A near-perfect copy of “The Amazing Spider-Man #1” sold for over $1.3 million at auction, breaking the record for the highest price the issue has ever fetched on the block.But why must the whole speculator market be considered justifiable? It's long come at the expense of actual reading, to say nothing of story merit. Whenever I read these kind of articles, it's simply frustrating, and as I've said before, it's not improving the industry's reputation because of how entertainment value is marginalized in the process.
The unrestored copy of the Marvel hero’s self-titled series debut was purchased for a staggering bid of $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 said the Spidey comic’s 9.8 “Near Mint/Mint Condition” grade by the Certified Guaranty Company, the comics industry standard, easily justifies the seven-figure price tag.
Because if we're going to try and stop the misuse of our favorite comics and their protagonists by the companies that write and publish them, we've got to see what both the printed and online comics news is doing wrong. This blog focuses on both the good and the bad, the newspaper media and the online websites. Unabashedly. Unapologetically. Scanning the media for what's being done right and what's being done wrong.
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Old copy of Spider-Man's premiere issue sells for over $1.3 million
The New York Post tells of another dreary auctioning of an old classic's premiere issue, here of Spider-Man's first as a series (remember, of course, that Spidey first debuted in the last issue of Amazing Fantasy, 15), selling for the usual million-plus bucks:
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