In June 1963 DC published a comic about a band of outcasts with strange powers, assembled and led from a wheelchair by a brilliant, difficult man. Marvel published the same premise seven weeks later and called it the X-Men. My Greatest Adventure 80 value has been shaped by that coincidence ever since.
The Doom Patrol debut ran in a science-fiction anthology that had been going for nine years and was about to be renamed after them.
The seven weeks that decided everything
Arnold Drake wrote the Doom Patrol; Stan Lee and Jack Kirby wrote the X-Men. Drake spent much of his life saying the resemblance was no accident, and there is no way now to settle it. What is settled is which of the two became a film franchise.
That comparison is the whole market story here. X-Men #1 in a mid grade is a five-figure comic. This one, seven weeks earlier and arguably first, is a four-figure comic only at the very top of its ladder and a few hundred dollars through the middle.
The title changed to Doom Patrol six issues later, at #86, which is why the run confuses people. Issues 80 through 85 are Doom Patrol comics with a different name on the cover.
To identify it: 12 cents, June 1963, My Greatest Adventure on the logo with the Doom Patrol as the lead story. Nothing on the cover says Doom Patrol.
A television series, and then the end of one
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.
| Grade | Result | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.0 | $5,760 | Heritage Auctions, August 2018 |
| CGC 9.0 | $3,107 | Heritage Auctions, August 2016 |
| CGC 8.5 | $2,880 | Heritage Auctions, April 2019 |
| CGC 9.0 | $2,684 | Heritage Auctions, July 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $2,400 | Heritage Auctions, May 2021 |
| CGC 7.5 | $2,375 | eBay, July 2022 |
| CGC 8.5 | $2,199 | eBay, August 2024 |
| CGC 8.5 | $1,620 | Heritage Auctions, February 2025 |
| CGC 7.0 | $1,300 | eBay, February 2023 |
| CGC 8.0 | $1,136 | eBay, May 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $925 | eBay, April 2026 |
This record runs back to 2003, longer than anything else in the Silver Age program, and it divides cleanly into three eras.
Before about 2014 the comic was cheap. An 8.0 sold for $299 in October 2003 and $305 in November 2005; a 7.0 sold for $215 in 2007 and $219 in 2009. Those are the prices of an anthology issue nobody yet had a reason to want.
Then the Doom Patrol television series arrived in 2019 and the numbers went vertical. The 9.0 climbed from $956 in 2011 to $1,792 in 2015, $3,107 in 2016 and $5,760 in August 2018. The 8.5 went from $1,494 in 2014 to $2,400 and $2,880 in the spring of 2019.
The show ended in 2023 and the retreat shows in every lane. The 9.0 came back at $2,684 in July 2026, less than half its 2018 peak. The 8.5 fell from $2,199 in August 2024 to $1,620 the following February. The 8.0 went from $2,400 in 2021 to $1,136 in May 2026.
That is about as clear a demonstration of screen-driven pricing as this list contains, and it is why I will not quote this comic from any figure more than a year or two old.
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 My Greatest Adventure #80 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.
My Greatest Adventure #80 grade by grade
196 sales tracked back to 2003; here are the three freshest in every grade.
