The 50 most valuable comics of 2026
Golden Age keys to modern variants — real closed-sale prices, re-ranked every day as the market moves.
Methodology
JunkPal tracks real closed eBay sales for 125,076 comic books across every publisher and era, aggregated into monthly median prices per issue. This ranking orders current raw (ungraded) medians — the same numbers that power our comic book price guide. The top of the list is exactly what the grade-and-era model predicts: Golden and Silver Age keys — first appearances, origin stories, #1s — where a CGC 8.0 can bring 3–4× a 6.0 and supply shrinks every year. Modern keys spike on movie news and cool off just as fast; the trend chips below show which. Price trends compare the recent 6-month median with the prior 6. Prices in USD; grade-tier breakdowns are on each comic's price page.
- 1AAction Comics #7 (1938)→ SteadyeBay ↗$69,015
- 2SSuperman #1 (1939)→ SteadyeBay ↗$51,175
- 3CCaptain America #1 (1941)↗ Rising · +331%eBay ↗$48,306
- 4PPep Comics #22 (1941)↗ Rising · +37%eBay ↗$25,881
- 5BBatman #1 (1940)→ SteadyeBay ↗$23,143
- 6A$17,825
- 7D$14,167
- 8D$13,900
- 9AAction Comics #2 (1938)→ SteadyeBay ↗$12,000
- 10DDetective Comics #28 (1939)↘ Falling · -64%eBay ↗$10,863
- 11CCaptain America #37 (1944)↗ Rising · +146%eBay ↗$10,800
- 12DDetective Comics #31 (1939)↗ Rising · +77%eBay ↗$10,622
- 13A$9,400
- 14D$9,205
- 15C$7,484
- 16A$7,256
- 17S$6,481
- 18D$5,936
- 19C$5,738
- 20A$5,576
- 21P$5,227
- 22C$5,167
- 23A$5,101
- 24A$5,000
- 25U$4,950
- 26D$4,677
- 27A$4,652
- 28A$4,636
- 29D$4,500
- 30C$4,444
- 31A$4,400
- 32A$4,320
- 33A$4,270
- 34S$4,254
- 35C$4,235
- 36D$4,159
- 37D$4,080
- 38A$4,080
- 39C$4,062
- 40A$4,050
- 41P$4,021
- 42T$3,983
- 43A$3,810
- 44I$3,800
- 45D$3,750
- 46D$3,597
- 47W$3,597
- 48F$3,553
- 49D$3,509
- 50J$3,500
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