Marvel Comics Group · Captain America and the Falcon #155 · November 1972 · 20¢ · 36 pages
Grade: VF 8.0
Cover and story credits unconfirmed for this issue.
“The Secret Origin of Captain America!” — the issue's label makes the pitch directly: “Never Seen Before!” origin content. This is a Bronze Age Marvel book built around revisiting and expanding Cap's wartime backstory, situated squarely in the Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson partnership era that defined the series through the early-to-mid seventies. The Falcon's co-billing on the title was itself a statement — Marvel's highest-profile Black superhero sharing the marquee with one of the company's oldest properties.
Issue #155 falls in the middle of the Roy Thomas run on this title, a stretch that leaned hard into continuity-mining and origin elaboration — the kind of storytelling Bronze Age Marvel did better than anyone. The 20-cent cover price puts it in the last window before Marvel's inflation-era price bumps began in earnest.
Condition VF 8.0 — .
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Marvel Comics Group · Captain America and the Falcon #155 · November 1972 · 20¢ · 36 pages
Grade: VF 8.0
Cover and story credits unconfirmed for this issue.
“The Secret Origin of Captain America!” — the issue's label makes the pitch directly: “Never Seen Before!” origin content. This is a Bronze Age Marvel book built around revisiting and expanding Cap's wartime backstory, situated squarely in the Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson partnership era that defined the series through the early-to-mid seventies. The Falcon's co-billing on the title was itself a statement — Marvel's highest-profile Black superhero sharing the marquee with one of the company's oldest properties.
Issue #155 falls in the middle of the Roy Thomas run on this title, a stretch that leaned hard into continuity-mining and origin elaboration — the kind of storytelling Bronze Age Marvel did better than anyone. The 20-cent cover price puts it in the last window before Marvel's inflation-era price bumps began in earnest.
Condition VF 8.0 — .
We use what the scientists are calling artificial intelligence to research and write our descriptions — it gives us more time to add books to our website and provide you with a wider array of inventory. We think Klaatu would approve. Details are verified but the robot does slip up. We're not infallible. Every book is graded by a human collector who has actually held it. If anything ever looks off, reach on out at robopictocomics@gmail.com.
