Any honest answer about Silver Streak Comics #6 value starts with a headcount. There are fifty-four copies on the CGC census, as of the last published count I could find. Not fifty-four in high grade. Fifty-four graded copies in total, across every condition.
Fifty-four copies is not a scarcity claim, it is a headcount, and it changes how you should think about selling. This is the first appearance of the Golden Age Daredevil, published by Lev Gleason in 1940.
What the record actually shows
Twelve public sales of this comic carry both a house and a date, running from 2005 to the end of 2025. For a book with fifty-four graded copies that is a thin record, and it is far more than I could show a couple of years ago.
| Grade | Result | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.6 (Mile High pedigree) | $228,000 | Heritage Auctions, Sep 30, 2025 |
| CGC 7.5 | $8,962 | Heritage Auctions, Nov 15, 2012 |
| CGC 5.0 | $3,704 | Heritage Auctions, May 21, 2009 |
| CGC 5.0 | $4,541 | Heritage Auctions, May 10, 2012 |
| CGC 5.0 | $4,033 | Heritage Auctions, Aug 7, 2014 |
| CGC 4.5 | $33,777 | ComicConnect, Mar 19, 2024 |
| CGC 3.5 | $1,554 | Heritage Auctions, May 11, 2006 |
| CGC 3.5 | $15,600 | Heritage Auctions, Nov 6, 2025 |
| CGC 3.0 | $18,600 | Heritage Auctions, Apr 30, 2025 |
| CGC 2.0 | $1,673 | Heritage Auctions, Nov 20, 2014 |
| Raw | $322 | Heritage Auctions, Sep 4, 2005 |
Every result above is verifiable in Heritage’s public Silver Streak Comics archive and in CGC’s auction reporting.
Read it by date rather than by grade, because on this issue the dates are doing the work. Every result before 2015 is four figures: $1,554 for a 3.5 in 2006, $4,033 for a 5.0 in 2014, and $8,962 for a 7.5 in 2012, which was the best price this book had ever seen in public.
Then look at the last three years. A 3.0 brought $18,600 in April 2025. A 3.5, a grade and a half below that 2014 copy, brought $15,600 in November 2025, roughly four times what the better book made eleven years earlier. A 4.5 made $33,777 in March 2024.
This book repriced, and any comp on it older than 2023 describes a market that no longer exists. That is an unusual thing to be able to say with receipts, and it is the single most useful fact an owner can have, because the stale numbers are the ones still sitting in most price guides.
One row stands outside the pattern. The $228,000 CGC 9.6 from September 2025 is a Mile High pedigree copy, the most famous provenance in the hobby, so it is not what an ordinary 9.6 would bring. No ordinary 9.6 appears anywhere in the record to compare it against, which is its own kind of information.
Which Daredevil
Not the Marvel character. Matt Murdock arrived in 1964 and has no connection to this one beyond the name, which Marvel was free to use because the original had lapsed.
The Golden Age Daredevil wore a split red-and-blue costume, carried a boomerang, and fought Hitler on a famous cover a year later. He was a genuine star for Lev Gleason before the company pivoted to crime comics and made Crime Does Not Pay the best-selling title in America.
If somebody says they have a first Daredevil, the year settles it instantly: 1940 is this book and a serious find, 1964 is Daredevil #1 and a different market entirely.
Selling a Silver Streak Comics #6
- Do not sell it quickly. With this few copies, the right buyer matters more than the right week, and there is no reason to accept the first offer.
- Get it graded. On a book with fifty-four census copies, certification is what makes a distant buyer bid at all, and every recent five-figure result in that table is a slabbed copy.
- Check the date on any comp you are given. There are real comps on this book now, but the ones from before 2023 are a different market, and a quote built on them will be low.
- Check the run. Later Silver Streak issues carry value, and Lev Gleason material is easy to overlook.
Fifty-four copies exist. Is yours one of them?
Text three photos, front, back, and the fine print on the first story page, and I’ll tell you the same day whether you’re holding one of the fifty-four and what it’s actually worth.
I read every request myself.
Related
- Marvel Mystery Comics #9, another book where the character name causes confusion.
- The 100 most valuable Golden Age comics, and what each one really sold for.
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