Fantastic Four #4 brings the Sub-Mariner back after twenty years away, and it is routinely sold as his first appearance, which belongs to a 1939 comic worth vastly more. Getting that right is the first thing this page does.
Fantastic Four #52 is the first Black Panther, a character two films have made famous, and a readable copy of it still sells for well under a thousand dollars. Sixty-two recent sales explain how both things can be true.
Richie Rich #1 is the scarcest book in this batch by a wide margin, with eighty-one documented sales since 2003 and almost nothing recent below 9.0. That scarcity is the whole story, and it cuts both ways for an owner.
Fantastic Four #48 is the first Silver Surfer, and its top grade has sold eleven times in two years at prices nearly three times apart. That is not a market you can quote an average for, and this page shows why.
Detective Comics #359 is the first Barbara Gordon Batgirl, one of the best-known first appearances of the era, and a readable copy still sells for under a thousand dollars. A hundred and ten recent sales explain why the two facts sit together.
Amazing Spider-Man #9 has one enormous auction record and a readable-grade market in the low four figures, and the distance between them is the largest on any Spider-Man page I have written. Ninety-seven recent sales say where your copy actually sits.
Fantastic Four #2 is the first Skrulls, and in 226 documented sales since 2002 only eleven copies above CGC 9.0 have ever come to auction. A record that thin at the top makes the recent mid-grade sales the useful part.
Batman #181 is the first Poison Ivy, and a great many surviving copies are missing the pin-up poster that was bound into the middle. Whether yours has it is the first question, and it changes the answer to every question after it.
Showcase #22 is the first Silver Age Green Lantern, and in 187 documented sales going back to 2002 not one copy above CGC 9.0 has ever come to auction. That fact tells you more about this comic than any single price does.
Amazing Spider-Man #50 is the first Kingpin, and its CGC 9.0 lane sold six times on eBay in 2026 at prices ranging from $2,247 to $6,858. One grade, one year, one venue, and nearly three times the money.
