A CGC 9.4 of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #1 brought $78,000 at Heritage in July 2025, and a CGC 2.0 of the same comic brought $450 six months later. The first Nick Fury sits in a war title most collectors never opened.
A CGC 2.5 of Superman #123 sold for $270 and a CGC 6.0 sold for $310 in the same year. The 1958 Supergirl try-out is bought to complete a story rather than to own a beautiful object, and the ladder is almost flat because of it.
The cover says Captain Atom, but the money is in a Steve Ditko backup at the rear of the issue where Ted Kord’s Blue Beetle debuts. A CGC 9.8 has brought $7,200 while the 9.0 lane has held between $600 and $750 for four straight years.
A CGC 9.4 of Creepy #1 sold for $793 in July 2026. A CGC 9.6 sold for $2,520. Two tenths of a grade are worth more than three times the money here, and almost everything below that step is a two-figure comic.
Almost every book in this program peaked in 2021 and has been giving it back since. Magnus #1 has done the opposite in every grade with more than one recent sale, and the most recent results are the highest.
An Archie comic from 1969 has sold for $3,660 in CGC 9.2. Nothing else in that publisher’s enormous Silver Age output comes close to it, and the reason is entirely on the cover rather than anywhere inside the book.
A CGC 9.0 of Marvel Super-Heroes #13 has brought $1,260. A CGC 8.5 has been selling for around $350. One half-grade step divides this comic into a four-figure book and a three-figure one, and most surviving copies fall on the cheap side of it.
A CGC 8.5 of Hawkman #1 has sold for $239 and for $1,700. Same grade, same comic, seven times apart. After seventy-odd of these guides this is the least predictable ladder I have documented, and the reason matters.
A CGC 9.2 of Superboy #68 sold for $31,200 in November 2019. Nothing above CGC 8.0 has come to public sale since. Seven years of silence at the top of a ladder is its own kind of information.
A CGC 9.0 of Green Lantern #40 sold for $1,170 in January 2026. A CGC 9.2 sold for $735 three months later. The lower grade has been outselling the higher one, and with twenty sales behind it that is not an accident.
