Batman Comic Book Price Guide: Issues #1 Through #100!

Batman Comic Book Values For #1-100

This Batman comics price guide will help you to value all the early issues of Batman comics, the series which began in 1940.

Click here to see values for Batman comic #101-200.

Remember that there is also the original Detective Comics series, as well as other comic books featuring Batman. If you have found some Detective Comics, then we have a separate guide to Detective Comics values here.

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Batman Comic Book #1 (Spring 1940):
First Appearances of The Joker and Catwoman

Record sale: $567,000
Minimum value (poor but complete): $10,000

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It's hard to know what to say about a Golden Age comic that features the first appearances of The Joker and Catwoman (then simply called, "The Cat"), and which is also a first issue.

The value for Batman comic book #1? Well, as the saying goes, "if you have to ask..." 

But that's not such a silly question, really. Batman #1 can easily pass the $50,000 mark, even in higher grade but restored condition, and the highest-known to date (CGC 9.2) recently sold for over half a million Dollars!

Batman Comic Book #2 (Summer 1940):
The Cat Becomes "Catwoman"

Record sale: $48,000

Minimum value (poor but complete): $200

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Sure, Batman #2 isn't worth what Batman #1 is, but it's still quite valuable to collectors, primarily for the development of the Catwoman character.

In #2, Selina Kyle is still not in costume, but still beautiful and beguiling, and still exerting an influence over our man Bruce. In the lead story, "The Joker Meets the Cat-Woman," Batman and Robin are foiled in their attempt to change The Joker into a model citizen through an operation by a "famous brain specialist." 

So, things don't work out, and the Joker gets kidnapped by some other thugs (who want his help in stealing some gems) before he can be lobotomized,  and Cat-Woman gets involved, helping to save Robin after the Boy Wonder goes and gets himself captured by The Joker.

We begin to see that she can't be all bad at this point, and that along with the sex appeal, there is someone worth Bruce's attention.

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Batman #3

Batman #3
Record sale: $40,000
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Batman Comic Book #4

Batman #4
Record sale: $11,000
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Batman Comic Book #5 (Spring 1941): 1st Batmobile

Record sale: $33,000

Minimum value (poor but complete): $200

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Batman #5, from the Spring of 1941, is the final issue of the title as a quarterly. Henceforth, it would be a bimonthly comic book, and would remain so for 12 years.

Mostly, this issue is notable for the first appearance of the original Batmobile, which would, of course, undergo much evolution over time, but which here has a very dark, almost Gothic appearance. 

The Joker appears, along with a number of other undistinguished villains, but it is not his presence that makes this issue valuable. It's all about the car, baby.

Batman #6

Batman #6
Record sale: $27,000
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Batman Comic #7

Batman #7
Record sale: $22,000
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Batman #8

One of many goofy covers in the Batman series.

Batman #8
Record sale: $15,000
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Batman Comic Book #9

Batman #9
Record sale: $28,000
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Batman #10

Batman #10
Record sale: $13,000
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Batman Comic Book #11-20

Batman Comic #11, June 1942;
First Penguin Appearance in This Title;
Classic Joker Cover

Record Sale: $46,000
Minimum Value: $250

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The Penguin features in a short backing story called "Four Birds of a Feather." Also, a Joker story.

Batman #12, August 1942; First Appearance, the Batcave;
First Depiction of a Jeep on a Comic Book Cover (Bantam Jeep, Precursor to Every Jeep Since)

What could be as groovy as the Batcave? Nothing, that's what.

Secret elevator to stately Wayne Manor, Bat-Plane hangar, Batmobile garage and repair shop. It didn't have girls, but it had everything else that makes life worth living.

Record Sale: $2,800
Minimum Value: $100

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Batman #15, February 1943; Catwoman's New Costume

Record Sale: $8,000
Minimum Value: $80

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A Catwoman story, a Joker story, and a story in which the Dynamic Duo meet Santa Claus.

Now THAT'S why it's called the Golden Age of Comics...

Batman #16, April 1943; First Appearance, Alfred Pennyworth

Record Sale: $7,300
Minimum Value: $100

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Bruce Wayne's butler and frequent cover, Alfred Beagle, first appeared in Batman #16, in April of 1943.

The bumbling son of a retired military agent who had worked for the Wayne family, Alfred applied for the job of butler and all-around "gentleman's gentleman" for Bruce and Dick at Wayne Manor.

Of course, fearing for their secret identities, the two were initially reluctant, although unwilling to hurt Alfred's feelings by rejecting him utterly.

In the end, he became vital to the long-term future of Batman and Robin as one of the supporting Batman characters every fan enjoys.

Batman #19, October 1943

Record Sale: $5,000
Minimum Value: $50

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A Joker story, a Nazi story, and a villain named "Legs Lascomb."

Batman #20, December 1943; First Batmobile Cover Appearance

Record Sale: $9,200
Minimum Value: $100

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And one heck of a Batmobile it is, too. Downright intimidating. Menacing. Bad ass. 

And from the looks of the cover, Bruce is letting Dick drive. He can't be old enough, but that's the kind of guy Bruce is with his youthful ward.

