Strange Tales #110 Value: A Key Hidden Inside

Doctor Strange does not appear on the cover of Strange Tales #110. He turns up inside, in a five-page back-up story, while the Human Torch takes the front. That is where Strange Tales #110 value starts.

That is why this book hid in plain sight for years, and why it still turns up in boxes people never sorted.

A cover that hides the key

Collectors find first appearances by looking at covers, and this one gives no clue. The Human Torch is the headline; Doctor Strange is a back-up feature that was not expected to continue. He also debuts alongside the Ancient One and Nightmare in the same short run of issues.

The practical consequence for a seller is unusual and worth knowing: copies of this issue frequently sit in unsorted runs of Strange Tales that nobody flagged as containing a key, because nothing on the outside says so.

If you have a run of this title, read the issue numbers rather than the covers. 12 cents, a July 1963 indicia date, no bar code.

How fast the high grades give way

Only one sale of this book has been reported by CGC, so the table above is almost entirely Heritage results, and it is unusually deep at the top.

The 9.2 line is the one that should stop you. $72,000 in June 2022, then $22,800 in December 2024. Same grade, same auction house, two and a half years, down by more than two thirds. There is no gentler way to read that, and it is the single most important number on this page for anybody holding a high-grade copy.

The 9.6 line ran the other way over a longer span: $42,130 in July 2012, $44,812 in November 2013, $150,000 in April 2024. Most of that gain arrived in the last stretch, in the same window that repriced every high-grade Silver Age key, and the 9.2 result that followed it suggests the window has closed.

The 9.4 results in between never joined either move. $50,788 in August 2014, $34,655 in November 2015, $55,200 in February 2019. Eleven years, three sales, and no direction at all. That is a small number of sales carrying a lot of weight, which is why I would not draw a line through them.

At the bottom, a CGC 7.0 brought $3,960 in July 2025. That is under three percent of the 9.6 record, on the same comic, and it is a far better guide to what a well-read copy out of a garage is actually worth.

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 Strange Tales #110 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.

Strange Tales #110 value, grade by grade

258 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 Strange Tales issue index and in CGC’s published auction reporting. 259 sales are on file. Three per grade is enough to price against and short enough to read.

21 documented copies sit at CGC 8.0: $1,792 in 2009, $7,170 in 2015, $11,400 in 2023, $6,904 in 2025. $1,792 to $6,904, with the 2021 peak at $15,600.

Raw copies are where most owners of this book actually live, and they trade on a much narrower record than the slabbed lanes suggest. Nine ungraded copies sold on eBay in 2026, from $575 to $2,000, with the middle of them around $1,300. Nine sales in a year is a thin market, so a single optimistic listing moves the average and a single bargain drags it, which is why I would rather show you the sales than an average of them.

What the readable copies bring

Sixty-five readable copies have sold in the past eighteen months. After a top of the ladder that has moved as violently as this one has, the middle is a relief to read.

The 6.0 lane brought $2,684 at Heritage on July 23, 2026 and $3,800 on eBay on June 12. The 5.5 lane brought $2,562 at Heritage the same July day and $2,613 on eBay in August. Two grades, four sales, and everything lands between roughly twenty-five hundred and thirty-eight hundred.

Lower down it thins out fast. A 4.5 brought $1,728 in June 2026, and two 3.5 copies brought $1,236 and $1,900 in the same summer. That is a wide spread for one grade, and on a book whose cover hides the important story inside it, the wide spread usually comes down to how well the listing explained what the comic is.

None of those rows is affected by what the 9.2 did between 2022 and 2024. The high end of this book had a boom and gave it back; the readable copies have simply gone on trading.

Selling a Strange Tales #110

1. Read issue numbers, not covers. Nothing on the front of this book announces the key inside.
2. Check the rest of the run. Strange Tales #115 has the Doctor Strange origin and carries its own value.
3. Twelve cents, July 1963. Facsimile and collection reprints say so in the indicia.
4. Do not sort by eye. On this title the valuable issues look like the ordinary ones.

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

• Strange Tales #115 carries the Doctor Strange origin and value of its own, so read the issue numbers across any run you have.
• The 100 most valuable Silver Age comics.
• What to do with an inherited collection.

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