DC sued M.F. Last known prior CGC 9.8 sale of Werewolf by Night #32 CGC 9.8 was $32,100 at Heritage Auctions back in March 2020. A 9.4-graded copy of this iconic comic sold for $275,000 at auction in 2014. The last recorded sale of a 9.8 on GoCollect is back in 2016 and for only $1,800.00 bucks. Despite being one of the most sought out Bronze Age key comics amongst collectors, quite a few are arguing that the 1st cameo of Wolverine in the prior issue of Incredible Hulk #180 should be the more sought-out and valuable between the two. 4, DC revitalized the Flash with a whole new look and character. The only other sale I could find for this comic was back in 2013, and it sold at Heritage Auctions for $13,145! While Nyx only lasted seven issues, its third issue introduced X-23 to the Marvel Comics universe (after first appearing in the animated series X-Men: Evolution). If that doesnt sound like a valuable comic to own, then perhaps the second story will Dr. The comic is certainly rare. A 9.4 copy is currently for sale on Comic Link for $485,000. During World War II, comic books like Captain America were definitely morale-filling feel-good comic books. Its still for sale. 1st Blade is still hot! However, the first Ghost Rider was part of the western genre and isn't considered a superhero. So, the first appearance of Thanos, a well-known baddie in the Marvel Universe of comics and the main baddie of the fan-favorite classic event series The Infinity Gauntlet that inspired the Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: End Game. Cover art by Gil Kane, John Romita and Gaspar Saladino. The previous sale of a ToD #10 CGC 9.8 was also at Heritage Auctions and sold for $28,800 in June of 2021. Not that impressed with the Netflix version and was hoping they recast Frank Castle for the MCU. Unfortunately for Marvel, their printers had a heck of a time getting all their fancy covers right, and the era is littered with printing errors. Another great Steve Ditko cover, this time depicting four full panels of action between Spidey and the Sandman, a villain who was hiding out from the police at Peters school. 8. This doesn't include sets, magazines, manga, or trade paperbacks. Of course, they include Superman and Batman comics, along with other Marvel and DC classics, as well as gems from other publishing houses. I am actually a bit surprised it hasn't hit the $10k mark just yet. It was called the Justice Society of America, and its members included memorable heroes like Green Lantern, Hawkman, Flash, Atom, Sandman and Spectre, along with not-so-memorable heroes Doctor Fate and Hour-Man. If you can find a great copy of this one, be prepared to possibly fork over 200K for the book. The most valuable comic book on our list, an 8.5 graded copy of Action Comics #1 sold for a huge $3.25 million in April 2021. In 2014, a pristine issue of the 1938 comic, with its original price of 10 cents still on the cover, sold on eBay for $3.2 million, making it the most valuable comic book of all time. 18. There weren't a lot of hugely popular characters that made their debut in the '90s, but if there's one exceptional standout, it's Deadpool. A CGC 9.8 of Iron Man #55 sold for $9,600.00 Sep 12, 2021 over at Heritage Auctions. Like any collectible, the most valuable comic books are often the rarest. Currently, this issue has been known to sell for as much as 51 thousand in phenomenal condition. Even with so many superhero movies and TV shows out there, there's still probably only three characters that even people who have never picked up a comic book know exactly how they got their powers, and one of thems Spiderman. This comic is definitely loaded with a lot of key comic goodness. A relic of the old Timely Comics, a young boy is adopted and raised by the Avian Bird People, who equip him with mechanical wings and as an adult sent him back to humanity to combat evil as the Red Raven. It includes over 100 of the most valuable comic books from the 80s. Then, 10 years later, another copy this one only graded a 7.0 broke that record when it sold for $1.5 million in 2020, making it the third most expensive comic book in the world. Fu Manchu is undeniably a racist Yellow Peril stereotype, and the comic creators may have milked it as good as the racist creator of the character, Sax Rohmer, could have. This issue has the added incentive of technically the first appearance of Venom. Here are the Thirty Most Valuable Marvel Comics Of All Time. Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, created by Will Eisner and Jerry Iger, also makes her debut in this comic. The grail of these 35 Price Variants are the Star Wars #1 comics and have been for a good while. With the MCU gearing up to introduce their mighty mutants in their cinematic realm, it will be interesting to see how much Incredible Hulk #180 heats up compared to Incredible Hulk #181. Usually, it also has to tie in with a comic that they're tied to historically. I bought my copy for $35 bucks back in the day, and it graded a CGC 7.0 without a press and clean. Ever since Supermans first appearance in 1938, comic books have captured the hearts and minds of children and adults with stories of heroes and the evildoers they vanquish. This issue of "The Brave and the Bold" features the first appearance of the Justice League of America, who band together to fight the Lovecraftian-esque monster, Starro the Conqueror. An ever-growing allegory for Civil Rights started with Charles Xavier standing for Martin Luther King looking for peaceful coexistence pitted against Magneto and his more militant any means necessary approach. One character that has not made their cinematic debut in anyANY Marvel movie is Namor, the Sub-Mariner. The death of Superman, the breaking of Batman, and the rise of Image Comics were all pretty important and exciting events in comics history, but despite being awesome, your '90s funnybooks are pretty much worthless today. The comic also boasts the 1st Wolverine cover, and the 1st classic Hulk vs. Wolverine battle in comics. Start Over. That's worthwhile to know as a comic book investor. While many fudged printings were scrapped, leaving only a few odd copies released into the world, over 500 copies of a Lethal Protector #1 cover printed in all black found their way into the wild, making it a rare, but not-altogether-unlikely thing might've found at your comic shop in 1993. A few months later in issue #12, the first epic clash between Marvels two top titans, the Thing, and the Hulk took place, which to this day is one of the House Of Ideas great rivalries. Despite readers suffering from mutant fatigue, Marvel powered on through multiple books tangential to the X-Men. In this case, the regions tested were. If you stuck around long enough to pick up this later release, ungraded copies sell for an average of $125 today. It was a near-mint 9.2-graded copy and is said to be one of the highest-graded versions known to exist. It's a Skrull double feature for this entry! A 9.0 grading may have also been the 80-year-old comics selling point when it sold in 2011 at auction. "Fantastic Comics" No. For anyone who either has the issue or the money (166K!) Detective Comics #27 - About $2.1 Million. This comic has quite a bit of important firsts, including Thanos and Drax the Destroyer. The cover was done by Bill Everett and Alex Schomburg. Actually, this information might wow some comic investors and those into comic speculation more than actual comic collectors. Third full appearance of Wolverine, and his first in an X-Men title. Recently a Tomb of Dracula #10 CGC 9.8 sold for $48,000 in September of 2021. Just saying. Again, Spider-Man in the comic books is akin to Mickey Mouse and Disney. That iconic cover with Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man & The Wasp squaring up with Loki has seen sales of almost $200,000 before, still bringing in tens of thousands of dollars with every purchase. Yes, its arguably the first appearance of Ant-Man, a character that has become pretty dang popular ever since the "Ant-Man" movie grossed over $500 million at the box office in 2015. Action Comics #10 is the sixteenth most expensive comic book in the world! Captain America Comics 128 Page Issue (1942) $200,000 This issue was sold as a 25-cent special in January 1942 but only in Canada. For that, his first adventure has been known to sell for as much as 110K. Pretty crazy, but this is a 1982 comic and has the fan-favorite story-arc. A 6.0 rated Rocket copy sold for $3.18 million in January 2022, having never been sold before, so it looks like prices are continuing to rise for this special book. Marvel's Nyx series was not standard superhero fare, mostly because it didn't really involve any known superheroes. Sep. 12, 2021 saw a $8,400.00 sale of a CGC 9.6 via Heritage Auctions. X-Men #141 does also have the first appearances of Mystique's Brotherhood of Mutants, and the baddies that make their actual debut from that group are Pyro, Avalanche and Destiny. Free shipping for many products! For a freaking dime, readers were able to get 64 pages of jam-packed action with the first Avenger and the eventual Winter Soldier. Pretty crazy. If you can afford the splurge, either of these issues carries a fairly lofty price tag of 90K at their highest grade and record sale. The comic book has skyrocketed in value, possibly because of Wonder Woman's resurgence in film and popular culture. Okay, over-all the Bronze Age Comics listed below aren't on the high-end scale like those above. The large amount of copes that have been graded may be one of the reasons why. Well, if you're gonna have a great hero representing mutant kind, you gotta have the hero's arch nemesis or most popular villain. "More Fun Comics" No. Superman made his first appearance in the first "Action Comics" issue, but he didn't again appear on the series' cover for another six months, until the seventh issue of "Action Comics" hit newsstands. The interior art, done by Kane and Fred Guardineer, features a splash page with Batman holding a smoking pistol something that looks weird to us today, but was totally in