Captain America #132 for Sale - First Appearance of Walter Cronkite - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Captain America (Marvel, 1968 series)
Issue: #132
Publication date: December 1970
Key date: 1970-12-00
On-sale date: 1970-09-01
Indicia publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
Price: $0.15
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Walter Cronkite - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Fearful Secret of Bucky Barnes!	cover	1	pencils: Marie Severin, John Romita; inks: Frank Giacoia, John Romita; colors: Marie Severin; letters: Sam Rosen	Captain America, M.O.D.O.K., Steve Rogers, George Tarleton
2	The Fearful Secret of Bucky Barnes!	comic story	19	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Gene Colan; inks: Dick Ayers; letters: Artie Simek	Batroc the Leaper, Georges Batroc, Dave Cannon, Captain America, Sharon Carter, Walter Cronkite First, Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom, Dum Dum Dugan, Falcon, Nick Fury, Alexander Gentry, Grizzly, The Hood
4	-	in-house column	0.4	colors: ? (background only); letters: typeset
12	A Pride of Pronouncements for a Frenzy of Fans!	in-house column	0.67	script: Stan Lee
13	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	pencils: Sal Buscema; inks: Sal Buscema; letters: Sam Rosen, Artie Simek	Sub-Mariner [Namor]; The Avengers [Captain America; Giant-Man; The Wasp; Thor; Iron Man; The Hulk]; Masters of Evil [Baron Zemo; Radioactive Man; Black Knight [Nathan Garrett]; Aragorn; The Melter]
16	-	letters page	1.6	pencils: Gene Colan; inks: Dick Ayers	Captain America
17	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.4	pencils: Barry Windsor-Smith; inks: Barry Windsor-Smith

Plus 12.6 pages of advertisements and other matter across 14 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Captain America #400	1992	On eBay ›
Essential Captain America #3 ISBN 0-7851-2166-8	2006	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Captain America #5 ISBN 978-0-7851-4200-3	2010	On eBay ›
Bucky Reborn ISBN 978-1-302-90419-7	2017	On eBay ›
Captain America Omnibus #2 ISBN 978-0-7851-9927-4	2016	On eBay ›

Reading the story costs a fraction of owning the issue. Both routes are on every file.

Before you buy

Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
Canadian and Whitman editions exist for many bronze books; match the barcode area to the plate.
Look for Mark Jewelers inserts and date stamps - they affect collector preference, not authenticity.

Series context

‹ #13133 of 355#133 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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