DC Comics Presents #51 Newsstand 75¢ 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 DC Comics Presents #51, at a 75¢ variant NM- value of $38. 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, 75¢ price variant copies of DC Comics Presents #51 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 2018, or about +20% on a percentage basis. Meanwhile, CPV newsstand copies in 9.2 have outperformed, increasing in value by $8 since 2018, or about +27%.

What is the value of DC Comics Presents #51?
I have a copy of DC Comics Presents #51 and I want to know what this comic book is worth in different grades as a first printing?

✔️Accepted answer: The answer depends on the type that you own. For DC Comics Presents #51, DC published a direct edition type (exceptionally well preserved by collectors as direct edition comics were the type sold in comic shops), and two newsstand types which were sold to the general public on newsstands (a regular cover price version and the 75¢ price variant). If you own a price variant, lucky you, it is worth $38 in 9.2 (Near Mint Minus).

  Suggested answer: Check whether the cover of your copy of DC Comics Presents #51 has a graphical logo or a bar code box. If it has a graphical logo, sorry to break it to you but you own a commonplace direct edition copy.

  Suggested answer: If your copy of DC Comics Presents #51 has a bar code box on the cover, then you've got a newsstand copy! Is it the more-rare price variant? Now for the moment of excitement: is the cover price of your newsstand copy 75¢? If so, congratulations, you own the cover price variant!!

✔️Accepted answer: The 75¢ price variant newsstand copies of DC Comics Presents #51 are worth 33 in Very Fine / Near Mint (9.0) condition.

✔️Accepted answer: The 75¢ price variant newsstand copies of DC Comics Presents #51 are worth $27 in Very Fine (8.0) condition.

✔️Accepted answer: In FN (6.0) shape, the 75¢ price variant newsstand copies of DC Comics Presents #51 are worth $19.

✔️Accepted answer: Down in VG (4.0) Very Good shape, the 75¢ price variant newsstand copies of DC Comics Presents #51 are worth $13.

✔️Accepted answer: The price guide value way down in GD (2.0) Good condition for DC Comics Presents #51 is $6 for the 75¢ price variant newsstand copies.

✔️Accepted answer: DC Comics Presents #51 75¢ variant newsstand copies in 9.2 have outperformed, increasing in value by $8 since 2018, or about +27% in 7 years (from our 2018 guide edition to our 2024 guide edition).