Amazing Spider-Man #2 gives you the first Vulture, the first Terrible Tinkerer, and the second appearance of Spider-Man in his own title. That is where Amazing Spider-Man #2 value starts.
It is a serious key that spends its life being compared to the issue in front of it, and the numbers show exactly what that costs.
The number one problem
Owners of this book almost always price it against Amazing Spider-Man #1, and that is the wrong anchor. Issue 1 has brought over a million dollars. This one has a documented top of $168,000, and the gap is not a slight.
The right comparison is the issues immediately after it, because that is the market this book actually competes in. Priced against the issues around it it looks strong; priced against issue 1 it looks disappointing, and the same comic is involved either way.
Identification is the standard 1963 Marvel check: 12 cents, a May 1963 indicia date, no bar code, reprints naming themselves inside.
The documented top, and how quickly it falls away
This book has one reported record and a very well documented middle, and the distance between them is the whole point.
| Grade | Result | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.6 | $168,000 | Heritage Auctions, September 2021 |
| CGC 9.2 | $69,000 | Heritage Auctions, June 2022 |
| CGC 9.0 | $27,600 | Heritage Auctions, June 2022 |
| CGC 9.0 | $19,200 | Heritage Auctions, April 2021 |
| CGC 8.5 | $16,800 | Heritage Auctions, July 2023 |
| CGC 8.5 | $15,600 | Heritage Auctions, October 2024 |
| CGC 8.5 | $13,200 | Heritage Auctions, April 2025 |
| CGC 8.0 | $10,900 | ComicLink, June 2024 |
| CGC 8.0 | $8,540 | Heritage, April 2026 |
The 9.6 brought $168,000 in September 2021. The 9.2 brought $69,000 nine months later. Four tenths of a grade and well under half the money, and below that the fall keeps its pace: $27,600 at 9.0, $16,800 at 8.5, $10,900 at 8.0.
The 8.5 line is the most quotable thing here because it has three dated results: $16,800 in July 2023, $15,600 in October 2024, $13,200 in April 2025. A slow, orderly decline of about a fifth over two years. Nothing dramatic, and nothing that needs explaining away.
The two 8.0 results say it again from a different pair of houses. $10,900 at ComicLink in June 2024, $8,540 at Heritage in April 2026. If you own a copy in that range, those two numbers are the conversation, and neither of them is the record at the top of the table.
That is the practical case against pricing this book off issue 1. Not that issue 1 is worth more, which everybody knows, but that this issue has its own well-behaved ladder that answers the question directly, and reaching past it for a bigger number is how owners end up disappointed by a fair offer.
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 #2 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.
Amazing Spider-Man #2 value in each grade
225 sales tracked back to 2003; here are the three freshest in every grade.
| Grade | Sold for | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.6 | $168,000 | Heritage Auctions, September 9, 2021 |
| CGC 9.2 | $69,000 | Heritage Auctions, June 28, 2022 |
| CGC 9.0 | $27,600 | Heritage Auctions, June 28, 2022 |
| CGC 9.0 | $19,200 | Heritage Auctions, April 1, 2021 |
| CGC 8.5 | $13,200 | Heritage Auctions, April 30, 2025 |
| CGC 8.5 | $15,600 | Heritage Auctions, October 10, 2024 |
| CGC 8.5 | $16,800 | Heritage Auctions, July 17, 2023 |
| CGC 8.0 | $11,100 | eBay, August 12, 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $9,000 | eBay, July 29, 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $8,540 | Heritage Auctions, April 30, 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $3,008 | eBay, May 11, 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $7,500 | Heritage Auctions, October 10, 2024 |
| CGC 7.5 | $11,250 | eBay, January 22, 2024 |
| CGC 7.0 | $8,250 | eBay, December 7, 2025 |
| CGC 7.0 | $5,052 | Heritage Auctions, December 2, 2025 |
| CGC 7.0 | $7,200 | Heritage Auctions, April 3, 2021 |
| CGC 6.5 | $5,040 | Heritage Auctions, October 31, 2025 |
| CGC 6.5 | $4,080 | Heritage Auctions, April 30, 2025 |
| CGC 6.5 | $4,200 | Heritage Auctions, July 17, 2023 |
| CGC 6.0 | $3,904 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $3,660 | Heritage Auctions, March 16, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $5,500 | eBay, March 13, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $2,414 | eBay, January 18, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $3,000 | eBay, December 2, 2025 |
