January 13, 2017
Top 50 D.C. Comics Of 1970
To repeat the caveat I gave on the main 1970’s page [which has links to see other years within the decade], the list you are about to see involves no judgment or pricing data, but rather simply ranks the universe of D.C. comics published in 1970 by how many copies have passed through CGC’s doors to date — that’s it!
This exercise should tease out a very interesting list of “key” or otherwise interesting D.C. comics from 1970 but not necessarily an all-encompassing list (if very few copies were created for a given key, that restricted supply could keep the count of CGC submissions low). So without further ado, here below is a list of the top 50 most-submitted D.C. comics from 1970 (census numbers are as of year-end 2016). [Also see: top 50 Marvel comics of 1970; all key comics from 1970 ].
| Rank | CGC Count | Issue | Date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1,535 | Green Lantern #76 | 4/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 2. | 806 | Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #134 | 12/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 3. | 697 | Batman #227 | 12/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 4. | 512 | Detective Comics #400 | 6/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 5. | 261 | Green Lantern #77 | 6/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 6. | 253 | Green Lantern #80 | 10/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 7. | 236 | Batman #222 | 6/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 8. | 213 | Green Lantern #81 | 12/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 9. | 209 | Green Lantern #78 | 7/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 10. | 191 | World’s Finest Comics #199 | 12/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 11. | 181 | Detective Comics #403 | 9/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 12. | 165 | World’s Finest Comics #198 | 11/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 13. | 163 | Green Lantern #79 | 9/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 14. | 158 | Detective Comics #405 | 11/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 15. | 123 | Star Spangled War Stories #151 | 6-7/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 16. | 121 | Detective Comics #395 | 1/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 17. | 114 | Detective Comics #402 | 8/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 18. | 112 | Detective Comics #404 | 10/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 19. | 106 | Aquaman #50 | 3-4/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 20. | 97 | Batman #219 | 2/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 21. | 94 | Aquaman #52 | 7-8/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 22. | 85 | Detective Comics #396 | 2/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 23. | 82 | Batman #220 | 3/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 24. | 80 | Batman #223 | 7-8/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 25. | 76 | Batman #221 | 5/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 26. | 76 | Batman #218 | 1-2/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 27. | 74 | Detective Comics #397 | 3/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 28. | 73 | Batman #225 | 9/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 29. | 70 | Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #133 | 10/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 30. | 70 | Batman #226 | 11/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 31. | 65 | Justice League of America #78 | 2/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 32. | 64 | Hot Wheels #1 | 3-4/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 33. | 63 | House of Mystery #185 | 3-4/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 34. | 63 | Detective Comics #398 | 4/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 35. | 61 | Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane #106 | 11/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 36. | 60 | Superman #222 | 12/69-1/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 37. | 60 | Aquaman #51 | 5-6/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 38. | 60 | Detective Comics #406 | 12/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 39. | 59 | Detective Comics #399 | 5/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 40. | 58 | Batman #224 | 8/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 41. | 58 | Justice League of America #82 | 8/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 42. | 57 | Justice League of America #81 | 6/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 43. | 57 | Flash #200 | 9/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 44. | 55 | Brave and the Bold #90 | 6-7/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 45. | 54 | Justice League of America #80 | 5/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 46. | 54 | Brave and the Bold #88 | 2-3/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 47. | 53 | House of Secrets #88 | 10-11/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 48. | 50 | Green Lantern #75 | 3/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 49. | 50 | Brave and the Bold #87 | 12/69-1/70 | D.C. Comics |
| 50. | 50 | Flash #199 | 8/70 | D.C. Comics |
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More Top Comic Books of 1970
Also see: top 50 Marvel comics of 1970, more key comic books of 1970 outside of Marvel and DC, all key comics from 1970, or jump to this list of important comics from the 1970s. Or explore Lists of Key Comic Books by Year. Or jump to my blog’s home page.
Happy Collecting! 🙂
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