Spider-Man Comic Sells for $65,100 on eBay

<p dir&equals;"ltr">eBay said a comic book featuring Spider-Man recently sold for &dollar;65&comma;100&comma; the third-highest price ever on the site for a comic book&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p dir&equals;"ltr">The Amazing Spider-Man may be a household name today&comma; but in the early 1960s&comma; Peter Parker was one of the newest masked superheroes in the Marvel Universe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p dir&equals;"ltr">Created by Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee&comma; Spider-Man made his first appearance in <em>Amazing Fantasy &num;15<&sol;em> despite its publisher’s reservations&period; At the time&comma; comic books rarely featured teenagers as superheroes&comma; much less one who was perpetually down on his luck&period; But as it turned out&comma; young readers deeply related to Peter Parker&comma; a high school student who was determined to make the world a better place&period; Sales for <em>Amazing Fantasy &num;15<&sol;em> comics proved to be one of Marvel’s most popular at the time&comma; solidifying Spider-Man as one of the world’s most beloved superheroes for decades to come&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p dir&equals;"ltr">The seller&comma; Ted Straka&comma; specializes in trading cards&comma; sharing that he learned to read using 1980 Topps baseball cards and has been an avid buyer and seller at trading card shows since he was 16 years old&period; Though he has a few comics on inventory&comma; Straka originally sourced his copy of the <em>Amazing Fantasy &num;15<&sol;em> from a friend&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p dir&equals;"ltr">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A friend of mine from Brooklyn bought the comic about eighteen years ago and had it graded&comma; thinking it had potential&comma;” Straka said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was an expensive item — maybe five or ten thousand dollars at the time – but nowhere near where it’s appreciated to now&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p dir&equals;"ltr">As many collectors are increasingly viewing collectibles like comic books as long-term investments&comma; there is no doubt that owning a copy of <em>Amazing Fantasy &num;15<&sol;em> is a venture that has reaped an impressive return&period; Such an iconic copy with a CGC-grade of 6&period;0 is rare&semi; there have only been 37 sales of this issue at this grade since 2004&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p dir&equals;"ltr">This sale on eBay comes just in time for Spider-Man’s 60th anniversary&comma; as Spidey fans are searching our marketplace’s unmatched inventory of rare and hard-to-find collectibles for their favorite web-slinging superhero&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p dir&equals;"ltr">&NewLine;