Spider-Man continues to web-up the market as a book with his first appearance, graded by Certified Guaranty Company® (CGC®), just sold for more than a quarter of a million dollars. The book was featured in ComicLink’s Winter Featured Auction, which was held March 1-8, 2023.
Surpassing the rest was an Amazing Fantasy #15 graded CGC 8.0 that realized $290,000. The book features the first appearance of Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in 1962. After the character’s immediate success in Amazing Fantasy #15, Marvel rushed Spider-Man into his own monthly series, and he has become one of the most recognizable superheroes of all time.
Of the 14 times this comic has appeared in public auctions so far in 2023, this is the second-highest sale of the year, with the highest sale going to a CGC 9.2 copy that was sold for $810,000 in January 2023. An example graded CGC 9.6 sold for $3.6 million in 2021, the second-highest amount for any comic book.
Other CGC-graded comics in this auction included:
a Fantastic Four #1 graded CGC 8.5 that realized $217,777
a Captain America Comics #1 graded CGC 7.0 that realized $201,000
a Fantastic Four #5 graded CGC 9.2 that realized $138,000
an Incredible Hulk #1 graded CGC 7.0 that realized $68,500
an Incredible Hulk #181 Signature Series (Stan Lee) graded CGC 9.8 that realized $64,049
a Marvel Mystery Comics #9 graded CGC 4.5 that realized $57,005
an X-Men #94 graded CGC 9.8 that realized $53,000
an Amazing Fantasy #15 graded CGC 4.0 that realized $42,000
a Journey into Mystery #83 graded CGC 8.0 that realized $42,000