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Top of the Stack: Best-Selling CGC Comic Titles by Decade (Jan 13–26, 2026)
Trophy sale, not trophy fortnight: The $69k Amazing Fantasy #15 is a headline, but only 1.32% of total sales — the fortnight isn’t riding on one book.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Behind the Panels: The Best Collaborations Between Comic Book Creators and Movie Directors
Let’s get one thing straight — translating a comic book to film is no mere act of adaptation. It's alchemy. You're taking the shorthand visual poetry of 22-page panels, dreamed up by overcaffeinated visionaries, and converting them into multimillion-dollar spectacles. Sometimes, that transformation gets messy. Other times? Magic.
Top of the Stack: Best-Selling Comic Titles by Decade (October 21 to November 3, 2025)
$4.9M in sales across 19,341 graded books, with a $99 median price. Amazing Spider-Man (1963) dominated volume again, while a CGC 6.0 Hulk #1 topped the charts at $42.5K.
Top of the Stack: Best-Selling Comic Titles by Decade (October 6 to October 19, 2025)
A steady fortnight of sales saw Silver Age staples hold strong while modern indies and overlooked decades gained quiet momentum across the CGC market.
Comeback Issues: The forgotten comics now surging
The next sleeper hit might already be in your longbox — you just haven’t looked at it in a while.
Top of the Stack: Best-Selling Comic Titles by Decade (September 23 – October 6, 2025)
The graded market moved $4.5M across 19,875 slabs with a $92 median. Amazing Spider-Man (1963) led volume at 1,326 sales, while Amazing Fantasy #15 topped the charts at $30K. Silver and Bronze Age keys drove most value, with Absolute Batman (2024) emerging as the standout modern mover.