Top 100 Most Valuable Romance Comics

100 Most Expensive Romance Comics

After the superhero boom of the 1930s and 40s died out, Romance comic books became the hot newsstand seller.

Some of these comics are so rare and obscure that it's hard to get an accurate representation of their true value. For some of these comics, there are only a few copies still in existence.

Almost every time a back issue by one of them sells, it sets a new record price.

Romance comic books are still a developing market, and there is plenty of upside in many of these seldom-seen issues. They are starting to mirror the move in Golden Age horror comics.

A lot of recent record sales have been set due to exploding interest in the artists Matt Baker and L. B. Cole, who both were responsible for covers and interior art of multiple romance books from the early 1950s.

100 All-Time "Hottest" Romance Comics

Giant Comics Editions #12: Diary Secrets. Provocative cover by Matt Baker

Record sale: $24,000
Minimum value: $800

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Venus #1 (1948)
Timely Comics

Record Sale: $24,000
Minimum Value: $80

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Teen-Age Romances #9
Matt Baker cover

Record Sale: $10,800
Minimum Value: $300

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A Moon... A Girl... A Romance #11
Rare EC Comics title

Record sale: $9,000
Minimum value: $80

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Negro Romances #4
Reprints Negro Romances #2; rare

Record sale: $6,500
Minimum value: $250

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Negro Romance #2: Very rare comic

Record sale: $6,300
Minimum value: $100

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Young Romance Comics #1
Considered the first romance comic book ever

Record sale: $5,000
Minimum value: $50

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Teen-Age Romances #14
Matt Baker cover

Record Sale: $4,700
Minimum Value: $100

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Daring Love #1: rare first in series, Steve Ditko's first published art

Record sale: $4,100
Minimum value: $50

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A Moon, a Girl... Romance #12
Last in series, scarce EC Comics issue

Record Sale: $4,000
Minimum Value: $50

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Teen-Age Romances #25

Record Sale: $3,500
Minimum Value: $100

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Teen-Age Romances #2
Matt Baker cover

Record Sale: $3,200
Minimum Value: $100

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Negro Romance #3: Last issue of the rare 1950 series

Record sale: $3,100
Minimum value: $30

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Teen-Age Romances #18
Matt Baker cover

Record Sale: $2,600
Minimum Value: $100

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Romantic Marriage #24: rare, last issue in series

Record sale: $2,300
Minimum value: $50

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Confessions of Love #11
L. B. Cole cover

Record Sale: $2,150
Minimum Value: $100

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Teen-Age Temptations #1: first in series

Record sale: $2,000
Minimum value: $20

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Wartime Romances #13
Matt Baker cover

Record sale: $2,000
Minimum value: $75

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Barbie and Ken #1: First issue of a short-lived series

Record sale: $1,700
Minimum value: $50

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Barbie and Ken #4

Record Sale: $1,550
Minimum Value: $5

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Wartime Romances #5
Matt Baker cover

Record sale: $1,440
Minimum value: $75

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Teen-Age Romances #45
Matt Baker cover

Record sale: $1,425
Minimum value: $175

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Teen-Age Temptations #9
Matt Baker cover

Record Sale: $1,400
Minimum Value: $150

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Young Lovers #18: Elvis Presley cover

Record sale: $1,300
Minimum value: $40

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Romance Trail #1: first in western romance series

Record sale: $1,300
Minimum value: $30

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Confessions of Love #4
L. B. Cole cover

Record Sale: $1,260
Minimum Value: $100

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Personal Love #32
Frank Frazetta romance art, very hard to find

Record sale: $1,200
Minimum value: $50

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Popular Teen-Agers #8
L. B. Cole cover

Record Sale: $1,195
Minimum Value: $25

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Secret Hearts #1: first of a long-running series

Record sale: $1,100
Minimum value: $50

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Wartime Romances #1: first in series

Record sale: $1,000
Minimum value: $25

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Wartime Romances #6
Matt Baker cover

Record sale: $1,000
Minimum value: $50

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Teen-Age Romances #3
Matt Baker cover

Record Sale: $960
Minimum Value: $50

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Teen-Age Romances #43
Matt Baker cover

Record sale: $950
Minimum value: $80

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Popular Teen-Agers #15
L. B. Cole cover

Record Sale: $950
Minimum Value: $65

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Teen-Age Temptations #7
Matt Baker cover

Record Sale: $900
Minimum Value: $100

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Youthful Love #1: first in rare romance comics series

Record sale: $870
Minimum value: $40

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Personal Love #28
Frank Frazetta art

Record Sale: $830
Minimum Value: $50

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Campus Loves #2
Super-rare romance comics key issue

Record sale: $800
Minimum value: $50

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Wartime Romances #4
Matt Baker cover

Record sale: $700
Minimum value: $25

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Romance Trail #3

Record Sale: $690
Minimum Value: $20

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Intimate Confessions #6

Record sale: $650
Minimum value: $30

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A Moon, A Girl... Romance #10
Scarce romance comic by EC Comics

Record Sale: $600
Minimum Value: $20

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Women in Love #1: first in series

Record sale: $550
Minimum value: $20

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Love Experiences #1: first in series

Record sale: $525
Minimum value: $30

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Personal Love #27
Frank Frazetta romance art

Record sale: $500
Minimum value: $50

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Popular Teen-Agers #13
L. B. Cole cover

Record Sale: $490
Minimum Value: $20

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My Life #5: rare early romance comic

Record sale: $480
Minimum value: $50

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True to Life Romances #7: very rare, only two copies in CGC census!

Record sale: $420
Minimum value: $75

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Love Romances #97: rare Timely romance comic

Record sale: $420
Minimum value: $25

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True Life Secrets #12

Record Sale: $375
Minimum Value: $5

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Girls' Love Stories #19

Record Sale: $360
Minimum Value: $10

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