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Sep 11, 2026
Courtyard is celebrating Batman Day by hiding a legendary key issue across all Comic Packs. The featured book is a CGC-graded Batman #251 with the iconic Neal Adams cover widely considered one of the best Joker covers ever printed in a beautiful graded 9.0.
Launch Details
Beginning September 19 at 10:00am PT, this copy can appear in any Comic Pack opened on Courtyard. When pulled, users may accept an instant buyback offer, keep it in the vault, list it on the marketplace, or arrange shipment.
Historical Significance
With a current Fair Market Value of $1750 Batman #251 hit newsstands in September 1973 — the issue that resurrected the Joker as a genuinely dangerous killer after two decades of campy Silver Age gimmick crimes, drawn by Neal Adams and written by Denny O'Neil. It's the book most collectors point to as the moment the modern, menacing Joker was born. Fittingly, it's also a September book, sharing its birth month with Batman Day itself, which DC set for September 19 this year as part of Batman's ongoing 87th-anniversary celebrations.
Rarity Status
Bronze Age newsstand comics like this one were made to be read, not preserved; most surviving copies show spine stress, color breaks, or subscription creases from fifty-plus years of handling. A clean with good page quality CGC 9.0 is a genuinely tough find in this title's census, especially with the black cover ink that shows every flaw. This copy stands out as a high-end survivor of one of the most requested Bronze Age keys in the hobby.
For a limited time, it's hiding in the Comic Packs.