But then in January 2000, someone stole it from him. Cage said he didn’t know exactly when that happened. He’d placed the comic in a display frame, and then one day, he noticed the frame was empty. Luckily, he did have it insured, and he collected a payout on it.
A full decade later, the comic turned up in an abandoned storage locker. Why would anyone abandon the comic in a storage locker? No one has an answer for that. Cage called the comic’s return “divine providence.” Then, that November, this issue sold at auction for $2.1 million. News sources were unable to track what happened to the comic between its discovery in the locker and the auction, but they still concluded that at the auction, Cage was the seller.
Now, we’re not saying that Cage faked the robbery as part of a publicity stunt/insurance fraud. But if we asked him, we bet he’d say he did, just because that makes for the best story.
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