Washington (AFP)
The first comic book produced by famed American publisher Marvel comics was auctioned Thursday for $ 1.26 million, a record for the publishing house behind the characters of Spider-Man, X-Men or Avengers, said the Heritage Auctions auction house.
This is the first episode, released in 1939, of the series "Marvel Comics", published by the publisher Timely Comics later Marvel.
"This is a historical version of a historic comic," said Ed Jaster, vice president of Heritage Auctions.
"Without hesitation, it's the grandfather of all Marvel comics, without which we would not have had all these stories and all these characters," he added.
In the 1960s, under the impulse of screenwriter Stan Lee, Marvel created superheroes who have become iconic today and whose adaptations to the cinema conquer box offices around the world.
This copy of the No. 1 "Marvel Comics", which is in very good condition, cost 10 cents in 1939.
It becomes the most expensive Marvel comics to be auctioned, in front of an "Amazing Fantasy" No. 15 (the first appearance of Spider-Man) sold for $ 1.1 million in 2011.
The most expensive comic book in history remains the first issue of "Action Comics" (1938), sold $ 3.2 million in 2014. This is the first appearance of Superman.
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