Batman Comic Books #21-30

Batman #23: Joker Cover

Record Sale: $12,650
Minimum Value: $100

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A Joker story and a very weird Dick Sprang cover.

Batman #26: To the Bat-Sled!

Record Sale: $7,100
Minimum Value: $40

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Is the Bat Sled the most ridiculous Bat device ever?

Value of Batman Comic Books #31-40

Batman Comic #31

Record Sale: $1,800
Minimum Value: $10

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Batman Comic #34

Record Sale: $8,000
Minimum Value: $20

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Another great cover featuring the Bat bike.

Batman #39

Record Sale: $3,800
Minimum Value: $20

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Miaow! It's the Catwoman, again.

Joker Cover; Batman Comic Book #40

Record Sale: $7,600
Minimum Value: $50

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The Joker returns.

Batman Comic Price Guide #41-50

Batman Comic #41

Record Sale: $6,500
Minimum Value: $20

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The Penguin vs Batman. Again.

Batman #42, New Look for Catwoman, First Batman Cover Appearance

Record Sale: $4,400
Minimum Value: $20

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Catwoman returns with a new costume and appears for the first time on the cover of Batman.

Va va va VOOM is all we can say.

Batman #45

Record Sale: $1,400
Minimum Value: $20

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Another Catwoman story. Never a bad thing! Christmas cover.

Batman #46

Record Sale: $1,700
Minimum Value: $20

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Batman #47, June 1948; Batman's Origin Retold

Record sale: $8,000
Minimum value: $100

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What's most interesting about Batman #47 is the further development of Batman's origin story.

Joe Chill is murdered by some thugs, angry that he "created" Batman by killing his parents, luckily before he can tell them Batman's secret identity (which Batman has, for some reason, decided to tell him).

In the course of the story, we see the murders of Thomas and Martha Wayne in greater detail than ever before. It's compelling stuff.

Batman #48, August 1948; Batcave Explored

Record Sale: $4,900
Minimum Value: $20

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Classic cover story, "The 1,000 Secrets of the Batcave". Great Win Mortimer cover.

Batman #49, October 1948; First Appearance, Mad Hatter; First Appearance, Vicki Vale

Record Sale: $5,600
Minimum Value: $30

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The Joker is on the cover, but Batman #49 features the debut and only Golden Age appearance of Jervis Tetch, aka the Mad Hatter. He commits hat-based crimes, you see?

Arguably more important is the first appearance of Vicki Vale, the one-time Bruce Wayne love interest, played with extra va-va-va-voom by the not-yet-crazy Kim Basinger in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film.

Bob Kane supposedly modeled Vicki's anatomy after a young Marilyn Monroe.

Batman Comic #50

Record Sale: $5,600
Minimum Value: $20

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Two-Face appearance, when he was still Harvey Kent.

They changed it later to avoid confusion with another of DC's stable with the surname Kent...

Prices of Batman Comic Book #51-60

Batman #53

Record Sale: $2,000
Minimum Value: $20

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Batman #58

Record Sale: $8,900
Minimum Value: $15

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Batman #59, June 1950; First Appearance, Deadshot

Record Sale: $1,100
Minimum Value: $20

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Deadshot, who would go on to much greater fame later (in the Suicide Squad and the Secret Six), makes his debut here pretending to be a new hero.

Batman Comic #60

Record Sale: $3,800
Minimum Value: $20

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Batman #61-70 Comic Book Price Guide

Batman #61, October 1950; First Appearance, Batplane II

Record Sale: $18,000
Minimum Value: $50

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The cover says it all: Batman and Robin spending far too much time in a red room with schematics for the new Batplane drawn on chalkboards, working on a model of their new ride.

Batman #62: Origin of Catwoman / Selina Kyle

Record sale: $8,900
Minimum value: $40

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By now, we're into the technicolor Batman, the early days of the science-fiction-ish, silly Batman era. Whatever the case, we get Selina Kyle's origin story in Batman #62, and it's a doozy.

We also see Catwoman retire from crime, and promise to help out the Gotham PD when she can.

Selina Kyle turns out to have had amnesia. She's not really a crook! She was a stewardess who'd fallen from a crashing airplane, and the whole cat thing was because her father used to own a pet store when she was young.

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Batman #63: Origin and First Appearance, Killer Moth

Record Sale: $7,500
Minimum Value: $25

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First appearance of Cameron Creer, aka Killer Moth, out to help and protect all criminals and get rid of their number 1 nemesis: the Caped Crusader.

Batman #66: Politically Incorrect Cover

Record Sale: $9,200
Minimum Value: $25

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Truly upsetting Joker-as-American-Indian-totem-pole cover, housing an infamous story.

"The Joker's Comedy of Errors" has achieved unintentional fame as the story about the Joker's series of 'boner crimes'.

Look it up. Google that stuff. It's for real. The Joker wants to force Batman into a boner of his own. It's really marvelous to be able to write that.

Batman #69, February 1952; First Appearance, King of Cats

Record Sale: $7,800
Minimum Value: $25

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Catwoman has a new consort: The King of Cats, in his first appearance.

