Catalogued as the most valuable Silver Age comic book by far, a copy of Issue No 15 of Amazing Fantasy, the 1962 comic that saw the first appearance of Spider-Man (right), sold for £14,500 in a January 25 sale held by Excalibur Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) of Amersham.
It was a fine copy, but as these specialists in collectables and memorabilia, along with comic collectors, well know, the UK and US markets are very, very different, and this was a UK copy of the Marvel comic, priced not at 10c on the cover, but at 9d.