From time to time, comic books can be sold for high prices at auctions. Particularly good condition copies of issues in which important characters first appeared or issues in which important events took place can fetch large sums of money. A comic book store in Canada is aiming to make a similar sale.
Stan Lee, the man who made Marvel what it is, was the first to try the idea of a young hero with human problems and troubles outside of his superhero costume, with Spider-Man. According to Lee’s own account, the management at that time asked Spider-Man, “Who can be a hero if he can’t make the rent? Besides, it’s a spider, people don’t like spiders.” They stayed away from this character by saying.
Spider-Man comic book by Stan Lee $44,300
Unable to achieve the expected sales with the comic book series called Amazing Fantasy, Marvel gave Stan Lee permission to write Spider-Man before ending the series “so that the magazine would not be empty”. Because sales were low, Amazing Fantasy #15 was not printed in large quantities. Published in August 1962, the comic book by Stan Lee (writer) and Steve Ditko (illustrator) was sold for only 12 cents. The high sales of this issue brought Spider-Man to the comic book world.
The comic book store in Canada, The Comic Hunter, is demanding a payment of 60 thousand Canadian dollars, or 44,300 US dollars, for their copy of Stan Lee’s Amazing Fantasy #15. There is also an official document showing that the comic is original.
This comic is being sold for this price because it is in poor condition. The condition of the comic is shown as 3.5 out of 10. A copy of the same comic book in good condition was sold for $ 3.6 million in September 2021. The record for this comic book was broken by the first Superman issue, which sold for $5.3 million in April 2022.
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