Batman Comic #70

Record Sale: $7,500
Minimum Value: $20

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A Penguin story, and "The Robot Cop of Gotham City." Robot covers are always collectible.

Value of Batman Comic Book #71-80

Batman #73

Record Sale: $1,275
Minimum Value: $20

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Iconic Joker cover.

Batman Comic #80

Record Sale: $1,900
Minimum Value: $15

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Includes a two-page PSA comic warning readers of "The Deadly Dingo."

Price of Batman Comic Books #81-90

Batman #83

Record Sale: $1,900
Minimum Value: $15

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This issue will bowl you over...

Batman #86, September 1954

Record Sale: $1,200
Minimum Value: $10

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Another in the short series of politically suspect Native American Batman covers.

Batman #89, February 1955; First Appearance, Aunt Agatha;
Last Pre-Code Issue

Record Sale: $300
Minimum Value: $10

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One of the many supporting Batman characters who showed up many times over the years...

Batman #90, March 1955; First Issue With Comics Code Seal

Record Sale: $530
Minimum Value: $10

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There'll be no more boner crimes now the Comics Code is in force! You hear?

Value of Batman Comic #91-100

Batman #91, April 1955

Record Sale: $450
Minimum Value: $5

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Giant globes... no, not Vicky Vale.

Batman #92, June 1955; First Appearance, Ace, the Bat-Hound

Record Sale: $1000
Minimum Value: $5

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Debut of Ace, the Bat-Hound. Holy Bow-Wow Batman! Among the sillier of the supporting cast of Batman characters introduced by DC Comics.

Batman #95, October 1955

Record Sale: $1,000
Minimum Value: $5

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Arguably, the last appearance of the "Earth-Two", or Golden Age Batman. Others place the line of demarcation elsewhere.

Perhaps the only appearance of cranberry dungarees on a Batman comic book cover.

Landmark Issue: Batman #100, June 1956

Record Sale: $8,300
Minimum Value: $20

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The 100th issue is always an important landmark in any series, and highly collectible in its own right as a consequence.

Features six of the most famous covers from the previous 99, including the cover to #1, which is perhaps the closest that most of us will ever come to owning one.

See Values for Issues #101-200 of Batman Comic Book

More About the History of Batman Comics

Everyone loves Batman. Don't they? 

They should, if they don't. "But wait," you say, "maybe they just don't know the good Batman, the stuff that really makes Batman Batman." And what would that be? Oh yeah, well, then the dark stuff. You know, the early stuff.

Truth to tell, by the time that the Caped Crusader got a series named for him, he wasn't so dark any more, and wouldn't be until the 1970s.

Three Decades of Frivolous

So, from 1940, when the Batman comic first appeared, until 1970, you say? 30 years of silly? Three decades of frivolous? Well, yes. 

Even so, Batman was just one of the titles that Bruce Wayne strolled through each month. Of course, Batman was not the first title to star that character.

Batman was first introduced in Detective Comics #27, published in May 1939, the Bat-Man was an instant hit, and would occupy the pages of Detective for the next 70+ years.

The title we know as Batman Comic book began as a quarterly spin-off of Detective Comics in the Spring of 1940, eventually becoming a bi-monthly with #5, in September of 1941, but not a monthly until #80, in December of 1953.

The idea that Detective is the "real" Batman comic while the title that bears his name is just another revenue stream for DC is difficult for some to grasp, especially those who don't know the history.

Whatever your relationship with Batman, there are a number of important Golden and Silver Age key issues, although fewer than Detective Comics key issues.

Somehow, the most important events in Batman's timeline always seem to happen in the pages of the comic that gave him his first appearance.

More About Batman Comic #1

Whatever sort of introduction a comic like Batman #1 requires, it is most certainly valuable. True, it is not in the same league as Detective #27, but then again, neither is Detective #28.

With five stories written by Bill Finger (who was not credited at the time, and whose authorship was something of a bone of contention for many years) and penciled by creator Bob Kane, Batman #1 is a Bat-Bonanza, beginning with the first of many retellings of the character's origin.

The Joker features in two stories in this issue, "The Joker," and "The Joker Returns," although neither reveals anything about his origins. That would have to wait until Detective #168.

Either way, the Joker is revealed as a homicidal menace, willing to kill without hesitation if need be, or to stab himself without a care. He is already leaving his victims dead with a Joker-style grin (at least some of the time) and is in almost every way the fully-formed Joker we know and love.

As for Selina Kyle, in her appearance here, she is known only as "The Cat," and does not appear in costume. Rather, she is a cat burglar and ingenue, the first femme fatale of Batman's superhero career.

She is beautiful and intelligent, and tries to seduce Bruce, asking him to become The King of Crime and be her partner, full of promise and suggestion.

He refuses, but when she jumps over the side of the yacht which Batman is using to bring her to justice, he allows her to escape, opting not to pursue her. Hmmm...

There is also a Hugo Strange story in this issue, which on the whole is full of killing and guns, both on the parts of the villains and Batman.

Batman #1, notably, would be the last time that Batman would be seen to kill a villain willingly, or to use a gun, given the new, more youth-friendly direction both the new and established Batman titles were taking.

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