First Appearance of Wonder Man: Avengers #9 Value by Grade

Wonder Man first appeared in The Avengers #9, cover-dated October 1964, created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Don Heck (Wikipedia). PriceCharting lists the issue under its cover line, "Proudly Introduces Wonder Man".

He starts out as a villain. Simon Williams gets his powers from "ionic" energy treatments given by Baron Heinrich Zemo, which make him strong, fast and hard to hurt, at a level Wikipedia compares with Thor. His brother Eric Williams becomes the Grim Reaper, who turns on the Avengers after Simon's apparent death.

PriceCharting values for The Avengers #9 (1964), read on September 25, 2026, with how often each grade sells:

• Ungraded: $118.58 (about 2 sales a week)
• CGC 4.0: $202.17 (about 2 a month)
• CGC 6.0: $315.91 (about 2 a month)
• CGC 8.0: $750.00 (about 1 a month)
• CGC 9.2: $3,140.00 (about 1 a year)
• CGC 9.6: $12,241.80 (rare)

The top grades rest on very few sales. PriceCharting's sales list shows a CGC 9.6 with white pages at $14,400 in 2024. Below 8.0, most copies change hands for a few hundred dollars. Restored or incomplete copies sell well under these figures.

From Wikipedia's publication history, with PriceCharting prices where we checked them:

• The Avengers #58 (November 1968): reveals that his brain patterns were saved electronically, the link behind the Vision later treating him as a brother.
• The Avengers #160 (June 1977): he rejoins the Avengers full-time. PriceCharting: raw $5.01, CGC 9.8 $413.00.
• West Coast Avengers miniseries (September to December 1984): founding member.
• Wonder Man (September 1991 to February 1994): his own 29-issue series.
• Force Works #1 (July 1994): founding member of a new team.

For most collectors #9 is the only expensive one; the later keys are inexpensive unless graded 9.8.

The live-action series Wonder Man premiered on Disney+ on January 27, 2026, with 8 episodes, created by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest (Wikipedia). Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays Simon Williams, Ben Kingsley plays Trevor Slattery and Zlatko Burić plays the director Von Kovak. Abdul-Mateen was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

In episode 1, "Matinee", Simon, a struggling actor who hides his powers, is fired from a TV role. He meets Trevor, who tells him about auditions for Von Kovak's remake of Wonder Man, and Simon lands a meeting. The episode also reveals that Trevor is informing on Simon for the Department of Damage Control.

Two films appear in the episode. It opens with young Simon watching the in-universe 1980s superhero film Wonder Man with his father, the movie that is being remade. Later, Simon goes to a near-empty screening of Midnight Cowboy, which is where he meets Trevor (episode recaps by The Geek Twins and others).

Yes. In the comics Simon Williams has been drawn as a white man since 1964 (FandomWire). The Disney+ series makes him a Haitian-American aspiring actor who has had powers since childhood (Wikipedia). If you are collecting the character, the comic keys above are unaffected by the change; the show simply adds demand for #9.

Wikipedia names Northstar as the first openly gay character to come out in a Marvel comic. He first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #120 (April 1979), said "I am gay" in Alpha Flight #106 (1992), and married Kyle Jinadu in Astonishing X-Men #51 (June 2012), which Wikipedia calls the first same-sex wedding shown in mainstream comics. None of the sources we read describe Wonder Man himself as LGBT.

• Cover date and cover line: October 1964; the cover announces Wonder Man ("Proudly Introduces Wonder Man").
• Title and number: the indicia should read The Avengers #9, published by Marvel.
• Grade matters more than anything: the gap between CGC 6.0 ($315.91) and CGC 9.6 ($12,241.80) is roughly 39 times, so an accurate grade is worth more than any other check.

• Indicia: the small print on the first page or inside cover gives the title, issue number, date and publisher; reprints and facsimiles usually say so there.
• Cover price and barcode: a price or barcode format that did not exist in the year printed means a later edition.
• Paper and staples: old newsprint tans at the edges; bright white pages on an old date are a warning sign.
• Restoration: color touch, trimmed edges and replaced covers are common on expensive keys; a grading service can detect them. See spot a fake or restored comic.

Shoot the front cover flat, straight on, in even light, then the indicia and the back cover. The ComicLens app reads the title, issue number and cover and matches them to the checks on this page, and there are free scans every day. The indicia photo settles most reprint and variant questions.

Research and drafting were assisted by AI, and every fact was checked against the sources listed at the bottom of the page: Wikipedia (Wonder Man; Wonder Man TV series; Northstar), PriceCharting, FandomWire and The Geek Twins episode recap. Prices are PriceCharting figures read on September 25, 2026 unless another source and date are named; they move with the market.