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1975 X-MEN COMIC
SELLS FOR WHOPPING $170K AT AUCTION
7/15/2024 12:10 AM PT
A 1975 X-Men comic book fetched an impressive $170,000 at an auction, marking it as the second-highest price ever paid for a ’70s comic book.
ComicConnect recently sealed the deal on “Giant-Size X-Men #1,” the only comic to ever score a near-perfect 9.9 from CGC.
The site’s President, Vincent Zurzolo, noted that ’70s comics often linger in discount bins for years before nostalgia and significance catch up and bump up their value.
Case in point—highly-graded copies of “Giant-Size X-Men #1” were selling for $350 in ’95, and by ’99, they had jumped to $575.
The pandemic bumped prices even higher, with the original investment of 50 cents morphing into the recent six-figure return. In other words, people were bored out of their minds!
Zurzolo explains the buyer, a seasoned pro at collecting comics from the 1940s to the 1960s, snagged this gem as part of his investment strategy.
The only other ’70s comic to sell at a higher price is “Marvel Spotlight #5″—notable as where the character Ghost Rider makes his first appearance—sold for $360,000 in January 2024.
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Source: TMZ
