AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, THE (1ST SERIES)

All issues of Amazing Spider-Man were distributed in the UK from 1963 until with #121 (Jun 1973) they suddenly went ND or Non Distributed for nearly eight years! Check the individual listings for scarcity factors but generally Amazing Spider-Man was in good supply in UK newsagents and other sweet/magazine shops for the first ten years.

UK Variant Issues: #1-18 have a printed 9d (ninepence) cover price, #19-27 have an ink 10d cover stamp which is quite large and can sometimes be quite heavy unfortunately.  #28-55 have a printed 10d cover price. #56-71 have a 1/- cover stamp. #72 is the start of a printed 1/- cover price up until #101. #102 (double size) has a printed 8p cover price and from #103 it's a printed 6p cover price up until #120.

#121 to #214 only have the American cents price on the cover. There were ND or Non Distributed in the UK at the time. There are no pence copies of these issues!

Values listed are for UK pence copies (unless ND cents copy). The gap between pence and cents copies is currently roughly about half (ie. UK £20 = US £40). In higher grades (Very Fine Plus and beyond) the gap widens. In extremely high grades (9.4 Near Mint and beyond), cents copies can be stratospheric, at multiples of Guide. Bear in mind this is a very general overview at this present time, a rough guide. Actual sales of more high grade pence (and cents) copies will give a more accurate picture.

Will this gap widen or narrow?

An indication: an Amazing Spider-Man #1 UK in CGC 5.0 fetched £1,441.76 on eBay UK Jan 13th 2012. Less than half the US guide price for the grade. Seemed like a good deal to me. There are probably only  a handful of ASM #1's in this grade or better left.

The Highest Graded UK copy was a 7.5 but in the last year an 8.0 has been offered on eBay for around $15,000, the US Guide value for a cents copy.