Daredevil #131 Value: Two Sales at the Top This Year

Two CGC 9.8 copies of this comic sold in 2026, at $3,400 and $4,100, against a lane that reached $8,500 in June 2023. That is what the top of this book looks like now: half the old number, and almost no trading. Daredevil 131 value has to be read one rung further down, where eleven sales have happened this year.

Bullseye appears for the first time in March 1976, in a comic that was selling badly enough that Marvel nearly cancelled the title.

A villain who outlived the book he debuted in

Daredevil was a marginal title in 1976. It had been running at low sales for years and would be cancelled within a decade if things had not changed, which is the sort of context that keeps a print run small.

Bullseye is what changed. He became the character Daredevil is defined against, carried into the Frank Miller run five years later, and has stayed in the top rank of Marvel villains since.

That combination, a small print run and a character who got far more famous afterwards, is the standard recipe for a Bronze Age key. It is also why the surviving high grades are genuinely scarce rather than merely expensive.

To identify it: 25 cents, March 1976, Daredevil crouched over a fallen man with Bullseye behind him and Bullseye never misses on the cover.

Where the trading actually is

No sale of this comic appears in CGC’s auction reporting, so no price below carries a link. Every row is a Heritage Auctions result or a completed eBay listing.

The 9.8 lane has twenty-one sales in total and two of them this year. It peaked at $8,500 in June 2023 and the two 2026 results are $3,400 and $4,100, so the level has roughly halved and the evidence for it is two sales.

The 9.6 is the lane to price from. Eleven sales this year running $663 to $1,250, and the most recent of them at $1,224 sits near the top of that range.

Below that the record gets busier still: eighteen 9.4 sales this year at $373 to $795, twenty 9.2 sales at $285 to $650, and sixteen 9.0 sales at $274 to $550.

Those wide bands are the honest picture. A grade number on this book gives you a range rather than a price, and where inside the range a copy lands depends on eye appeal more than on the label.

Those figures are Heritage results and completed eBay sales. GoCollect and PriceCharting track Daredevil #131 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.

Daredevil #131 value, grade by grade

333 sales tracked back to 2018; here are the three freshest in every grade.

Heritage rows are verifiable in Heritage’s public Daredevil issue index; the rest are completed eBay listings. Three hundred and thirty-three sales going back to 2018, with the 9.2 and 9.0 lanes carrying thirty each.

Mid-grade copies, and how little separates them

The middle of this ladder is compressed, and knowing that saves an owner from paying a fee to move up one rung.

Across 2026: 8.5 copies brought $250 to $450 across fifteen sales, and 8.0 copies $247 to $400 across fourteen.

Those two lanes overlap almost completely. A copy that grades 8.5 rather than 8.0 is not reliably worth more, which is unusual and worth knowing before anybody spends money chasing half a grade.

Raw copies ran $60 to $359 this year across thirty sales. The top of that band is close to a graded 9.0, so a sharp raw copy of this book is not automatically penalized.

One more thing the ladder shows that is easy to miss: the 9.4 lane has eighteen sales this year and its top result, $795 in June, is more than the bottom of the 9.6 lane. The two grades trade into each other constantly.

That overlap is the argument against paying for certainty in the middle of this book. A holder tells a buyer what the copy is; it does not tell them to pay the top of the range for it.

When to grade this one

The case for a submission on this book is narrow and it is worth setting out precisely.

Between 8.0 and 9.2 the lanes overlap so much that moving up a rung may not pay the fee. Between 9.4 and 9.6 it clearly does, because that step has been worth four to five hundred dollars this year.

A nice copy is not the test. What matters is whether it has a real chance at 9.6 or better, and on a 1976 Marvel with a dark cover that bar is higher than it looks.

Check the top staple and the spine before deciding, and check the Marvel Value Stamp inside. A cut stamp on a book of this period ends the conversation about high grades entirely.

Selling a Daredevil #131

1. Twenty-five cents, March 1976. The first Bullseye, in a title Marvel nearly cancelled.
2. The 9.6 lane is the quotable one. Eleven sales this year against two at 9.8.
3. 8.0 and 8.5 overlap. Do not pay a fee chasing half a grade in that range.
4. Check the stamp before anything. A cut page rules out the grades that pay.

Send the cover, the spine edge-on and an open interior page. That is enough for me to say which side of the grading line your copy falls on before you spend anything.

Send photographs and I will place your copy in its grade lane against the same recent sales you can read above. Where you take it next is your call, and the options for selling in Southern California are worth knowing either way.

Related

• How grading actually works. The 9.4 to 9.6 step is the whole decision here.
• What comic shops actually pay. Useful before accepting a counter offer on a key.
• The 100 most valuable Bronze Age comics. Where this issue lands on the list.

Cover images on this page are shown small, for identification, with the publisher credited in the caption. If you are a rights holder and want an image removed, contact me and it comes down.