GUEST: I brought a bunch of comic books that my husband bought when they were brand-new, and they'd been in my mother-in-law's basement for about 50 years.

When she was getting ready to go out of her house about ten years ago, I went back there and helped move things, and I found this box.

APPRAISER: I’m so jealous of your husband's experience.

(chuckles) The fact that he was able to buy these directly off the newsstand when they were brand-new.

GUEST: He was between 11 and 13, I believe, and he would bike down to the neighborhood drugstore to buy them.

APPRAISER: So we know exactly what he paid for 'em.

He was paying 12 cents apiece.

GUEST: (laughing): 12 cents.

That's amazing.

APPRAISER: It is.

I'm, all the comics you have here today range from what we call the Silver Age of Comics, 1956 to 1970.

You have a mix of both DC and Marvel comics, but our hero of the day is Spider-Man.

Amazing Spider-Man, that is.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: I mean, he is, by far, in my opinion, the most recognizable, fan-favorite child hero of superheroes today.

For the books you have here, your earliest Amazing Spider-Man being issue five, which is from 1963.

The reason this book in particular is a fan favorite is because it has the one and only Dr.

Doom.

GUEST: (laughs) APPRAISER: Evil bad guy.

GUEST: Right.

The bad.

APPRAISER: Victor von Doom first appeared in Fantastic Four issue five.

This is his first crossover into Amazing Spider-Man.

We have, uh, Amazing Spider-Man six, first appearance of the Lizard, Dr.

Curt Connors, staple in the Amazing Spider-Man world.

Here, Spider-Man 15.

This is the first appearance of Kraven the Hunter, pseudo, like, hero, anti-hero, villain.

GUEST: (chuckles) APPRAISER: And then my favorite book here on the table, Amazing Spider-Man annual one, this book featuring the first appearance of the Sinister Six.

It's all the greatest Spider-Man villains in the second year of the stand-alone title.

When it comes to value of comics, it's all condition-based.

We would say these books range anywhere from 2.0 to maybe a 4.0, 4.5, that meaning your husband absolutely loved these books.

He read them multiple times.

GUEST: (chuckles) Yes.

APPRAISSR: The Kraven the Hunter book is a little bit rougher on the end of the spectrum value-wise.

We would place this book at $700 to $1,000 today.

GUEST: Wow.

APPRAISER: The Amazing Spider-Man annual one, similar to the two above it, this book falls in the, uh, $800 to $1,200 range.

But... GUEST: (chuckles) APPRAISER: these are just four books on the table.

Everything that you have here fanned out is beautiful.

There are so many iconic, key books in here mixed in.

Conservatively, at auction, for the collection, this would easily be a $10,000 to $15,000 group of comics.

GUEST: (laughing): Not what I expected to hear at all, that's amazing.

That's fantastic!

Mike would have been pleased.

He loved these books, he loved sci-fi.

He'd have been so excited-- that's great.