CGC-certified Comic Book Featuring Wonder Woman’s First Appearance Poised to Make History
Posted on 6/9/2022
A vintage comic book graded by Certified Guaranty Company® (CGC®) that is renowned for including the origin and first appearance of Wonder Woman may make history this month by breaking the $1 million mark at a Heritage Auctions Comics and Comic Art Signature Auction, scheduled for June 16-19, 2022.
Bidding for the All Star Comics #8 graded CGC 9.4 (lot 91002) had already surpassed $500,000 more than a week before the sale. The December 1941-January 1942 comic, which was published by a DC forerunner, is famous for introducing Wonder Woman. The groundbreaking Golden Age superhero quickly moved to anchor the Sensation Comics series, which began in January 1942.
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The CGC Census has 191 examples of this book, but this is the only one that is graded higher than CGC 9.0. It sold via eBay in August 2017 for $936,223. No comic book that is primarily sought for its connection to a female superhero has ever realized more than $1 million at auction.
Other CGC-certified highlights in the sale include:
- an Amazing Fantasy #15 graded CGC 7.5 (lot 91003)
- a Detective Comics #29 graded CGC 8.5 (lot 91016)
- a Fantastic Four #1 graded CGC 9.0 (lot 91018)
- a Fantastic Four #1 graded CGC 8.5 (lot 94140)
- a Fantastic Four #5 graded CGC 9.4 (lot 91019)
- a Superman #1 graded CGC 1.5 (lot 91026)
- a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 graded CGC 9.8 (lot 91029)
- an X-Men #1 graded CGC 9.2 (lot 91031)
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