Todd McFarlane 'Spider-Man' cover breaks auction record
Published Jul 28 2012, 05:09 BST | By Hugh Armitage
Todd McFarlane's Amazing Spider-Man #328 cover has broken auction records.The Marvel Comics cover fetched $657,250 (£417,768) at Heritage Auctions, making it the most expensive single piece of American comics artwork ever sold, reports ICv2.
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The image depicts Spider-Man battling the Hulk.
The piece was part of the Shamus Collection of Modern Masterworks, assembled by Martin Shamus, the father of former Wizard publisher Gareb Shamus and Steven Shamus.
The previous record holder was a splash page from The Dark Knight Returns #3, which was auctioned last year for $448,125 (£284,848).
The overall record holder for a piece of comics artwork is for the cover of Tintin in America, which fetched $1.6 million (£1 million) last month.
A 9.8 graded copy of X-Men #1 was also sold by Heritage Auctions for $492,937.50, more than doubling the previous record for that issue.
The issue featured a story in which X-Men villain Sebastian Shaw hired the grey version of the Hulk to defeat Spider-Man so that the former Black King of the Hellfire Club could regain his position.
i dont begrudge anybody there succsess/wealth but this does go to show that the money troubles of the world do not affect some people. Fantastic as this artwork is, is a piece of paper with some pencil scribbles on from 1989 by a living artist really worth this much. I sort of understand the #1 issue selling for as much as it did as its a very high grade with only handfull of copies left anywere near this grade. And another thing remember when comics were this price the felt like such a bargain compared to now.
August 20th 2012 at 4:37pm(+1 like)