Incredible Hulk #3 Value: Up in Every Grade

Forty-odd of these pages later, the pattern is usually the same: a peak in 2021 or 2022 and a slow decline since. This comic did not get that memo. Incredible Hulk 3 value has gone up in every lane I can measure.

It is the third issue of the original run, from September 1962, and it carries the Hulk’s origin retold in full along with the first Ringmaster.

The origin issue that is not the first issue

Marvel retold the Hulk’s origin here at length, which is why the issue gets bought by people who want the origin without paying issue 1 money. It also has the first Ringmaster and his Circus of Crime.

The original six-issue run was cancelled after this era, so all of the early issues are scarcer than their Marvel contemporaries. There simply were not many printed and fewer kept.

The Hulk is green here, as he is from issue 2 onwards. If somebody is describing a gray Hulk they have issue 1, which is a different and far more expensive comic.

Printing check: 12 cents, September 1962, no bar code. Reprints of the origin appear in collections that state their edition inside.

Four lanes, all going up

CGC’s auction reporting has never touched this issue, so the prices below carry no links. Heritage’s catalog and eBay’s completed listings are all of it.

The 9.2 line has four sales and each is higher than the last: $10,800 in November 2018, $14,400 in November 2020, $16,800 in July 2023, $20,400 in April 2025. Up eighty-nine percent over six and a half years, with no reversal anywhere in it.

The 9.0 did the same: $6,600 in February 2019, $9,000 in July 2025, $11,880 on eBay that September. The 8.5 went from $4,800 in July 2020 to $5,600 in February 2026, and the 8.0 from $4,080 in June 2020 to $4,800 in October 2025.

Four lanes, four upward lines, across the exact period when almost everything else on this site peaked and fell back. That is not a coincidence and it is not a fluke of one auction.

What is most likely happening is that the early Hulk issues are scarce enough that they never got speculated into a bubble in the first place. A market that did not spike has nothing to give back, and this one has simply kept appreciating.

The 7.5 lane, with seventeen sales, is the one place that pattern wobbles. It brought $3,799 in January 2024, $2,294 that April, $3,999 in September, $3,100 in October, $1,860 at Heritage in June 2025 and $3,120 that July. Up, down and up again with no direction, inside a band roughly twice as wide as it is tall.

That is a useful counterweight to everything above it. One busy lane behaving randomly while four quiet lanes climb steadily is a reminder that a trend needs several grades agreeing before it means anything, and that a single lane can always be noise.

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 Incredible Hulk #3 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.

Incredible Hulk #3 value across the grades

224 sales tracked back to 2002; here are the three freshest in every grade.

Every row above is a documented sale, verifiable in Heritage’s public Incredible Hulk issue index and in CGC’s published auction reporting. The 7.5 lane holds seventeen of them, more than any grade above it.

Rising at the bottom too

The readable grades have followed the same path, across forty-one sales since January 2025.

From April to July 2026: a 5.5 brought $1,850 and another $1,700, a 4.5 brought $1,350, another $793 and a third $561, a 5.0 brought $1,098, a 4.0 brought $806, and two 3.5 copies brought $1,000 and $620.

The 4.5 lane is the one to be careful with: $561, $793 and $1,350 inside four months is well over a twofold spread. The two 5.5 results, $1,700 and $1,850, are much tighter and easier to work from.

For an owner the practical summary is that this is one of the few books on this site where waiting has been rewarded, at every grade, for six years running. I would not promise that continues, but it is what the record says.

Selling an Incredible Hulk #3

1. Green Hulk means issue 2 or later. A gray Hulk is issue 1 and a different order of money.
2. Twelve cents, September 1962. Collections reprinting the origin all name their edition inside.
3. Use recent comps, not old ones. Unusually for this site, an old comp on this book will be too low rather than too high.
4. Sell the early run together. Issues 1 through 6 are all scarce and the group attracts a different buyer.

Send photographs and I will price it against a market that has been climbing rather than falling, which on this site makes it the exception.

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

• Incredible Hulk #1. The gray debut, and the comic this one is bought instead of.
• The 100 most valuable Silver Age comics. And what each one really sold for.
• How much are my comic books worth?. The general version of what this page does for one issue.

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