The invention provides a comprehensive recovery method of rare metals in waste circuit boards. The method comprises crushing the waste circuit boards, sorting, calcining, immersing in an ammonia water, filtering to get a filter residue A which is dissolved by nitric acid to recover silver, lead, tin, antimony, etc., immersing a filter residue metal B insoluble in the nitric acid with a mixed solution of hydrochloric acid and sodium hypochlorite, filtering to get a filtrate C which is then introduced into SO2 so as to displace gold powder, and then obtaining platinum powder and palladium powder respectively by extracting and displacing. The method has advantages of high metal recovery rate, simple method, simple equipment, no environmental pollution and the like, maximizes recycling of valuable metal resources in the waste circuit boards, and has enormous social and economic benefits.