CGC Certifies an Amazing Spider-Man #700 with 99 Signatures — the Most Ever Recorded

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The book’s owner Tony Mastracco was inspired after seeing another signed copy in 2016, and decided to have one of his own. He began collecting the signatures at conventions in 2017, and he always had a CGC witness with him to verify the signature. The very first signature he got was, appropriately, Stan Lee.

“I would always get assistance from CGC Signature Series witnesses at shows, and I was always incredibly appreciative, even dropping off bags of Kit Kats at the CGC booth,” Mastracco said. “The phenomenal help from the CGC witnesses inspired me to eventually become a witness myself.”

After five years, the book has also been signed by Dan Slott, Mark Bagley, Humberto Ramos, Ron Garney, Dan Panosian, Joe Rubinstein, John Romita Jr., Jimmy Palmiotti, Erik Larsen, Ryan Stegman, Rick Leonardi, J. Michael Straczynski, Joe Quesada, Gerry Conway, Jim Salicrup, Al Milgrom, Marv Wolfman, Chris Bachalo, Ed McGuinness, Steve McNiven, Jim Shooter, Joe Sinnott, Todd McFarlane, Marc Guggenheim, David Michelinie, Jim Starlin and many, many more.

So many, in fact, that CGC can’t list any more on the iconic yellow Signature Series label! This is the first, and so far only, comic to ever achieve the signature limit.

“I always had a goal number in mind of when to stop at a show, then I would reach it, and I would have one or two more signatures on the book so I made a new goal after every convention,” Mastracco said. “All the creators were wonderful to talk to, as long as I had the opportunity due to the long lines at the conventions.”

Spider-Man was first introduced in Amazing Fantasy #15 in 1962, and debuted under his own title, Amazing Spider-Man, in 1963. That series ran for 441 issues until it was relaunched as Vol. 2, beginning with a new issue #1 in 1999, and lasted 58 issues before it was renumbered under its legacy count to celebrate the 500th issue. Legacy numbering continued until #700 when the series ended in 2013 with the temporary death of Peter Parker. The Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 3) began in 2014, and the series is currently on Vol. 6, which began in 2022.

A CGC 9.0 copy of the Skyline variant with 21 signatures was sold for $240 in 2014, and another CGC 9.0 copy with only nine signatures nearly doubled that price (for fewer than half the number of signatures) when it was sold for $469 in 2018. The upward market trend combined with the unsurpassed number of signatures on this book make it difficult to assume its value — but it’s a spectacular piece to have in any collection, to be sure!