They picked Amazing Spider-man #1 for "one of" the rarest comic books? Not even close. I've seen hundreds of high grade copies at conventions.

I took a look at the CGC Census.
1 in Near Mint/Mint 9.8
3 in Near Mint + 9.6
8 in Near Mint 9.4
10 in Near Mint- 9.2

1,302 graded.. and this doesn't even count the ungraded ones!

This is rarest?

Action Comics # 0 Ashcan - 2 copies exist.
But let's not even count ashcans.

Action Comics # 1
36 copies graded, highest is VF/NM 9.0
(I think an estimated 75 exist?)

Still not close.

Motion Picture Funnies Weekly
8 known to exist. 5 graded, highest is 9.0

I know several issues of New Comics / New Fun Comics / More Fun Comics are exceedingly rare, as well as the first ten issues of Detective Comics.

Several years ago I encountered online a collector trying to get every DC Comic -- he had 10 left to go at the time, as I recall, and he couldn't find them anywhere and some were oddball comics he questioned whether they existed at all.

Another thing exceedingly rare:

Any and all of DC's 15 cent variants from 1940 are only 1-3 known to exist. I know, because I have one of them.

Batman # 2, 15 cent variant from Summer, 1940.

3 copies known to exist.

2 are restored.
(Mine is a restored Fine- 5.5, the only copy graded by CGC.)
The third is in Poor condition with chunks missing and tape on the spine.

Amazing Spider-man #1 isn't even in the top 100 rarest comics.

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