(Los Angeles) An original page of a comic strip featuring Spider-Man in 1984 in the series of Secret Wars reached the record price of 3.36 million dollars at an auction Thursday in the United States, making him the most powerful superhero thus awarded.
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In this plate of three panels produced by Mike Zeck and taken from number 8 of the Secret Wars, a series published by Marvel Comics in 1984-85, the superhero dons the black costume for the first time, which turns out to be a symbiote (extraterrestrial parasite) and gives birth to Venom, a fearsome “super-villain”.
“This page was the big revelation mentioned on the cover! This is where Peter Parker (the heroic teenager hiding under the Spider-Man mask, editor’s note) really got his chic new black suit, ”explains the auction house Heritage Auctions describing page 25 of publishing.
“It’s a costume with a secret!” Because he quickly turns out to be alive and has his own agenda. This is the origin of the character of Venom! “, she adds.
The work was originally offered at $330,000.
The previous record for an original page of an American comic dates back to 2014 when a page showing the first appearance of Wolverine for an issue of The Incredible Hulk from 1974 sold for $657,250.
During its four-day auction in Dallas, Heritage Auctions reports that a copy of the famous first issue of Action Comics in 1938, featuring the first appearance of Superman, sold for $3.18 million. Two other copies have fetched higher prices at auction in the past, according to The Hollywood Reporter.