Sonic the Hedgehog #1 $1.50 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]

As one of the top 100 most valuable variants in our guide this year, we rate $1.50 price variant copies of Sonic the Hedgehog #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 $20 since 2020, or about +25% on a percentage basis. Meanwhile, CPV newsstand copies in 9.2 have increased in value by $29 since 2020, or about +23%. With a $1.50 variant NM- value of $154, Sonic the Hedgehog #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 Sonic the Hedgehog #1?
I have a copy of Sonic the Hedgehog #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 the Hedgehog #1. If you own a price variant copy, then lucky you, it is worth $154 in 9.2 (Near Mint Minus).

  Suggested answer: Check the cover price of your copy of Sonic the Hedgehog #1, and if it is $1.50 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 the Hedgehog #1 listed in various grades shown on this page down to 2.0 (Good).

✔️Accepted answer: As of the October 2023 CGC census, the price variant has census rarity of 3.2%, with 15 price variant copies on record versus 452 regular copies.

✔️Accepted answer: The regular cover price version is worth about $67 in VF/NM whereas the $1.50 variants are worth $103.

✔️Accepted answer: Among surviving copies of Sonic the Hedgehog #1, the market area that received the $1.50 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 $1.50 copies of Sonic the Hedgehog #1 was Canada — hence the name Canadian Price Variant as a short-hand for $1.50 Price Variant. All of this adds up to a market value for the $1.50 variant approximately 54% 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 the Hedgehog #1 is worth about $54 in Very Fine (8.0) whereas the $1.50 variants are worth $83.

✔️Accepted answer: In FN (6.0) shape, the regular cover price version version of Sonic the Hedgehog #1 is worth about $38 whereas the $1.50 variants are worth $58.

✔️Accepted answer: Down in VG (4.0) Very Good condition, the regular cover price version version of Sonic the Hedgehog #1 is worth about $25 whereas the $1.50 variants are worth $39.

✔️Accepted answer: The price guide value way down in GD (2.0) Good condition for Sonic the Hedgehog #1 is about $13 for the regular cover price version version whereas the $1.50 variants are worth $19.

✔️Accepted answer: Sonic the Hedgehog #1 $1.50 variant copies in 9.2 have increased in value by $29 since 2020, or about +23% in 6 years (from our 2020 guide edition to our 2025 guide edition).