ST. CHARLES (KMOX Radio) -- The cost of reliving your childhood can add up.
It added up to $1.1. million at a comic book auction held over the weekend in St. Charles.
Tina Weiman with Mound City Auctions says that's the preliminary total from the sale of some 3,000 comic books found at a home in Arnold, Missouri.
Among the highlights, a world record price paid for the number one issue of X-Men -- which sold for $101,000.
Weiman says that was the heart-poundingest moment of the two-day auction. For most of the three-thousand lots that sold, there was a steady emotion of nostalgia.
"Memories of going to the store and purchasing these books when they were little kids... I heard a lot of stuff about that, "Weiman said.
The collection hit the market after the recent death of a woman whose son had amassed the comic books during his boyhood in the 1960s in South St. Louis County. He had died earlier. The comics and the house in which they were found went to a cousin, who remains anonymous. As for whether the original owner realized their worth or enjoyed them before he died, that remains a mystery.
"I don't think he necessarily knew the value of them," Weiman said, "I don't know when he looked at them last. I know that that were pulled out from underneath the basement steps."
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