Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2 $1.25 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]

With a $1.25 variant NM- value of $60, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2 was very close to making our featured toplist this year. It is definitely within striking distance, and has a value that puts it in the top 5% of all variants in our guide. As such a stand-out within the context of our full coverage universe, we therefore rate $1.25 price variant copies of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2 FIVE STARS as a collectible. 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 $22 since 2020, or about +275% on a percentage basis. Meanwhile, CPV newsstand copies in 9.2 have increased in value by $40 since 2020, or about +200%.

What is the value of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2?
I have a copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2 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 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2. If you own a price variant copy, then lucky you, it is worth $60 in 9.2 (Near Mint Minus).

  Suggested answer: Check the cover price of your copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2, and if it is $1.25 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 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2 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 11.3%, with 52 price variant copies on record versus 408 regular copies.

✔️Accepted answer: The regular cover price version is worth about $26 in VF/NM whereas the $1.25 variants are worth $45.

✔️Accepted answer: Among surviving copies of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2, the market area that received the $1.25 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 $1.25 copies of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2 was Canada — hence the name Canadian Price Variant as a short-hand for $1.25 Price Variant. All of this adds up to a market value for the $1.25 variant approximately 73% 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 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2 is worth about $21 in Very Fine (8.0) whereas the $1.25 variants are worth $36.

✔️Accepted answer: In FN (6.0) shape, the regular cover price version version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2 is worth about $15 whereas the $1.25 variants are worth $25.

✔️Accepted answer: Down in VG (4.0) Very Good condition, the regular cover price version version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2 is worth about $10 whereas the $1.25 variants are worth $17.

✔️Accepted answer: The price guide value way down in GD (2.0) Good condition for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2 is about $5 for the regular cover price version version whereas the $1.25 variants are worth $8.

✔️Accepted answer: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Mini Series #2 $1.25 variant copies in 9.2 have increased in value by $40 since 2020, or about +200% in 6 years (from our 2020 guide edition to our 2025 guide edition).