All Star Western #10 Value: A Key With a Quiet Record

Most Bronze Age keys I write up have three hundred documented sales and a fresh one every week. This one has a hundred and forty-six, and whole grades have not traded at all this year. All Star Western 10 value has to be read differently because of that, and pretending otherwise would cost a seller money.

Jonah Hex appears for the first time in March 1972, in a 52-page western anthology that DC was not selling well at the time.

A western in the middle of a superhero decade

By 1972 westerns were dying on the newsstand. DC kept All Star Western going as an anthology, and John Albano and Tony DeZuniga used it to introduce a disfigured bounty hunter who was closer to a horror character than a cowboy.

He worked. The title was renamed Weird Western Tales a few issues later and Hex carried it, then carried his own book for most of the seventies and came back repeatedly afterwards.

The consequence for supply is the thing to understand. A dying genre in 1972 meant a small print run and a smaller number of people who kept what they bought, so the survivors are genuinely few and they surface slowly.

To identify it: 25 cents, March 1972, Jonah Hex standing in a saloon doorway with 52 BIG pages banded across the top. The 52-page format matters, because a thin comic with this cover is a later reprint.

Why the top of this ladder is nearly empty

No sale of this comic appears in CGC’s auction reporting, so no price below carries a link. Every row is a Heritage Auctions result or a completed eBay listing.

Read the dates in that table before the prices. The 9.4 result is from December 2023, the 9.2 from August 2025, and the 9.0 lane has three sales in total across four years. Those are the newest figures that exist, not the newest figures I chose.

That is what a thin record looks like, and it has a practical consequence: nobody, me included, can tell you what a 9.4 of this book is worth today. What we can say is what one brought two and a half years ago.

The useful part of the ladder is lower down, where the sales are. The 7.5 lane has twelve sales and eight of them this year, running $361 to $550. The 8.5 lane has eleven, two of them this year at $603 and $700.

So a seller with a mid-grade copy is on firm ground and a seller with a high-grade copy is in a negotiation rather than a lookup. Both are worth knowing before anybody quotes you a number with confidence they have not earned.

Those figures are Heritage results and completed eBay sales. GoCollect and PriceCharting track All Star Western #10 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.

All Star Western #10 value in every grade

146 sales tracked back to 2022; here are the three freshest in every grade.

Heritage rows are verifiable in Heritage’s public All Star Western issue index; the rest are completed eBay listings. A hundred and forty-six sales in total, which is the shallowest record on any book I have written up in this era.

Where the real trading happens

The middle and lower grades are where this comic actually changes hands, and they are priced well enough to work from.

The 7.5 lane ran $361 to $550 across eight sales this year, which is the single most quotable number on the page.

Raw copies ran $73 to $500 this year across twenty-eight recorded sales, and that spread is doing a lot of work. A 52-page giant from 1972 can be complete and flat or it can be missing pages and rolled, and the two ends of that band are those two comics.

Count the pages before you price anything. A 52-page book that is short a few is worth a fraction of a complete one, and on an anthology the missing ones are easy not to notice.

What to do with a copy nobody has a comp for

If your copy is genuinely sharp, the honest position is that the record cannot price it and you should not accept an offer that pretends otherwise.

Two things follow from that. The first is to get it graded, because on a book that trades this rarely the buyers who matter will not bid seriously on a description. The second is to consign rather than sell privately, because a thin market needs competing bidders to find a number and a single buyer has no reason to supply one.

That advice runs against my own interest and I would rather say it than not. What I am useful for on this book is the copy that is not sharp, and most of them are not.

A last identification note. The 1972 issue is 52 pages and says so on the cover. Jonah Hex has been reprinted and reintroduced repeatedly since, including in comics that put an early Hex image on the front, and those are thin, modern and worth very little.

Selling an All Star Western #10

1. Twenty-five cents, March 1972, 52 pages. A thin copy with this cover is a reprint.
2. Count the pages. An anthology short a few pages is worth a fraction of a complete one.
3. Mid-grade is where the comps are. The 7.5 lane ran $361 to $550 this year.
4. A sharp copy belongs at auction. Too few sales exist for a private offer to be fair.

Photograph the cover, the spine and the page count if you can manage it. On this book completeness moves the number more than anything else.

Send photographs and I will place your copy in its grade lane against the same recent sales you can read above. Where you take it next is your call, and the options for selling in Southern California are worth knowing either way.

Related

• Are damaged comic books worth anything?. Relevant on a 52-page book that is often incomplete.
• Selling slabbed comics. The right route for a sharp copy of a thinly traded book.
• The 100 most valuable Bronze Age comics. Where this issue ranks against the era.

Cover images on this page are shown small, for identification, with the publisher credited in the caption. If you are a rights holder and want an image removed, contact me and it comes down.