Daredevil #1 Value: The Yellow-Suit First

Matt Murdock’s first costume was yellow. Not the red everyone pictures, which arrived at issue 7, but a yellow and dark-red suit that lasted six issues and looks wrong to anyone who only knows the character from screen. Daredevil #1 value starts there.

That is the book people call me about, and it is the one worth money.

Rule out the reprints before anything else

This issue has been reprinted more times than almost any Silver Age Marvel. A Marvel Milestone Edition came out in 1993, a Facsimile Edition in 2019, and the story has appeared in Marvel Collectors’ Item Classics, Son of Origins and a shelf of trade collections since.

The original says 12 cents on the cover and carries an April 1964 date in the indicia, the small print block inside the front. Every reprint names itself in that same block, and the modern ones carry a bar code the 1964 printing cannot have.

There is also a genuine UK edition, printed with a 9d price in place of the 12 cents. Those are real 1964 Marvels, not reprints, and they trade as a separate and thinner market.

The four sales that hold the ceiling up

Three of those grades have been reported more than once, which is what makes this book readable.

Start with the 9.6 line, because it is the most useful row on the page. Three houses, four years, and the results land at $96,000, $111,000 and $115,000. On a book at that level, a spread of under twenty percent across three separate rooms is about as settled as the top of a Silver Age market gets.

Then look at the 9.8 above it. One copy, $360,000, more than three times the best 9.6 ever managed. Two tenths of a grade. That is not a valuation of a near-mint copy, it is the price of the only one anybody could buy that day.

The drop underneath is the part owners get wrong. A 9.2 brought $26,001; a 9.6 brought $96,000. Four tenths of a grade and roughly a quarter of the money. Nothing in the ladder prepares you for that until you see the two numbers next to each other.

The 9.0 pair is worth reading as a warning in the other direction. $20,807 in March 2025, then $15,603 in January 2026, same grade, ten months apart, down about a quarter. That is what a real market does, and it is why I date every row rather than printing one number.

As with everything on this site, those figures come through CGC’s reporting of other companies’ auctions and Heritage’s own published results. GoCollect and PriceCharting track Daredevil #1 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.

Daredevil #1 value, lane by lane

317 sales tracked back to 2003; here are the three freshest in every grade.

Every row above is a documented sale, verifiable in Heritage’s public Daredevil issue index and in CGC’s published auction reporting. 317 have been tracked altogether. Only the three newest per grade appear above, since older results describe a market that has moved.

CGC 9.0 is the deepest column here, 34 sales: $3,105 in 2003, $9,560 in 2018, $30,000 in 2022, $18,650 in 2026. $3,105 to $18,650, with the 2022 peak at $36,000.

What a mid-grade copy actually does

Almost nobody who calls me about this book owns a 9.6. Ninety-nine readable copies have changed hands in the past eighteen months, and that is the market most owners are in.

The CGC 6.5 lane is the best documented of them. Two copies sold at Heritage on the same day in July 2026, at $4,392 and $4,636 — same grade, same room, five percent apart. On eBay the same grade brought $4,975 in July and $5,800 in both June and July. So a 6.5 is a four-to-six thousand dollar comic depending on the day and the venue, and that spread is the honest answer rather than a single figure.

Below that it falls away quickly. A 4.5 brought $2,400 in August 2026 and a 3.5 brought $2,200 in June. Three grade points down from the 6.5 band and you are at roughly half the money, which is a gentler slope than the top of this book has but still steep enough that the grading opinion is worth getting right before you sell.

Selling a Daredevil #1

1. Check the price box first. Twelve cents, April 1964, no bar code. Anything else is a reprint or the UK printing.
2. Do not confuse the costume. Yellow means the early run and this is issue 1; a red suit means issue 7 or later, which is a different book entirely.
3. Keep the early run together. Wally Wood took over the art at issue 5 and redesigned the costume at 7, so those issues carry their own value.
4. Leave repairs alone. Anything that reads as restoration moves the book into the market this page’s table does not describe.

Send photographs and I will tell you which lane your copy belongs in, using the same recent sales you can read above. What you do next is your call, and the options for selling in Southern California are worth reading either way.

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