“Star Trek” comedian ebook sells for file $46,500

The first “Star Trek” comedian ebook offered at an public sale for a record-breaking worth of $46,500, in line with Certified Guaranty Company, a Florida-based comedian ebook grading service. 

The comedian ebook “Star Trek No. 1,” which was printed by Gold Key in 1967, was offered at a Heritage Auctions sale on Nov. 3. 

CGC mentioned it gave the comedian ebook a near-mint ranking of 9.6. The firm added it has solely given the ranking to 4 different copies of the problem, and this another than doubled the earlier file of $20,500 set in 2019. 

The inaugural situation contained “The Planet of No Return” and the story was written by Dick Wood. The sequence’ first cowl featured Spock, Kirk and Hikaru Sulu, and went on a 12-year, 62-issue run beneath Gold Key. The sequence resulted in 1979 when Marvel Comics acquired rights to the sequence and started its personal, in line with ComicBook. The present license holder of the sequence is IDW Publishing, which launched its first issue in October. 

The history-making ebook was half of a bigger sale of different prized comedian books from a collector. Among them included comedian books from Walt Disney’s Comics, Donald Duck, Scooby-Doo and Astro Boy. Several offered for 1000’s of {dollars}. 

This sale at Heritage Auctions got here days earlier than a uncommon Buddy Holly poster from “The Day the Music Died” offered for a record-breaking worth $447,000. The poster is an authentic commercial window card memorializing the present that by no means was, and one of many first tragedies in rock and roll historical past.