This comic has been sold plenty of times, and almost never in the grades people ask me about. Fantastic Four 2 value depends on knowing which of those two records you are reading.
It is the first appearance of the Skrulls, from January 1962, and it is the issue directly after one of the most valuable comics of the era.
Living next door to issue 1
Every call I take about this comic opens with Fantastic Four #1, and that anchor does this book no favours. The two comics came out eight weeks apart and they have never been in the same market.
What #2 carries is the Skrulls, a race that has driven decades of Marvel stories and two films, plus a high-grade population so small that the auction record barely reaches it. Judged on its own terms it is a strong 1962 Marvel key.
To identify it: 12 cents on the cover, January 1962 inside, no bar code. Milestone and Facsimile editions of this issue exist and both declare themselves in the small print.
A very short list above 9.0
One of these was reported by CGC. In twenty-four years of records, this is close to the complete high-grade history of the book.
| Grade | Result | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.8 | $170,800 | eBay, April 2026 |
| CGC 9.8 | $65,725 | Heritage Auctions, August 2013 |
| CGC 9.6 | $49,294 | Heritage Auctions, July 2012 |
| CGC 9.4 | $84,000 | Heritage Auctions, April 2022 |
| CGC 9.4 | $35,850 | Heritage Auctions, November 2015 |
| CGC 9.4 | $28,800 | Heritage Auctions, November 2019 |
| CGC 9.4 | $22,705 | Heritage Auctions, February 2012 |
| CGC 9.0 | $12,000 | Heritage Auctions, February 2019 |
| CGC 9.0 | $7,170 | Heritage Auctions, November 2008 |
The record is $170,800 for a CGC 9.8 in April 2026, and the unusual thing about it is where it happened: a private listing rather than an auction floor. The only other 9.8 in the record sold for $65,725 back in August 2013.
Two sales thirteen years apart is not a market you can quote. It is two facts, and the more recent one is worth roughly two and a half times the older one.
The 9.4 line is the only high grade with enough history to read: $22,705 in February 2012, $35,850 in November 2015, $28,800 in November 2019, $84,000 in April 2022. Up, down, then a very large jump at the top of the last cycle.
Note that the 9.4 at $84,000 sold for more than the 9.6 ever has, and the single 9.6 result is from 2012. When a grade has one sale in the record and it is fourteen years old, it is history rather than a benchmark.
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 Fantastic Four #2 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.
Fantastic Four #2 value, grade by grade
226 sales tracked back to 2002; here are the three freshest in every grade.
| Grade | Sold for | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.8 | $170,800 | eBay, April 14, 2026 |
| CGC 9.8 | $65,725 | Heritage Auctions, August 1, 2013 |
| CGC 9.6 | $49,294 | Heritage Auctions, July 26, 2012 |
| CGC 9.4 | $84,000 | Heritage Auctions, April 19, 2022 |
| CGC 9.4 | $28,800 | Heritage Auctions, November 21, 2019 |
| CGC 9.4 | $35,850 | Heritage Auctions, November 19, 2015 |
| CGC 9.2 | $9,560 | Heritage Auctions, February 28, 2008 |
| CGC 9.0 | $12,000 | Heritage Auctions, February 21, 2019 |
| CGC 9.0 | $6,572 | Heritage Auctions, November 19, 2015 |
| CGC 9.0 | $7,170 | Heritage Auctions, November 13, 2008 |
| CGC 8.5 | $7,200 | Heritage Auctions, April 30, 2025 |
| CGC 8.5 | $8,750 | eBay, January 16, 2025 |
| CGC 8.5 | $7,800 | Heritage Auctions, July 1, 2024 |
| CGC 8.0 | $5,280 | Heritage Auctions, July 25, 2025 |
| CGC 8.0 | $6,300 | Heritage Auctions, October 14, 2023 |
| CGC 8.0 | $8,400 | Heritage Auctions, August 31, 2023 |
| CGC 7.5 | $4,320 | Heritage Auctions, July 1, 2024 |
| CGC 7.5 | $5,520 | Heritage Auctions, January 26, 2024 |
| CGC 7.5 | $4,320 | Heritage Auctions, November 7, 2023 |
| CGC 7.0 | $4,325 | eBay, October 29, 2025 |
| CGC 7.0 | $4,200 | Heritage Auctions, April 30, 2025 |
| CGC 7.0 | $4,080 | Heritage Auctions, October 10, 2024 |
| CGC 6.5 | $3,200 | eBay, August 6, 2026 |
