Much like a natural disaster, we can measure the financial impact of San Diego Comic Con in dollars. My personal favorite is checking out the price changes of comic exclusives weeks after Comic Con, and the team over at Covrprice makes it easy with their 3rd annual 2026 San Diego Comic-Con Exclusives List.
If you didn’t know, comic book exclusives are generally made available at conventions like SDCC in a few ways: for sale across the show floor, through exhibitors or the show itself, and as giveaways for attending panels or visiting specific booths. Some are so limited in print number that they might be gone within the first hour. Getting your hands on some of these exclusives was difficult if you were walking the floor, which is why you will see at-home collectors enthusiastically trying to track them down in the aftermarket.
After investing over 250 hours of staff time and thousands of dollars in manual research, CovrPrice found that a staggering 896 comic book exclusives were made available at the San Diego Comic-Con this year. This represents massive year-over-year growth, compared to the 760 exclusives offered in 2025, and the 560 available in 2024. (SDCC 2026 Exclusive List – Click Here)
CovrPrice has taken it upon itself to start tracking not only what exclusives vendors and publishers offered at SDCC but also price fluctuations. CovrPrice Co-founder John Sulatis said, “Exclusive comic books are a hallmark of all major comic conventions, especially in the last decade. Starting back in 2023, we wanted to highlight what was being offered at each of these conventions. We realized no one actually had the full list available, not even the conventions themselves.”
Personally, I found the 2026 San Diego Comic-Con Exclusives List very useful in getting ready and figuring out where I needed to go this SDCC. CovrPrice’s list had every useful detail you may need: the comic’s name, issue number, variant description, number of copies, original selling location(s), and the original selling price, alongside high-quality cover images.
Fellow CovrPrice Co-founder Matt DeVoe added, “comic collectors of all types have come to rely on our lists to help them plan their budgets and even help them track down those issues they missed when they were in the middle of typical convention craziness.”
So let’s check out CovrPrice’s after-con report when figuring out the process of figuring out the price: CovrPrice ingests the results of tens of thousands of actual, documented online sales every single day and combines those to determine current prices algorithmically. Those values are then made available for reference in the CovrPrice database.
Top 10 San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive Comic Books
2) Absolute Batman #1(DC)
Upper Deck x Shoe Palace Bundle (limited 500 copies)
Original selling price = $100
Current Fair Market Value = $517
3) Fall of the House of Slaughter #1 (Boom! Studios)
Andrew K Currey, Gold Gilded Wraparound (limited to 50 copies)
Original selling price = $600 (only available in the Something Is Killing the Children Slaughter Box)
Current Fair Market Value = $500
4) Dungeon Crawler Carl Special Edition #0 (Vault)
Big Clutch / Rupp’s Comics Invincible Homage, B&W Spot Foil, Bloody Logo (limited 100 copies)
Original selling price = $100
Current Fair Market Value = $500
5) Dungeon Crawler Carl Special Edition #0 (Vault)
Big Clutch / Rupp’s Comics Invincible Homage, Spot Foil, Bloody Logo (limited 150 copies)
Original selling price = $30
Current Fair Market Value = $321
6) Absolute Batman #20 (DC)
Daniel Warren Johnson, Felix Comic Art, Virgin Foil
Original selling price = n/a
Current Fair Market Value = $318
7) Ghost Machine 2026 Ashcan(Image)
Prism Foil
Original selling price = n/a
Current Fair Market Value = $259
8) Felix Comic Art 2026 SDCC Blind Bag
Regular, two books per bag
Original selling price = $100
Current Fair Market Value = $252
9) Dungeon Crawler Carl Special Edition #0(Vault)
Big Clutch / Rupp’s Comics, Heart Boxers (limited 200 copies)
Original selling price = $40
Current Fair Market Value = $250
10) Absolute Batman #21 (DC)
Nick Dragotta, Felix Comic Art, Design Foil
Original selling price = n/a
Current Fair Market Value = $250
Top 10 San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive Comic Book Properties
TOP PUBLISHERS OF EXCLUSIVE COMICS
Publishers made their presence known throughout the show through their booths, panels, announcements, promotions, and especially comic book exclusives.
Top 10 San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive Comic Book Publishers
- DC = 170
- Image = 117
- Boom! Studios = 68
- IDW = 42
- Zenescope Entertainment = 40
- Roditeli Productions = 39
- Black Horizon Publishing = 38
- Titan = 34
- Marvel = 32
- Coffin Comics = 27
TOP FEATURED COVER ARTISTS AMONG EXCLUSIVE COMICS
CovrPrice looked at the cover artists represented across the exclusives, key creators bubbled up due to their total number of unique covers.
Top 5 San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive Comic Book Cover Artists
by Number of Comics With Unique Cover Art
As of 7/29/26
- Katya Sinyukhina = 13 unique (32 with treatments)
- Tyler Kirkham = 11 unique (14 with treatments)
- Sveta Shubina = 7 unique (13 with treatments)
- Godtail = 7 unique (11 with treatments)
5.Dan Quintana = 6 unique (11 with treatments)
To view the complete 3rd annual CovrPrice 2026 San Diego Comic-Con Exclusives List, visit: covrprice.com/descriptor/sdcc-2026 and stay tuned to The Beat for more news from SDCC ’26.
