Three sales of one grade, nine years apart, and between them they draw the whole shape of the last decade in this hobby. Teen Titans 1 value went up three times and came back down.
This is the team’s own title from early 1966, two years after they first worked together in a tryout.
Not the first appearance, and not the naming either
The team first works together in The Brave and the Bold #54 in 1964, and they are first called the Teen Titans in The Brave and the Bold #60. This is the first issue of their own comic, which is a third distinct claim.
All three books are collected and all three sell for different money, with #54 well ahead. A listing that says first Teen Titans without an issue number is not telling you enough to price anything.
What this issue does have is a large print run for a DC of the period, which is why there are a hundred and ninety-nine documented sales and why the middle of the ladder is inexpensive.
To identify it: 12 cents, January-February 1966, no bar code. There have been several later Teen Titans #1 relaunches and every one is an ordinary comic.
An entire cycle in three sales
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 9.8 | $31,200 | Heritage Auctions, April 2021 |
| CGC 9.8 | $11,400 | Heritage Auctions, September 2025 |
| CGC 9.8 | $10,158 | Heritage Auctions, May 2016 |
| CGC 9.6 | $5,650 | eBay, March 2022 |
| CGC 9.6 | $4,481 | Heritage Auctions, May 2013 |
| CGC 9.4 | $2,995 | eBay, May 2026 |
| CGC 9.4 | $2,160 | Heritage Auctions, February 2021 |
| CGC 9.2 | $1,595 | eBay, May 2024 |
| CGC 9.2 | $1,200 | Heritage Auctions, July 2023 |
| CGC 9.0 | $750 | eBay, July 2024 |
| CGC 9.0 | $564 | Heritage Auctions, July 2025 |
The 9.8 line reads $10,158 in May 2016, $31,200 in April 2021, $11,400 in September 2025. It tripled over five years and then gave back essentially all of it over four more, ending within twelve percent of where it started nine years earlier.
That is the cleanest single illustration of the last decade I have found in this program, and it is worth carrying to any book: the peak was real, it was brief, and pricing off it in 2026 would be pricing off a moment.
The 9.4 did not follow the same path. It brought $2,160 in February 2021 and $2,995 on eBay in May 2026, up about thirty-nine percent, having never spiked in the first place.
Beneath that the book is genuinely cheap. A 9.2 brought $1,200 in July 2023, a 9.0 brought $564 at Heritage in July 2025. The distance from the 9.8 to the 9.0 is roughly twenty to one.
The 8.5 and 8.0 lanes finish the picture. An 8.5 brought $800 on eBay in June 2023 and $305 in January 2026; an 8.0 has sat between $265 and $401 across nine sales in two years. So from 9.0 down this is a three-hundred-dollar comic.
Put the whole ladder together and it is one of the steepest on this list: about a hundred to one from 9.8 to 8.0. Nearly all the value is in copies almost nobody has, and the ones people do have are cheap and easy to price.
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 Teen Titans #1 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.
Teen Titans #1 value across the grades
199 sales tracked back to 2005; here are the three freshest in every grade.
| Grade | Sold for | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.8 | $11,400 | Heritage Auctions, September 30, 2025 |
| CGC 9.8 | $31,200 | Heritage Auctions, April 1, 2021 |
| CGC 9.8 | $10,158 | Heritage Auctions, May 13, 2016 |
| CGC 9.6 | $3,299 | eBay, December 5, 2025 |
| CGC 9.6 | $5,650 | eBay, March 9, 2022 |
| CGC 9.6 | $4,481 | Heritage Auctions, May 16, 2013 |
| CGC 9.4 | $2,995 | eBay, May 1, 2026 |
| CGC 9.4 | $1,860 | Heritage Auctions, July 19, 2021 |
| CGC 9.4 | $2,160 | Heritage Auctions, February 14, 2021 |
| CGC 9.2 | $1,595 | eBay, May 4, 2024 |
| CGC 9.2 | $1,140 | Heritage Auctions, November 7, 2023 |
| CGC 9.2 | $1,200 | Heritage Auctions, July 17, 2023 |
| CGC 9.0 | $564 | Heritage Auctions, July 25, 2025 |
| CGC 9.0 | $750 | eBay, July 15, 2024 |
| CGC 9.0 | $720 | Heritage Auctions, December 5, 2023 |
| CGC 8.5 | $305 | eBay, January 11, 2026 |
| CGC 8.5 | $370 | eBay, April 15, 2025 |
| CGC 8.5 | $300 | eBay, May 20, 2024 |
| CGC 8.0 | $377 | eBay, June 27, 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $350 | eBay, July 18, 2025 |
| CGC 8.0 | $401 | eBay, February 14, 2025 |
| CGC 7.5 | $285 | eBay, November 22, 2025 |
| CGC 7.5 | $275 | eBay, June 17, 2025 |
| CGC 7.5 | $240 | eBay, July 30, 2024 |
| CGC 7.0 | $300 | eBay, July 29, 2026 |
| CGC 7.0 | $232 | eBay, June 29, 2026 |
| CGC 7.0 | $285 | eBay, June 14, 2026 |
| CGC 6.5 | $152 | eBay, June 27, 2026 |
| CGC 6.5 | $275 | eBay, May 6, 2026 |
