Current CGC Market Trends from GPA (2/11/2025 to 2/24/2025)
In the most recent fortnight (February 11th 2025, to February 24th 2025), GPAnalysis reports:
$5.3M in sales from 21,184 individual books across major venues offering CGC-graded comics, magazines and pulps.
The median price point was $90.
The most traded title was Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963), which saw a total of 1,416 books sold, totalling $0.6M in sales.
The top sale across all books sold in the past fortnight was Flash Comics (1940-1949) #1 CGC 6.0 (1940), selling for $48,000.
Total Sales by Decade (Top 5 Titles)
Top 5 breakdown by decade
Title volume, title sales and issues traded
1930's
Top 5 titles by volume:
1. Weird Tales (1923-1954)
2. Doc Savage (1933-1949)
3. Spicy Stories
4. Shadow (1931-1949)
5. Spider (1933-1943)
Top 5 titles by sales:
1. Spicy Mystery Stories (1935-1942): $64,900
2. Action Comics (1938): $57,046
3. Detective Comics (1937): $27,838
4. Weird Tales (1923-1954): $22,326
5. Spicy Adventure Stories (1934-1942): $20,472
Most traded issues:
1. Startling Stories (1939-1955) #5 (1939)
2. Thrilling Detective (1931-1952) #28 (1934)
3. Shadow (1931-1949) #35 (1933)
4. Spicy Mystery Stories (1935-1942) #5 (1935)
5. Planet Stories (1939-1955) #1 (1939)
1940's
Top 5 titles by volume:
1. Batman (1940)
2. Detective Comics (1937)
3. Superman (1939-1986)
4. Planet Stories (1939-1955)
5. Planet Comics (1940-1954)
Top 5 titles by sales:
1. Flash Comics (1940-1949): $55,911
2. Batman (1940): $48,536
3. Detective Comics (1937): $39,807
4. Marvel Mystery Comics (1939-1949): $21,554
5. Superman (1939-1986): $17,782
Most traded issues:
1. Superman (1939-1986) #36 (1945)
2. Batman (1940) #12 (1942)
3. Super-Mystery Comics (1940-1949) #6 (1945)
4. Crime and Punishment (1948-1955) #1 (1948)
5. Batman (1940) #14 (1943)
1950's
Top 5 titles by volume:
1. Batman (1940)
2. Detective Comics (1937)
3. Haunt of Fear (1950-1954)
4. Showcase (1956-1978)
5. Superman (1939-1986)
Top 5 titles by sales:
1. Popular Teen-Agers (1950-1954): $29,590
2. Detective Comics (1937): $21,462
3. Showcase (1956-1978): $19,704
4. Batman (1940): $19,381
5. True-To-Life Romances (1949-1954): $16,100
Most traded issues:
1. Shock SuspenStories (1952-1955) #6 (1953)
2. Batman (1940) #92 (1955)
3. Strange Worlds (1950-1955) #4 (1951)
4. Showcase (1956-1978) #22 (1959)
5. Sports Illustrated (1954) #1 (1954)
1960's
Top 5 titles by volume:
1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963)
2. Fantastic Four (1961)
3. Avengers, The (1963)
4. X-Men, The (1963-1981)
5. Tales of Suspense (1959-1968)
Top 5 titles by sales:
1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963): $293,212
2. Fantastic Four (1961): $195,017
3. X-Men, The (1963-1981): $115,839
4. Avengers, The (1963): $112,379
5. Daredevil (1964-1998): $67,421
Most traded issues:
1. Fantastic Four (1961) #48 (1966)
2. Fantastic Four (1961) #49 (1966)
3. Sub-Mariner, The (1968-1974) #1 (1968)
4. Fantastic Four (Annuals) #6 (1968)
5. Captain America (1968-1996) #100 (1968)
1970's
Top 5 titles by volume:
1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963)
2. X-Men, The (1963-1981)
3. Star Wars (1977-1986)
4. Incredible Hulk, The (1962-1999)
5. Iron Man (1968-1996)
Top 5 titles by sales:
1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963): $155,401
2. Incredible Hulk, The (1962-1999): $125,575
3. Giant-Size X-Men (1975): $44,856
4. X-Men, The (1963-1981): $43,131
5. Tomb of Dracula (1972-1979): $42,976
Most traded issues:
