The price tag of this comic book makes the collector’s spidey sense twitch.
A near-perfect copy of “The Amazing Spider-Man #1” sold for more than $1.3 million at auction, breaking the record for the highest price the issue has ever fetched on the block.
An unrestored debut copy of Marvel’s superhero stand-alone title series was bought for a staggering $1,380,000 through Dallas-based Heritage Auctions on Thursday.
The record-breaking sale was part of a larger comic auction that included a 7.0-grade “Fine/Very Fine” copy of “Superman #1,” which sold for $2.3 million.
Industry experts say the 9.8 “Near Mint/Mint Condition” grade of Spidey comics by the Certified Guarantee Company, the comics industry standard, easily justifies the seven-figure price tag.
Only one other copy is known to have the same grade, and none received a higher grade, according to the CGC.
“For buyers in today’s market, to get a copy of this issue in 9.8 could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” CGC President Matt Nelson told The Post, adding that a 9.6-graded copy of the same issue fetched just over $520,000 last year.
The comic was graded at 9.8 — the highest ever recorded for the debut of Spidey’s eponymous series — and sold for just 12 cents in 1963. Heritage Auctions
“This Spider-Man #1 literally represents the launch of his own title that has been going on for decades, so historically, this is a very important book in the Spider-Man universe.”
“The Amazing Spider-Man #1,” by artist Steve Ditko and writer Stan Lee, is on newsstands seven months after the world first met nerdy high school student Peter Parker — who fights crime as friendly neighborhood Spider-Man after being bitten by radioactive arachnids — in “Amazing Fantasy #15.”
Spidey’s eponymous series debut, which sold for just 12 cents in 1963, retold Parker’s origin story — how he got his superpowers and how a thief killed his Uncle Ben while he was out on the web.
The issue also introduces the reader to villains including Chameleon, whom he faces during a crossover with Marvel’s Fantastic Four, and Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson.
Copy of “The Amazing Spider-Man” No. 1 is described as a “curator’s pedigree” book, meaning it’s part of a well-preserved personal collection of comics rumored to have previously belonged to a museum curator, according to Vice President of Heritage Auctions Barry Sandoval.
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