Captain America #197 (1976) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: John Verpoorten; colors: Phil Rachelson; letters: Danny Crespi	Captain America, Steve Rogers
1	The Rocks Are Burning!	comic story	17	script: Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Frank Giacoia, Mike Esposito; colors: P. Rache; letters: J. Costanza	Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Falcon [Sam Wilson]; General Argyle Fist; Cheer Chadwick (villain); "Poppa" [Dr. Hesperus Chadwick] (cameo, villain); Tinkerbelle (villain); Royalist Forces of America (villains)
2	-	letters page	1	letters: typeset
3	More Merely Magnificent Marvel Madness Made to Move You to Mafficking!	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee	Killraven

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
30¢	price 0.30 USD
British	price 0.09 GBP

Collection	Year
Essential Captain America #5 ISBN 978-0-7851-4535-6	2010	On eBay ›
Captain America & The Falcon: Madbomb #[nn] ISBN 9780785115571; 0-7851-1557-9	2004	On eBay ›
Comic Reader #127	1976	On eBay ›
Captain America by Jack Kirby #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-4960-6	2010	On eBay ›

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Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
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