| Grade | Sold for | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.0 | $2,684 | Heritage Auctions, July 23, 2026 |
| CGC 9.0 | $5,760 | Heritage Auctions, August 26, 2018 |
| CGC 9.0 | $3,107 | Heritage Auctions, August 6, 2016 |
| CGC 8.5 | $1,620 | Heritage Auctions, February 11, 2025 |
| CGC 8.5 | $2,199 | eBay, August 5, 2024 |
| CGC 8.5 | $1,800 | Heritage Auctions, January 26, 2024 |
| CGC 8.0 | $1,136 | eBay, May 4, 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $1,046 | eBay, October 30, 2025 |
| CGC 8.0 | $990 | Heritage Auctions, January 26, 2024 |
| CGC 7.5 | $925 | eBay, April 15, 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $1,000 | eBay, January 23, 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $1,169 | eBay, June 28, 2024 |
| CGC 7.0 | $725 | eBay, July 27, 2026 |
| CGC 7.0 | $800 | eBay, March 31, 2026 |
| CGC 7.0 | $750 | eBay, December 4, 2025 |
| CGC 6.5 | $516 | Heritage Auctions, February 11, 2025 |
| CGC 6.5 | $750 | eBay, August 20, 2024 |
| CGC 6.5 | $815 | eBay, May 6, 2024 |
| CGC 6.0 | $500 | eBay, July 26, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $464 | Heritage Auctions, July 23, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $476 | Heritage Auctions, March 16, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $432 | Heritage Auctions, October 31, 2025 |
| CGC 5.5 | $549 | eBay, July 25, 2025 |
| CGC 5.5 | $585 | eBay, March 25, 2025 |
| CGC 5.0 | $525 | eBay, June 30, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $585 | eBay, June 25, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $550 | eBay, April 11, 2025 |
| CGC 4.5 | $600 | eBay, July 4, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $377 | eBay, April 9, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $312 | Heritage Auctions, December 2, 2025 |
| CGC 4.0 | $480 | eBay, April 11, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $425 | eBay, October 3, 2025 |
| CGC 4.0 | $450 | eBay, May 2, 2025 |
| CGC 3.5 | $400 | eBay, February 15, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $302 | eBay, July 14, 2025 |
| CGC 3.5 | $395 | eBay, April 27, 2025 |
| CGC 3.0 | $295 | eBay, October 31, 2025 |
| CGC 3.0 | $330 | eBay, August 10, 2025 |
| CGC 3.0 | $330 | eBay, July 21, 2025 |
| CGC 2.5 | $229 | eBay, June 22, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $310 | eBay, September 29, 2025 |
| CGC 2.5 | $172 | eBay, August 13, 2024 |
| CGC 2.0 | $235 | eBay, June 18, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $225 | eBay, May 30, 2024 |
| CGC 2.0 | $300 | eBay, May 1, 2023 |
| Raw | $279 | eBay, August 11, 2026 |
| Raw | $76 | eBay, August 7, 2026 |
| Raw | $157 | eBay, July 8, 2026 |
Every row above is a documented sale, verifiable in Heritage’s public My Greatest Adventure issue index and in CGC’s published auction reporting. Twenty-three years of it, which is long enough to watch a television series arrive and leave again.
Three hundred to eight hundred dollars
The middle of this ladder held up better than the top did, and it is where nearly everyone who calls me about this comic actually sits.
Recent 5.0 sales: $550 in April 2025, then $585 and $525 in June 2026. The 4.5 lane: $312 in December 2025, $377 in April 2026, $600 that July. The 4.0 lane: $450 twice during 2025 and $425 that October.
Lower still, the 3.5 lane brought $395 in April 2025, $302 that July and $400 in February 2026, and the 3.0 lane brought $330 twice in the summer of 2025 and $295 that October.
So three hundred to six hundred dollars covers almost everything from 3.0 to 5.0, and six to nine hundred covers 6.0 through 7.0. The steps are small and the lanes overlap, which is normal for a comic whose buyers want the story rather than the object.
Buying and selling against a screen calendar
A comic that moves with television is a comic you can time, and that is unusual enough to be worth saying plainly.
The Doom Patrol series ran from 2019 to 2023 and this issue tracked it almost exactly: up on the announcement and the early seasons, down through the cancellation and the years since. Nothing about the comic changed. The number of people who wanted one did.
If you are holding a copy now, you are holding it near the bottom of that cycle rather than the top. Whether that argues for selling or waiting depends on your situation rather than on my opinion, but you should know which part of the cycle you are in before anybody quotes you a number.
What I would not do is price from a 2018 or 2019 result. Those are still among the first things a search turns up on this issue, and they describe a market that no longer exists.
The one thing that does not move with the calendar is the story itself. This comic beat the X-Men to print, and the collectors who care about that have cared steadily for twenty years, which is the floor the rest of the ladder rests on.
Selling a My Greatest Adventure #80
- Twelve cents, June 1963. The logo says My Greatest Adventure; the lead story is the Doom Patrol.
- Ignore the 2018 and 2019 results. They were set by a television series that has since ended.
- Expect three to six hundred dollars in the readable grades. The middle of this ladder is dense and consistent.
- Issues 80 through 85 are all Doom Patrol comics. If you have the run, say so.
Send photographs and I will price your copy against the past twelve months rather than against the peak, which is the only figure that means anything on a book like this.
Got the first Doom Patrol?
The issue number and the June 1963 date are what identify this one, since the run continued under a different title afterward. Photograph the cover with the number readable and text it 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
- X-Men #1. The comic that arrived seven weeks later with the same idea.
- How much are my comic books worth?. Where old auction results mislead, and how to read current ones.
- The 100 most valuable Silver Age comics. And what each one really sold for.
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