January 2012 Pricing Trends

The DC 52 restart has officially lost its steam, with only variants, like the Mike Choi cover for Batman (2nd Series) #4/A taking flight from their original price to $7.50 in NM. Meanwhile, the 2009 relaunch of Batgirl (3rd Series) isn’t doing so well, with most available issues selling for less than cover, with Batgirl (3rd Series) #14 at $1.75.

An unconventional Harvey-Award-winning Western is attracting collectors again, but real sales and availability raised and dropped the values for Book 2 ($28) and 4 ($14) respectively. The Walking Dead (Image) Sketch variant #81/A sold out quickly, taking an almost 200% leap in value to $8.50 in the process.