Every time a new Marvel movie or TV series launches, or especially a special like this that notes the significance and longevity of a Marvel comic-book character, I can’t help but think back, obsessively, to seventh grade in the mid-Sixties, when I sold my then-complete Silver Age collection of Marvel Comics to Randy Silverman for $75. My collection didn’t include the first issue of the original Captain America comic from 1941 (pictured), published by Marvel precursor Timely Comics. But it did include the first appearance by Captain America in a Marvel Comic, in The Avengers #4. I just looked it up, and that one comic, from 1964, has sold for $120,000. And one of the cornerstones of my collection, the first appearance of Spider-Man in 1962’s Amazing Fantasy #15, has sold for as high as $1.1 million. Randy, if you’re out there, I hope you’re proud of yourself. Even adjusting for inflation, I’m pretty sure you got the better end of the deal… but I'm willing to swap back if you are.