Best Selling Comics on eBay in October 2026

Graphic novels, at 27.1% of their 2,775 live listings, and nothing else is close. DC at 15.5% and Spiderman at 15.2% are next and effectively level, then Marvel at 11.9%. The slow half is graded at 8.9%, Superman at 8.5%, vintage at 7.4%, and manga slowest at 4.6%, despite manga sitting on 23,796 live listings, the second-deepest pool in the category. That is close to a six-fold spread between the fastest segment and the slowest. One note on the arithmetic before you use it: these eight segments cover 51.8% of category units and 49.9% of live listings, so compare them with each other rather than against the 10.3% category figure.

About one listing in ten, on the category-wide figure. An estimated 26,885 comics sold in the trailing 30 days against 261,105 live listings, a 10.3% sell-through. That is the whole category including its largest accounts, and they flatter it: ten sellers take 45.3% of the units from 4.5% of the live listings, and the rest of the category clears 5.9%. By segment the range runs from 27.1% for graphic novels down to 4.6% 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.

Four segments score High opportunity, and they are not alike. Graphic novels are the clearest: Low competition, 2,775 live listings, and the fastest clearance on the page at 27.1%, though at $22.06 a sale and 753 sales the segment is small. DC and Spiderman are the mid-sized pair, both Medium competition, clearing 15.5% on 9,900 listings and 15.2% on 8,840. Graded is the fourth, and it scores High on thin competition rather than on speed: 4,688 listings, $203.09 a sale, but an 8.9% clearance that sits below the 10.3% category rate. Against them, Marvel and manga sit on 85,131 listings between them and both score Low opportunity.

The category averages $38.31 an issue, and that average hides a great deal. Segments run from graphic novels at $22.06 up to graded at $203.09, a spread of about nine to one. Superman realises $23.56, Marvel $26.70, DC $33.06, Spiderman $36.79, vintage $37.55 and manga $52.54. Buyer search terms spread the same way: cgc graded comic averages $96.96 a sale and comic book collection $62.11, while first appearance comic is the cheapest of the ten tracked terms at $8.50, with dc comics at $14.23 and marvel comics at $14.44. The highest-volume listings sit lower again, all twelve under $8. Certification and lot size move the price here more than the publisher printed on the cover.

In this window every one of the eight segments realises less than the mean asking price of its live listings, and none of the gaps is large: no segment asks more than about 1.5 times what it realises. Spiderman is the tightest, realising $36.79 against a $38.32 ask, and graphic novels realise $22.06 against $25.19. Graded realises $203.09 against $253.03, Marvel $26.70 against $34.49 and manga $52.54 against $69.52. Vintage and Superman are the widest and close to level with each other: $57.04 asked against $37.55 realised, and $36.03 against $23.56. The practical reading is that comic asking prices are a usable guide in most segments, and least so for vintage and Superman.

On price, yes. The graded segment realises $203.09 an issue against $38.31 across the category, more than five times as much, and on 419 sales, about 1.6% of category units, it took $85,094, which is 8.3% of category revenue. Speed is the trade-off in this window: graded clears 8.9% of its 4,688 live listings, fifth of the eight segments and below the 10.3% category rate. Search agrees on price, with cgc graded comic the highest-priced of the ten tracked terms at $96.96. Two limits. The segment is a title match on the word graded, so certified books listed without it fall outside. And this data cannot tell you whether grading a particular book pays, because certification costs are not in it.

Cheap children's graphic novels, mostly. Seven of the twelve highest-volume listings are Cat Kid Comic Club books, and the top one sold 178 copies at $3.94. That is worth knowing before you read the volume column as a sourcing list, because every one of the twelve rows sells for under $8, against a $38.31 category average, and the twelve together took an estimated $3,454. The rest include an Archie digest pick-your-issue listing at $1.49, a Halloween presale issue at $5.99 and an Absolute Green Lantern first print at $4.99. Two rows sit at the edge of the category: a parenting paperback in a comic edition, and a 1987 Comic Images G.I. Joe pick-your-number listing at $1.00.

Two opposite businesses sit in the same table. pleasantviewcomics moved the most units at 8,620, about 32% of everything the category sold, from 8,733 live listings at $11.72 a book. psa took the most money, $250,743 from 313 sales, roughly $801 each, which is more than the whole graded segment's $85,094, so that segment's title match is not catching every certified item. blissard sold 532 for $58,189, about $109 each. What separates them is price per item, not catalogue size: it takes about sixty-eight of pleasantviewcomics' sales to match the revenue of one of psa's. The concentration is worth planning around, because these ten accounts take 53.2% of category revenue and 45.3% of its units from 4.5% 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 7,312 sales and still scores Low opportunity, while graphic novels sell 753 and score High: Marvel competes against 61,335 live listings, graphic novels against 2,775. Manga makes the point from the other side, second-deepest listing pool at 23,796 and slowest on the page at 4.6%, which earns it Low opportunity too. The segments are keyword-matched buckets rather than a clean split of the category, covering 51.8% of units and 49.9% of listings, so treat them as a sample. Every figure comes from ZIK's own marketplace data for the trailing 30 days.