Search by Title
Filter by Timeframe
Compact View
Hide Key facts, Own, Want and Buy options.
100 Modern Must Haves
100 Must-Have Modern Comics
Selected mostly from the Copper & Modern Eras, this is a checklist of MUST-HAVE comics for you to target that will serve as the foundation of a LEGENDARY collection
Please use the eBay links provided to help contribute to the continued development of Key Collector Comics
Low $30
|
Mid $95
|
High $200
- 1st full appearance of the Taskmaster
- *confirmed to be in the Black Widow
Low $10
|
Mid $30
|
High $100
Low $15
|
Mid $50
|
High $165
Low $10
|
Mid $30
|
High $140
Low $8
|
Mid $25
|
High $65
Low $25
|
Mid $55
|
High $110
Low $8
|
Mid $25
|
High $75
Low $7
|
Mid $20
|
High $85
- 1st appearance of the Hobgoblin, Roderick Kingsley
- *a complete issue includes the ''Tattooz' giveaway insert, found between the final page and the back cover
Low $18
|
Mid $45
|
High $90
- 1st appearance of Beta Ray Bill, a Korbinite alien worthy of picking up Mjolnir
Low $12
|
Mid $35
|
High $95
- 1st appearance of Spider-Man's black costume
- Cover swipe of Amazing Fantasy #15
Low $9
|
Mid $35
|
High $80
Low $18
|
Mid $40
|
High $110
- "Secret Wars" part 8
- Origin of black symbiote costume that becomes Venom
- 2nd appearance of Spider-Woman, Julia Carpenter
- 📈 +43% copies sold vs previous week
Low $10
|
Mid $40
|
High $100
Low $8
|
Mid $25
|
High $80
Low $4
|
Mid $10
|
High $40
Low $12
|
Mid $35
|
High $100
Low $4
|
Mid $15
|
High $35
- 1st full appearance of Apocalypse
- *an undervalued key that suffers from the poor depiction of Apocalypse from the 2016 X-Men film
Low $5
|
Mid $15
|
High $55
- Premiere issue of a 12-issue series that explores the dark side of superheroes from a realistic, flawed perspective
- 1st appearance of Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan, Ozymandias, Silk Spectre, The Comedian and Night Owl
- Alan Moore based his characters off of DC's newly acquired Charlton heroes: The Question, Captain Atom, Thunderbolt, Nightshade, The Peacemaker and Blue Beetle
- *premiering Fall 2019 on HBO
Low $4
|
Mid $10
|
High $40
Low $5
|
Mid $15
|
High $55
Low $5
|
Mid $15
|
High $55
- 1st appearance of Eddie Brock (becomes Venom)
- 1st Todd McFarlane cover art on the Amazing Spider-Man title
- 1st team appearance of the Life Foundation led by Carlton Drake
- 1st appearance of Carlton Drake who discovered there were 5 symbiote seeds that could be extracted from the Venom symbiote
Low $40
|
Mid $165
|
High $375
- 1st full appearance of Venom
- 📈 +46% copies sold vs prior week
Low $4
|
Mid $10
|
High $40
Low $2
|
Mid $8
|
High $30
Low $1
|
Mid $2
|
High $10
Low $15
|
Mid $50
|
High $165
Low $40
|
Mid $120
|
High $330
Low $3
|
Mid $9
|
High $25
Low $15
|
Mid $45
|
High $140
Low $9
|
Mid $25
|
High $85
- 1st full appearance of Carnage
Low $2
|
Mid $8
|
High $20
- 1st appearance of Spawn
- 1st appearance of Sam & Twitch
- 1st appearance of Malebolgia
- Pin-up of Pitt
Low $3
|
Mid $8
|
High $30
Low $3
|
Mid $9
|
High $30
- 1st full appearance and origin of Bloodshot
- *Vin Diesel cast as Bloodshot
- 1st appearance and origin of the 2nd Rai
- Critical issue that connected stories within the Valiant Universe
Low $2
|
Mid $8
|
High $25
- "Death of Superman" part 3
- 1st full appearance of Doomsday
Low $5
|
Mid $15
|
High $40
Low $1
|
Mid $2
|
High $10
Low $1
|
Mid $3
|
High $7
- Premiere issue that sees Venom in a new role as a superhero
Low $1
|
Mid $2
|
High $10
- 1st appearance of Angela
- 1st appearance of Cogliostro
- Angela was later brought into the Marvel Universe as Thor's half sister
Low $7
|
Mid $20
|
High $100
Low $5
|
Mid $15
|
High $50
Low $1
|
Mid $3
|
High $7
Low $8
|
Mid $18
|
High $65
Low $5
|
Mid $12
|
High $45
- 1st team appearance of The Thunderbolts: Citizen V (formerly Baron Zemo), Atlas (formerly Goliath), Mach-1 (formerly Beetle), Songbird (formerly Screaming Mimi), Meteorite (formerly Moonstone II) and Techno (formerly Fixer)
- *in-development, TV series likely
Low $4
|
Mid $10
|
High $40
Low $5
|
Mid $15
|
High $50
- 1st appearance of the Sentry
- 1st appearance of The Void, the dark aspect of The Sentry
- * The Void could have some relation to Knull
Low $3
|
Mid $9
|
High $30
Low $2
|
Mid $8
|
High $25
Low $5
|
Mid $15
|
High $60
Low $1
|
Mid $5
|
High $18
Low $20
|
Mid $65
|
High $180
Low $1
|
Mid $3
|
High $12
