CGC-graded Amazing Fantasy #15 Realizes $290,000 in ComicLink Sale
Posted on 3/23/2023
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.
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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
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