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Marvel ⋅ 1950

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

3.5 sold for $1,275 [$1,009 in 2022] +26%

Pines ⋅ 1946

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Key Facts

Golden-Age Damsel in Distress cover featuring bondage, torture and branding

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.5 sold for $1,140 [$900 in 2024] +27%

Mark Jewelers ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 1983

Low
$30
Mid
$90
High
$550

Key Facts

1st appearance of Hobgoblin

4-page interior Mark Jewelers advertisement, printed on paper stock and bound into the centerfold

Distributed to stores near military bases or on-site

Approximately only 5% of the print run included these advertisements

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

MARK JEWELERS INSERT 7.0 sold for $555 [$429 in 2022] +29%

For value context, earlier this month a standard Newsstand 7.0 sold for $219 and in March a Direct sold for $191

Variant ⋅ SF Comic Book Co. ⋅ 1970

Low
$150
Mid
$500
High
$1.5k

Key Facts

Tabloid-sized version of Ebon #1 that measures 11 in. x 17 in.

Ebon #1 is the first title with a black superhero headlining the series

Distributed with untrimmed edges

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

5.5 sold for $2,300 [$1,775 in 2023] +30%

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.4 sold for $630 [$456 in 2023] +38%

DC ⋅ 1960

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

8.5 sold for $695 [$500 in 2021] +39%

Low
$80
Mid
$240
High
$900

Key Facts

1st appearance of Miss Masque

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

2.5 sold for $699 [$500 in 2021] +40%

Low
$8
Mid
$20
High
$70

Key Facts

Bondage cover

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.6 sold for $365 [$255 in 2013] +43%

1:25 ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2017

Low
$15
Mid
$60
High
$180

Key Facts

Variant cover art by Bruce Timm

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.8 sold for $1,100 [$750 in 2024] +47%

Low
$40
Mid
$125
High
$700

Key Facts

1st appearance of Goom

Market News

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5.0 sold for $450 [$300 in 2023] +50%

Low
$1
Mid
$3
High
$12

Key Facts

First illustrated work on Red Sonja by erotic fantasy artist Frank Thorne

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9.8 sold for $505 [$330 in Nov] +53%

DC ⋅ 1952

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.5 sold for $3,900 [$2,400 in Sep] +63%

Low
$465
Mid
$1.4k
High
$6k

Key Facts

2nd appearance of Ma Hunkel as Red Tornado, named

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

3.0 sold for $1,100 [$640 in 2020] +72%

Mystic #1

Non-Key

Atlas ⋅ 1950

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

2.5 sold for $450 [$250 in Nov] +80%

Superman #57

Non-Key

DC ⋅ 1948

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Key Facts

Cover appearance of Lois Lane as Superwoman

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.0 sold for $2,125 [$1,150 in 2023] +85%

Low
$110
Mid
$375
High
$1.1k

Key Facts

1st appearance of Paul Kirk as the costumed crime-fighter, Manhunter

Kirk previously appeared as a plain-clothes investigator in Adventure Comics #58 in a story titled, Paul Kirk Manhunter

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.5 sold for $780 [$418 in 2012] +87%

Leader ⋅ 1947

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

4.0 sold for $699 [$360 in 2023] +94%

1:50 ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2014

Low
$8
Mid
$20
High
$80

Key Facts

Variant cover art by Salvador Larroca

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.8 sold for $450 [$225 in 2018] +100%

Archie ⋅ 1943

Low
$300
Mid
$1k
High
$3k

Key Facts

1st appearance of Ginger Snap, a high school teen published by the same company as Archie Comics

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

4.0 sold for $846 [$400 in 2018] +112%

DC ⋅ 1939

Low
$4.7k
Mid
$12.8k
High
$39k

Key Facts

Cover art by Joe Shuster

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

4.0 sold for $13,750 [$6,233 in 2016] +121%

Marvel ⋅ 1957

Low
$410
Mid
$1.2k
High
$4.1k

Key Facts

Two-issue series featuring female Atlas comics characters Millie, Chili, Sherry and Pearl as showgirls

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

3.0 sold for $350 [$156 in 2019] +124%

The CGC Census reports four copies in 3.0, and 24 higher

Leader ⋅ 1946

Low
$75
Mid
$190
High
$750

Key Facts

Premiere issue of a four-part series about a singer on a USO tour who attempts to piece together the mystery of her life after the boat she was on was torpedoed and she was presumed dead for two years

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

8.0 sold for $720 [$305 in 2012] +136%

Low
$35
Mid
$100
High
$350

Key Facts

Premiere issue of the first Sabrina solo series

Market News

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9.0 sold for $528 [$176 in 2015] +200%

The CGC Census reports three copies in 9.0, and just eighteen higher

Low
$1.2k
Mid
$4k
High
$12k

Key Facts

Cover art by Alex Schomburg

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

5.5 sold for $6,000 [$1,924 in 2015] +212%

Last Gasp ⋅ 1970

Low
$8
Mid
$20
High
$85

Key Facts

First comic book published by Last Gasp

Created with the intention to donate the proceeds to an ecology center and published on Earth Day but was rejected by the monetary recipient

Collection of humorous, mature-themed stories criticizing enemies of the environment

First printing: 20,000 copies with red border on cover

Later printings have a white border on the cover

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.4 sold for $384 [$120 in 2017] +220%

Comic Media ⋅ 1953

Low
$250
Mid
$850
High
$2.8k

Key Facts

Decapitation cover, published prior to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

