Sonic and Knuckles Special #1 $2.50 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]

Within the top 500 most valuable variants of our 2025 CPV Price Guide, you'll find Sonic and Knuckles Special #1, at a $2.50 variant NM- value of $40. 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, $2.50 price variant copies of Sonic and Knuckles Special #1 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 $2 since 2020, or about +14% on a percentage basis. Meanwhile, CPV newsstand copies in 9.2 have outperformed notably, increasing in value by $15 since 2020, or about +60%.

What is the value of Sonic and Knuckles Special #1?
I have a copy of Sonic and Knuckles Special #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 Sonic and Knuckles Special #1. If you own a price variant copy, then lucky you, it is worth $40 in 9.2 (Near Mint Minus).

  Suggested answer: Check the cover price of your copy of Sonic and Knuckles Special #1, and if it is $2.50 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 Sonic and Knuckles Special #1 listed in various grades shown on this page down to 2.0 (Good).

✔️Accepted answer: The regular cover price version is worth about $14 in VF/NM whereas the $2.50 variants are worth $30.

✔️Accepted answer: Among surviving copies of Sonic and Knuckles Special #1, the market area that received the $2.50 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 $2.50 copies of Sonic and Knuckles Special #1 was Canada — hence the name Canadian Price Variant as a short-hand for $2.50 Price Variant. All of this adds up to a market value for the $2.50 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 Sonic and Knuckles Special #1 is worth about $11 in Very Fine (8.0) whereas the $2.50 variants are worth $24.

✔️Accepted answer: In FN (6.0) shape, the regular cover price version version of Sonic and Knuckles Special #1 is worth about $8 whereas the $2.50 variants are worth $17.

✔️Accepted answer: Down in VG (4.0) Very Good condition, the regular cover price version version of Sonic and Knuckles Special #1 is worth about $5 whereas the $2.50 variants are worth $11.

✔️Accepted answer: The price guide value way down in GD (2.0) Good condition for Sonic and Knuckles Special #1 is about $3 for the regular cover price version version whereas the $2.50 variants are worth $6.

✔️Accepted answer: Sonic and Knuckles Special #1 $2.50 variant copies in 9.2 have produced gains, increasing in value by $15 since 2020, or about +60% in 6 years (from our 2020 guide edition to our 2025 guide edition).