WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #157

Graded at 5.0 (VG/FN) on 2026-10-22, from new photos taken out of the sleeve: front, back, interior page and spine. Bright, glossy cover. Light stress ticks along the spine. Small creases at both bottom corners, the left one breaking colour. Light soiling on the back. Cream pages with a price pencilled on page 1.

World's Finest Comics #157 arrived during the mid-1960s run of Superman/Batman team-ups that anchored the title through the Silver Age. Edmond Hamilton scripted many of these issues, and Curt Swan's pencils, a hallmark of the era's DC house style, define the issue's visual identity alongside inks typically credited to George Klein. The book fits within the broader run of World's Finest team-up stories that paired DC's two flagship heroes with rotating plots involving Robin, villains, and the occasional science-fiction premise common to the period, but #157 does not carry a first appearance, origin story, or other landmark distinction that price guides single out as a key issue.

Market data shows a modest, typical curve for a well-collected but non-key Silver Age issue: raw and lower-grade certified copies trade cheaply, values firm up gradually through the VF range, and a pronounced premium appears only at the top of the census where population is thin. The jump between 8.5 and 9.2 in the certified data reflects how scarce true high-grade Silver Age paper becomes, and the near-total absence of pricing data at 9.6 and 9.8 underscores how few copies have survived at the top of the grade scale.

This is a book bought primarily by World's Finest and Superman/Batman team-up completists, Silver Age DC runs collectors, and Curt Swan art admirers rather than key-issue speculators. Raw copies in low and mid grade move steadily but slowly through general back-issue channels at low price points, while true Gem Mint or near-Gem certified copies are rare enough that a 9.8 would likely draw active bidding among registry-set builders chasing census-topping Silver Age DC material, commanding a price disproportionate to the book's modest historical footprint.