THE MILLION-DOLLAR CLUB

 

 

 

Another comic book has joined the million-dollar club: a copy of Amazing Fantasy No. 15, the issue in which Spider-Man debuted, graded 9.6 (Near Mint) by the Certified Guaranty Company (CGC), sold for $1.1 million on March 7 in a private sale brokered by ComicConnect.com. This copy, “the highest graded copy to day,” according to Brent Frankenhoff at Comics Buyer’s Guide (CBG), is “the first Silver Age comic book to break the million-dollar barrier and joins only three other comics sold for that amount or more”: Action Comics No. 1 (Superman arrives), $1 million on February 22; Detective Comics No. 27 (Batman begins), $1,075.500 on February 25; and another copy of Action Comics No. 1 for $1.5 million on March 29. Next we’ll hear that Iron Man has joined the club; then Doctor Strange and Scooby Doo. Funny, neither of the illustrious Captains America and Marvel has joined the club yet.