WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #140

Cover shows moderate wear consistent with a mid-grade Silver Age book: soft, rounded corners, light overall surface wear and a faint vertical crease visible along the left edge, plus some mild handling creases near the spine. Colors remain bright with no major color breaks or tears noted, though the book is in a protective sleeve which limits close inspection of edges. Spine appears to have minor stress lines but no major splits. Interior pages and back cover were not visible/assessed in this photo.

World's Finest Comics #140 arrived in March 1964 as part of DC's long-running Superman/Batman team-up anthology title, a series that by this point had settled into a reliable formula of dual-hero adventures backed by Edmond Hamilton scripts and Curt Swan's polished house style. The issue is a representative entry from the era rather than a landmark one: no first appearances, origin retellings, or character deaths are attached to it, and its cover, while typical of the clean Swan-era DC house look, is not among the covers cited by price guides as a genre-defining image.

Market data for the issue is thin and uneven, a common pattern for lower-profile Silver Age back-catalog titles. Certified sales cluster lightly around the 8.0-9.4 range, with a modest but real premium at 9.4 reflecting the difficulty of finding high-grade copies of a heavily circulated 1964 newsstand comic. Lower and mid grades show sparse trading, and the near-total absence of 9.6 and 9.8 certified sales points to genuine scarcity at the top of the census rather than deep collector demand pushing prices there.

This issue trades primarily as a filler or run-completion purchase for Superman and Batman team-up collectors and World's Finest completists rather than as a standalone investment target. Raw copies in low and mid grades move in small dollar amounts and see infrequent turnover, while high-grade certified copies command outsized premiums driven almost entirely by census scarcity rather than story significance. Buyers should expect this book to perform as a steady, low-volatility piece of a broader Silver Age DC collection rather than a headline lot.