Every other book on my Silver Age list has hundreds of documented sales behind it. This one has eighty-one, spread across twenty-three years, and that changes what I can honestly tell you. Richie Rich 1 value is a scarcity story before it is a price story.
It is the first issue of the character’s own title, from November 1960, and it is a genuinely hard comic to find in any condition a collector wants.
It is a first issue, not a first appearance
Richie Rich did not debut here. He first appeared in Little Dot #1 in 1953, seven years earlier, and this is the first issue of the title he eventually carried on his own.
That distinction matters less on this book than it usually would, because the market has settled the question itself: the #1 is the one that sells for real money, and the earlier appearance has never commanded the same attention.
The original is a Harvey comic dated November 1960 with a 10 cent cover price. It was a children’s comic, read hard and thrown out, which is exactly why almost none survive in the grades at the top of the table below.
What scarcity does to a price
This is close to the entire high-grade record on this book. Two of the rows were reported by CGC; the rest are Heritage results.
| Grade | Result | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.6 | $108,000 | Heritage Auctions, June 2023 |
| CGC 9.6 | $96,000 | Heritage Auctions, November 2023 |
| CGC 9.6 | $29,875 | Heritage Auctions, May 2006 |
| CGC 9.6 | $19,120 | Heritage Auctions, August 2015 |
| CGC 9.4 | $72,000 | Heritage Auctions, September 2025 |
| CGC 9.4 | $28,999 | eBay, July 2022 |
| CGC 9.4 | $9,560 | Heritage Auctions, August 2006 |
| CGC 9.4 | $8,365 | Heritage Auctions, February 2010 |
| CGC 9.0 | $7,170 | Heritage Auctions, August 2010 |
The 9.6 line has four sales across nineteen years: $29,875 in 2006, $19,120 in 2015, then $108,000 and $96,000 within five months of each other in 2023. The grade was worth less in 2015 than it had been in 2006, and then it multiplied by five.
The 9.4 line confirms it happened rather than being one eccentric bidder. $8,365 in February 2010, $28,999 on eBay in July 2022, $72,000 at Heritage in September 2025. Three sales, fifteen years, and the most recent is the highest by a distance.
Two sales in one grade five months apart, at $108,000 and $96,000, is about as much corroboration as a book this scarce ever gives you. It is not many results, but they agree, and they are recent.
What I would not do is read the 2015 result as a floor. It is eleven years old and it belongs to a period when nobody was looking at this book. The useful part of the record starts in 2022.
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 Richie Rich #1 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.
Richie Rich #1 value, what little is documented
81 sales tracked back to 2003; here are the three freshest in every grade.
| Grade | Sold for | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.6 | $96,000 | Heritage Auctions, November 16, 2023 |
| CGC 9.6 | $108,000 | Heritage Auctions, June 22, 2023 |
| CGC 9.6 | $19,120 | Heritage Auctions, August 27, 2015 |
| CGC 9.4 | $72,000 | Heritage Auctions, September 30, 2025 |
| CGC 9.4 | $28,999 | eBay, July 27, 2022 |
| CGC 9.4 | $8,365 | Heritage Auctions, February 25, 2010 |
| CGC 9.0 | $7,170 | Heritage Auctions, August 5, 2010 |
| CGC 8.5 | $7,100 | eBay, December 4, 2025 |
| CGC 8.0 | $6,600 | Heritage Auctions, April 30, 2025 |
| CGC 7.5 | $3,000 | Heritage Auctions, June 11, 2025 |
| CGC 7.5 | $1,840 | Heritage Auctions, November 22, 2003 |
| CGC 7.0 | $2,400 | Heritage Auctions, May 18, 2019 |
| CGC 6.5 | $6,999 | eBay, April 14, 2024 |
| CGC 6.5 | $2,160 | Heritage Auctions, October 18, 2020 |
| CGC 6.0 | $600 | eBay, June 11, 2022 |
| CGC 5.5 | $2,220 | Heritage Auctions, August 16, 2020 |
| CGC 5.5 | $2,040 | Heritage Auctions, December 9, 2018 |
| CGC 5.0 | $2,100 | eBay, April 7, 2024 |
| CGC 5.0 | $693 | Heritage Auctions, November 17, 2013 |
| CGC 5.0 | $836 | Heritage Auctions, July 28, 2012 |
| CGC 4.5 | $1,649 | eBay, January 23, 2025 |
| CGC 4.5 | $1,440 | Heritage Auctions, July 22, 2018 |
| CGC 4.5 | $1,554 | Heritage Auctions, January 7, 2018 |
| CGC 4.0 | $960 | Heritage Auctions, April 4, 2025 |
| CGC 4.0 | $1,450 | eBay, August 23, 2022 |
| CGC 4.0 | $2,125 | eBay, August 12, 2022 |
| CGC 3.5 | $800 | eBay, August 19, 2023 |
| CGC 3.5 | $945 | eBay, June 24, 2023 |
| CGC 3.5 | $950 | eBay, March 29, 2023 |
| CGC 3.0 | $1,025 | eBay, April 26, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $900 | eBay, April 12, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $900 | Heritage Auctions, July 17, 2023 |
| CGC 2.5 | $1,099 | eBay, May 5, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $510 | eBay, April 11, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $1,100 | eBay, November 3, 2024 |
| CGC 2.0 | $900 | eBay, May 21, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $1,100 | eBay, February 23, 2025 |
| CGC 2.0 | $1,195 | eBay, March 21, 2024 |
| CGC 1.5 | $949 | eBay, May 16, 2022 |
| Raw | $487 | eBay, August 3, 2026 |
| Raw | $250 | eBay, July 9, 2026 |
| Raw | $1,025 | eBay, June 19, 2026 |
Every row above is a documented sale, verifiable in Heritage’s public Richie Rich issue index and in CGC’s published auction reporting. Eighty-one results across twenty-three years is the thinnest record on my Silver Age list, and the ladder below shows the gaps rather than hiding them.
The middle of this book is barely documented
This is where I have to be straight with you. Since the start of 2025 I can find exactly two sales of this comic in the readable grades.
A CGC 4.5 brought $1,649 on eBay in January 2025, and a CGC 4.0 brought $960 at Heritage that April. That is the entire recent mid-grade record.
Two sales are not a market. They are two data points, and a confident valuation built on them is built on something other than evidence.
The practical consequence is that a readable copy of this comic is worth getting a real opinion on rather than looking up, and that a seller with one has more room to negotiate than the table above would suggest — in both directions.
Selling a Richie Rich #1
- Check the publisher and the date. Harvey, November 1960, ten cents. Later Richie Rich comics run into the hundreds of issues and are worth very little.
- Do not confuse it with the first appearance. Little Dot #1 from 1953 has that, and it is a different and much less traded book.
- Grading is worth considering here. Unlike most books in this batch, the documented money is all at the top, and the record barely reaches the middle.
- Expect the quote to take longer. With eighty-one sales in the record, a fair number needs comparables found rather than looked up.
Send photographs and I will tell you honestly how much evidence exists for a copy like yours, which on this comic is a shorter answer than usual.
Have an early Harvey?
Later Richie Rich issues run into the hundreds, so the small print is what settles yours: Harvey, November 1960, ten cents. Photograph that page with the cover and 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
- The 100 most valuable Silver Age comics. And what each one really sold for.
- Showcase #4. Another scarce 1960s first issue, with a far deeper sales record behind it.
- Are 90s comic books worth anything?. The opposite problem: enormous print runs and almost no scarcity.
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