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Mike Zeck’s artwork for page 25 of Marvel Comics’ Secret Wars No 8 brings the first appearance of Spidey’s black suit.
A single page of artwork from a 1984 Spider-Man comic book has sold at a US auction for a record 3.36 million dollars (£2.44 million).
Mike Zeck’s artwork for page 25 of Marvel Comics’ Secret Wars No 8 brings the first appearance of Spidey’s black suit.
The symbiote suit would eventually lead to the emergence of the character Venom.
That’s Not Just Your Spidey-Sense Tingling: Pages Introducing Spider-Man’s Black Costume Swing Into Auction.
Original artwork from 1984’s ‘#SecretWars’ No. 8 makes public debut at Heritage Auctions in January.https://t.co/OrgMhUuvit#SpiderMan #Spiderverse #ComicArt pic.twitter.com/qRHxBANeRV
— Heritage Auctions (@HeritageAuction) December 21, 2021
The record bidding, which started at 330,000 dollars (£240,000) and soared past three million dollars (£2.1 million), came on the first day of Heritage Auctions’ four-day comic event in Dallas, Texas.
The previous record for an interior page of a US comic book was 657,250 dollars (£479,000) for art from a 1974 issue of The Incredible Hulk that featured a tease for the first appearance of Wolverine.
Also on Thursday, one of the few surviving copies of Superman’s debut, Action Comics No 1, sold for 3.18 million dollars (£2.31 million), putting it among the priciest books ever auctioned.
None of the sellers or buyers were identified.
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