Pristine Copy Of First Marvel Comics Issue Auctions For $1.26 Million

Meera Dolasia
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:59:46 -0800

A perfectly-preserved copy of Marvel's first-ever comic book was sold to an anonymous buyer for a record $1.26 million by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions on November 21, 2019. Published in 1939 by Timely Comics, which later became Marvel Comics, it features an android superhero called The Human Torch, a costumed detective known as Angel, and a mutant anti-hero dubbed Namor the Sub-Mariner.