While most collectors are familiar with the big Golden Age books that sell each month, there are so many more worth investigating. Some interesting books sold in December, including a high grade record setter and one of the earliest Golden Age comics ever published.
More Fun Comics #32
We start off with the first Golden Age issue of a series that was published from 1935 to 1947. DC released this particular issue the same month as Action Comics #1, the start of the Golden Age. There are 16 graded copies in CGC’s population report. A 3.5 sold in the December 16 Heritage auction for $2,220 in the only recorded 2025 sale, and set a record in the process. There was one sale in 2024, a 1.8 that went for $1,440. You would need to go back five years for a previous sale, a 7.5 that sold for $1,560 in a 2019 Heritage Auction. It’s a rare book and an intriguing look back at DC’s comic book offerings at the cusp of the Golden.
Jumbo Comics #97
A 9.6, one of only two at the top of CGC’s population report, sold in the December 9 Heritage auction for $2,640. The issue, published by Fiction House in March 1947, features a Sky Girl story with art (presumably) by Matt Baker. Unfortunately, that’s a decrease in value for the issue in this grade. The other 9.6 graded copy sold in a November 2025 Heritage auction for $3,360. Those are the only two recorded sales in the grade. Lower grades are much more affordable, as seen by an 8.0 that sold in a May 7, 2025 eBay sale for just $300. The CGC population count for this issue currently stands at 29 graded copies.
Battlefront #2
The second issue of this classic Atlas war series set a record with the sale of a 9.2 graded copy – the sole top-of-census copy – in the December 23 Heritage auction. Someone got a nice Holiday gift! Featuring a riveting Joe Maneely cover and published in July 1952, this issue is tough to find in any grade; there are only 10 graded copies of this issue. The previous high sale was an 8.0 that went in a 2023 Heritage auction for $780.
Amazing Comics #1
With a comparatively plentiful population count of 66 CGC graded copies (plus at least one CBCS graded copy), it’s not as if this is a particularly rare Golden Age comic. Yet, the December 22 sale of an 8.0 in a December 22 fixed price on eBay is worth noting. It’s the highest graded copy to sell since a 9.6 Promise Collection copy sold for $19,200 in a 2021 Heritage auction. It also marks the highest price paid since that sale. This October 1944 issue sports a really cool Alex Schomburg cover featuring Bucky, Toro, and all the chaos one would expect from the artist’s work.
Liberty Scouts Comics #2
OK. Full disclosure here: with five sales in 2025, it’s hard to say that this one represents a unique sale. A 5.5 sold in a December 11 Heritage auction for $2,160. It wasn’t a record setter and it’s a mid grade copy. So, why feature it here? First, it’s the first issue in a two-issue series that the average collector has never heard of. Second, and most importantly, it has a great Paul Gustavson cover featuring not one, but two Nazi U-boats decorated with swastikas and a Nazi tank, fully fitting with its May 1941 release by Centaur. The publisher, which would go defunct a year later, published Bill Everett’s first comic book work and a predecessor – Comics Magazine Company – published early pre-Superman work by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
