If you want proof that a grade on a label is not a price, this comic supplies it better than anything else I have written about. Amazing Spider-Man 50 value has to be read a lane at a time.
It is the first appearance of the Kingpin, from July 1967, and it is also the famous “Spider-Man No More” cover, which means people recognise it even when they do not know why it matters.
The cover everyone knows, the debut most people miss
The image of Peter Parker walking away from a dustbin with the costume in it is one of the most reproduced covers Marvel ever printed. It has been homaged, parodied and reprinted for decades, and that is usually what someone recognises.
What actually carries the money is inside: the Kingpin appears here for the first time. Buyers pay for that, not for the cover, and it is worth knowing which of the two you are selling.
The original is 12 cents, July 1967, no bar code. The cover has been reused so often that reprints and homages are easy to mistake for it, and every one of them names itself in the small print inside.
What the graded lanes have done
Two of these were reported by CGC. Read each grade down its own column rather than comparing across them.
| Grade | Result | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.8 | $125,000 | ComicLink, August 2024 |
| CGC 9.8 | $91,500 | Heritage Auctions, February 2026 |
| CGC 9.6 | $66,000 | Heritage Auctions, November 2021 |
| CGC 9.6 | $33,600 | Heritage Auctions, July 2023 |
| CGC 9.6 | $28,060 | Heritage Auctions, May 2026 |
| CGC 9.4 | $13,420 | Heritage Auctions, May 2026 |
| CGC 9.4 | $10,040 | Heritage Auctions, October 2024 |
| CGC 9.2 | $12,000 | eBay, April 2026 |
| CGC 9.2 | $8,400 | Heritage Auctions, April 2025 |
The 9.6 line is a straight decline and a steep one: $66,000 in November 2021, $33,600 in July 2023, $28,060 in May 2026. Less than half the money over four and a half years, at one auction house, on the way down the whole time.
The 9.8 above it did the same thing on a shorter run, $125,000 in August 2024 to $91,500 in February 2026. Two grades agreeing on a direction is a market, not a coincidence.
Then the 9.4 goes the other way. $10,040 in October 2024, $13,420 in May 2026, up about a third while everything above it fell. That is what happens when buyers priced out of a grade move down one.
The 9.2 pair says it again from two directions: $8,400 at Heritage in April 2025, $12,000 on eBay a year later. Same grade, different floor, and the private listing paid more.
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 #50 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.
Amazing Spider-Man #50 value across the grades
245 sales tracked back to 2002; here are the three freshest in every grade.
| Grade | Sold for | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.8 | $91,500 | Heritage Auctions, February 26, 2026 |
| CGC 9.8 | $125,000 | ComicLink, August 28, 2024 |
| CGC 9.6 | $28,060 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 9.6 | $26,400 | Heritage Auctions, October 10, 2024 |
| CGC 9.6 | $33,600 | Heritage Auctions, July 17, 2023 |
| CGC 9.4 | $13,420 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 9.4 | $9,760 | Heritage Auctions, March 16, 2026 |
| CGC 9.4 | $7,800 | Heritage Auctions, September 30, 2025 |
| CGC 9.2 | $9,760 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 9.2 | $12,000 | eBay, April 18, 2026 |
| CGC 9.2 | $12,000 | eBay, March 19, 2026 |
| CGC 9.0 | $6,262 | eBay, July 27, 2026 |
| CGC 9.0 | $2,632 | eBay, May 1, 2026 |
| CGC 9.0 | $3,350 | eBay, February 14, 2026 |
| CGC 8.5 | $3,800 | eBay, July 6, 2026 |
| CGC 8.5 | $3,800 | eBay, May 25, 2026 |
| CGC 8.5 | $2,800 | eBay, March 31, 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $3,200 | eBay, July 11, 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $2,749 | eBay, July 5, 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $2,550 | eBay, June 5, 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $1,800 | eBay, July 10, 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $1,750 | eBay, June 15, 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $2,300 | eBay, May 27, 2026 |
| CGC 7.0 | $1,750 | eBay, August 8, 2026 |
| CGC 7.0 | $2,350 | eBay, August 1, 2026 |
| CGC 7.0 | $1,850 | eBay, July 18, 2026 |
| CGC 6.5 | $1,550 | eBay, July 11, 2026 |
| CGC 6.5 | $1,300 | eBay, July 6, 2026 |
| CGC 6.5 | $1,305 | eBay, June 28, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $1,125 | eBay, August 7, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $1,125 | eBay, August 6, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $1,230 | eBay, July 14, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $1,200 | eBay, July 27, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $950 | eBay, July 23, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $999 | eBay, May 27, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $890 | eBay, July 25, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $816 | eBay, July 12, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $1,150 | eBay, July 11, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $562 | eBay, July 12, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $582 | eBay, July 6, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $768 | eBay, July 6, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $660 | eBay, August 12, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $685 | eBay, June 25, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $649 | eBay, June 22, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $540 | eBay, June 22, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $450 | eBay, May 18, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $500 | eBay, April 8, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $525 | eBay, August 9, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $500 | eBay, June 9, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $450 | eBay, April 2, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $325 | eBay, May 1, 2025 |
| Raw | $482 | eBay, August 13, 2026 |
| Raw | $325 | eBay, August 10, 2026 |
| Raw | $670 | eBay, August 3, 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. The 9.0 lane below is where this book is at its least predictable, and it has twenty-nine results behind it.
The lane that proves the point
The CGC 9.0 line on this comic sold six times on eBay in 2026: $2,247 and $5,000 in January, $3,350 and $6,858 in February, $2,632 in May, $6,262 in July. One grade, one venue, one year, and the top result is three times the bottom one.
Nothing about the comics was different. What differed was the listing, the photographs, the description and who happened to be watching. That spread is the single strongest argument I can make for caring about how a comic is sold rather than only what it grades.
Below that the readable grades settle down. In July and August 2026 a 7.0 brought $2,350 and another brought $1,750, two 6.0 copies brought $1,125 each, a 5.5 brought $1,200 and another $950, a 5.0 brought $890 and a 4.0 brought $660.
Two 6.0 sales at exactly the same figure in the same month is the kind of row I build quotes from. A hundred and one readable copies have sold since January 2025, so there is plenty of it to work with.
Selling an Amazing Spider-Man #50
- Confirm it is the 1967 issue. Twelve cents, July 1967, no bar code. The cover has been reused constantly and every reprint says so inside.
- Sell the Kingpin, not the cover. The first appearance is what buyers pay for, and it is worth saying so in a listing.
- Ask how it will be sold. Six 9.0 copies on one site in one year ranged three to one, and the difference was presentation.
- Keep the run around it. Issues in the forties and fifties of this title carry keys of their own and move better as a group.
Photographs will tell me which lane your copy is in, and I will tell you how wide that lane has actually been, because on this book the width is the point.
Have a Kingpin first?
Twelve cents in the corner box and no bar code is the July 1967 original. Photograph that corner and I can separate it from the reprints and homages this cover has collected. Text that corner over.
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. The top of this run, and a completely different kind of market.
- Fantastic Four #1. Another Marvel key where one grade carries most of the evidence.
- The 100 most valuable Silver Age comics. And what each one really sold for.
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.
