Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
- Maker
- Mirage Studios
- Year
- 1984
- Rank
- 22 of 100
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 by Mirage Studios (1984) is ranked 22 in the FLOAT 100 for Comics. It sold for $250,000 in September 2021. First appearance of the Turtles; the most valuable independent/black-and-white comic ever and the launch of the indie boom.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
First appearance of the Turtles; the most valuable independent/black-and-white comic ever and the launch of the indie boom.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (1st printing), CGC 9.8
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $250,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- September 2021
CGC 9.8 first printing realized a record $250,000 at ComicConnect, Sep 2021. A CGC 9.4 sold ~$42,000. No clean 2024-26 high-grade first-print sale surfaced.
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08