Amazing Fantasy #15

In the last issue of Marvel’s Amazing Fantasy series, painfully shy Peter Parker is bit by a radioactive arachnid and becomes the web-slinging wonder, Spider-Man. Hatched by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, the character suffered from the normal throes of adolescent angst and enamored a bourgeoning market of middle- and high-school students. Perhaps it was […]

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Amazing Fantasy #15

Amazing Fantasy #15 sold for $1.1 million for a near-mint copy (CGC grade of 9.6) in 2011.

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Amazing Fantasy #15

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Amazing Fantasy #15 sold for $1.1 million for a near-mint copy (CGC grade of 9.6) in 2011.

Amazing Fantasy #15

Amazing Fantasy #15 sold for $1.1 million for a near-mint copy (CGC grade of 9.6) in 2011.

©Marvel

Amazing Fantasy #15

©Marvel

In the last issue of Marvel’s Amazing Fantasy series, painfully shy Peter Parker is bit by a radioactive arachnid and becomes the web-slinging wonder, Spider-Man. Hatched by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, the character suffered from the normal throes of adolescent angst and enamored a bourgeoning market of middle- and high-school students. Perhaps it was that same search for self-esteem that motivated a buyer in 2011 to pay $1.1 million for a near-mint copy (CGC grade of 9.6) of Spidey’s first adventure.