans created to secure trademark rights, and preview giveaways.
Each cover variant, retailer incentive, and subsequent printing represents an independent atomic tradeable instrument with unique supply elasticity, barcode registration, and secondary market demand.
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William Taurey, with the help of General Heshin, hopes to use the "Big Daddy" Madbomb and his mercenary army, the Royalist Forces of America, to destroy democracy in the United States and return the country back to the aristocracy. Taurey also wants to exact revenge on Steve Rogers, the descendant of the man who killed his ancestor, Sir William Taurey, during the Revolutionary War. Captain America and the Falcon infiltrate a Royalist Forces base.
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Stored PriceCharting 9.8 price for product 3229253. 1 dated nightly snapshot on file for this book.
When Aunt May is kidnapped, Spider-Man pays the ransom with a suitcase full of Twinkies.
“It took 200 years, Falcon)... But this country has grown up!”
Recorded price evidence by source and grade tier. Ungraded / RAW pricing represents loose physical copies; certified grading authorities record authenticated slabbed grades only. Unpriced grades remain unpriced.
| Authority Source / Metric | RAWUNGRADED | 1.8 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.6 | 9.8ANCHOR | 10.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Panel Profits(Exchange FMV) | $5.38 | — | $5.00 | $5.68 | — | $20.08 | — | $21.25 | — | $61.27 | $58.81 | $196.05 | $255.00 |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $1.20 | — | — | $1.30 | — | $6.60 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $5.89 | — | — | $6.29 | — | $21.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 52 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 52 sold | — |
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