Here's how much your vintage comics are now worth

Your old comics could be worth millions.
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MJ Franklin
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Here's how much your vintage comics are now worth
Vintage Marvel comics are seen for sale at St. Mark's Comics August 31, 2009 in New York City. Credit: Getty Images

Comics are like a fine wine — they only get better and more valuable with age.

But the question remains: Just how much does the value of a comic book appreciate throughout the years?


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To help answer that, financial comparison website GoCompare worked with comic book expert Duncan McAlpine of The Comic Book Price Guide to create "Comic Gains," an interactive infographic that highlights the price gain of some of the comic book world's most groundbreaking comics and notable superheroes.

Assuming you keep your comics in near mint condition — prices for the infographic were determined assuming that comics were a 9.2 grade — that $0.10 comic book from 1938 could now be worth millions.

Scroll through the infographic below to learn how much your vintage comics may currently be worth.


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MJ Franklin was an Assistant Editor at Mashable and a host of the MashReads Podcast.

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