Archie #389 $1.20 Variant Value

From: The 2024 CPV Price Guide for Canadian Price Variants (Type 1A) by Bill Alexander, Tim Bildhauser, Paul Clairmont, Greg Holland, Jon McClure, Jayden Mitchell, Benjamin Nobel, Conan Saunders, Doug Sulipa, and Angelo Virone [ introduction, table of contents, all titles, other price guide editions]

What is the value of Archie #389?
I have a copy of Archie #389 and I want to know what this comic book is worth in different grades as a first printing?

✔️Accepted answer: The answer depends on whether you own a Type 1A cover price variant copy, or a regular/plain copy of Archie #389. If you own a price variant copy, then lucky you, it is worth $8 in 9.2 (Near Mint Minus).

  Suggested answer: Check the cover price of your copy of Archie #389, and if it is $1.20 then congratulations, you own the more-rare cover price variant type which has a higher value. If not, then you own the regular type which has a lower value.

  Suggested answer: The higher the grade, i.e. the better the condition, the stronger the value. Our guide only goes as high as 9.2 (Near Mint-), with values for Archie #389 listed in various grades shown on this page down to 2.0 (Good).

✔️Accepted answer: The regular cover price version is worth about $4 in VF/NM whereas the $1.20 variants are worth $6.

✔️Accepted answer: Among surviving copies of Archie #389, the market area that received the $1.20 cover price copies was a restricted area representing less than 10% the population of the total North American comics market. That's because the destination market for $1.20 copies of Archie #389 was Canada — hence the name Canadian Price Variant as a short-hand for $1.20 Price Variant. All of this adds up to a market value for the $1.20 variant approximately 50% higher than the regular copies in Very Fine / Near Mint condition (as of our 2024 CPV Price Guide Edition).

✔️Accepted answer: The regular cover price version version of Archie #389 is worth about $3 in Very Fine (8.0) whereas the $1.20 variants are worth $5.

✔️Accepted answer: In FN (6.0) shape, the regular cover price version version of Archie #389 is worth about $2 whereas the $1.20 variants are worth $3.

✔️Accepted answer: Down in VG (4.0) Very Good condition, the regular cover price version version of Archie #389 is worth about $1 whereas the $1.20 variants are worth $2.

✔️Accepted answer: The price guide value way down in GD (2.0) Good condition for Archie #389 is about $0.50 for the regular cover price version version whereas the $1.20 variants are worth $1.