Amazing Spider-Man #122 Value: One Sale at the Top All Year

A CGC 9.8 of this comic has sold once in 2026, for $3,827 in March. Seventeen sales exist at that grade across the whole record. Amazing Spider-Man 122 value is a case where the famous number at the top of the ladder is the one a seller can rely on least, and the page is built to say so.

The Green Goblin dies in July 1973, one issue after Gwen Stacy, closing a story Marvel had run for eight years.

Why the top of this ladder went quiet

Seventeen documented 9.8 sales in a record of three hundred and forty is a thin top by any measure, and it has got thinner. The lane peaked at $7,800 in September 2025 and has produced a single result since.

That is not the same as the book falling. A lane can go quiet because owners stopped selling rather than because buyers stopped bidding, and on a book this expensive at the top those two look identical from the outside.

What it means practically is that nobody can quote you a current 9.8 price with any confidence, including me. One sale is a data point.

To identify it: 20 cents, July 1973, the Green Goblin on his glider above Spider-Man under The Green Goblin’s Last Stand. The cast-portrait cover with Turning Point is the previous issue.

Thin at the top, deep in the middle

No sale of this comic appears in CGC’s auction reporting, so no price below carries a link. Every row is a Heritage Auctions result or a completed eBay listing.

One 9.8 sale this year and three 9.6 sales. Above 9.4 this book barely trades, and every figure up there is old enough that a seller should treat it as history rather than as a quote.

From 9.4 down the record turns over properly. The 9.4 lane has nine sales this year running $250 to $1,500, which is a very wide band and worth understanding before anybody leans on it.

Reliability lives at 9.2 and 9.0. Seventeen sales at 9.2 this year running $350 to $900, and fourteen at 9.0 running $325 to $814.

So the shape of this book is the inverse of what people expect. The famous grades are the guesswork and the ordinary ones are the evidence.

Those figures are Heritage results and completed eBay sales. GoCollect and PriceCharting track Amazing Spider-Man #122 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.

Amazing Spider-Man #122 value in every grade

340 sales tracked back to 2019; here are the three freshest in every grade.

Heritage rows are verifiable in Heritage’s public Amazing Spider-Man issue index; the rest are completed eBay listings. Three hundred and forty sales going back to 2019, concentrated between 8.0 and 9.4.

The grades that actually trade

If you own a copy of this comic, the odds are strongly that it lives in the part of the ladder that turns over every month.

Across 2026: 8.5 copies brought $390 to $692, 8.0 copies $301 to $451, and the grades below step down without collapsing.

Raw copies ran $79 to $485 this year across thirty-one sales. The bottom of that band is a copy with real problems and the top is a complete one that photographs well.

A readable Green Goblin death is therefore a three-to-six-hundred-dollar comic, and that number is built on more sales than everything above 9.4 put together.

The gap between that and the headline figure is the whole reason this page exists. A seller who reads only the top of the ladder walks into a negotiation expecting several thousand dollars for a comic the market prices in the hundreds.

The insert that changes what you have

Four sales in this book’s record describe copies carrying a Mark Jewelers or Mennen insert, which are advertising cards bound into copies sent through particular sales channels.

Those are physically different products and they do not belong in the same ladder as an ordinary copy, so I have kept them out of the figures above rather than averaging them in. Four sales is also far too few for me to give you a band for them.

What is worth doing is checking. Look at the top edge of the closed comic for a heavier card running through the middle. If it is there, say so before anybody quotes you, because a plain-copy price is the wrong starting point.

The Marvel Value Stamp applies here too. Copies of this issue were cut for the stamp like every other Marvel of the period, and a cut one loses most of its value against an intact copy. Open it before you price it.

It is worth knowing why that matters so much on this particular book. The stamp on a 1973 Marvel sits on an interior page, so a cut copy looks perfect from the outside and grades badly the moment somebody opens it. Buyers who have been caught once ask about it first.

If the stamp is intact, say so in the first message. It is the single detail most likely to move an offer up on a seventies Marvel, and most sellers never mention it because they do not know to look.

Selling an Amazing Spider-Man #122

1. Twenty cents, July 1973. The Turning Point cover is #121, a different comic.
2. Ignore the 9.8 figure. One sale this year is not a market price.
3. The 9.2 and 9.0 lanes are the evidence. Thirty-one sales between them this year.
4. Check the top edge and the stamp. An insert or a cut page changes everything.

Send the cover, the top edge of the closed book and one open page. Those three photographs settle the printing, the insert and the stamp in one go.

Send photographs and I will place your copy in its grade lane against the same recent sales you can read above. Where you take it next is your call, and the options for selling in Southern California are worth knowing either way.

Related

• Are damaged comic books worth anything?. Relevant where a cut stamp is the common problem.
• Selling slabbed comics. If a copy is already in a holder.
• The 100 most valuable Bronze Age comics. Where this issue lands on the list.

Cover images on this page are shown small, for identification, with the publisher credited in the caption. If you are a rights holder and want an image removed, contact me and it comes down.