line with the character back in the 1940s. We're talking about a guy who knew little to nothing about Chinese culture and felt apt to write about it in a way that absolutely portrayed it as morally and culturally inferior. And instead of putting together a suit in the caves of Afghanistan as he does in the 2008 "Iron Man" movie, this Tony Stark built his crude metal armor in a Vietnam POW camp. Batgirl made her debut in this January 1967 issue of "Detective Comics" (although it actually hit stores in late 1966). Most Wolvie fans have always liked the match up between Wolverine and Sabretooth. The Avengers Comic Book Values. From early issues of Superman to rare variants of modern classics, these comics represent some of . Again with the mutants. The very first "Archie Comics" appeared 77 years ago for 10 cents, and sold in 2012 for $167,300. The location might have changed from Vietnam to the Middle East, but the origins story of Tony Stark hasn't changed much over the years. $22,200 was the price the most recent CGC 9.8 Amazing Spider-Man #101 copy sold for in September of 2021. The press materials also tout that the book was penned by William Moulton Marston, a psychologist who would later invent the prototype to the modern-day lie detector. The creator of all that is Marvel got his grand start within the pages of Captain America #3, writing that story, Captain America Foils The Traitors Revenge, it was also the first time Lee and Jack Kirbys names were both in the same comic. Definitely not surprised to see the 1st appearance and origin of Luke Cage on here, and when the MCU brings the character into the fold, I'm sure this Bronze Age key comic may move up in the rankings. In 1937, DC publisher Harry Donenfeld was worried that a competing publishing house would steal the "Action Comics" title, so he mocked up this comic book and sent it to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to secure the title. Most of these are compared from sales of CGC 9.8s. Enterprises for copyright infringement (and perhaps a bit of saltiness, since Captain Marvel went on to outsell Superman), and Captain Marvel ceased to exist by 1953. Copies with as low as a 0.5 grading can fetch over $2,000 on eBay, and one recent sale on the auction site was a 7.0, which sold for $19,000 in May 2019. Which brings us to this list and why it is all mostly those three upper echelon comic books. The only other sale I could find for this comic was back in 2013, and it sold at Heritage Auctions for $13,145! Also, what X-Men fan doesn't know Colossus and Nightcrawler? Marvel Comics #1 is debatably the most beloved comic in history, as it marks the first-ever Timely Comics/Marvel Comics issue . If you collected comics in the early '90s, we're very sorry. As of 1/17/2022 this comic lost it's space to Star Wars #1 35 Cent Variant. The most recent sale I could find was on eBay and for $8,979.99 on the date of Jul 28, 2021. Chris Claremont begins here and that should be enough to make this sought-out by fans. If there are more recent sales for any of the particular comics at 9.8, please comment and let me know. Between the pages of Incredible Hulk #377, Bruce Banner and various Hulks wage war against one another within the landscape of Banner's troubled mind. Damn, I'm surprised there hasn't been any recent sales of 9.8s. It features the third cover appearance of Superman, and a story involving an abusive prison warden that Superman has to bring to justice. Maybe it will continue in 2022, and maybe it won't. It's fitting that both the first issue of the Mightiest Heroes and the first issue of the Mightiest Avenger both go for the same price 275 dollars. Even with a flooded market of over 800 thousand copies, obviously, a lot of those have been lost to the sands of time. Shang-Chi is actually half-Chinese and his mother white. A 4.0-graded copy sold for $30,000 on eBay in March 2019. This issue of "All-American Comics" from 1940 features the first appearance of Alan Scott as the Green Lantern. A 9.4-graded comic sold for $243,000 in 2017. Also curious is the record-setting price for the sale in 2017, since a 2011 Superman No. Amazing Fantasy 15 graded CGC 9.6 holds the record for the 2nd highest-selling comic book of all time (recently beaten by Superman 1 CGC 8.0 at 5.3 million dollars). Luke Skywalker nearly loses a book full of the Jedi's . 53 features the second appearance of the Spectre, continuing his origin story for the Golden Age superhero. The Bronze Age of Comics was a great and creative time in comics and produced many iconic characters, stories, and works of art. (Image courtesy J.T.P. You know, many of the characters that debuted in this comic will eventually be introduced in the MCU X-Men franchise! If you happened to get the later second printing, with the Anti-Venom reveal on the cover, it's worth a lot morea well-preserved copy will score you around $125 bucks. I am surprised and thought that the 1st appearance of Wolverine would've taken the number #1 spot. Just kidding. 11/06/2022: $90,000 Heritage Auctions sale.