Scooby-Doo #1 $1.65 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]

As one of the top 100 most valuable variants in our guide this year, we rate $1.65 price variant copies of Scooby-Doo #1 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 2020. Regular copies in 9.2 have increased in value by $12 since 2020, or about +60% on a percentage basis. Meanwhile, CPV newsstand copies in 9.2 have outperformed notably, increasing in value by $57 since 2020, or about +178%. With a $1.65 variant NM- value of $89, Scooby-Doo #1 is part of the proverbial cream of the CPV crop, with a value greater than approximately 98% of our guide's entire coverage universe.

What is the value of Scooby-Doo #1?
I have a copy of Scooby-Doo #1 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 Scooby-Doo #1. If you own a price variant copy, then lucky you, it is worth $89 in 9.2 (Near Mint Minus).

  Suggested answer: Check the cover price of your copy of Scooby-Doo #1, and if it is $1.65 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 Scooby-Doo #1 listed in various grades shown on this page down to 2.0 (Good).

✔️Accepted answer: The regular cover price version is worth about $28 in VF/NM whereas the $1.65 variants are worth $60.

✔️Accepted answer: Among surviving copies of Scooby-Doo #1, the market area that received the $1.65 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 $1.65 copies of Scooby-Doo #1 was Canada — hence the name Canadian Price Variant as a short-hand for $1.65 Price Variant. All of this adds up to a market value for the $1.65 variant approximately 114% higher than the regular copies in Very Fine / Near Mint condition (as of our 2025 CPV Price Guide Edition).

✔️Accepted answer: The regular cover price version version of Scooby-Doo #1 is worth about $23 in Very Fine (8.0) whereas the $1.65 variants are worth $48.

✔️Accepted answer: In FN (6.0) shape, the regular cover price version version of Scooby-Doo #1 is worth about $16 whereas the $1.65 variants are worth $33.

✔️Accepted answer: Down in VG (4.0) Very Good condition, the regular cover price version version of Scooby-Doo #1 is worth about $11 whereas the $1.65 variants are worth $22.

✔️Accepted answer: The price guide value way down in GD (2.0) Good condition for Scooby-Doo #1 is about $5 for the regular cover price version version whereas the $1.65 variants are worth $11.

✔️Accepted answer: Scooby-Doo #1 $1.65 variant copies in 9.2 have produced gains, increasing in value by $57 since 2020, or about +178% in 6 years (from our 2020 guide edition to our 2025 guide edition).