The monthly Top 10 CGC Submissions is a curated list of comics that have been submitted the most often to CGC during any given month. CGCData.com pulls the data straight from CGC over the past 30 days.
For the month of January 2026, we see many familiar faces -- Copper Age issues published by Marvel related to either the great Todd McFarlane (four issues) or the alien symbiote that would later become Venom (three issues). But one of these things is not like the others -- a Modern Age comic recently published by DC that keeps showing up as #1: Absolute Batman #1.
And without further ado, here are the Top 10 CGC submissions during the month of January 2026:
1. Absolute Batman #1 (DC, 2024);
2. Spawn #1 (Image, 1992);
3. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 (Marvel, 1984);
4. X-Men #1 (Marvel, 1991);
5. Amazing Spider-Man #300 (Marvel, 1988);
6. Spider-Man #1 Silver Edition (Marvel, 1990);
7. Omega Men #3 (DC, 1983);
8. Incredible Hulk #340 (Marvel, 1998);
9. Amazing Spider-Man #252 (Marvel, 1984); and
10. Wolverine Limited Series #1 (Marvel, 1982).
Absolute Batman #1 has become a mainstay on the monthly Top CGC Submissions list.
For months now, many community members have said investor enthusiasm for Absolute Batman #1 is merely FOMO and a bubble that's about to burst. That may still happen, but for those of you who regularly follow this CGC submissions blog, I've been writing about Absolute Batman #1 for over a year now. Absolute Batman #1 has sat at the top of the monthly CGC submissions list ever since it first became available for grading about 14 months ago. CGC has already graded 4,202 copies of this issue, and, during the past 30 days, it has seen a nearly 20% increase in submissions. This may be comparing apples to oranges, but during that same period of time, the #2 comic on this list, Spawn #1, has seen a less than 0.7% increase in submissions. If it continues at this pace, it has a chance of passing Batman #423 in three to four months in terms of total number of CGC graded copies.
Even with the massive increase of supply of graded copies, the value of a CGC 9.8 continues to rise with the 30-day sales average of $377 nearly twice the 1-year average of $203:
Of course, values can't continue to rise like this forever (this isn't NVDA after all), and growth will eventually have to taper and perhaps plateau. Still, with each passing month, this issue looks like more of a mainstay on the CGC submissions list (like another Spawn #1) rather than a flash in the pan. In my opinion, Absolute Batman #1 is a comic book phenomenon the likes of which we haven't seen in many years.
Omega Men #3 is the second most commonly submitted DC book of all-time.
In addition to Absolute Batman #1, there's one other DC issue that has consistently appeared in the top 10 during the past year: Omega Men #3. About four or five months ago, this issue surpassed the 10,000 CGC submissions milestone making it the second most commonly graded DC book of all-time (the most commonly graded DC book is Batman: The Killing Joke). Collectors have been paying a lot more attention to this book recently with James Gunn finally revealing footage of Jason Momoa as Lobo in the upcoming Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow film. As you can see from the chart below, the value of a CGC 9.6 copy of this issue has been steadily rising since 2012:
We'll see if Omega Men #3 has any staying power once the hype around Lobo's appearance in Woman of Tomorrow dies down.