3.5 sold for $550 [$130 in 2013] +323%

Low
$345
Mid
$1k
High
$4.2k

Key Facts

Preview of Dr. Mid-nite in an advertisement

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

5.5 sold for $3,750 [$863 in 2021] +335%

Fawcett ⋅ 1942

Low
$90
Mid
$270
High
$1k

Key Facts

1st appearance of Balbo the Boy Magician

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

2.0 sold for $375 [$80 in 2015] +369%

Low
$1k
Mid
$3k
High
$10k

Key Facts

1st appearance of the Vision, Aarkus of Smokeworld

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

1.0 sold for $3,360 [$414 in 2003] +712%

Variant ⋅ Image ⋅ 2002

Low
$15
Mid
$50
High
$150

Key Facts

1st cameo and cover appearance of Invincible

Cover art inspired by 'The Uncanny X-Men' #141

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.4 sold for $255 [$180 in Mar] +42%

Fiction House ⋅ 1948

Low
$120
Mid
$400
High
$1.2k

Key Facts

Referenced in Seduction of the Innocent, led to establishing the Comics Code Authority

Reason: an alien threatens to burn a woman's eyes out with an electric prong

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.0 sold for $2,400 [No Previous Data]

Low
$200
Mid
$800
High
$2k

Key Facts

Green Lantern, Alan Scott, first uses the phrase: in brightest day, in darkest night - no evil shall escape my sight - let those who worship evil's might - beware my power, Green Lantern's light

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

5.0 sold for $1,500 [$360 in 2018] +317%

Low
$70
Mid
$205
High
$770

Key Facts

Cover art by Alex Schomburg

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

3.0 sold for $395 [No Previous Data]

Archie ⋅ 1941

Low
$750
Mid
$1.9k
High
$7.5k

Key Facts

1st appearance of Dusty, sidekick of the Shield

Market News

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3.5 sold for $1,140 [No Previous Data]

Low
$1.2k
Mid
$4k
High
$12k

Key Facts

World War II cover art by Al Alvison

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3.0 sold for $3,120 [No Previous Data]

Batman #30

Non-Key

DC ⋅ 1945

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

8.5 sold for $3,576 [$1,793 in 2006] +99%

Pines ⋅ 1944

Low
$200
Mid
$615
High
$2.2k

Key Facts

1st appearance of the Grim Reaper

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

1.8 sold for $996 [$272 in 2016] +266%

EC ⋅ 1954

Low
$50
Mid
$150
High
$500

Key Facts

Iconic cover art by Basil Wolverton featuring 'Lena the Hyena'

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

GAINES FILE COPY / 8.5 sold for $1,560 [No Previous Data]

Low
$430
Mid
$1.2k
High
$4.5k

Key Facts

1st appearance of Dr. Psycho

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6.0 sold for $2,280 [$1,825 in 2021] +25%

Quality ⋅ 1940

Low
$515
Mid
$1.4k
High
$4.8k

Key Facts

1st appearance and origin of The Ray

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

3.0 sold for $384 [No Previous Data]

United ⋅ 1954

Low
$1.8k
Mid
$6k
High
$18k

Key Facts

First solo issue featuring The Peanuts, one issue only

First cover appearance of the Peanuts in standard comic books

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

4.5 sold for $4,920 [$4,800 in 2023] +3%

Low
$215
Mid
$645
High
$2.4k

Key Facts

Jimmy Martin becomes Hourman's Sidekick

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

4.0 sold for $1,440 [$710 in 2022] +103%

DC ⋅ 1970

Low
$45
Mid
$160
High
$575

Key Facts

Cover art featuring the Beatles, unnamed

Story inspired by the Sgt. Peppers album artwork that was rumored to symbolize a Beatle had died

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

2.5 sold for $113 [$40 in May] +183%

Last week a 1.8 sold for $95, with no previous sale in that grade

Low
$250
Mid
$750
High
$2.7k

Key Facts

First horror title published by DC

🔮 DC Possibilities: with horror being an extremely profitable genre, it would make sense for DC Studios to develop an anthology series with a great title like House of Mystery and a massive catalog of stories that spanned 321 issues over 30 years

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

5.0 sold for $1,140 [$1,020 in 2023] +12%

Low
$110
Mid
$330
High
$1.1k

Key Facts

3rd appearance of Green Goblin

Norman Osborn is seen briefly without the Green Goblin costume but it is not revealed that he is the costumed villain until The Amazing Spider-Man #39

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.2 sold for $2,850 [$2,400 in 2023] +19%

Low
$1k
Mid
$3k
High
$10k

Key Facts

First EC horror comic which, along with Vault of Horror #12, changed the course of the publisher and set into motion future censorship

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4.5 sold for $3,120 [$2,600 in 2023] +20%

Low
$30
Mid
$90
High
$300

Key Facts

Cover art by Frank Robbins

Market News

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9.8 sold for $7,500 [No Previous Data]

Marvel ⋅ 2016

Low
$6
Mid
$15
High
$65

Key Facts

1st appearance of Muse, a serial killer whose victims are used as his art

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.6 sold for $342 [$188 in Mar] +82%

9.6 sold for $200 [$188 in Mar] +6%

Image ⋅ 2009

Low
$5
Mid
$15
High
$55

Key Facts

Conclusion of the Conquest story arc

Copies ordered by retailers: 15,525

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.8 sold for $445 [$330 in Mar] +35%

9.8 sold for $350 [$330 in Mar] +6%

9.4 sold for $100 [$31 in 2022] +223%

Last week another 9.8 sold for $330, an 89% increase over the previous high of $175 set in September

Image ⋅ 2009

Low
$5
Mid
$18
High
$65

Key Facts

Copies ordered by retailers: 15,220

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.8 sold for $455 [$250 in 2022] +82%

9.6 sold for $180 [$155 in 2021] +16%

9.6 sold for $175 [$155 in 2021] +13%

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