Spiderman #1 is a valuable comic. Even more valuable is the Marvel Tales introduction to the superhero. This comic book is worth several hundred thousand dollars in mint condition and I had bought Amazing Fantasy #15 in August 1962 at the little soda shop near my Nana’s house in Wollaston, Massachusetts and year later purchased Spiderman #1 at the drugstore down the street from my other grandmother house in Westbrook, Maine.
My grandmothers both appreciated my devotion to reading, plus that I had paid for these comics with my own money from my paper route for the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and the Record American. My father was less supportive of my collection and several times he had torn them up in my face.
“A waste of time.”
Millions of other fathers throughout the US of America had felt the same way and destroyed the comics like they belonged a Nazi book-burning mob. A few of the original comics survived this purge and their value was based strictly on their existence on the verge of extinction.
Amazing worth $14,000
Fantastic Four #1 costs about the same..
My father ripped both in half.
I forgave him years ago.
After all it was only a comic book and I can remember holding Fantastic Four #1 in my hands, a memory both priceless and worthless at the same time.