John Romita Spider-Man #49 cover art brings $167,300 to lead $4.45+ million Heritage Comics & Comic Art Auction

DALLAS, TX.- The original John Romita, Sr. Amazing Spider-Man #49 cover art, featuring Spidey dueling the deadly dual menace of Kraven the Hunter and the Vulture brought $167,300 on Thursday, Aug. 18, as the web-slinging top lot in Heritage Auctions’ $4,45+ million Signature® Comics and Comics Art auction. All prices include 19.5% Buyer’s Premium. All told, the auction had a 96.5% sell-through rate by value and 98% by total lots in the auction. The top comic book in the auction came in the form of a restored copy of Action Comics #1 (DC, 1938) CGC Apparent VF 8.0 Moderate, offered without reserve, which realized $149,375. Demand for the few elite super-keys of the comic hobby goes up with each passing year, and attractively restored Action #1s like the present example are among some of the most coveted. Meanwhile, a very sharp copy of Spider-Man’s first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15 (Marvel, 1962) was the object of vigorous bid

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