The First Spider-Man Comic Book Sells for 44 Thousand Dollars

From time to time at auctions comics can be sold for high prices. 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 is the man who made Marvel Marvel. Spider Man The idea of ​​a young hero with humanitarian problems and problems outside of his superhero costume was tried for the first time. According to Lee’s own account, the management at that time did not support Spider-Man. “Can someone who can’t afford the rent become a hero? And 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 “so that the magazine would not be empty” before ending the series. Because sales are low Amazing Fantasy #15 It wasn’t printed very much. 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.

in canada The Comic Hunter The comic book store is demanding payment of 60 thousand Canadian dollars, or 44,300 US dollars, for their copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 by Stan Lee. Also shows that the comic is original official document It is also available.

This comic this price because its condition is bad selling. The condition of the comic is shown as 3.5 out of 10. A copy of the same comic in good condition will be available in full in September 2021. for $3.6 million had been sold. The record for this comic book is the first one sold for 5.3 million dollars in April 2022. Superman was broken by the number.