Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 Newsstand $1.00 Variant Value
From: The 2025 Newsstand CPV Price Guide for Canadian Price Variants (Type 1A) by Tim Bildhauser, Paul Clairmont, Greg Holland, Jon McClure, Salvatore Miceli, Jayden Mitchell, Benjamin Nobel, Conan Saunders, Doug Sulipa, and Angelo Virone [ introduction, table of contents, all titles, other price guide editions]
9.2 | Near Mint - | $300 |
9.0 | Very Fine / Near Mint | $201 |
8.0 | Very Fine | $161 |
6.0 | Fine | $113 |
4.0 | Very Good | $75 |
2.0 | Good | $38 |
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 $1.00 Newsstand Cover Price Variant, Marvel, 12/1984, Published in the USA
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 $1.00 Canadian Price Variant Issue Notes:
Origin of the alien symbiote that eventually becomes Venom.
#7 in this year's Top 100.
Angelo notes: Along with ASM #252, Spectacular #90 and Marvel Team-up #141 this is another must own book for the Spider-man collector/investor interested in the black suit that eventually becomes Venom.
Jayden notes: A CGC 9.0 CPV sold at CaptCanComics.ca on 5/31/2022 for $400 CAD; a CGC 9.6 CPV sold on 8/27/2023 for $1,000 CAD
Ben notes: Classic cover contender by Mike Zeck and John Beatty.
Bill notes: A CGC 9.8 variant sold for $1,000 in December 2017; a CGC 9.6 variant sold for $615 in 2018; a CGC 8.5 variant sold for $173.50 in August 2018
Conan notes: A CGC 7.0 variant sold at MyComicShop on 7/31/2023 for $185.00 (buy it now)
Conan notes: Example past variant sales at MyComicShop: a raw VG 4.0 on 5/9/2022 for $86 (buy it now), a raw 3.5 on 7/16/2020 for $82, a CGC 9.4 on 2/14/2020 for $130, a CGC 9.4 on 3/17/2020 for $140, a raw 8.0 on 7/6/2020 for $160, a CGC 9.4 on 1/16/2020 for $162, a raw 8.0 on 11/23/2020 for $329
Conan notes: Example variant sales at MyComicShop: a raw GD 2.0 on 3/11/2024 for $60.00 (buy it now), a CGC 9.0 on 2/26/2024 for $126.00 (at auction)
Doug notes: Non-Stop High Demand
CGC label note: Origin of alien symbiote that eventually becomes Venom. $1.00 cover price.
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As one of the top 100 most valuable variants in our guide this year, we rate $1.00 price variant copies of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 FIVE STARS as a collectible, and the hands-down preferable type to collect for the issue as compared to regular copies. In addition to everything the issue has going for it (as detailed in the issue notes in the page above), we note the price guide value movement since 2018. Regular copies in 9.2 have increased in value by $145 since 2018, or about +207% on a percentage basis. Meanwhile, CPV newsstand copies in 9.2 have increased in value by $155 since 2018, or about +107%. With a $1.00 variant NM- value of $300, Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 is part of the proverbial cream of the CPV crop, with a value greater than approximately 98% of our guide's entire coverage universe.
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 Comic Book FAQ
What is the value of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8?
I have a copy of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 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 Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8, Marvel 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 $1.00 price variant). If you own a price variant, lucky you, it is worth $300 in 9.2 (Near Mint Minus).
Suggested answer:
Check whether the cover of your copy of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 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 which is worth about $215 (still, that's not too shabby).
Suggested answer:
If your copy of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 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 $1.00? If so, congratulations, you own the cover price variant!!
How rare is the Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 $1.00 cover price variant?
✔️Accepted answer:
As of the October 2023 CGC census, the price variant has census rarity of 1.5%, with 486 price variant copies on record versus 31787 regular copies.
What is Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 worth in VF/NM condition?
✔️Accepted answer:
The direct edition (logo on cover) is worth about $144 in VF/NM whereas the $1.00 newsstand variants are worth $201.
Why are the Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 newsstand cover price variants worth so much more than the direct edition copies?
✔️Accepted answer:
As collectibles, direct edition copies are already at a disadvantage compared to newsstand copies in the highest grades, because direct editions were extraordinarily well preserved as the distinct type sold in specialty comic shops. The comic shop owners ordered direct edition copies of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 at a discount to cover price, but on a non-returnable basis (the graphical logo was to tell non-returnable copies apart from their returnable newsstand counterparts). When their orders arrived, the comic shop staff handled the books with extreme care to preserve their condition, and then the comic book collectors who shopped there typically preserved their purchases in plastic bags with backing boards. By contrast, newsstand copies were treated as reading material with no staff training to handle the books with any semblance of care, and they were then sold to the general public; unsold copies were returned for credit and typically pulped/recycled forward. Only those newsstand copies of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 that were taken home and preserved by collectors would survive today in the highest grades. Among surviving newsstand copies of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8, the market area that received the $1.00 cover price newsstand copies was a restricted area representing less than 10% the population of the total North American newsstand market. That's because the destination market for $1.00 copies of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 was Canadian newsstands — hence the name Canadian Price Variant as a short-hand for $1.00 Price Variant. All of this adds up to a market value for the $1.00 variant approximately 40% higher than the direct edition in Very Fine / Near Mint (9.0) condition, as of our 2025 CPV Price Guide Edition.
In VF condition, how much is Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 worth?
✔️Accepted answer:
The direct edition version of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 is worth about $115 in Very Fine (8.0) whereas the $1.00 newsstand variants are worth $161.
What is the value of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 in Fine condition?
✔️Accepted answer:
In FN (6.0) shape, the direct edition version of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 is worth about $81 whereas the $1.00 newsstand variants are worth $113.
What is the approximate Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 value in very good condition?
✔️Accepted answer:
Down in VG (4.0) Very Good condition, the direct edition version of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 is worth about $54 whereas the $1.00 newsstand variants are worth $75.
What is the Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 price guide value in good condition?
✔️Accepted answer:
The price guide value way down in GD (2.0) Good condition for Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 is about $27 for the direct edition version whereas the $1.00 newsstand variants are worth $38.
Has the Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 $1.00 variant from Marvel been a good investment?
✔️Accepted answer:
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 $1.00 variant newsstand copies in 9.2 have increased in value by $155 since 2018, or about +107% in 8 years (from our 2018 guide edition to our 2025 guide edition).
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