Mike Zeck’s three-panel page features the first appearance of the black Spidey symbiote suit that would later lead to the creation of Venom.
A single page of original art from a 1984 comic by Spider-Man (Spider Man) sold for a record price of $3.36 million in the United States, making the web-shooter a the world’s most powerful superhero at auction.
The lot, auctioned at a four-day event dedicated to comics organized by the firm Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas (south), had started at $330,000.
The three-vignette page of Mike Zeck features the first appearance of the black Spidey symbiote suit that would later lead to the creation of the “supervillain” Venom, created for the Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, a series published by Marvel Comics in 1984-85, for page 25 of issue #8.
“This page was the big reveal showcased on the cover! This is where Peter Parker got his new fancy black costume.” He said Heritage Auctions in his description of the artwork auctioned on Thursday.
“But… it’s a costume with a secret! Because very soon it turns out that he is alive and has his own agenda. This is the origin of the Venom character!”, he underlined.
The previous record for a single page of inside art from an American comic book was a frame showing the first image of Wolverine in a 1974 edition from The Incredible Hulk. The page was sold for $657,250.
A copy of Action Comics no. 1 from 1938, the first appearance of the famous superhero Superman, sold for $3.18 million on the first day of the event, Heritage Auctions said on its Twitter account.
The copy was rated 6.0 by the CGC comics rating authority. Two other higher-rated copies of the world’s most famous comic book edition previously sold for more at auction, according to The Hollywood Reporter. (I)
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