Spider-Man comic sells for $1.1 million
In this comic book cover released by ComicConnect/MetropolisComics, the cover of the Spider-Man comic, "Amazing Fantasy #15," is shown. The issue, graded 9.6 or near-mint, plus, was sold by ComicConnect.com for $1.1 million on Monday, March 7, 2011 to an undisclosed buyer. (AP Photo/ComicConnect/MetropolisComics)
PHILADELPHIA >> A comic collector has been caught in Spider-Man’s web, paying $1.1 million for a near-mint copy of "Amazing Fantasy" No. 15 that features the wall-crawler’s debut.
ComicConnect.com chief executive Stephen Fishler told The Associated Press Tuesday that the Silver Age issue, first published in 1962, was sold Monday by a private seller to a private buyer.
It’s not the highest price ever paid for a comic book. That honor goes to Action Comics No. 1 with Superman on the cover, which went for $1.5 million.
But Fishler says the price paid is the most for a Silver Age era book.
The cover shows Spider-Man clutching a villain in one arm and swinging from his web with the other. It originally sold for 12 cents.
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