Top of the Stack: Best-Selling CGC Comic Titles by Decade (Jan 28–Feb 10, 2026)

Insights
Written By GPAnalysis Team

GPAnalysis tracked $17,647,514 in CGC-graded sales across major venues over the past fortnight, spanning 21,726 individual books (comics, magazines, and pulps). The median price paid was $89.

Source: GPAnalysis.com, sales recorded from Jan 28–Feb 10, 2026.

Market Observations

🏆 Trophy Sale

The top sale across all books sold was Superman (1939–1986) #1 CGC 8.5 (1939) at $7,000,000 — a single book representing roughly 39.7% of the entire fortnight’s sales.

🕷️ The Volume King

The fortnight’s most-traded title was Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963), with 1,279 books sold, totalling roughly $0.4M in sales (~2.3% of total dollars).

✨ This fortnight is a “trophy sale” fortnight — and the numbers prove it.

With ~$7.0M coming from one Superman #1, the headline total ($17.6M) is heavily top-loaded. The median staying at $89 is the tell: day-to-day buying didn’t suddenly become a higher-priced market — one monster sale simply sat on top of it.

👀 Volume barely moved — dollars exploded.

21,726 books is right in the “normal” trading lane… yet sales ballooned. That gap is exactly what a single historic transaction does: it warps the total without changing the market’s underlying churn.

🕷️ Spider-Man is still the engine room.

The 2020s lane is dominated by fresh, chaseable product—variant culture, new #1s, and “gallery” style titles that behave like quick-turn collectibles in slabs.

👑 Golden-era dollars are doing something rare: they’re dominating.

When Superman and Batman lead the decade sales tables by millions, the older lanes stop being “background texture” and become the headline driver.

💪🏽 Modern stays chaseable — but it’s not the story this time.

The 2020s still show that new-release collectibility (Absolute Batman, gallery titles, quick-turn keys), but this cycle belongs to blue-chip history.

Decade Leaders

Top 5 Titles by Sales Volume Across the Eras.

Let’s step through the ages/eras by decade

Platinum/Golden Age

📰 1930s — A Superman shockwave over the pulp bedrock

Top 5 titles by volume

  1. Weird Tales (1923-1954)

  2. Superman (1939-1986)

  3. Famous Funnies (1934-1955)

  4. Shadow (1931-1949)

  5. Operator #5 (1934-1939)

Top 5 titles by sales

  1. Superman (1939-1986): $7,004,389

  2. Adventure Comics (1938-1983): $13,420

  3. Weird Tales (1923-1954): $5,545

  4. Famous Funnies (1934-1955): $1,836

  5. Jumbo Comics (1938-1953): $976

Most traded issues

  1. Famous Funnies (1934-1955) #17 (1935)

  2. Famous Funnies (1934-1955) #53 (1938)

  3. Amazing Stories (1926-1970) #108 (1935)

  4. Weird Tales (1923-1954) #125 (1934)

  5. Weird Tales (1923-1954) #143 (1935)

🦇 1940s — Batman brings the thunder

Top 5 titles by volume

  1. Batman (1940)

  2. Detective Comics (1937)

  3. Superman (1939-1986)

  4. Captain Marvel, Jr. (1942-1953)

  5. All-Star Comics (1940-1978)

Top 5 titles by sales

  1. Batman (1940): $6,036,685

  2. Superman (1939-1986): $29,066

  3. Detective Comics (1937): $28,079

  4. More Fun Comics (1936-1947): $21,533

  5. All-Star Comics (1940-1978): $16,170

Most traded issues

  1. Batman (1940) #38 (1947)

  2. Batman (1940) #36 (1946)

  3. Time (1923) #19 (1945)

  4. Brick Bradford (1948-1949) #6 (1948)

  5. Batman (1940) #23 (1944)

🧪 1950s — Keys and classics, with Showcase leading the lane

Top 5 titles by volume

  1. Combat Kelly (1951-1957)

  2. Four Color (1939-1962)

  3. Batman (1940)

  4. Detective Comics (1937)

  5. Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories (1940)

Top 5 titles by sales

  1. Showcase (1956-1978): $21,359

  2. Action Comics (1938): $17,127

  3. Detective Comics (1937): $15,245

  4. Crime SuspenStories (1950-1955): $13,475

  5. Flash, The (1959-1985): $12,424

Most traded issues

  1. Action Comics (1938) #252 (1959)

  2. Best of the West (1951-1954) #1 (1951)

  3. Showcase (1956-1978) #8 (1957)

  4. Flash, The (1959-1985) #105 (1959)

  5. Strange Mysteries (1951-1955) #12 (1953)

🕷️ 1960s — Silver Age Marvel stays stacked and predictable

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): $159,814

  2. Fantastic Four (1961): $136,548

  3. X-Men, The (1963-1981): $118,670

  4. Avengers, The (1963): $90,006

  5. Amazing Fantasy (1962-1996): $48,183

Most traded issues

  1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963) #50 (1967)

