The First Ever Marvel Comic sold for $2.4 million

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The comic was sold in an Online Auction. It is a particularly prized copy.

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The comic is known as Marvel Comics#1. It was published in 1939.

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The New York-based auctioneer sold the book for $2,427,800

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The buyer of the book is "an extremely passionate comic book collector and investor"

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The comic book introduced the characters including Sub Mariner and the original Human Torch

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The book became Marvel's Movies, TV Shows, and Video Games

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The book holds a special handwritten note of the publisher which recorded the payment of writers and artists

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