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Set Type: All-American Men of War
Owner: David Swan1
Last Modified: 2/1/2016
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With the increased popularity of war comics DC introduced three new titles in Aug-Sep 1952 including Our Army at War, Star Spangled War Stories and All American Men of War. As was often the case with DC two of the comics were simply repurposed older titles. Star Spangled War Stories had been Star Spangled Comics making the switch with issue 84. All American Men of War had been All American Western and prior to that was simply All American Comics, famous for introducing the original Green Lantern. All American Men of War started with issue #127 followed by issue #128 before rebooting back to issue #2. So what happened to issue #1? The heck if I know. The series lasted until Sep/Oct 1966. Our Army at War and Star Spangled War Stories lasted considerably longer closing up shop in Feb 1977. The most valuable CGC graded issue would be issue #127 (sometimes called issue 1) graded 8.5 at $2100.00. By contrast an issue #1 of Our Army at War graded 8.5 would be $3900 while an 8.5 of issue #1 of Star Spangled War Stories would set you back $1125. For the first 27 issues it’s only profitable to CGC grade 6.0 and up. Following issue 27 only grades 8.5 and up make sense to CGC grade and many of the later issues are priced so low that it would only be profitable to CGC grade extremely high grade issues. That’s if the price guides can be trusted. Issue 89 is rather famous in that it was the inspiration for the no less than two Roy Lichtenstein pop art paintings. These include arguably his most famous, “Whaam!”, taken from an interior panel by Russ Heath. He also used the lower right hand cover panel by Jerry Grandenetti for his painting “Jet Pilot”. There are only two CGC graded copies of issue 89 both graded 9.2. Looking around I couldn’t find a single issue for sale CGC graded or ungraded in any condition. I would have expected issue 89 to command a premium price but the guide shows no bump and I found a website that claimed to have sold one of the 9.2’s in 2009 for $250.00. I would pay that price in a heartbeat. A less historically important issue would be #82 which featured the first appearance of Native American pilot Johnny Cloud. All American Men of War seems to be missing a pedigree collector. Not a single issue is CGC graded 9.0 and above until issue 20. Issue 21 has a 9.2 but you have to go to issue 34 to find the next 9.0. Every issue has at least one graded comic but only a few reach double digits. Most issues seem to have highs in the 8.0/8.5 range but many are considerably lower so it’s not unreasonable to buy issue in the 6.0 range. Issue 29 has nothing higher than a 5.5. It also may make sense to buy non CGC graded issues since I see some on the net that claim to have a higher grade than any current CGC graded copy. There seems to be some idea that All American Men of War are a hot commodity and dealers seem to price them as such. Most issues are priced above guide, some far above guide as in triple the price or more and they do not sell. Also, if you’re trying to accumulate registry points AAMofW is one of the worst comics I’ve ever seen for cost to registry point. From a long term collectibility standpoint its main strength is its scarcity of CGC graded issues. There do seem to be a lot of issues out there but not a ton of high grade. Like all war comics it lacks the appeal of first appearances but if war comics do become hot those scarce high grade issues could see their prices jump.

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Slot DescriptionThe Comics Registry IDComic GradeScore Updated
All-American Men of War 127 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 128 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 2 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 3 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 4 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 5 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 6 0779884020 7.0 137 8/19/2011
All-American Men of War 7 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 8 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 9 1131243021 7.0 137 2/1/2016
All-American Men of War 10 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 11 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 12 1663880001 8.0 235 9/24/2012
All-American Men of War 13 0805435001 7.0 118 10/21/2012
All-American Men of War 14 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 15 0955623011 7.5 140 12/9/2011
All-American Men of War 16 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 17 0911928018 7.5 146 8/17/2012
All-American Men of War 18 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 19 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 20 0973213001 8.0 168 9/24/2012
All-American Men of War 21 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 22 0114100003 8.0 168 10/21/2012
All-American Men of War 23 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 24 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 25 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 26 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 27 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 28 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 29 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 30 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 31 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 32 1007255001 7.0 87 12/28/2011
All-American Men of War 33 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 34 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 35 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 36 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 37 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 38 1007265001 7.5 84 1/7/2016
All-American Men of War 39 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 40 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 41 0203471012 7.0 58 12/2/2013
All-American Men of War 42 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 43 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 44 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 45 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 46 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 47 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 48 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 49 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 50 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 51 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 52 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 53 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 54 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 55 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 56 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 57 1169045015 7.0 63 1/29/2016
All-American Men of War 58 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 59 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 60 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 61 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 62 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 63 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 64 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 65 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 66 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 67 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 68 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 69 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 70 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 71 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 72 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 73 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 74 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 75 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 76 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 77 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 78 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 79 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 80 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 81 0150267009 8.5 84 11/19/2012
All-American Men of War 82 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 83 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 84 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 85 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 86 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 87 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 88 0995827006 9.2 188 8/10/2011
All-American Men of War 89 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 90 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 91 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 92 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 93 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 94 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 95 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 96 1023304003 9.0 85 4/17/2013
All-American Men of War 97 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 98 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 99 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 100 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 101 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 102 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 103 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 104 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 105 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 106 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 107 0150160010 8.5 44 10/19/2011
All-American Men of War 108 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 109 0905449002 9.2 98 12/11/2013
All-American Men of War 110 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 111 1019058013 9.4 195 6/14/2012
All-American Men of War 112 0719327009 9.4 210 12/5/2011
All-American Men of War 113 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 114 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 115 0805291002 9.0 65 11/19/2012
All-American Men of War 116 No Comic    
All-American Men of War 117 No Comic    

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