Another Milestone Set For The Holy Grail of Spidey Variants

In the world of modern comic collecting, there is not a bigger book than the Amazing Spider-Man #667 Dell’Otto Variant Cover. This book came out on August 10th 2011 and has been an absolute ghost ever since. Hardcore collectors around the globe literally compete with their moolah for this specific book. Rumors of only around 200 copies existing have made obtaining this an extremely difficult challenge. Especially when the amount of serious Amazing Spider-Man collectors that are vying for a complete run (like stupid ol’ me) are foaming at the mouth to add it to their personal collection.

About a year and a half ago, I was lucky enough to add one to my collection. The circumstances surrounding it were a bit bonkers and I wrote a piece not only detailing my “adventure” and “screwing” on the matter, but also go into great detail on the specifics of the book itself. It’s definitely worth a read in my opinion as this is the most expensive modern variant comic of all time. Show it some respect...

Check it out here: https://steemit.com/comics/@blewitt/the-spidey-holy-grail

Anyway, while I won’t go into detail on this unicorn of a book as I already did in the piece above, I’ll be happy to state that a copy just set another record. Not my copy by the way...just one on eBay.

On January 2nd, a seller from Massachusetts popped this bad boy up with a Buy It Now for $14,800 bucks. In under an hour, a buyer submitted an offer for $13,300 and it was accepted. This is the most this book has ever sold for on the public circle. The crazy part is that it’s a CGC 9.4. The last copy of this that sold was the 9.8 copy that sold for $10k. That’s how powerful this book is. It’s been a year plus since one even showed up for sale and it increased by $3k for a copy in poorer shape than the last. That’s nuts!!!

By the way, if you aren’t aware already...eBay does not let you see what the Best Offer accepted was on their site. They 86’d that feature years ago. So a good workaround is by going to http://www.watchcount.com. Just copy and past in the eBay item number and boom...all the info you need is there. Fantastic tool that I use often. Here is how this specific one looks on there.

I also belong to a comic forum where this book has its own thread, and people are always looking for this sucker where as nobody is ever selling. That’s why it keeps fetching more and more, regardless of condition. When I say it’s a ghost...I mean it. Several copies sold in several years. Not good odds of you are in the market for one.

I’d expect that my copy would probably grade out at an 8.5 or a 9.0. I might get it graded soon just because. I have to press it first and try to fix the one corner a tad. I bought mine in the $1700 range which seems like a freaking steal considering that I think almost any copy coming to market at this point would easily fetch over $10k. In decent shape...I’d expect this book to go $15-$20k. Absolutely bonkers!!!

Here are a few pics of mine. You can see some of the flaws I’m talking about that would knock it down to be an 8.5 or 9.0. In my opinion...

Anyway, anytime this book comes up and sells....it’s news in the comic world, so thanks for taking a look.

Blewitt