The primary "Star Trek" comedian e-book bought at an public sale for a record-breaking worth of $46,500, in accordance with Licensed Warranty Firm, a Florida-based comedian e-book grading service.
The comedian e-book "Star Trek No. 1," which was revealed by Gold Key in 1967, was bought at a Heritage Auctions sale on Nov. 3.
CGC mentioned it gave the comedian e-book a near-mint score of 9.6. The corporate added it has solely given the score to 4 different copies of the problem, and this yet another than doubled the earlier report of $20,500 set in 2019.
The inaugural subject contained "The Planet of No Return" and the story was written by Dick Wooden. The sequence' first cowl featured Spock, Kirk and Hikaru Sulu, and went on a 12-year, 62-issue run underneath Gold Key. The sequence led to 1979 when Marvel Comics acquired rights to the sequence and started its personal, in accordance with ComicBook. The present license holder of the sequence is IDW Publishing, which launched its first subject in October.
The history-making e-book was half of a bigger sale of different prized comedian books from a collector. Amongst them included comedian books from Walt Disney's Comics, Donald Duck, Scooby-Doo and Astro Boy. A number of bought for hundreds of dollars.
This sale at Heritage Auctions got here days earlier than a uncommon Buddy Holly poster from "The Day the Music Died" bought for a record-breaking worth $447,000. The poster is an unique commercial window card memorializing the present that by no means was, and one of many first tragedies in rock and roll historical past.