Here is the story that was released via
The Associated Press earlier today. Any of you longtime collectors out there might want to stop reading now and instead head on up into your attics to see if you've got a spare copy lying around somewhere! If so, feel free to send it in to me and I'm sure I'll find it a good home.
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.
That's quite something, huh? It's especially impressive when you consider that the previous record for this issue was a mere $227,000 in comparison! All of the comic book movies heading to cinemas this year, along with
The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012, will surely increase these values even more!
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