Undervalued & Overlooked Comics 1/28 - Silver Age

It’s time as soon as extra for Undervalued and Overlooked Comics! This time we’ll be trying on the Silver Age. Take a take a look at the comics which can be flying underneath most collectors’ radar.

First Classic Green Arrow Costume

Green Arrow started sporting his costume now considered because the traditional look in The Brave and the Bold #85, cowl dated July 1969. That’s proper; Ollie was sporting his outdated Golden Age Robin Hood knockoff by many of the Silver Age. Whereas most DC characters had revamped seems early on within the Silver Age, Green Arrow simply saved chugging alongside in his dated duds.

Thanks to Neal Adams afficionados, this isn’t fairly an missed comedian, though it’s shut. It is, nevertheless, like many DC Silver Age comics, undervalued.

There are 283 graded copies of The Brave and the Bold #85 within the CGC census, with essentially the most plentiful grade being 8.5. The final sale of an 8.5 graded copy was in July 2022 when one bought for $240 in a set worth eBay sale. It’s a marginal improve over the 4 copies that bought in 2020 for $200. However, once you take a look at current greenback worth, you notice that this comedian was value $282 all the best way again in May 2015. So, this e-book has really misplaced worth, and I’m undecided why.

It’s a cool e-book. Neal Adams artwork. New Green Arrow costume. And it’s comparatively low-cost. Definitely value including to your assortment.

First Space Ghost

If you had been a child within the late Nineteen Sixties by the mid to late Nineteen Seventies, you in all probability keep in mind a few of the cool journey and sci-fi primarily based Hanna-Barbera cartoons. One of essentially the most riveting was Space Ghost. As was inevitable on the time, Space Ghost acquired his personal comedian e-book collection, starting with Space Ghost #1, revealed by Gold Key in 1967. There are 224 graded copies of this comedian within the CGC census. There haven’t been many gross sales over the previous yr so we’ll have to take a look at the 5.5 grade, one of many few with a number of gross sales to see if we will give you any tendencies.

Unfortunately for Space Ghost #1, the tendencies are much like what we’ve seen in so many different comics of late. After a 5.5 graded copy bought for $528 in a February 2022 Heritage public sale, the value plummeted to $208 in an October 2022 eBay public sale. The worth has risen since – an excellent signal for this e-book’s worth – to $300 in a December 22 eBay sale.

It’s laborious to say that this pattern will proceed, nevertheless. If the value drops under $300 once more, this might very a lot be thought of an undervalued comedian. It’s laborious to say what IP will take off at the present time – Space Ghost did have a second life within the Space Ghost Coast to Coast animated collection – but when you’ll find this comedian on a budget, it simply could repay in spades.

A Marvel First You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

At the daybreak of the Silver Age, earlier than Marvel got here up with the superhero components that may change comics endlessly, Stan and Company had been throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what would stick. One that didn’t stick was romance one-shot The Romances of Nurse Helen Grant #1, cowl dated July 1957. Marvel – Atlas on the time – was continually popping out with new collection within the late Fifties however they usually allow them to final at the very least a couple of points. Not this one; it was seemingly cancelled earlier than they even acquired any gross sales information.

There are six graded copies of The Romances of Nurse Helen Grant #1 within the CGC census. Only two of these copies have recorded gross sales. The most up-to-date was the highest graded 8.0 which bought for $720 within the December Heritage public sale. The earlier sale was a 4.0 promoting for $335 in a June 2017 ComicConnect public sale. Considering the period of time that has lapsed and the distinction in grades, it seems just like the sale within the Heritage public sale was a little bit of a discount.

Clearly, that is past an missed comedian – that is diving deep into the forgotten comedian class. Can’t actually say that it’s underpriced, however why not take a shot if you’ll find one.

Well, that’s all we now have time for this week. Join us subsequent week as we check out some undervalued and missed Copper Age comics.