Darkseid appears on one panel of Jimmy Olsen #134 and is not named. That single panel is why a CGC 9.8 reached $14,400, while a raw copy of the same comic sold for sixty dollars last month. I do not know another Bronze key with a gap like it.
A direct-market CGC 9.8 of Secret Wars #8 has been bringing about seven hundred dollars this summer. The newsstand copy of the same issue, in the same grade, has been bringing two and a half thousand. The bar code is the whole difference.
The most expensive comic sale ever documented is a Superman #1 at $9,120,000. The book most families actually find is Superman #14, which trades four times a year at four-figure prices. 287 documented sales separate the headline from the price of your copy.
Sixty of the 136 documented sales in this family belong to one book, and nearly one in five documented sales of that book is a repaired copy. Selling wartime Captain America comics starts with knowing which of those two facts applies to yours.
The first Bullseye has produced two CGC 9.8 sales in 2026 against a peak of $8,500 in June 2023. Below the top grade the record is dense and current: the 9.6 lane alone has eleven sales this year, and the grades under it several times that.
Frank Miller introduces Elektra here, and the issue exists in three versions sold through three different channels. At CGC 9.8 the newsstand copy has been bringing more than the shop copy, and a British price variant exists that almost nobody looks for.
A CGC 9.8 of the first Moon Knight sold for $65,000 in March 2022, weeks before the television series arrived. The same grade brought $21,600 in April 2025. The show came and went, and 343 documented sales record exactly what it did to the price.
Amazing Spider-Man #238 shipped with a sheet of temporary tattoos tucked inside, and most copies lost them within a week. A missing sheet can still put your copy on a green Qualified label, and the cover price matters even more than that. 287 documented sales sit behind the rest.
Wolverine appears in Incredible Hulk #180 for exactly one panel, on the final page, as a teaser for the next issue. That single panel is why the comic exists as a collectible, and why it sells for a fraction of #181 while still clearing four figures in high grade.
DC published the Doom Patrol seven weeks before Marvel published the X-Men, with a strikingly similar idea. Twenty-three years of sales show a comic that doubled on the back of a television series and then gave most of it back when the show ended.
