Spider-Man art sold for record $3.36M

Heritage Auctions said a Marvel Comics page sold for a record-breaking $3.36 million! The original artwork by Mike Zeck, which became page 25 of Secret Wars No. 8 in 1984, is now the world’s most valuable page of original comic book artwork.

The page featured the first appearance of Spider-Man’s black costume, an alien symbiote who went on to form half of the villain — and sometimes anti-hero — Venom.

The consignor bought the art in the late 1980s and treasured these pages ever since. Spider-Man already was the star of the most expensive comic book ever sold, after a copy of Amazing Fantasy No. 15, the web-slinging hero’s first appearance, sold for $3.6 million in 2021.

Transformania’s message is be yourself

Selena Gomez and Fran Drescher hope that their new animated horror-comedy, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, inspires people who might feel like outsiders, to love the skin they’re in.

It’s nice to be present and be with yourself for a bit,” the actress and singer said, adding she does this by taking breaks from social media. “It doesn’t mean that you need to have a lot of friends and a lot of people around you to be cool — because I have four friends, and I think we are the coolest.”

“The most attractive thing you can be is yourself and not give into peer pressure, not feel like you have to be like anybody else,” Drescher chimed in.

The Hotel Transylvania film franchise is about a remote European inn in which unique and scary-looking creatures go to escape persecution and relax with their families.

The fourth and final instalment, Transformania, sees vampire Dracula (Brian Hull) and several of his monster pals trek to South America to find the antidote for an experiment that turned them into ordinary-looking people and Dracula’s human son-in-law Johnny (Andy Samberg) into a mutant. The only main characters who aren’t transformed are Dracula’s daughter Mavis (Gomez) and Eunice (Drescher,) the bride of Frankenstein (Brad Abrell).

Published in Dawn, Young World, January 29th, 2022