CAPTAIN AMERICA #109

The cover is protected in a plastic sleeve, showing some minor waviness/glare in the sleeve rather than the comic itself. There is a visible horizontal crease/stress line across the upper third of the cover through the logo area, and slight fading/wear at the corners. No major tears or color breaks are apparent, but the crease and general handling wear place this in the mid-grade range; interior and back cover were not assessed.

Captain America #109, cover-dated January 1969, is a reprint issue that reproduces the character's origin story, originally told in Tales of Suspense #63, for a new generation of Marvel readers at the close of the Silver Age. The material traces back to Stan Lee's scripting and Jack Kirby's foundational art on the World War II-era Captain America mythos, recounting the transformation of Steve Rogers into the super-soldier and his partnership with Bucky Barnes. As a reprint rather than a first printing of new content, the issue carries historical value as a vehicle for one of Marvel's cornerstone origin narratives rather than as a first appearance in its own right.

Market data shows a typical long-run Silver Age curve: raw and low-grade copies trade in the tens of dollars, mid-grade raw copies hover in the $80-90 range, and values climb sharply only at the near-pristine end, with CGC 9.8 copies commanding roughly $2,000 on a base of over 30 recorded sales. The census is substantial, with more than 2,400 Universal copies graded, indicating the issue was well preserved and is not scarce in absolute terms; demand is instead concentrated among Captain America run-builders and completists rather than key-issue speculators, which keeps the low-to-mid grade market comparatively stable and undramatic.

This is a book most useful for collectors assembling a complete run of Captain America's late-1960s issues or those drawn to Kirby's origin artwork in any printing. It is not a grail and will not draw crossover interest from outside the Captain America collecting base, but pristine 9.8 copies show real premium demand, making top-grade certified examples the primary trading tier worth tracking; raw and mid-grade copies move steadily but modestly as filler for long-box and run collections.