Holy crap. Have you seen the sales numbers for the first appearance of Carol Danvers? It's blowing up the market with some grades' FMV tripling and even quadrupling since 2016...and we don't even have a teaser trailer for the Captain Marvel movie yet. 

I'm not surprised to see Marvel Super-Heroes #13 to be one of the top silver age comics. We've got the Captain Marvel movie on the horizon, and the hype started with the post-credit scene in Avengers: Infinity War with the vanishing Nick Fury basically sending Carol Danvers a space text. So, yes, I was expecting to see MSH #13 going up in value. But this? This is downright ridiculous.

Ponder this: the real Disney/Marvel Studios hype train hasn't even gotten moving yet. We really know very little about the Captain Marvel movie aside from it's set in the 1990s, and the Skrulls will be there. Wait til we see a trailer and start seeing posters and action figures, and MSH #13 will go full atomic bomb.

Where are we now?

Let's start with the 2016 numbers, which weren't bad. At that time, it was clear that Captain Marvel was coming to the MCU, and collectors get a little excited about Marvel movies. By "a little excited," I mean they lose their minds like a 14-year-old girl at a Taylor Swift concert, and she's just come back on stage for the encore. A 9.4 and a 9.2 were both going for about $1,500, and a 9.0 was just below $1K. Anything 8.5 and below about $550 and you could take home a 7.0 for under $300. If you wanted to keep within, say, $150, you could go for a 4.0 that was averaging $127. For that matter, if you waited until 2017, that same 4.0's average dropped to $110.

Oh, how the tide has turned.

In the past 90 days, every single grade of MSH #13 has either risen or at least maintained. When I say risen, I'm talking Lazarus rising from the grave risen. Some grades' fair market value have quadrupled compared to those 2016 figures. Remember the 4.0 from two paragraphs ago? The one you could have bought for just a shade over $100 this time last year? It's 90-day FMV is $304 and rising.

But that's nothing compared to the 8.5. It is selling for nearly four-and-a-half times its 2016 values.

Here's where you can kick yourself: if you had bought one two years ago, you would have paid on average $546. Over the past three months, it's ballooned to $2,365. Just last month, one sold for a record high $2,883. Before that, the most one had sold for was $1,025 in 2015. And as I mentioned earlier, we haven't even gotten the first trailer.

If you don't want to spend about $2,500 on an 8.5, you can always drop down to a 7.5. That will only cost you, oh, three-and-a-half times what you would have spent in 2016. You see, the 7.5 averaged $347 over nine sales back then. In the past 90 days, five have sold and the FMV stands at $1,227. A month ago, someone paid $1,495 for that 7.5.

Finally, let's go back to the 9.2. They're starting to get completely out of hand. Earlier, I told you it was going for around $1,500. That was a bargain compared to now. Its 90-day average has skyrocketed to $4,844. What's really impressive is that three of the four sales in that three-month span have been between $5,100 and $4,900.

It's going to be fun to report on these prices again when we actually know the plot of the movie.