The Amazing Spider-Man #5 (Marvel, 1963) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages....
Auction amount: $33,600.00
Sold: Sep 12, 2021
The Amazing Spider-Man #5 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1963
About The Amazing Spider-Man #5
Doctor Doom cover and appearance, his first appearance outside of the Fantastic Four title. Flash Thompson dresses up as Spider-Man. Steve Ditko cover and art. Currently tied for #49 on Overstreet's list of Top 50 Silver Age Comics.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom]
Pencils: Steve Ditko
Inks: Steve Ditko
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek
Reprints: Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #142 (August 1982)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Dr. Doom [Victor Von Doom]; J. Jonah Jameson; Betty Brant (first name revealed); Flash Thompson (last name revealed); Liz Allen (last name revealed as Allan); May Parker; Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]
Synopsis: Dr. Doom tries to trick Spider-Man into helping him defeat the Fantastic Four. When Spider-Man turns him down, he decides to capture Spider-Man. Flash Thompson dresses up as Spider-Man for a prank and Dr. Doom mistakes him for the real Spider-Man and captures him instead, and Flash has to be saved by the real Spider-Man.
Pages: 21.000
Script: Stan Lee
Pencils: Steve Ditko
Inks: Steve Ditko
Letters: Sam Rosen
Reprints: Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #142 (August 1982), | The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #2 ([September] 1965)
Notes: This story is an example of Doctor Doom using a robot to take his place. The first instance of this was seen in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #5.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
CGC Census Report*
| Grade | NG | PG | CVR | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.0 | Total |
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Universal |
6 | 2 | 0 | 76 | 52 | 60 | 82 | 137 | 219 | 339 | 320 | 304 | 309 | 299 | 206 | 197 | 158 | 123 | 122 | 89 | 57 | 37 | 30 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3243 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 |
|
Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 16 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 139 |
|
CGCxJSA |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 24 | 17 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 17 | 16 | 22 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 266 |
| Total | 6 | 2 | 0 | 87 | 56 | 69 | 97 | 153 | 242 | 380 | 357 | 353 | 360 | 340 | 237 | 222 | 183 | 144 | 141 | 103 | 68 | 44 | 33 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3697 |
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