Daredevil wore yellow for six issues before the red suit everyone pictures, and the 1964 first appearance is the book people actually call me about. Here is every documented sale I can attribute, with the reprint traps that catch owners first.
Pep Comics #1 has crossed a public auction block about once a year since 2004. If you are holding one, that thin market is the single most important fact about selling it, and it cuts in your favor more than you would think.
More copies of this comic have been reprinted, facsimiled and outright faked than of any other book I deal with. Before any number on this page means anything, you have to know which one you are holding, and the check takes one photograph.
Five CGC 9.0 copies of this comic have sold at public auction since 2022, which is the closest thing to a controlled experiment this hobby produces. What they show is not the decline people assume, it is one very strange summer, and four quiet years after it.
The figure everybody quotes for this comic is $1.38 million. It belongs to a pedigree copy at a grade almost no surviving example reaches, and quoting it at an ordinary copy is the single most misleading thing you can do with this book.
Historians pick this 1956 comic as the moment the Silver Age begins, which is a strange thing to say about a try-out anthology nobody expected to matter. Its sales record is stranger still: a CGC 9.0 brought less than an 8.0 had fifteen months earlier.
There are two comics called X-Men #1 and the gap between them is enormous. One is a 1963 first appearance worth six figures in decent shape. The other sold eight million copies in 1991 and is worth about what a sandwich costs.
The first Iron Man was the top of the CGC census when it sold for $840,000, and every other documented sale of this comic is in a different world. That second world is the one you are almost certainly in.
Most pages about this comic quote a number near a million dollars. One June 2025 auction sold a 7.5, a 5.5 and a 5.0 of it on the same night, which is a far more useful thing to know if what you have came out of a garage rather than a vault.
The first Justice League set a record at $750,000, and almost nobody noticed that it was a private sale rather than an auction. That distinction matters more than it sounds, and it is most of what makes this book hard to price.
