Spider-Man Comic Found in Attic Worth Over $10,000
First appearance of Spider-Man in 'Amazing Fantasy #15' found in stack of old comic books stored in attic.
Little did a young George Toman know when he bought an Amazing Fantasy comic book for about a dime in the late '60s that it would end up being worth over $10,000. Toman was cleaning out his attic on a recent weekend at his home in Willow Springs when we rediscovered a box of old comic books that had previously been stored at his mom's house. Toman, who works as a software analyst at Xerox, said he was in disbelief when the owners of Chimera's Comics, located in downtown La Grange, told him what it was worth. "It was quite a surprise," Toman said. "I was in disbelief." He wasn't the only one. "People bring in comic books all the time," said Carmelo Chimera, owner of Chimera's Comics. "Rarely do we get to give someone as good of news as that…
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John Craig
8:08 am on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Good article, but the character is named "Spider-Man", not "Spiderman". The hyphen was used in the name so as to differentiate the cover/title from a certain popular DC character who also wears red & blue and has a "S_ _ erman" name. more ›