Todd McFarlane comic cover sells for a record $657,250. That’s a lot of junior bacon cheeseburgers.

If I was a rich dude, this is exactly the sort of stuff I would splurge on, collecting comic book covers for my compound on Mars. However, I’m a broke-ass graduate student, so this all just seems excessive to me.

Robot 6:

Todd McFarlane’s original cover art for The Amazing Spider-Man #328 sold at auction Thursday for $657,250, shattering the record for a single piece of American comics art set last year by a splash page from The Dark Knight Returns#3 ($448,125). However, the price falls well short of the $1.6 million shell out last month for the original cover art for Tintin in America. A 9.8 graded copy of X-Men #1 was also sold by Heritage Auctions for $492,937.50, more than twice the previous record for that comic. [ICv2]