Wednesday, March 9, 2011

A Cool Mil....

Looks like the economy is officially back on track since there has been a nice amount of fine art and comics books on the auction block selling for insane amounts of money.



The comic book market continues to boom as the first comic book to feature Spider-Man sold for $1.1 million through comic book auction house ComicConnect.com, the same house that sold a 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, featuring Superman's debut last year for a record $1.5 million. Action Comics No. 1 originally sold for 10 cents and the Marvel Spider-Man sold for 12 cents in 1962. The copy that sold is in excellent condition and the cover shows Spider Man swinging by a web. Early comic books from the 1930s to 1950s are often called Golden Age comic books. The Spider-Man comes from what is known as the Silver Age this sale may end up raising the prices of other Silver Age books.

2 comments:

venoms5 said...

Wow, that issue does look to be in amazing condition. My uncles copy, the last time I saw it, was in tattered shape, but still readable.

Skeme Richards said...

It's crazy to even see a copy of that in such a great condition. That person must have known years ago to stash that away.