Spider-Man never stops setting records.
While the last cinematic episode of the adventures of Peter Parker is turning the world box office upside down in the midst of a pandemic, the superhero has just won a new medal in sales rooms.
An original page of a comic book featuring
Spider-Man
in 1984 in the
Secret Wars
series reached the record price of 3.36 million dollars (2.9 million euros) Thursday in the United States.
The work was initially offered at $330,000.
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The teenager with great powers and great responsibilities thus defeats his ancestor, the DC Comics Superman.
In this three-panel page produced by Mike Zeck and taken from issue 8 of
Secret Wars,
a series published by Marvel Comics in 1984-1985, the superhero puts on the black costume for the first time, which turns out to be a symbiote (parasite alien) and will give birth to Venom, a fearsome "supervillain".
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“This page is the big reveal announced on the cover! This is the moment when Peter Parker puts on his chic new black suit, ”
explains the auction house Heritage Auctions, describing page 25 of the publication.
“But the costume has a secret!
He is quickly revealed to be alive and to have his own motives.
This story is at the origin of the character of Venom”,
she adds.
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The previous record for a single original comic sheet dates back to 2014 when a page showing Wolverine's first appearance in an issue of
The Incredible Hulk
dating from 1974, was sold for 657,250 dollars (573,650 euros).
During the four-day auction in Dallas, Texas, Heritage Auctions reports that a new copy of the first issue of
Action Comics
in 1938, famous for featuring the first appearance of Superman, sold for 3.18 million dollars (2.77 million euros).
