Top 20 Fantastic Four Comic Books by Value

The 20 Most Expensive Fantastic Four Comic Books

The series which started the Marvel Age of Comics has finally been committed to the MCU, with a movie scheduled for 2025 set to lay the ghosts of past flops to rest.

The team was created by Stan Lee because he was bored of writing western stories.

He also noticed that DC Comics had begun introducing superheroes again after a long period in the wilderness.

Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Girl, the Human Torch and the Thing went into space and were exposed to cosmic rays, which granted them their super-powers.

Interest in this classic series has never been higher, and values of the key issues listed below have been strong before, during and after the pandemic.

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20 Most Expensive Fantastic Four Comic Books

Fantastic Four #1
1st Mole Man;
1st Marvel Super-Team;
the comic which began the Marvel Age of Comics

Lowest price $5,000

Average price $18,000

Record price $1,500,000

There are few comics as important as Fantastic Four #1. This book turned Marvel Comics into a household name.

When you consider what would follow the FF into the Marvel universe, there is a strong argument for this being THE most important comic book ever published.

Spider-Man, Ant-Man, Hulk, Thor, the Avengers, Daredevil, and hundreds of other characters all owe their existence to the Fantastic Four.

Fantastic Four #2
1st Skrulls

Lowest price $500

Average price $3,000

Record price $90,000

The Skrulls (as seen in the Miss Marvel movie) are shapeshifting aliens who desire to take over Earth.

Fantastic Four #13
1st Red Ghost;
1st Watcher

Lowest price $100

Average price $800

Record price $22,000

The Red Ghost is a nice side note, but The Watcher is the real draw of this issue. Watcher has expanded to touch many parts of the MCU.

Fantastic Four #45
First Inhumans

Lowest price $50

Average price $400

Record price $45,000

The Inhumans came to earth with the desire to blend in with mankind. Many are friendly, though some (like Gorgon, the cousin of Black Bolt) are antagonists.

Fantastic Four #50
Classic Silver Surfer cover

Lowest price $100

Average price $600

Record price $44,000

Combining a quintessential Silver Surfer cover image with a chocolate-brown cover which shows wear badly, this issue is a great favorite with collectors and tough in higher grades.

Fantastic Four Annual #1
Very early Spider-Man appearance

Lowest price $75

Average price $400

Record price $40,800

Somewhat resembling the Mexican luche libre wrestler style art from the Avengers #11 appearance, this very popular early Marvel annual is either the 4th or 5th total appearance of Spider-Man.

Fantastic Four #110
Green printing error of color on the cover

Lowest price $200

Average price $600

Record price $5,400

The growing interest in error variants means issues like this have only one way to go -- up in value.

Other Key Fantastic Four Comic Book Appearances

Amazing Spider-Man #1
Fantastic Four crossover

Lowest price $4,000

Average price $15,000

Record price $1,380,000

The poor man's AF#15, Amazing Spider Man comics #1 is the  most important issue in the solo run (although you could make an argument for #14, the first Green Goblin, #50, 1st Kingpin, or #129, 1st Punisher, which are all HUGE keys).

One of the few Silver Age comics to break the $1M barrier, the famous Curator copy graded a CGC 9.8, but most of the issues which turn up are usually in the 3.0 to 5.0 range.

Daredevil #2
Electro crossover, Fantastic Four appearance

Lowest price $50

Average price $350

Record price $44,000

A classic example of the FF crossing over into other Marvel series. Daredevil #2 is three years after the first FF appearance in 1961.

Sub-Mariner #1 (1968)
1st solo comic; FF appearance

Lowest price $60

Average price $450

Record price $9,300

The Sub-Mariner is going to be a big part of the MCU in the next phase. His appearances have taken off in value in recent years after a long period of being mostly overlooked.

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