An Ohio man who started collecting comics as a kid decades ago is poised to use his bounty to pay for his oldest daughter’s wedding, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
Richard Schaen, a retired Cleveland Heights electronics technician, was fretting about how to pay for his daughter’s nuptials in two weeks when he remembered his box of comics long since tucked away. He retrieved the box, saw a copy of “Amazing Spider-Man” No. 1 in good condition, listed it on a comics website — and netted $7,900.
“I started reading comics before I was in first grade,” Schaen told the Plain Dealer. “That was in the 1950s. My father was sick in the hospital and my mother would take my brother, sister and I to visit him. On the way she would stop at a drugstore and we would each buy three, 10-cent comics.”