Flash #105 Value: Why It Starts at 105

People find this comic, see a number in the hundreds, and assume it is a middling issue from a long run. It is the opposite of that, and the number is the reason. Flash 105 value begins with explaining it.

DC restarted the Flash’s own title here in early 1959, and picked the numbering up where they had left it a decade earlier.

A first issue with a three-digit number

Flash Comics ran until issue 104 in 1949 and then stopped. When DC brought the character back as a solo title ten years later, they continued the old numbering rather than starting again, so the first issue of the Silver Age series is #105.

This is also not the character’s Silver Age debut. Barry Allen first appears in Showcase #4, three years earlier, and that is the far more expensive comic. This issue is the start of the ongoing title.

Both facts get lost constantly. A copy described as “Flash #1” is either mislabeled or a much later relaunch, and a copy described as the first Flash is describing Showcase #4.

The cover says 10 cents and February-March 1959. There is no bar code on a comic of this age, and the DC bullet sits top left.

Where the actual evidence is

CGC has published no auction report on this comic. Everything below came from Heritage’s catalog, so no price carries a link, and I would rather be plain about that than pretend otherwise.

Look at the dates in the top three rows: 2005, 2011 and 2012. The highest grades of this comic have barely traded in a decade and a half, and quoting a fourteen-year-old result as a current value would be indefensible.

The 8.0 line is the only one with any depth, twelve sales in the record, and it tells a modest story: $12,000 in January 2021, $9,000 in July 2024, $7,800 in July 2025, $10,200 that September. Down, then partly back, in a band roughly between eight and twelve thousand.

The 9.0 pair frames the range above it. $24,000 in February 2019 and $19,200 in December 2024, so about a fifth off across nearly six years, which on this book counts as steady.

The 8.5 at $11,100 on eBay in February 2026 is the most recent result on the page and it sits almost exactly where the 8.0 line has been. Half a grade is not doing much here, which is what a thin market looks like.

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 Flash #105 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.

Flash #105 value in each grade

209 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 Flash issue index and in CGC’s published auction reporting. The record thins out badly above 9.0, which is why the eights carry the argument on this book.

A shallow record below 7.0

Twenty-three. That is the whole recent readable-grade record on this comic, and it is few enough that I will show you most of it rather than summarize.

A 6.5 brought $4,148 at Heritage in March 2026 and $4,080 there in October 2025. A 6.0 brought $2,880 at Heritage in October 2025, and two 5.5 copies brought $2,750 in July 2026 and $2,400 in May.

Further down it drops sharply. A 4.0 brought $900 in July 2026 and four separate 3.5 copies brought $975, $831, $800 and $765 between November 2025 and July 2026.

The distance between 3.5 and 6.5 on this book is about four times the money, which is steep, and the 3.5 cluster is tight enough that I would quote inside it without hesitating. Above 6.5 the evidence runs out and I would say so rather than guess.

Selling a Flash #105

1. The number is not a problem. #105 is the first issue of the run; the numbering continues from a title that stopped in 1949.
2. Do not confuse it with Showcase #4. That is the Silver Age debut and a far more valuable comic.
3. Ten cents, February-March 1959. Any Flash #1 you find is a later relaunch and an ordinary comic.
4. Expect a range above 6.5. The high grades have hardly traded since 2012 and no honest quote can be precise up there.

Send photographs and I will tell you where your copy lands in a record that is deep in the middle and very thin at the top.

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

• Showcase #4. The Silver Age debut of the Flash, and the comic this one is confused with.
• The 100 most valuable Silver Age comics. And what each one really sold for.
• Comic book price guides. And why a guide number and a sale price are different things.

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