CAPTAIN AMERICA #107

Cover shows a vertical crease running through the upper title area and a diagonal stress crease crossing the top left corner into the sky, both causing slight color break. Corners appear reasonably sharp with only mild wear at the top right near the Comics Code box. Spine appears mostly tight with minor stress visible but no major chipping noted; slight surface sheen/glare from the protective sleeve makes fine assessment difficult. Interior and back cover were not assessed, so grade is based solely on the visible front cover.

Captain America #107 arrived in the fall of 1968 as a mid-run installment of Marvel's revived solo Captain America title, which had launched with issue #100 after the character's stint sharing Tales of Suspense. By this point in the series, scripting duties had passed from Stan Lee to Gary Friedrich, who carried the book through the stretch preceding Jim Steranko's celebrated art issues (#110-111) and Gene Colan's later run. The issue sits within Marvel's late-1960s effort to sustain Captain America as a headline character following the character's Silver Age revival in Avengers #4, continuing the espionage-and-action formula that defined the title's early solo years, well before the Falcon's debut a few issues later in #117.

The certified population is substantial, with 776 Universal copies recorded across the CGC census, reflecting steady modern submission of a widely-collected but not scarce Silver Age title. The FMV curve is telling: values remain comparatively flat and modest from grade 4.0 through 8.0, then rise sharply from 9.0 upward, more than doubling between 9.4 and 9.6. No 9.8 copies have been certified or sold, underscoring how thin the top of the census remains despite the book's overall abundance in the mid-to-high grades. Demand is driven primarily by Silver Age Marvel run-builders rather than by any first appearance or landmark creative event tied to this specific issue.

Captain America #107 trades as a solid, unspectacular piece of a larger collecting project: assembling a complete run of the character's 1968-launched series, including the Kirby opening arc and the Steranko issues that soon follow. Low-grade raw copies function as inexpensive reading or placeholder copies for set-builders; mid-grade raw copies see steady but unremarkable turnover among general Silver Age collectors; and the rare high-grade certified example, particularly anything approaching the unclaimed 9.8 tier, draws outsized premiums from census-conscious buyers seeking to complete a run at the top end of the grading scale.