The Insider Guide to Comic Book Values, Buying and Selling for Collectors and Investors
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A copy of Amazing Spider-man #1, CGC 9.2 condition sold at the Heritage Auctions February 2012 auction for $59,750. Also sold at this auction was the first appearance of Spider-man in Amazing Fantasy #15.
This copy of Amazing Spider-man #1 had off-white to white pages.
Amazing Spider-man CGC 9.2 Recently Sold
DC conducted a “restart” of many titles last summer and values on a few issues really made a jump. Let’s take a look at how they are doing over the last few months.
Detective Comics #1 (2nd series) Cover $2.99, October reported value $7.50
Batgirl #1 (4th series) Cover $2.99, October reported sales $7.00
Justice League #1/B (2nd series) – cover $4.99, October sales $11
Fast forward to today and you can look below to see how these sale prices are holding up. I’ve put an E-bay widget to show all of the live auctions and buy it now sales for these comics.
If you are looking to save some money on CGC submissions you owe it to yourself to look at using their pre-screening service.
CGC requires a minimum submission of 50 comics to use the service. You can set any grade level you would like up to 9.8, and they will fully grade the comics that make the grade, and charge a small fee for those that don’t. If you are submitting modern comics the total fee will be about $375 including return shipping if half your books pass.
This service works especially well with modern comics. Overall you save a little money on the grading fee and ensure you get high enough grades on your comics (think 9.8) to make slabbing worth the investment.
