The Green Goblin arrives in Amazing Spider-Man #14, and he arrives already strange: a cackling figure on a rocket-powered broom, drawn by Steve Ditko, with no origin and no name behind the mask for another two years. That is where Amazing Spider-Man #14 value starts.
That mystery is a large part of why this issue outgrew the ones around it.
What actually sets this issue apart
Almost every early Amazing Spider-Man issue has a first appearance in it, so the run is a wall of keys. What separates #14 is that the Goblin became the character the whole title is measured against, and the market has priced accordingly for decades.
The identification job here is the usual Marvel one. The original says 12 cents and carries a July 1964 date in the indicia. A facsimile edition reproduces the cover and names itself in that same small print, and the story appears in Marvel Tales reprints and a shelf of collections.
There is also a genuine UK printing with a pence price instead of the cents price. It is a real 1964 Marvel and it trades as its own thinner market.
The 9.6 column is the whole argument
Five documented sales share one grade on this book, which is rare enough at this money to be worth the whole section.
| Grade | Result | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.8 | $210,000 | Heritage Auctions, September 2021 |
| CGC 9.8 | $71,700 | Heritage Auctions, August 2017 |
| CGC 9.6 | $48,900 | ComicLink, February 2024 |
| CGC 9.6 | $48,000 | Heritage Auctions, September 2021 |
| CGC 9.6 | $42,000 | Heritage Auctions, April 2025 |
| CGC 9.6 | $37,000 | ComicLink, December 2024 |
| CGC 9.6 | $36,000 | ComicLink, November 2023 |
| CGC 9.4 | $28,800 | Heritage Auctions, April 2024 |
| CGC 8.0 | $5,811 | Hake’s, July 2025 |
The CGC 9.6 line has sold five times between November 2023 and April 2025, at $36,000, $37,000, $42,000, $48,000 and $48,900, across two auction houses. Every one of them lands between thirty-six and forty-nine thousand. On a comic this expensive that is a genuinely usable number, and there are not many Silver Age keys I can say that about.
The 9.8 above it does the opposite. $71,700 in August 2017, then $210,000 in September 2021, nearly three times the money in four years. One grade point of difference between that row and the settled ones below it, and the behavior is completely different.
The reason is population. Enough 9.6 copies exist that they surface every few months and bidders have something to measure against. At 9.8 the census runs out, the copies appear years apart, and the result depends on which two collectors are paying attention that week. That is not a level you can quote a seller.
The 8.0 at $5,811 in July 2025 anchors the bottom of the useful range. From there to the 9.6 band is roughly eight times the money for a grade and a half, which is the steepest part of this ladder and the reason grading opinion matters so much on this book.
As with everything on this site, those figures come through CGC’s reporting of other companies’ auctions and Heritage’s own published results. GoCollect and PriceCharting track Amazing Spider-Man #14 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.
Amazing Spider-Man #14 value, three sales a lane
307 sales tracked back to 2002; here are the three freshest in every grade.
