Bleeding Cool is reporting that a copy of Amazing Fantasy 15 recently sold for $1.1 million through a private transaction facilitated by ComicConnect. This makes it the second-highest selling comic book ever (behind last year’s sale of Action Comics #1), and THE highest-selling Silver Age comic book.
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.
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AbdulAziz: The price is a bit high, but having a copy of this book CGC graded at 9.6 (NEAR MINT PLUS) is a huge plus. There is a certain prestige among high end collectors of having the highest graded copy ever of a valuable key book like this. It’s safe to say that this copy will remain to be the highest graded copy known to exist. That makes it an incredible investment.
This issue is still over 2 decades younger than both AC 001 & DC 027, how did it manage to sell that high?
Batman & Superan are no better than Spidey in first appearance it seems
How I choose to spend my money is not your concern, folks 😉
Meanwhile,Michael Bailey sits in his Fortress of Baileytude and laughs maniacally while Brad tears up.
This makes me wish I was alive in 1962, I would have brought 10-15 copies of this issue and then I’d hold onto them for 40-50 years before selling them. Keeping one for myself of course 😉
@Kassady, Near Mint.
@Donovan, the auction facilitators charged a fee, so part of the buyer’s money went to that. The seller of Detective Comics 27 got less money than the seller of Action Comics 1.
Was it an insanely high grade? There’s a few on ebay but they’re in the $1,000-$6,000 range.
I thought ‘Tec #27 sold higher than AC#1 last year.
Well if the winner of this auction is anything like Krusty the Clown, he’ll probably light his cigar with it…;)
I wonder if the seller was the 1st owner of the book, and if he was sitting on it for 40+ years? Doubt it, but it’d be cool…
I always wonder what these ludicrously rich people do with these old comics. Fair enough they can say they own them, but would you seriously ever dare read something like this, lest you tore it accidentally?