Comic Safari Sells Detective Comics 31 for Incredible $24,000!

Comic Safari Sells Detective Comics 31
for Record Price

Sale of rare issue of Detective Comics smashes recent sale price

Comic Safari is pleased to announce it has set a record sale for a scarce copy of an issue of Detective Comics featuring an early appearance of Batman.

Detective Comics 31 features the fifth appearance of Batman and the copy sold by Comic Safari is graded at 1.8 by CGC, which is one of only 4 copies at this grade on the CGC census.  Detective Comics 31 features a prolific cover by Batman creator Bob Kane and also introduces the Batplane along with Bruce Wayne's first love interest, Julie Madison.  The issue also features an early Batman villain known as The Monk.

On September 26th a CGC 1.8 Detective Comics 31 sold at auction for $17,000.00.  Three days later, Comic Safari sold a copy of the same issue in the same grade for an amazing $24,000.00.

"It's just a fantastic book and I'm very pleased with the sale," said Comic Safari owner Royce Myers.

"We also sold a CGC 3.0 graded copy of Detective Comics 35 for an impressive $18,500.00.  These sales demonstrate how strong the comic book market is for books of this caliber," Myers added.

The books are part of The Lake Golden Age Collection, an original owner collection of comics featuring 13 of the top 100 most valuable Golden Age comics that was discovered by Comic Safari.

For more information on this collection, you can view a catalog of the collection here (PDF format), or you can contact Comic Safari here.


Comic Safari is an online shop featuring comics, Upstart Comic Buttons, Toon Tumblers, and comic book memorabilia.  Comic Safari also buys comic book collections and related items.