1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963) #129 (1974)
2. Star Wars (1977-1986) #1 (1977)
3. Nova (1976-1979) #1 (1976)
4. Incredible Hulk, The (1962-1999) #181 (1974)
5. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963) #194 (1979)
1980's
Top 5 titles by volume:
1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963)
2. Uncanny X-Men, The (1981)
3. Daredevil (1964-1998)
4. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984-1985)
5. X-Men, The (1963-1981)
Top 5 titles by sales:
1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963): $123,928
2. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984-1985): $33,645
3. Uncanny X-Men, The (1981): $23,427
4. Wolverine Limited Series (1982): $23,229
5. Incredible Hulk, The (1962-1999): $23,093
Most traded issues:
1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963) #252 (1984)
2. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984-1985) #8 (1984)
3. Wolverine Limited Series (1982) #1 (1982)
4. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963) #300 (1988)
5. Wolverine (1988) #1 (1988)
1990's
Top 5 titles by volume:
1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963)
2. X-Men/New X-Men (1991)
3. Spawn (1992)
4. Spider-Man (1990-1998)
5. Uncanny X-Men, The (1981)
Top 5 titles by sales:
1. New Mutants, The (1983-1991): $36,253
2. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963): $23,597
3. Spider-Man (1990-1998): $22,583
4. X-Men/New X-Men (1991): $19,948
5. Uncanny X-Men, The (1981): $18,322
Most traded issues:
1. X-Men/New X-Men (1991) #1 (1991)
2. Spider-Man (1990-1998) #1 (1990)
3. Spawn (1992) #1 (1992)
4. Venom: Lethal Protector (1993) #1 (1993)
5. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963) #361 (1992)
2000's
Top 5 titles by volume:
1. Invincible (2003)
2. Hulk (2008)
3. Batman (1940)
4. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963)
5. Thunderbolts (1997)
Top 5 titles by sales:
1. Invincible (2003): $35,096
2. Walking Dead (2003): $13,422
3. Hulk (2008): $10,953
4. Batman (1940): $10,051
5. NYX (2003): $9,310
Most traded issues:
1. Hulk (2008) #1 (2008)
2. Sentry (2000) #1 (2000)
3. Invincible (2003) #1 (2003)
4. Young Avengers (2005) #1 (2005)
5. Batman (1940) #608 (2002)
2010's
Top 5 titles by volume:
1. Spawn (1992)
2. Invincible (2003)
3. Amazing Spider-Man (2014)
4. Venom (2018)
5. Amazing Spider-Man (2015)
Top 5 titles by sales:
1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963): $18,843
2. Ultimate Fallout (2011): $12,281
3. Spawn (1992): $7,677
4. Something is Killing the Children (2019): $7,613
5. Amazing Spider-Man (2014): $7,275
Most traded issues:
1. Ultimate Fallout (2011) #4 (2011)
2. Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #4 (2014)
3. Something is Killing the Children (2019) #1 (2019)
4. Detective Comics (1937) #1000 (2019)
5. Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #1 (2014)
2020's
Top 5 titles by volume:
1. Amazing Spider-Man (2022)
2. Absolute Batman (2024)
3. Power Hour (2022)
4. Batman (2016)
5. Ultimate Spider-Man (2024)
Top 5 titles by sales:
1. Amazing Spider-Man (2022): $15,428
2. Absolute Batman (2024): $14,373
3. TMNT: The Last Ronin (2020): $9,336
4. Power Hour (2022): $8,877
5. Wolverine (2020): $7,689
Most traded issues:
1. Absolute Batman (2024) #1 (2024)
2. Power Hour (2022) #2 (2024)
3. Wolverine (2024) #1 (2024)
4. Ultimate Spider-Man (2024) #1 (2024)
5. Peyton Blue "Woman of War" (2023) #nn (2024)
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