| CGC 5.5 | $3,100 | eBay, October 15, 2025 |
| CGC 5.0 | $2,684 | Heritage Auctions, July 23, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $3,240 | eBay, January 13, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $3,300 | eBay, October 9, 2025 |
| CGC 4.5 | $2,589 | eBay, August 13, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $2,950 | eBay, August 10, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $2,684 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $2,850 | eBay, August 10, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $1,891 | Heritage Auctions, April 30, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $3,400 | eBay, April 14, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $2,199 | eBay, June 6, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $2,444 | eBay, June 1, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $2,444 | eBay, May 30, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $1,775 | eBay, June 21, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $2,200 | eBay, May 29, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $1,870 | eBay, March 18, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $2,090 | eBay, July 11, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $1,975 | eBay, June 20, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $1,800 | eBay, June 16, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $1,312 | eBay, July 6, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $1,750 | eBay, January 10, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $1,170 | Heritage Auctions, December 2, 2025 |
| CGC 1.8 | $1,036 | eBay, February 11, 2026 |
| Raw | $1,250 | eBay, July 29, 2026 |
| Raw | $1,000 | eBay, July 17, 2026 |
| Raw | $1,200 | eBay, July 11, 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. 226 are documented in total; the newest per grade is where an honest number starts.
At CGC 6.0 there are 22 results to compare: $2,400 in 2019, $3,960 in 2022, $3,600 in 2025, $3,904 in 2026. $2,400 to $3,904, with the 2022 peak at $6,000.
Most copies of this book are not slabbed, and the table above will not tell you what yours does. Raw, ungraded copies sold 22 times on eBay in 2026, from $455 for a heavily read one to $3,152 for a copy the buyer clearly believed would grade well. Half of them landed between $900 and $1,500. If your copy is complete, flat and has both staples, that band is the realistic conversation, and a grading submission only pays for itself well above it.
The flattest part of this book
Across the readable grades I count sixty-seven results since the start of 2025, and the striking thing about them is how little the grade moves the money.
Three CGC 3.5 copies sold between May and June 2026 at $2,199, $2,444 and $2,444. In August a 4.0 brought $2,850, a 4.5 brought $2,589 and another 4.5 brought $2,950. A 5.0 brought $2,684 at Heritage in July. That is 3.5 to 5.0, a grade and a half, and the whole range sits between about twenty-two hundred and three thousand.
A 4.5 selling for less than a 4.0 in the same week is not an error in the data. It is what a market looks like when buyers care more about the book than the number on the label, which is exactly what happens with a first appearance that most people buy to own rather than to trade.
For an owner that is good news and bad news at once. A slightly better grade is not going to transform the number, and a slightly worse one is not going to ruin it. The band is the band, and it is a much easier conversation than the one at the top of this page.
Selling an Amazing Spider-Man #2
- Compare it to issues 3 and 4, not to issue 1. That is the market it sells into.
- Twelve cents, May 1963. Facsimile and Marvel Tales reprints identify themselves in the indicia.
- Check for the pence printing. A UK-priced copy is genuine and trades separately.
- Photograph the spine and staples. That is where the grade is won or lost on this run.
Second issue, first Vulture. What shape is it in?
Send the front, the back, and the staples and you will have a same-day read on grade, printing, and what the recent rows in that table say it is worth.
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.
- Amazing Spider-Man #3, the first Doctor Octopus.
- The 100 most valuable Silver Age comics.
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