Cyborg First Appearance: DC Comics Presents #26 Value

Cyborg first appeared in DC Comics Presents #26, cover-dated October 1980. Wikipedia notes that the debut was in an insert preview inside that issue, not in the main story, and credits Marv Wolfman and George Pérez as his creators. The preview introduced the New Teen Titans, and PriceCharting lists #26 as the first appearance of the New Teen Titans, including Cyborg, Raven and Starfire.

This is why the book confuses new collectors: PriceCharting describes the cover as showing Superman and Green Lantern, drawn by Jim Starlin. Cyborg is not on the cover. You identify the key by the issue number, DC Comics Presents #26, and by the Titans preview inside.

Wikipedia describes Victor Stone as an athletic high-school student whose parents, Silas and Elinore Stone, were scientists. An accident at his parents' lab involving a gelatinous creature left him badly injured, and his father rebuilt him with cybernetic parts to save his life. He was a person first; the machine parts came after the accident.

No. He started in 1980 as a member of the New Teen Titans, and Wikipedia calls him one of the most recurring members of the Teen Titans. In DC's 2011 New 52 relaunch he was rewritten as a founding member of the Justice League, and Wikipedia notes these changes were later removed from continuity. On screen, Ray Fisher played him in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017).

The names are close, but these are different characters. Wikipedia lists no connection between Victor Stone and Cyborg Superman.

• Hank Henshaw first appeared in The Adventures of Superman #465 (May 1990) and first appeared as Cyborg Superman in The Adventures of Superman #500 (June 1993).
• Zor-El, in the New 52 continuity, became a Cyborg Superman. Wikipedia describes him as the younger brother of Jor-El and the father of Supergirl, so in that version Cyborg Superman is Kara's father.

PriceCharting values retrieved September 25, 2026:

• Ungraded: $48.86 (about three sales a week)
• 4.0: $62.75 (about one sale a year)
• 6.0: $78.76
• 8.0: $125.50 (about two sales a month)
• 9.2: $176.32 (about one sale a month)
• 9.8: $1,000.00 (about one sale a month)

The jump from 9.2 to 9.8 is more than five times, while everything from 4.0 to 9.2 stays under $180. Condition decides most of this book's value, so have a clean copy graded before selling it as a 9.8 candidate. PriceCharting figures are estimates built from recorded sales of CGC-graded copies; when a grade trades only about once a year, one sale can push it above the next grade up.

Photograph the front cover straight on, then the indicia (the small print on the first page or inside cover with the title, issue number and date). ComicLens reads the title, issue number and cover from the photo, matches the likely issue with a confidence indicator you can correct by hand, and shows a reference price range that moves with the grade you pick. For DC Comics Presents #26, the cover shows Superman and Green Lantern, so the app matches it by title and issue number; open the book to confirm the Titans preview is still inside and complete. There are free scans every day; the range is a reference estimate, not an appraisal or an offer.

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