Stan Lee Spider-Man Sketches On Pawn Stars

On tonight's episode of Pawn Stars, a customer named Bill wanted to sell two comic books signed by Stan Lee and two original sketches signed by Stan Lee. Bill claimed that the two sketches were the only two known sketches that Stan Lee has ever done. Bill hoped to get ten to fifteen thousand for his collection, because of the rarity of the sketches. The two signed comic books were a reproduction of Amazing Fantasy #15 and a copy of Marvel Tales #43. Corey Harrison said, "Stan Lee is one of the biggest comic book people of all time. There is tons of people out there that actually collect this stuff. But typically his signature isn't worth much. Marvel Comics is pretty much a billion dollar company now, but mid to late nineties this guy was probably fairly close to broke. It was kind of hard to sell comic books at the time. This guy would show up to just about anywhere they would pay him. If you were willing to buy Stan Lee a plane ticket and give him a thousand bucks, he would show up at your comic book store, so I'm sure he signed thousands of items."

However, since Corey didn't know how rare the sketches were, he called in vintage toy expert Johnny Jimenez to value the collection. Johnny admitted the sketches were rare, but he only estimated the value of the entire collection at between $800 to $1,000. Johnny explained that sketches weren't something that was published so they were just a unique addition to the signature. Johnny also added, "I believe that his signature is probably going to go up in value later on. I mean he's approaching ninety years old, but at this point in time it's a pretty good price for what he had." Of course, Stan Lee has already turned ninety, but it's possible the segment was filmed before Stan Lee's last birthday. Corey offered Bill $500 for the collection, but Bill said the items had too much sentimental value to him to sell for that amount. Bill wound up taking the collection home.