WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #146

Cover shows moderate wear consistent with a Silver Age book: visible spine stress with some whitening along the top and bottom, soft rounded corners, and mild edge wear along the right border. There is minor surface rubbing to the black background at upper left near the DC logo and some scattered creasing. The book is in a protective sleeve which slightly obscures fine surface detail; interior pages and back cover were not assessed.

World's Finest Comics #146 arrived during the mid-1960s stretch of the DC anthology title pairing Superman and Batman (with Robin along as a regular third), a format the book had settled into since the late 1950s. The issue falls within the Edmond Hamilton/Curt Swan era that defined the series' house style, contributing another entry to a long-running feature rather than introducing a new character or plot device that reshaped the DC universe. It has no recognized first appearance, death, or origin story attached to it, and its cover, while a clean example of period Swan/Klein linework, is not among the covers cited by price guides as a landmark image.

Market data reflects that status: certified sales are thin and concentrated in the low-to-mid grades, with fair market value climbing only modestly from $50 at 8.0 to $160 at 9.6, and no 9.8 has ever reached the CGC census. That flat, gradual curve is typical of a solid but unspectacular mid-run Silver Age team-up book — collectors chase it as a completion piece for World's Finest or Superman/Batman team-up runs rather than as a standalone key, and demand is driven almost entirely by series completists and Silver Age DC generalists rather than character-first-appearance buyers.

At the raw end, low- and mid-grade copies trade as inexpensive filler for run-builders and rarely draw competitive bidding. Certified copies see modest but real premiums as grade climbs, and a hypothetical 9.8 would likely command a real jump over the current 9.6 ceiling given the total absence of that grade on census, but overall this is a book bought to complete a title run or a Batman/Superman crossover collection rather than one that anchors a marquee sale.