{"id":1031060,"date":"2022-03-22T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/rare-marvel-comics-1-pay-copy-auctioned-for-2-4-million\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T20:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:05:52","slug":"rare-marvel-comics-1-pay-copy-auctioned-for-2-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/rare-marvel-comics-1-pay-copy-auctioned-for-2-4-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Marvel Comics #1 &#039;pay copy&#039; auctioned for $2.4 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Rare-Marvel-Comics-1-pay-copy-auctioned-for-24-million.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 22 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> The ultra-rare &#8220;pay copy&#8221; of 1939&#8217;s Marvel Comics #1 sold for more than $2.4 million in an action.<\/p>\n<p>Auction site ComicConnect said the rare comic book, which features the first appearances characters Namor the Sub-Mariner and the Human Torch (an android precursor to the more well-known Marvel character from the Fantastic Four), sold for $2,427,777.65 after 33 bids.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The comic book, published by Timely Comics, which later became Marvel Comics, is known as the &#8220;pay copy,&#8221; because it contains annotations by publisher Lloyd Jacquet revealing how much was owed to the book&#8217;s contributors.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;pay copy&#8221; of Marvel Comics #1 has changed hands multiple times since being discovered in a filing cabinet in the 1990s. It was sold for $227,050 in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Fishler, the chief executive of ComicConnect, said the buyer in the most recent auction wished to remain anonymous, but he described the collector as a man in his 40s who lives outside the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 22 (UPI) &#8212; The ultra-rare &#8220;pay copy&#8221; of 1939&#8217;s Marvel Comics #1 sold for more than $2.4 million in an action. Auction site ComicConnect said the rare comic book, which features the first appearances characters Namor the Sub-Mariner and the Human Torch (an android precursor to the more well-known Marvel character from the Fantastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1031061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}