| Grade | Sold for | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.8 | $210,000 | Heritage Auctions, September 9, 2021 |
| CGC 9.8 | $71,700 | Heritage Auctions, August 10, 2017 |
| CGC 9.8 | $54,970 | Heritage Auctions, November 19, 2015 |
| CGC 9.6 | $42,000 | Heritage Auctions, April 30, 2025 |
| CGC 9.6 | $37,000 | ComicLink, December 3, 2024 |
| CGC 9.6 | $48,900 | ComicLink, February 27, 2024 |
| CGC 9.4 | $28,800 | Heritage Auctions, April 17, 2024 |
| CGC 9.4 | $27,500 | eBay, March 11, 2024 |
| CGC 9.4 | $25,230 | Heritage Auctions, December 5, 2023 |
| CGC 9.2 | $18,900 | eBay, September 4, 2025 |
| CGC 9.2 | $18,800 | Heritage Auctions, July 23, 2024 |
| CGC 9.2 | $23,400 | Heritage Auctions, July 17, 2023 |
| CGC 9.0 | $9,900 | Heritage Auctions, July 25, 2025 |
| CGC 9.0 | $11,750 | eBay, June 25, 2025 |
| CGC 9.0 | $9,900 | Heritage Auctions, June 11, 2025 |
| CGC 8.5 | $7,320 | Heritage Auctions, July 23, 2026 |
| CGC 8.5 | $6,344 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 8.5 | $8,000 | eBay, March 3, 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $7,988 | eBay, July 23, 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $5,978 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $6,300 | eBay, May 4, 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $5,000 | eBay, July 18, 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $4,495 | eBay, July 16, 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $4,900 | eBay, April 1, 2026 |
| CGC 7.0 | $5,000 | eBay, July 30, 2026 |
| CGC 7.0 | $3,782 | Heritage Auctions, July 23, 2026 |
| CGC 7.0 | $4,100 | eBay, June 13, 2026 |
| CGC 6.5 | $4,000 | eBay, January 29, 2026 |
| CGC 6.5 | $3,249 | eBay, November 25, 2025 |
| CGC 6.5 | $3,300 | eBay, November 25, 2025 |
| CGC 6.0 | $2,750 | eBay, July 1, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $2,501 | Heritage Auctions, March 16, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $5,232 | eBay, February 24, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $2,650 | eBay, August 10, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $2,318 | Heritage Auctions, July 23, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $2,995 | eBay, June 12, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $3,375 | eBay, July 5, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $2,680 | eBay, July 2, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $3,375 | eBay, June 21, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $2,025 | eBay, May 31, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $1,647 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $1,891 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $1,700 | eBay, August 1, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $2,690 | eBay, June 21, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $2,000 | eBay, June 7, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $1,595 | eBay, June 30, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $1,615 | eBay, June 26, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $1,698 | eBay, June 23, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $1,800 | eBay, August 11, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $1,220 | Heritage Auctions, July 23, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $1,425 | eBay, June 20, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $1,399 | eBay, July 9, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $1,225 | eBay, June 14, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $1,199 | eBay, June 13, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $1,250 | eBay, July 26, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $1,149 | eBay, June 17, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $1,183 | eBay, June 7, 2026 |
| Raw | $1,130 | eBay, August 9, 2026 |
| Raw | $2,259 | eBay, July 26, 2026 |
| Raw | $750 | eBay, July 22, 2026 |
Every row above is a documented sale, verifiable in Heritage’s public Amazing Spider-Man issue index and in CGC’s published auction reporting. 307 sales have been logged. The current three in each grade are what a real quote is built from.
The deepest column on this book is CGC 9.0, 30 sales: $2,300 in 2004, $5,975 in 2017, $16,800 in 2022, $9,900 in 2025. $2,300 to $9,900, with the 2022 peak at $18,000.
What the middle of the ladder pays
The readable grades on this issue are genuinely well mapped: a hundred and eight of them have sold in the past eighteen months.
Two CGC 7.0 sales a week apart in July 2026 show how much the venue matters: $3,782 at Heritage on the twenty-third, $5,000 on eBay on the thirtieth. Same grade, same month, and about thirty percent between them. Below that a 5.5 brought $2,318 at Heritage and $2,650 on eBay, and a 5.0 brought $2,680 and $3,375, both on eBay.
The pattern in those pairs is consistent enough to plan around. On this issue eBay has been paying more than the auction floor for mid-grade copies, which is the opposite of what happens at the top of the book, where the houses reach bidders eBay never sees.
A 4.0 brought $1,700 in August 2026, which is a fair marker for the bottom of the honest, complete range. From there to the 9.6 band is more than twenty times the money.
Selling an Amazing Spider-Man #14
- Twelve cents and a July 1964 indicia date. A bar code anywhere means a modern printing, and a pence price means the UK run.
- Keep the run together. Issues 1 through 20 are almost all keys, and a buyer who wants #14 usually wants the ones on either side of it.
- Photograph the spine. Ditko-era Marvels roll at the spine, and that is what holds most copies under 9.0.
- Disclose any repair. It surfaces at grading and it changes which market the book belongs to.
Green Goblin on the cover? Let’s see the price box.
Front, back, and the small print inside the cover. Same-day answer on whether it is the 1964 printing and where it lands in that table.
I read every request myself.
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
- Amazing Spider-Man #1, where the title starts.
- The 100 most valuable Silver Age comics.
- How grading works.
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