Mint Menace
Comic scanner and key finder
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases
iPhone
New: Mint Check and the Passport. Check a comic's condition with photos, seal it, and pass its sealed history to the buyer when you sell.
Point your iPhone at a comic and Mint Menace tells you exactly what it is. When it is sure, it names the comic. When it is not, it says so and shows you the likely ones to pick from. It never bluffs.
SCAN
• Reads the cover on your phone: title, issue number, price, barcode and creators
• Over 500,000 issues from the Grand Comics Database, plus recent new releases
• Works with no signal
• Spots UK pence copies
KEY ISSUES AND VALUES
• First appearances, origins and other keys, each with where the fact comes from
• What a comic is worth, from PriceCharting: ungraded and by CGC and CBCS grade
• Recent eBay UK sold listings one tap away
MINT CHECK
• Photograph a comic and answer nine questions about its spine, corners, creases and more
• An honest grade range, and what holds it back. Your own check, not a professional grade
PASSPORT
• Seal a comic's Mint Check, photos and history with a key that never leaves your phone
• Send it to the buyer by AirDrop, as a file or as a link. Their Mint Menace checks every seal and shows anything changed
• Share cards for WhatsApp, Messages and Facebook
SELLING
• The eBay listing kit: a title that fits eBay's 80 characters, a description naming every fault, and the photos ready
• Worth grading?: CGC's fees and postage against the slab's value at your grade, and whether that beats selling it raw
HUNT MODE
• Flick through a box with the camera running. Mint Menace buzzes for key issues, comics missing from your runs, characters heading to film or TV, and comics you already own
• Needs iOS 16 and an iPhone XS or later
CHARACTER VAULT
• The key issues of over 100 characters, as sets to collect
• Your own comics light up the cards, and Hunt Mode buzzes for the missing ones
MY COMICS
• Your collection on your phone as runs: how much of each series you have, which issues are missing and what comes out next
• Mark your grails, note which box each comic is in, and set your own asking price for the ones you are selling
• Search, grades, what you paid, signatures, what you have read and your own star ratings
• Screen Alert: when a character who first appeared in a comic you own is announced for film or TV, with the source
• Signing lists: which guests at upcoming conventions made comics you own
• Export your collection to a spreadsheet at any time
RELEASES
• What comes out each week from Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, IDW, BOOM! and more, about two months ahead, updated daily
• Follow a series and get a reminder at 8am on release day
PRIVATE
• No account. Your comics, photos and scans stay on your phone. A Passport goes only where you send it.
PLANS
Free: unlimited scanning, pence verdicts, key facts and ungraded values, up to 50 comics in My Comics, Mint Check for 3 comics, 1 Passport, 3 hunts to try Hunt Mode, and release reminders for 3 series.
Collector: My Comics with no limit, Mint Check for every comic, graded values and your collection's value, Screen Alert in full, and release reminders for every series you follow.
Seller: everything in Collector, plus a Passport for every comic you sell, Passport links and share cards, the eBay listing kit, Worth grading?, Character Vault, signing lists and Hunt Mode as often as you like.
Single Passport: one more Passport on the free or Collector plan, bought once.
Collector and Seller are auto-renewing subscriptions, monthly or yearly, charged to your Apple ID. They renew at the price shown unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel them in your Apple ID settings.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://mintmenace.com/privacy/
Comic data: Grand Comics Database (comics.org) and Metron (metron.cloud), CC BY-SA 4.0. Values: PriceCharting. Mint Menace is not affiliated with any comic publisher, PriceCharting, CGC, CBCS or eBay.
Ratings & Reviews
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- Mint Check: photograph a comic, answer nine questions about its condition, and get an honest grade range with what holds it back.
- Passport: seal a comic's Mint Check, photos and history, and send it to the buyer by AirDrop, file or link. Their Mint Menace checks every seal.
- eBay listing kit: a title that fits eBay's 80 characters, a description naming every fault, and the photos ready to post.
- Values: what your comics are worth from PriceCharting, ungraded on every plan, graded values and your collection's total with Collector.
- Worth grading?: CGC's fees and postage against the slab's value at your grade.
- The Hunter plan is now Seller. Collector now includes Mint Check for every comic and comic values.
The developer, Stephen Pollard, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Stephen Pollard
- Size
- 167 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Single Passport $1.99
- Collector $2.99
- Seller $5.99
- Seller $49.99
- Collector $24.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Stephen Pollard