Low $5
|
Mid $15
|
High $55
- 1st team appearance of the Young Avengers
- 1st appearance of Patriot
- 1st appearance of Kate Bishop, later becomes Hawkeye
- 1st appearance of Iron Lad (Kang)
- 1st appearance of Hulking, son of Mar-Vell and Skrull Princess Anelle
- 1st appearance of the Asgardian, name later changed to Wiccan, son of Scarlet Witch
Low $4
|
Mid $12
|
High $45
Low $5
|
Mid $15
|
High $50
- 1st full appearance of The Winter Solider
Low $1
|
Mid $2
|
High $3
Low $1
|
Mid $5
|
High $15
Low $5
|
Mid $15
|
High $45
- Premiere issue of the first six-issue limited series 'Apocalypse Suite'
Low $1
|
Mid $5
|
High $15
- 1st cameo appearance of Atrocitus and the Red Lantern Corps
- 1st cameo appearance of Larfleeze and the Orange Lantern Corps
- 1st cameo appearance of the Blue Lantern Corps
- 1st cameo appearance of Munk and the Indigo Lantern Corps
- 1st cameo appearance of the Black Lantern Corps
- Death of Anti-Monitor
Low $1
|
Mid $3
|
High $12
- 1st cover appearance of the Red Hulk, General "Thunderbolt" Ross
- Death of Abomination
Low $3
|
Mid $8
|
High $30
Low $4
|
Mid $10
|
High $35
- 1st full appearance of Old Man Logan
Low $3
|
Mid $9
|
High $30
Low $3
|
Mid $9
|
High $30
- Ongoing series created by Terry Moore about a dead girl out for revenge
Low $3
|
Mid $9
|
High $30
- 1st appearance of Miss America AKA America Chavez, raised in the Utopian Parallel, a place that exists outside of time and in between dimensions
- *considering the confirmation of the multiverse, her appearance has a higher likelihood of happening
Low $5
|
Mid $18
|
High $60
- 1st appearance of Miles Morales, Ultimate Spider-Man
- Reed Richards becomes The Maker: a turning point where an evil Richards explains his new philosophy of the world to the Children of Tomorrow
- Polybagged
Low $9
|
Mid $20
|
High $85
- 1st appearance of Carol Danvers as Captain Marvel
- *Carol doesn't officially accept the codename until Captain Marvel #1 2012
Low $1
|
Mid $2
|
High $10
- 1st team appearance of the modern Marvel Family, now known as the Shazam Family, in costume
Low $3
|
Mid $10
|
High $30
Low $3
|
Mid $9
|
High $30
- 1st full appearance of Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel (interior story)
- *Kamala previously appeared in full on the second printing, cover variant of Captain Marvel #17 (2014)
Low $1
|
Mid $5
|
High $15
- 1st appearance and origin of Ghost Rider, Robbie Reyes
Low $1
|
Mid $3
|
High $12
Low $25
|
Mid $60
|
High $200
- 1st appearance of Spider-Gwen
- 1st cameo appearance of Spider-UK
Low $2
|
Mid $8
|
High $25
- 1st appearance of Silk, a Korean-American girl who was also bitten by the same radioactive spider as Peter Parker
Low $1
|
Mid $5
|
High $15
- According to Tom Brevoort, Senior Vice President of publishing at Marvel, this issue includes Stan Lee's final published story, 'Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge'
- Stan Lee's 1st published story for Marvel was a two-page text feature in Captain America Comics #3 (May 1941) of the same name
- Stan Lee adapted the two-page text story from 1941 into a traditional comic script 73 years later and Bruce Timm illustrated the panels
- Stan Lee's first published story was also his last
Low $2
|
Mid $8
|
High $20
- 1st appearance of Moon Girl, Lunella Lafayette
Low $4
|
Mid $12
|
High $45
- 1st cameo appearance of Riri Williams (becomes Ironheart)
- 1st appearance of Tomoe, an Inhuman who manipulates machinery through technopathy
- *an online article speculating Ironheart's imminent arrival in the MCU caused a burst of sales
Low $4
|
Mid $12
|
High $40
- 1st appearance of Weapon H, a Hulk and Wolverine hybrid created by the Weapon X Program
- "Weapons of Mutant Destruction" part 6
Low $9
|
Mid $25
|
High $80
- 1st appearance of Cosmic Ghost Rider, who was once the Punisher until he became a Herald of Galactus
- 1st appearance of King Thanos
Low $5
|
Mid $18
|
High $65
- 1st full appearance of The Batman Who Laughs (Dark Multiverse Batman/Joker hybrid)
- 1st appearance of the Dark Multiverse Damian Wayne
- *went on sale the same day as Dark Nights: Metal #2, also 1st full appearance of The Batman Who Laughs
Low $3
|
Mid $9
|
High $35
- Origin of Voyager
- Revelation that the Hulk is immortal
Low $3
|
Mid $9
|
High $35
- 1st full appearance of Knull, the symbiote god
- 📈 +55% copies sold this week vs last week