First Spider-Man Comic From 1962 Sells for $1.1 Million -- NEW YORK, March 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --: NEW YORK, March 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can ... but also what no other 1960s comic book can do ... sell for $1,100,000!
ComicConnect.com, one of the industry's leading online auction sites, just sold an extremely rare, highest graded copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, the Marvel comic book by legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, that introduced the world to the web slinging, wall crawling superhero known as Spider-Man, a.k.a. Peter Parker. The sale of this legendary comic is second only to the Guinness World record 8.5 VF+ Action Comics #1, which marks Superman's 1938 debut that was also sold by www.ComicConnect.com last year for a whopping $1,500,000.