Superboy #68 Value: One 9.2 and a Long Silence

The highest sale on this comic is nearly seven years old, and there has been nothing above 8.0 since. Superboy 68 value at the top is a memory rather than a market.

Bizarro appears here for the first time in April 1958, as a failed duplicate of Superboy rather than the Superman version everybody pictures.

The Bizarro nobody pictures

The character here is a Superboy duplicate created by a faulty machine, and he is a tragic figure rather than a comic one. The Superman Bizarro, with the backwards speech and the cube-shaped planet, arrives later and is a substantially different creation.

Collectors treat this as the first Bizarro regardless, and the market has never seriously argued about it. What it does mean is that somebody expecting the familiar version will be looking at a comic that does not contain him.

A hundred and seventy-one documented sales across eighteen years is a modest record, and it is very heavily weighted toward the middle grades.

To identify it: 10 cents, October 1958, the Superboy logo. No bar code on a comic of this age.

Nothing above 8.0 since 2019

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.

The $31,200 at CGC 9.2 is from November 2019 and it is the only sale at that grade or above in the whole record. Nearly seven years later it is still the top of the page, and there is no way to know what it would do now.

The 8.0 is the highest grade with any depth, four sales: $6,600 in May 2019, $7,800 that November, $9,900 in April 2022, $5,640 in April 2024. Up by half into 2022 and then down by more than that.

The 7.0 has been quietly slipping: $4,050 on eBay in February 2023, $3,240 at Heritage in December, $2,880 in May 2024, $2,247 on eBay in July 2025. Down about forty-five percent in two and a half years.

So the honest state of this comic is that the middle has been falling for two years and the top has not been tested since before the pandemic. Anybody quoting a 9.2 today is quoting 2019.

The 7.5 lane fills in the shape between them: $3,346 at Heritage in November 2014, $4,302 in August 2017, $3,600 in November 2019. Three sales across five years inside about a thousand dollars, and then nothing for seven years.

That silence at 7.5 and above is the real story of this book. Between the readable copies, which trade constantly, and the graded ones, which barely trade at all, there is a line somewhere around 7.0 that almost nothing has crossed since 2019.

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 Superboy #68 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.

Superboy #68 value in each grade

171 sales tracked back to 2008; here are the three freshest in every grade.

Every row above is a documented sale, verifiable in Heritage’s public Superboy issue index and in CGC’s published auction reporting. The 7.0 lane holds six of them and the 8.0 four; nothing above 8.0 has traded since 2019.

Four hundred to thirteen hundred dollars

The readable grades carry thirty-two sales since January 2025 and are the most active part of this book.

From November 2025 to July 2026: a 6.0 brought $1,300, two 5.5 copies brought $911 and $885, a 5.0 brought $677, a 4.5 brought $700, a 4.0 brought $713, and three 3.5 copies brought $600, $432 and $393.

The 4.0 at $713 selling above the 4.5 at $700 and close to the 5.5 pair is worth noting, and the 3.5 lane spanning $393 to $600 is wide for one grade.

The usable summary is that a readable copy of the first Bizarro runs from about four hundred dollars at the bottom to thirteen hundred at 6.0, and that within that range the presentation is doing as much work as the grade.

What a seven-year silence means

When a grade has not traded since 2019, an owner holding one is entitled to ask what that actually tells them, and it is not nothing.

It tells you supply is genuinely short. Copies of a 1958 comic in CGC 9.2 do not sit unsold; if none has come to auction in seven years it is because none has been offered. That is a scarcity signal rather than a demand problem.

It also means the last figure is stale in a very specific way. Between November 2019 and now the whole hobby went up sharply and came most of the way back down. Where that leaves a 9.2 of this comic is unknowable from the record, and the honest range is wide.

If you hold one, that argues strongly for an auction. A private buyer will price off the 2019 number because it is the only one there is; a room full of bidders will price off what they think it is worth today, and on a book with no recent comparables those are not the same thing.

One practical consequence for a seller with a mid-grade copy: you are in the liquid part of this book and you can transact whenever you like. Thirty-two sales in eighteen months means a buyer is always available, which is the opposite of the position somebody holding the 9.2 is in.

Selling a Superboy #68

1. Ten cents, October 1958. This is the Superboy Bizarro, not the Superman version that arrives later.
2. Do not quote the 9.2. That sale is from 2019 and nothing above 8.0 has traded since.
3. Refresh comps in the sevens. The 7.0 has lost about forty-five percent since early 2023.
4. Grading pays above 7.0. Every documented sale up there is four or five figures.

Photographs will place your copy against the recent middle of this ladder rather than the one old sale at the top, which is the only honest way to price it.

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.

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