It’s simply impossible for a human to determine the authenticity of every sale coming our way. “I sold a comic last week, why isn’t it showing up on your site?”Īt CovrPrice, we capture tens of thousands of sales DAILY.
To see the most recent sales data for each condition be sure to look at the individual sales data listed in the tables below. Here we take the average for each condition and display it as a data point. Our goal for this graph is to show overall sales trends for officially graded comics. With this in mind, CovrPrice only displays actual sales data (taken across multiple online marketplaces… not just eBay) to help you better determine the best value for your comics.
All of this adds up to a market value for the $1.00 variant approximately 350% higher than the direct edition in Very Fine / Near Mint (9.0) condition, as of our 2022 CPV Price Guide Edition.Slabbed Sales Data COVRPRICE’S TAKE ON COMIC VALUESĪ comic is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. That's because the destination market for $1.00 copies of Balder The Brave #1 was Canadian newsstands - hence the name Canadian Price Variant as a short-hand for $1.00 Price Variant. Among surviving newsstand copies of Balder The Brave #1, the market area that received the $1.00 cover price newsstand copies was a restricted area representing less than 10% the population of the total North American newsstand market. Only those newsstand copies of Balder The Brave #1 that were taken home and preserved by collectors would survive today in the highest grades. By contrast, newsstand copies were treated as reading material with no staff training to handle the books with any semblance of care, and they were then sold to the general public unsold copies were returned for credit and typically pulped/recycled forward. When their orders arrived, the comic shop staff handled the books with extreme care to preserve their condition, and then the comic book collectors who shopped there typically preserved their purchases in plastic bags with backing boards. The comic shop owners ordered direct edition copies of Balder The Brave #1 at a discount to cover price, but on a non-returnable basis (the graphical logo was to tell non-returnable copies apart from their returnable newsstand counterparts). As collectibles, direct edition copies are already at a disadvantage compared to newsstand copies in the highest grades, because direct editions were extraordinarily well preserved as the distinct type sold in specialty comic shops.
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