Amazing Fantasy 15 sells for $1.1 Million at ComicConnect!

Metropolis/ComicConnect COO Vincent Zurzolo discusses the recent record-breaking sale of a 9.6 CGC Amazing Fantasy 15 for over a million dollars. For more info, visit us at www.metropoliscomics.com or www.comicconnect.com!

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Hi, I'm Vincent Zurzolo, COO, ComicConnect.com. We're very proud to announce a record sale. The highest graded copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man, in CGC 9.6 condition, sold for $1.1 Million dollars. And here is the comic book.

In the 1980s, we acquired this comic and sold it for $2,500. In the early 2000s, we acquired this comic book again, and sold it for $140,000. And recently we were able to broker a deal for that buyer for $1.1 Million, making it not only the most expensive Silver Age comic book ever sold, but the second most expensive comic book ever sold. Second only behind Action Comics #1 in CGC graded 8.5 condition, which we sold last year for $1.5 Million.

When I was a little kid, I used to dig through my parents couch looking for extra change so that I could run up to the corner drug store to buy any comic book I could get my hands on. I loved Spider-Man. I loved Marvel Team-Ups that featured Spider-Man. To me the idea that later on in life I would be able to sell a comic book for over a million dollars is like a dream come true. I never imagined in a million years.

Spiderman is my favorite character. When I was a little kid, my mom bought me the reprints of the early issues, including Amazing Fantasy #15, and I got to read how Spider-Man became Spider-Man. Anybody out there can imagine or remember some point in their life where they felt like the outcast. Where they felt like they didn't fit in. Where they were picked on... some way, shape or form. That was Peter Parker when he started out. Who would have believed that a comic book that came out from a company that was almost bankrupt in the 1960s is worth so much today and so popular. 12 cents! Now, $1.1 Million.

So we've sold a comic book for $1 Million. $1.5 Million. $1.1 Million. What will the future hold? Who knows?

To be continued!

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• Zurzolo
• CGC
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