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. I bought Amazing Fantasy #15 in August 1962 at the little soda shop near my Nana’s house in Wollaston, Massachusetts and purchased Spiderman #1 a year later at the drugstore down the street from my other grandmother house in Westbrook, Maine.
My grandmothers appreciated my devotion to reading, plus that I had paid for these comics with my own money. I had a paper route for the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and the Record American. Mornings and afternoons. My father was less supportive of my collection and several times he tore them up in my face.
"A waste of time."
Millions of other fathers throughout the US of America felt the same way and destroyed the comics like they were a Nazi book-burning mob. A few survived this purge and their value is based strictly on their existence on the verge of extinction.
I had the Fantastic Four #1 too.
My father ripped it 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.
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