Cassie Lang Grows Up
Cassie Lang, Scott’s daughter, appears prominently in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and exhibits both shrinking and growing powers. Cassie first used her powers in comics in Young Avengers #6, wherein she appears as Stature. This comic has been speculated on for quite a while, so it’s not surprising that we didn’t see a huge bump in sales due to the film’s release. Only two graded copies have sold.
The highest was a 9.8 going for $150 in a February 18 eBay sale. That’s a bit of a bump from the 30-day average of $139 and the 90-day average of $134. However, it’s also down significantly from its peak price of a slashed $630 set in May 2021. In general, there’s been a bit of a lift for Young Avengers #6 since reaching a low point in its downward spiral of a $110 average sales price in December.
M.O.D.O.K.
M.O.D.O.K. made his MCU debut in the film. He made his comics debut in Tales of Suspense #94. As with Young Avengers #6, there has been a fair amount of speculative buying of this comic. We’ve seen six sales of graded copies since the movie’s premiere, as opposed to eight sales in the first half of February.
Of those six, the high was an 8.5 selling for $465 in a February 19 eBay auction. That’s the lowest sale in this grade since June 2022, so the film hasn’t really stopped the downward decline for this comic.
Rama-Tut
The mid-credits scene shows us Jonathan Majors as Pharoah Rama-Tut, an earlier incarnation of Kang who made his comics debut in Fantastic Four #19. There have been sales of four graded copies if you include the one on February 16 as due to early releases of the film on Thursday evening.
The highest was a 6.0 graded copy selling for $875 on eBay on February 19. This surpassed the $709 sales price in an eBay auction that ended on February 17. Both are down from a November 22 eBay auction in which a 6.0 sold for $1,009. However, both of these sales are substantially higher than the $419 average sales price for a 6.0 in 2020, showing that it pays to play the long game with Silver Age keys.
Immortus
Immortus made his MCU debut as well in the mid-credits scene, and there were sales of nine graded copies of Avengers #10, his first comics appearance, as a result. An 8.0 sold for a slashed $800 on February 18, down roughly $100 from the average price paid in the first half of February of $860.
The sales volume is somewhat impressive – collectors are clearly seeing this as a more important key now and purchasing copies at a slightly higher rate. Prices, however, aren’t increasing as a result.
Council of Kangs
The final shot of the mid-credits scene is an arena filled with a sea of Kangs. We first see the Council of Kangs in Avengers #267, a comic that saw the greatest sales lift as a reaction to the film. 27 graded copies have sold so far.
The highest was a slashed $329 sale for a 9.8 graded copy. That’s a bump up from the 30-day, 90-day, and 1-year averages but not enough to see this as a major shift from a long-term trend that has seen relatively flat prices in the $265 to $275 range since August 2022.
Victor Timely
The post-credits scene was what looked like a scene lifted straight from the upcoming season 2 of Loki. In this scene, we see Jonathan Majors as Victor Timely explaining the wonders of time to an audience that included Loki and Mobius. The comic sales reaction for Avengers Annual #21, Victor's first appearance, may seem muted with only one graded copy selling since the film’s premiere.
It was a 9.8 graded copy selling for a slashed $300 on February 17, presumably tying the all-time high from July 2022. However, keep in mind that there are only 27 graded copies in the CGC census. That’s a low number for a Copper Age comic but not surprising since it wasn’t considered at all to be a key issue. The true impact of Victor Timely’s MCU debut can be found in the 41 sales of raw copies on eBay in just four days.
There are plenty of raw copies out there, so there’s no need to rush to find one. Let others sweep in, and when the price plummets in a few weeks, that’s when to make a purchase if you really want a copy.
Do you see the lackluster reactions to MCU-related comics as part of the general downward trend in prices? Or is it due to the lower quality of MCU productions? Or is it both? Let us know below.
