First Deadpool Comic Cover Art Hopes to Fetch $7.5 Million | News World

For a comic book fan, the ultimate flex is owning a copy of a popular character’s first appearance. Things like Incredible Hulk #181, Detective Comics #27, Amazing Fantasy #15, and Action Comics #1 instantly come to mind. Those first appearances of Wolverine, Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman respectively are holy grails for collectors, but there is a step above that. A step most collectors could never even dream about. And that’s owning the original cover art from one of those issues.

With Deadpool & Wolverine breaking box office records daily, Deadpool and his first appearance in New Mutants #98 hasn’t quite hit the heights of most of those books, but it’s on the way. And now the owner of the original cover art has put it up for sale for the eye-popping price of $7.5 million. If it sells at that price, it’ll become “the single most valuable…