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The Median Is the Truth Serum: How to Read the Market When One Trophy Sale Warps Everything
Here’s a handy way to read any dataset: start with the median and volume, check whether one big sale is skewing the totals, compare mean vs median for distortion, then look at the most-traded titles/issues to see what’s really moving.
Top of the Stack: Best-Selling CGC Comic Titles by Decade (Dec 30, 2025 – Jan 12, 2026)
The CGC-graded market posted $19,205,091 in recorded sales from 18,890 individual books over the last 14 days, with a $95 median holding steady across major venues for comics, magazines, and pulps. The fortnight’s defining moment was a true hobby landmark: Action Comics (1938) #1 CGC 9.0 sold via ComicConnect for $15,000,000.
Metropolis Collectibles/ComicConnect Sets New $15 Million Record with Action Comics #1 (CGC 9.0)
Metropolis Collectibles/ComicConnect has set a new all-time collectibles record with the private $15 million sale of a CGC 9.0 Action Comics #1, surpassing the previous comic and sports card highs.
New Year, New Cape: Resolutions and Fresh Starts for Superheroes
When the calendar flips and the confetti settles, most of us set out with a clean slate—eat better, spend less, be kinder, go to the gym more than twice. But what about our favorite comic book superheroes?
Top of the Stack: Best-Selling Comic Titles by Decade (December 16–29, 2025)
A $90 median and 19,046 slabs tells the story: this wasn’t a thin ‘headline-only’ fortnight—it was a market with breadth. ASM stayed liquid, TMNT delivered the knockout sale, and the 2020s kept punching above their weight with new-era leaders that are starting to look like real pillars rather than passing noise.
Top 10 Collector Hub Articles of 2025
Ten Collector Hub reads that cut through 2025’s noise—spotting true scarcity, exposing hype and fakes, decoding grading/pressing, and tracking the real market signals worth following.
Deck the Halls with Batarangs and Web-Shooters: How Comic Book Heroes Spend the Holidays
It’s easy to imagine superheroes battling alien invasions, time paradoxes, and mutant uprisings. But what happens when the holidays roll around? Do they hang up the cape for cocoa, or keep the spandex on standby for seasonal shenanigans? As it turns out, comic book heroes don’t just survive Christmas and New Year’s—they celebrate them with flair, drama, and surprisingly heartfelt moments.
2025 Year in Review (Top of the Stack, CGC-Graded Comics)
Across the 2025 fortnights where we published total sales and total volume, the CGC-graded market didn’t just move — it marched: at least 165,694 slabs traded hands for more than $57.6M in recorded sales.
Top of the Stack: Best-Selling Comic Titles by Decade (December 2–15, 2025)
$9.4M in sales on 23,489 books with a $90 median—led by Amazing Spider-Man volume and a headline Action Comics #1 sale at $554,428.
Behind the Panels — The Unsung Heroes of Comic Book Creation
Comic books are often celebrated for their colorful splash pages, iconic heroes, and captivating story arcs. The spotlight usually falls on the marquee names: the writer whose story weaves through the panels, or the artist whose style defines a generation.
Pedigree Comics’ Holidays High Grade Magazine Mania Auction Ends December 15th!
Pedigree Comics’ Holidays Magazine Mania Auction kicks off Friday night, December 5th, featuring 100+ high-grade CGC-certified magazines—many from the famed Massachusetts Collection—each with no reserve, no buyer’s premium, and a low $20 minimum bid.
Have Comics Been a Good Long-Term Investment?
Over 55 years, a 1970 “blue-chip” basket of top Golden Age comics bought for $3,620 and held would now be worth about $7.9 million—crushing inflation, stocks, and gold with a 15% annualized return—though that performance is driven by key first appearances and classic covers and doesn’t guarantee future results.
Top of the Stack: Best-Selling Comic Titles by Decade (November 18 – December 1, 2025)
Platinum/Golden Age material absolutely dwarfs every other era this fortnight, with over $11.4M in top-5 title sales, far outpacing Silver, Bronze, and Modern eras combined.
The Burden of the Mask: How Superheroes Handle Family and Friends
We all have baggage. Some of us carry debt, trauma, or student loans. Superheroes? They carry all that plus a secret identity, a rogues' gallery, and the constant risk of getting their loved ones kidnapped. No big deal, right?
Superman #1 Sells for $9.12 Million, Becomes Most Expensive Comic Book Ever Sold
A CGC 9.0 copy of Superman #1 (1939) just sold for $9.12 million, shattering the record for the most expensive comic ever sold. Discovered in a cardboard box in a family attic, this copy became the headline item at Heritage Auctions’ Comic Books Signature® Auction on Nov. 20.
Top of the Stack: Best-Selling Comic Titles by Decade (November 4 – November 17, 2025)
Silver Age titles led by Amazing Spider-Man faced fierce competition this fortnight, as Platinum/Golden Age sales surged past $700K, overtaking Bronze and Modern eras to claim the top spot.
GPA Surpasses 7 Million Sales — Over $2.25 Billion in Logged Transactions
Since 2001, GPA has tracked every sale that shapes the CGC-graded comic market. Now, with 7 million logged, it’s more than data — it’s history in motion.
ComicConnect's Event Auction 64 Gets Ready with More Vital Titles!
ComicConnect is just days from the start of Event Auction 64 — launching on Monday, November 17th, as the world's premier auction house for comics keeps adding rare vintage titles, amazing original art, and more!