Captain America Comics #24 (Timely, March 1943) is a wartime artifact as much as it is a comic: Syd Shores’ cover freezes the moment Cap crashes into a Black Dragon Society lair to pull Bucky from the fire, Rising Sun banners and a bubbling cauldron filling every inch of the page. Issued at the height of World War II—and carrying the original Human Torch as a backup—a scarce early Cap to survive in high grade. This example stands at the top of the census with off-white to white pages, the kind of copy serious collections are built around rather than merely completed. Available privately through GoldenAgeGuru.com.