When valuing comics, there are a number of factors that are taken into consideration – age, character, title, quality, and so on. While it is great to hear stories of people who have discovered a cache of valuable comics, it’s also nice to hear about those who stumble across a lost treasure in their own attic.
George Toman was cleaning out his attic and stumbled across a copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 (the first appearance of Spider-Man), that he bought way back in the ’60s for a dime. After taking it down to Chimera’s Comics, Toman was informed the comic was worth approximately $12,000 – due to the fact it was stored in an attic without any kind of protection.
Toman, a software analyst at Xerox, will more than likely get around $10,000 after the store takes its cut.
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How awesome is that!! Now, if you’ll excuse, I gotta go clean out MY attic…
Avengers#4 and X-Men#1 for about 25 cents at a garage sale in the summer of 1969. Five years later, i got married and moved out of my parent’s house. I hid my special comics really well in the attic. They moved… without my comics. Every Avengers, Spider-man, Daredevil, and X-men up to 1970. I wonder if anyone has found my “stash” of comics in an attic somewhere in Houston, Texas! (Alas, no Amazing Fantasy #15.) Tales of Suspense, Tales to Astonish, and Journey Into Mystery… etc.
Thor, Hulk, Captain America, Ironman, Silver Surfer, Sub-mariner… every FF from #5… (I didn’t do DC in those days.)
Moral to the story… don’t get married.
That guy doesn’t look nearly old enough to have bought Amazing Fantasy #15 for a dime. I’m forty, and that book came out 7 years BEFORE I was born. You have to figure that any one who bought the thing off the stands is at least fifty years old, even allowing for second-hand comic sales. He looks 25…
That’s the owner of the comic book store.
I have to agree with Matthew here. I’d think Spawn #1 then Amazing Fantasy #15. I wonder if his father or way older cousin stashed that away in his attic?