Ungraded vs Grade 8.0 Spider-Man [Newsstand] #5 (1990): price difference

Spider-Man [Newsstand] #5 (1990) value — Ungraded $5 vs Grade 8.0 $25. Grade 8.0 sells for Ungraded (+400%). Prices updated August 2026.

GradeSold medianvs Ungraded
Ungraded$5eBay ↗
Grade 6.0$132.6× · +160%eBay ↗
Grade 8.0$255× · +400%eBay ↗

Medians of real sold listings per grade, updated August 2026 how we compute values.

Ungraded vs Grade 8.0
$5$25

Grade 8.0 sells for (+400%) the Ungraded price — a $20 difference per comic.

Ungraded vs Grade 6.0
$5$13

Grade 6.0 sells for 2.6× (+160%) the Ungraded price — a $8 difference per comic.

Should you get this comic graded?

Grading runs about $30 per comic all-in. On Spider-Man [Newsstand] #5 (1990), the jump from Ungraded to Grade 8.0 is worth $20 () — at today's prices that doesn't cover the fee — grading this one is for the collection, not the flip. A grade below the top one changes the math, so run your exact numbers first.

Run the grading break-even math →
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