| CGC 6.5 | $2,450 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 6.5 | $3,600 | eBay, May 1, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $2,257 | Heritage Auctions, July 23, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $3,900 | eBay, July 8, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $2,562 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $2,624 | eBay, May 31, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $2,196 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $2,870 | eBay, May 9, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $2,160 | Heritage Auctions, October 10, 2024 |
| CGC 5.0 | $2,280 | Heritage Auctions, September 2, 2024 |
| CGC 5.0 | $2,160 | Heritage Auctions, July 23, 2024 |
| CGC 4.5 | $2,200 | eBay, April 23, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $1,800 | eBay, November 20, 2025 |
| CGC 4.5 | $2,195 | eBay, November 18, 2025 |
| CGC 4.0 | $1,560 | eBay, June 25, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $1,596 | eBay, May 21, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $1,525 | eBay, March 30, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $2,050 | eBay, June 19, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $1,800 | eBay, May 11, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $1,800 | eBay, March 7, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $1,287 | eBay, January 31, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $1,600 | eBay, January 22, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $1,231 | eBay, December 29, 2025 |
| CGC 2.5 | $976 | Heritage Auctions, July 23, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $700 | eBay, April 13, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $777 | eBay, October 7, 2025 |
| CGC 2.0 | $1,070 | eBay, June 13, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $1,170 | eBay, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $809 | eBay, December 24, 2025 |
| Raw | $1,400 | eBay, August 2, 2026 |
| Raw | $950 | eBay, July 19, 2026 |
| Raw | $550 | eBay, July 10, 2026 |
Every row above is a documented sale, verifiable in Heritage’s public Fantastic Four issue index and in CGC’s published auction reporting. Only eleven of them are above CGC 9.0, which is why the lower lanes carry the useful evidence on this book.
Where the real evidence is
Fifty readable copies have sold since the start of 2025, and unlike the top of this comic they give a straight answer.
A 6.5 brought $3,200 on eBay in August 2026. Two 6.0 copies brought $3,900 on eBay and $2,257 at Heritage in July, and a third brought $2,928 at Heritage in May. A 5.5 brought $2,624 in May, and 4.0 copies brought $1,596 in May and $1,560 in June, with a 3.5 at $2,050.
That puts a complete, well-read copy somewhere between roughly fifteen hundred and four thousand dollars, and with fifty results behind the band I would quote inside it without much hedging.
The two 4.0 sales a month apart at $1,596 and $1,560 are the tightest pair on the page, and they are worth more to an owner than the record at the top, because far more copies look like that than look like a 9.8.
Selling a Fantastic Four #2
- Benchmark it against the issues that follow it. Numbers 3 through 6 are the company this book keeps at auction; number 1 is not.
- Twelve cents, January 1962, no bar code. Milestone and Facsimile reprints of this story both name themselves inside.
- Treat the high grades as history. Two 9.8 sales thirteen years apart and one 9.6 from 2012 is not a market to price against.
- Do not split the first twelve issues. Several of them are keys in their own right and the group attracts a different buyer than the singles do.
Photographs are enough for me to price a copy against the fifty recent sales rather than the two old ones, and on this comic that is the whole difference.
Got an early FF?
Get the January 1962 cover date in one shot, then open to the centerfold and photograph the staples — replaced or rusted staples change what I can offer more than the cover does. Text both to me.
I read every request myself.
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
- Fantastic Four #1. The issue in front of it, and the one owners keep pricing this against.
- Amazing Fantasy #15. The other 1962 Marvel key, and a far deeper high-grade record.
- The 100 most valuable Silver Age comics. And what each one really sold for.
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.
