Creepy #138 $2.25 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]

Within the top 500 most valuable variants of our 2024 CPV Price Guide, you'll find Creepy #138, at a $2.25 variant NM- value of $42. With everything the issue has going for it (as detailed in the issue notes in the page above), and a value that puts it in the top ten percent of all variants in our guide, $2.25 price variant copies of Creepy #138 are watchlist-worthy and we give them a rating of FOUR POINT TWO FIVE STARS as a collectible. Regular copies in 9.2 have increased in value by $3 since 2022, or about +14% on a percentage basis. Meanwhile, CPV copies in 9.2 have outperformed notably, increasing in value by $9 since 2022, or about +27%.

What is the value of Creepy #138?
I have a copy of Creepy #138 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 Creepy #138. If you own a price variant copy, then lucky you, it is worth $42 in 9.2 (Near Mint Minus).

  Suggested answer: Check the cover price of your copy of Creepy #138, and if it is $2.25 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 Creepy #138 listed in various grades shown on this page down to 2.0 (Good).

✔️Accepted answer: The regular cover price version is worth about $22 in VF/NM whereas the $2.25 variants are worth $32.

✔️Accepted answer: Among surviving copies of Creepy #138, the market area that received the $2.25 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 $2.25 copies of Creepy #138 was Canada — hence the name Canadian Price Variant as a short-hand for $2.25 Price Variant. All of this adds up to a market value for the $2.25 variant approximately 45% 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 Creepy #138 is worth about $18 in Very Fine (8.0) whereas the $2.25 variants are worth $25.

✔️Accepted answer: In FN (6.0) shape, the regular cover price version version of Creepy #138 is worth about $12 whereas the $2.25 variants are worth $18.

✔️Accepted answer: Down in VG (4.0) Very Good condition, the regular cover price version version of Creepy #138 is worth about $8 whereas the $2.25 variants are worth $12.

✔️Accepted answer: The price guide value way down in GD (2.0) Good condition for Creepy #138 is about $4 for the regular cover price version version whereas the $2.25 variants are worth $6.

✔️Accepted answer: Creepy #138 $2.25 variant copies in 9.2 have produced gains, increasing in value by $9 since 2022, or about +27% in 3 years (from our 2022 guide edition to our 2024 guide edition).