The first season of Invincible, which debuted two and a half years ago on Prime Video, was a hit with critics and fans alike scoring a 98% with critics and 92% with audiences. Invincible returns on November 4th for a four-episode first half of a second season. Amazon will release the second half of season two in 2024.
If the second season also turns out to be a hit, you can expect at least a jump in sales volume of Invincible's key issues, including his first full appearance in Invincible #1.
There are only 47 CGC 9.8 yellow label copies of Invincible #1 on the CGC Census.
PWCC's copy of Invincible #1 is rare for two reasons: (1) there are only 414 9.8 CGC graded copies of Invincible #1; and (2) among those 414, only 47 of them are signed by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker. Compared to Ultimate Fallout #4, which I consider to be the most important key issue of the Modern Age (variants not included), Invincible #1 is extremely rare; specifically, there are 4,474 9.8 copies of Ultimate Fallout #4 on the CGC Census. In other words, if you want a 9.8 yellow label of Invincible #1, it's going to be REALLY hard to find someone who's willing to sell it.
This book is so rare, it's a little difficult to estimate its value. There are so few sales, there isn't much of a track record to analyze. That being said, there are a few reference points that we can consider. Let's first take a look at a standard blue label 9.8.
According to GoCollect, the FMV of a blue 9.8 is $3,500. The last three recorded sales of a blue label 9.8 all occurred in July 2023; each sold for $3,250. As you can see in the screenshot from GoCollect below, each of these sales are way off a 9.8's all-time high sale of $5,999 in September 2021 (an inflated sale due to the "comic boom"), but they are still nearly two times higher than what a 9.8 was selling for in late 2019 (roughly $1,800) just before the comic boom.
The last time there was a recorded, fixed-price sale of a yellow label 9.8 occurred in October 2020; it sold for $3,000. During that same month, a blue label 9.8 sold for $1,849. To at least one of these buyers, the value of Kirkman and Walker's signature was worth over $1,000.
Based on limited sales data, a 9.8 yellow label of Invincible #1 is probably worth at least $4,000.
Based on the limited sales data that we have, I estimate that a yellow label 9.8 is worth anywhere from $4,000 to $4,500 today. If the second season of Invincible is a hit, you can expect that range to climb closer to at least $5,000. PWCC's price seems right to me -- in fact, unless I'm missing something, it seems like a pretty good deal.
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