Superman Comic Sells for $1.5 Million and Sets New Record
NEW YORK (AP).- The
record price for a comic book, already broken twice this year, has been
shattered again. A copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1 sold
Monday
for $1.5 million on the auction Web site ComicConnect.com. The issue,
which
features Superman’s debut and originally sold for 10 cents, is widely
considered
the Holy Grail of comic books. The same issue sold in February
for $1
million, though that copy wasn’t in as good condition as the issue that
sold
Monday. That number was bested just days later when a 1939 comic book
featuring
Batman’s debut sold for $75,000 more at an auction in Dallas.