Amazing Spider-Man #9 Value: One Record, One Real Market

This comic has one number attached to it that everybody has heard, and a market underneath it that almost nobody quotes. Amazing Spider-Man 9 value depends entirely on which of the two you are in.

It is the first appearance of Electro, from February 1964, and it turns up in collections far more often than the record at the top of its ladder would suggest.

One sale is doing all the talking

CGC has reported exactly one auction result on this book: a 9.8 at $126,000 in January 2024. That is the number that circulates, and it is the number owners have usually seen before they call.

Everything else in the record comes from Heritage results and completed eBay sales, and there is a great deal of it — 268 sales going back to 2002. The evidence is not thin. It is simply concentrated in the grades most copies are actually in.

Identification is the ordinary 1964 Marvel check: 12 cents on the cover, a February 1964 indicia date, no bar code. The story has been reprinted in Marvel Tales and in modern collections, all of which name themselves in the small print.

What the graded copies have done

One reported sale, and the Heritage record around it. Read the dates in each grade rather than comparing grades to each other.

The 9.4 line is the one worth trusting, because it has three dated results going the same way: $12,000 in June 2022, $14,400 in April 2024, $18,600 that July. A grade that has added half its value in two years while the rest of this run has been quiet.

The 9.6 line looks wrong until you read the dates. $22,705 in May 2011 and $11,352 in August 2017 are the two most recent reported sales at that grade, and they are nine and fifteen years old. A 9.6 has not come up in a long time, which is why the 9.4 below it now prints bigger numbers.

The two 9.2 results from March 2026 are the sharpest thing on this page. The same grade sold for $7,300 on eBay and $10,980 at Heritage in the same month. Fifty percent more money, one auction floor, no difference in the comic.

That single pair is the best argument I can make for thinking about where a comic sells rather than only what grade it is. On a book at this level the venue is worth more than a tenth of a grade.

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 #9 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.

Amazing Spider-Man #9 value, grade by grade

268 sales tracked back to 2002; here are the three freshest in every grade.

Every row above is a documented sale, verifiable in Heritage’s public Amazing Spider-Man issue index and in CGC’s published auction reporting. One of them was reported by CGC; the rest come from Heritage results and completed eBay sales.

The market most copies are actually in

Ninety-seven readable copies have sold since the start of 2025, which makes this one of the best-mapped mid-grade markets on my Silver Age list.

A 6.0 brought $2,200 on eBay in July 2026 and a 5.5 brought $1,499 the same month. Two 4.5 copies brought $1,299 and $1,200 in late July and early August, and a third brought $1,220 at Heritage in July. A 5.0 brought $1,007 at Heritage and a 3.5 brought $960 on eBay.

So the whole readable range on this book sits between about a thousand dollars and twenty-two hundred, and the three 4.5 sales inside three weeks landing within eighty dollars of each other is as clean a signal as this hobby gives you.

Set that against the $126,000 at the top of the page and the ratio is more than a hundred to one. That is not a reason to be disappointed with a complete, honest copy — it is a reason not to price one off a record.

Selling an Amazing Spider-Man #9

1. Read the cover price. Twelve cents, February 1964, no bar code. Reprints of this story are common and all of them say so inside.
2. Ignore the record unless you have a 9.8. One sale at that grade does not describe the comic in your hands.
3. Ask where it is being sold, not just what it grades. Two 9.2 copies sold fifty percent apart in one month, and the difference was the venue.
4. Do not break up the run. The first twenty issues of this title are keys almost without exception, and they sell as a block far better than picked over one at a time.

Send photographs and I will place your copy against the recent sales in its own grade rather than against the headline.

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 book at the top of this run, and a completely different kind of market.
• Journey into Mystery #83. Another 1960s Marvel first where the top grades behave nothing like the middle.
• The 100 most valuable Silver Age comics. And what each one really sold for.

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