  2. Fantastic Four (1961) #48 (1966)

  3. Avengers, The (1963) #57 (1968)

  4. Sub-Mariner, The (1968-1974) #1 (1968)

  5. Fantastic Four (1961) #49 (1966)

Bronze Age

🌌 1970s — Bronze staples: Spidey, Hulk, X-Men, Star Wars

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): $113,777

  2. Incredible Hulk, The (1962-1999): $91,787

  3. X-Men, The (1963-1981): $64,685

  4. Giant-Size X-Men (1975): $41,630

  5. Star Wars (1977-1986): $33,580

Most traded issues

  1. Star Wars (1977-1986) #1 (1977)

  2. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963) #129 (1974)

  3. Spectacular Spider-Man (1976-1998) #1 (1976)

  4. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963) #194 (1979)

  5. X-Men, The (1963-1981) #101 (1976)

🕸️ 1980s — Big covers, big keys, and TMNT muscle

Top 5 titles by volume

  1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963)

  2. Uncanny X-Men, The (1981)

  3. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984-1985)

  4. Daredevil (1964-1998)

  5. X-Men, The (1963-1981)

Top 5 titles by sales

  1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963): $117,020

  2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1984-1993): $44,777

  3. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984-1985): $32,507

  4. X-Men, The (1963-1981): $30,696

  5. Batman (1940): $28,131

Most traded issues

  1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963) #300 (1988)

  2. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984-1985) #8 (1984)

  3. Wolverine Limited Series (1982) #1 (1982)

  4. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963) #252 (1984)

  5. Wolverine (1988) #1 (1988)

Modern Age

💥 1990s — Spec-era staples still rotate hard

Top 5 titles by volume

  1. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963)

  2. Spider-Man (1990-1998)

  3. X-Men/New X-Men (1991)

  4. Spawn (1992)

  5. Uncanny X-Men, The (1981)

Top 5 titles by sales

  1. Spider-Man (1990-1998): $33,078

  2. New Mutants, The (1983-1991): $32,819

  3. Spawn (1992): $28,928

  4. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963): $26,186

  5. Uncanny X-Men, The (1981): $23,820

Most traded issues

  1. Spider-Man (1990-1998) #1 (1990)

  2. X-Men/New X-Men (1991) #1 (1991)

  3. Spawn (1992) #1 (1992)

  4. New Mutants, The (1983-1991) #98 (1991)

  5. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963) #361 (1992)

🧟 2000s — Invincible keeps proving it’s not a phase

Top 5 titles by volume

  1. Invincible (2003)

  2. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963)

  3. Batman (1940)

  4. Walking Dead (2003)

  5. Spawn (1992)

Top 5 titles by sales

  1. Invincible (2003): $70,306

  2. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963): $9,909

  3. Batman (1940): $6,853

  4. NYX (2003): $6,694

  5. Walking Dead (2003): $5,817

Most traded issues

  1. Invincible (2003) #1 (2003)

  2. Masters of the Universe (2002) #1 (2002)

  3. Highlander (2006) #0 (2006)

  4. Amazing Spider-Man, The (1963) #601 (2009)

  5. NYX (2003) #3 (2004)

🕷️ 2010s — The same modern keys keep resurfacing

Top 5 titles by volume

  1. Invincible (2003)

  2. Spawn (1992)

  3. Venom (2018)

  4. Ultimate Fallout (2011)

  5. Amazing Spider-Man (2015)

Top 5 titles by sales

  1. Invincible (2003): $31,077

  2. Ultimate Fallout (2011): $24,392

  3. Spawn (1992): $9,628

  4. Edge of Spider-Verse (2014): $9,311

  5. Something is Killing the Children (2019): $8,522

Most traded issues

  1. Ultimate Fallout (2011) #4 (2011)

  2. Venom (2018) #3 (2018)

  3. Sex Criminals (2013) #1 (2013)

  4. Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #800 (2018)

  5. Something is Killing the Children (2019) #1 (2019)

🧨 2020s — New-release collectibility stays loud

Top 5 titles by volume

  1. Absolute Batman (2024)

  2. Bangers Cover Gallery (2025)

  3. Fantasy of Cosplay Comic Cover Gallery (2024)

  4. Amazing Spider-Man (2022)

  5. Batman (2016)

Top 5 titles by sales

  1. Absolute Batman (2024): $78,027

  2. Amazing Spider-Man (2022): $16,369

  3. Transformers (2023): $14,004

  4. Bangers Cover Gallery (2025): $13,606

  5. Something is Killing the Children (2019): $10,086

Most traded issues

  1. Bangers Cover Gallery (2025) #2 (2025)

  2. Absolute Batman (2024) #1 (2024)

  3. Fantasy of Cosplay Comic Cover Gallery (2024) #5 (2025)

  4. Waifu Chronicles (2025) #1 (2025)

  5. Power Hour (2022) #3 (2025)

Final Panel: What the Fortnight Reveals

This was a historic-sale fortnight. The market still moved at a normal clip (21,726 books, $89 median), but one Superman #1 transaction rewrote the headline total — almost 40% of all dollars in a single strike. Underneath the trophy layer, the usual heartbeat remains: ASM (1963) is still the most-traded title, and modern collectors are still chasing the newest, loudest slabs in the 2020s lane.

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