Best Selling Comics on eBay in September 2026

Graphic novels, at 27.7% of their 2,305 live listings, then graded at 22.5%, DC at 21.8% and Spiderman at 19.0%. The slow half is Marvel at 14.4%, vintage at 10.5%, Superman at 10.4%, and manga slowest at 6.8%, despite manga sitting on 18,340 live listings, the second-deepest pool in the category. That is a four-fold spread between the fastest segment and the slowest. One note on the arithmetic before you use it: these eight segments cover 52.8% of category units and 48.2% of live listings, so compare them with each other rather than against the 12.7% category figure.

About one listing in eight, on the category-wide figure. An estimated 28,943 comics sold in the trailing 30 days against 228,075 live listings, a 12.7% sell-through. That is the whole category including its largest accounts, and they flatter it: ten sellers take 42.9% of the units from 4.9% of the live listings, and the rest of the category clears 7.6%. By segment the range runs from 27.7% for graphic novels down to 6.8% for manga. One caveat on what the number is: it divides units sold in the window by listings live in the window, so it describes a market rate rather than the fate of any single listing.

Graphic novels and graded are the only two segments ZIK scores Low competition, on 2,305 and 2,553 live listings, and both also score High opportunity. They are also the first and second fastest on the page, clearing 27.7% and 22.5%. DC is the third High opportunity segment, Medium competition, clearing 21.8% on 8,682 listings at $57.20 a sale. The catch on the first two is size: 638 and 575 sales in the window, about 4% of category units between them, so neither will fill a store alone. Against them, Marvel and manga sit on 72,224 listings between them and both score Low opportunity.

The category averages $43.53 an issue, and that average hides a great deal. Segments run from graphic novels at $22.61 up to graded at $421.05, a spread of about nineteen to one. Marvel realises $32.34, Spiderman $43.24, vintage $49.71, DC $57.20, manga $57.85 and Superman $76.59. Buyer search terms spread the same way: cgc graded comic averages $482.28 a sale and first appearance comic $142.57, while marvel comics is the cheapest of the ten tracked terms at $16.26 and dc comics is $18.56. Certification and key-issue status set the price here, not the publisher printed on the cover.

On four of the eight segments this window, comics realise more than the mean asking price of live listings, which reverses the pattern most categories show. Superman realises $76.59 against a $36.90 asking mean, more than double it. Graded realises $421.05 against $366.00, DC $57.20 against $46.22, and Spiderman $43.24 against $37.63. The other four run the ordinary way: manga asks $73.86 and realises $57.85, vintage asks $60.63 and realises $49.71. The honest reading is that where realised sits above the ask, the cheap end of the listing pool is not what sells, so the listings pulling that asking mean down are the ones sitting still.

By a wide margin in this window. The graded segment realises $421.05 an issue against $43.53 across the category, and on 575 sales, about 2% of category units, it took $242,104, which is 19.2% of category revenue and within $10,000 of Marvel's total from about a thirteenth of the sales. Speed is not the trade-off it often is: graded clears 22.5% of its 2,553 live listings, second fastest of the eight segments. Search agrees, with cgc graded comic the highest-priced of the ten tracked terms at $482.28. What this data cannot tell you is whether grading a particular book pays, because certification costs are not in it.

Cheap children's graphic novels, mostly. Five of the twelve highest-volume listings are Cat Kid Comic Club hardcovers, and the top one sold 139 copies at $3.94. That is worth knowing before you read the volume column as a sourcing list, because those sellers are making about four dollars a copy, not the $43.53 category average. The revenue in that table sits somewhere else entirely: a Japanese One Piece promo set sold 62 units at $267.97 for $16,614, which is 73% of the revenue across all twelve rows. Two of the twelve rows are trading cards rather than comics, and one is a parenting paperback.

Two opposite businesses sit in the same table. pleasantviewcomics moved the most units at 7,808, about 27% of everything the category sold, from 7,822 live listings at $11.65 a book. blissard sold 1,276 for $239,917, about $188 each, and out-earned it more than two and a half times on a sixth of the catalogue. psa took $107,676 from 51 sales, roughly $2,111 each. What separates them is price per book, not catalogue size: it takes sixteen of pleasantviewcomics' sales to match the revenue of one of blissard's. The concentration is worth planning around, because these ten accounts take 48.0% of category revenue and 42.9% of its units from 4.9% of the live listings.

ZIK weighs units sold, sell-through and competition together rather than ranking on volume alone. That is why Marvel leads on units with 7,777 sales and still scores Low opportunity, while graded sells 575 and scores High: Marvel competes against 53,884 live listings, graded against 2,553. Manga makes the point from the other side, second-deepest listing pool at 18,340 and slowest on the page at 6.8%, which earns it Low opportunity too. The segments are keyword-matched buckets rather than a clean split of the category, covering 52.8% of units and 48.2% of listings, so treat them as a sample. Every figure comes from ZIK's own marketplace data for the trailing 30 days.