Comic book sold for $1.1m

The inaugural 1962 comic book featuring Spider-Man netted a superhero-sized $1.1 million, US online auctioneers have revealed.

The copy of the Marvel comic book, in excellent condition, sold through ComicConnect.com with a cover that shows the spidery avenger – in his other life known as the meek Peter Parker – swinging from a high building with a man under his right arm.

Five decades ago, the comic sold for just 12 cents.