 In July 2012 the original artwork to that issue's cover, which features Spider-Man dispatching the Hulk, sold for a record-breaking $657,250 USD, the highest auction price ever for any piece of American comic book art.McFarlane was succeeded on "Amazing Spider-Man" by McFarlane's future fellow Image Comics co-founder Erik Larsen.Wanting to appease McFarlane, Marvel gave McFarlane a new, adjectiveless "Spider-Man" title for him to both write and draw. ""