Two CGC 8.0 copies of this comic sold two years apart at different auction houses, for $21,800 and $21,960. On a list where the same grade routinely swings by half, that is the closest thing to a fixed price I can show you.
Six documented sales of the first Thor run from $432,000 down to $42,000, and almost all of that drop happens inside two grade points. Knowing exactly where the cliff is matters more on this comic than on almost anything else I list.
A Golden Age key comes up for public sale about once a year, so nobody has a thick set of comps to price yours against. Here is what 457 documented sales between 2002 and 2026 actually show, including the roughest copies.
The most liquid Golden Age Batman book trades about five times a year at auction. The most famous one, less than once. Between those two speeds sits everything that matters about selling a Batman collection, and 514 documented sales map it.
Fourteen months before Captain America punched Hitler, a small publisher put a hero in a stars-and-stripes costume on a newsstand. Almost nobody remembers him, and Heritage has sold his debut twenty-two times since 2004.
Timely launched this title in 1940, sold badly, and canceled it after a single issue. It carries Jack Kirby’s first signed cover, and a CGC 8.0 of it sold for $44,593 in March 2026, nearly three times what a worn copy reportedly brought four months earlier.
The first Golden Age Daredevil, in a book with fifty-four copies on the census. Twelve public sales are documented, and they split cleanly in two: everything before 2015 is four figures, everything since 2023 is five or six.
Nothing happens in this comic that a collector needs. It is on the list of the hundred most valuable Golden Age books entirely because of Fred Ray’s eagle-and-shield cover, and a CGC 9.0 sold for $43,000.
Harvey Dent was called Harvey Kent when he first appeared, which is the kind of detail that decides whether a listing looks informed. A CGC 9.0 sold for $53,538 in September 2025, and the reported floor for a rough copy is a small fraction of it.
A CGC 8.0 of this book sold for $16,500, which is a fraction of what the other Timely number ones bring. That gap is the point, and it makes this the one wartime Timely first issue an ordinary collector can actually own.