| CGC 6.5 | $235 | eBay, May 5, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $143 | eBay, June 7, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $200 | eBay, May 26, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $250 | eBay, May 18, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $126 | eBay, July 13, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $154 | eBay, July 6, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $151 | eBay, June 30, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $85 | eBay, June 6, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $130 | eBay, October 27, 2025 |
| CGC 5.0 | $94 | Heritage Auctions, April 30, 2025 |
| CGC 4.5 | $125 | eBay, June 22, 2025 |
| CGC 4.5 | $114 | Heritage Auctions, March 8, 2025 |
| CGC 4.5 | $76 | eBay, January 26, 2025 |
| CGC 4.0 | $80 | eBay, December 18, 2025 |
| CGC 4.0 | $76 | eBay, May 5, 2025 |
| CGC 4.0 | $84 | Heritage Auctions, July 1, 2024 |
| CGC 3.5 | $95 | eBay, July 8, 2024 |
| CGC 3.5 | $140 | eBay, February 12, 2024 |
| CGC 3.5 | $140 | eBay, April 15, 2023 |
| CGC 3.0 | $65 | eBay, July 4, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $150 | eBay, November 23, 2025 |
| CGC 3.0 | $60 | eBay, October 13, 2025 |
| CGC 2.5 | $109 | eBay, May 19, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $90 | eBay, March 29, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $100 | eBay, August 22, 2024 |
| CGC 2.0 | $74 | eBay, February 26, 2024 |
| Raw | $66 | eBay, August 6, 2026 |
| Raw | $100 | eBay, July 26, 2026 |
| Raw | $48 | eBay, July 23, 2026 |
Every row above is a documented sale, verifiable in Heritage’s public Teen Titans issue index and in CGC’s published auction reporting. Thirteen sit at 9.4 and thirteen more at 8.0, which is where this book’s volume lives.
Under three hundred dollars
The readable grades on this comic are cheap and well documented, with thirty-nine sales since January 2025.
In June and July 2026: three 7.0 copies brought $300, $285 and $232, four 5.5 copies brought $154, $151, $148 and $126, a 6.5 brought $152, a 6.0 brought $143 and a 5.0 brought $85.
Four 5.5 sales inside two months from $126 to $154 is a tight cluster and a useful one. So is the 7.0 trio between $232 and $300.
What the gap between them says is that the step from 5.5 to 7.0 roughly doubles the money on this book, which is a steeper mid-grade slope than most and worth knowing if your copy is borderline.
If you bought this in 2021
Some readers of this page will have paid near the top, and it is worth writing for them directly rather than pretending the question does not come up.
A CGC 9.8 bought around the April 2021 sale is currently worth roughly a third of what it cost. There is no version of the recent record that softens that, and anybody telling you the number is coming back is guessing.
What the record does support is that the grades below never spiked, so they never fell. A 9.4 is worth more now than it was in 2021. If you are holding at a loss it is at the very top of the ladder, and only there.
My honest advice in that position is to decide on the comic rather than the price you paid. If you want to own it, the number on your receipt is irrelevant. If you want the money back, this book is not the one that will do it, and there is no cost to waiting on a comic you already own.
What I would not do is sell a 9.8 into this market to fund something else. The grade has been at both ends of a three-to-one range inside nine years, and the one thing the record makes clear is that whichever end it sits at today is not permanent.
Selling a Teen Titans #1
- Say which issue you have. Brave and the Bold #54 is the first appearance, #60 is the naming, and this is the first own title.
- Twelve cents, early 1966. Later Teen Titans #1 relaunches are ordinary comics.
- Do not price a 9.8 off 2021. That grade has given back the entire spike since.
- Aim for 7.0 if you are borderline. The step up from 5.5 is roughly double the money.
Send photographs and I will price it against where this book is now rather than where it was in 2021, which on this comic is a difference of nearly three to one.
Which Titans book?
Shoot the cover so the title and number both read clearly. Twelve cents and a January-February 1966 date is the one I want to see; the later relaunches share the name and nothing else. Text the cover over.
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
- Brave and the Bold #54. The first appearance, two years before this one.
- The 100 most valuable Silver Age comics. And what each one really sold for.
- Comic book price guides. And why a peak-year figure keeps getting quoted years afterwards.
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