Comics Superman comic achieves auction price of 9.12 million dollars
The Man of Steel flies high. A copy in very good condition of Superman No. 1 from 1939 was sold at Heritage Auctions on Thursday for 9.12 million dollars.
21.11.2025, 10:19
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This makes the issue the most expensive comic ever sold at auction, US media report.
The discovery of the issue is itself worth a story: the copy of Superman No. 1 was found last year by three brothers in California when they were clearing out their deceased mother's belongings. The brothers knew that their mother and uncle had a comic book collection, but had never seen the volumes. The issue of Superman is said to have been in a box in the attic along with a handful of other comics and had been forgotten for decades.
Superman made his debut in 1938 in issue no. 1 of Action Comics, an anthology series. When the Man of Steel proved to be a great success, he was given his own series in 1939, starting with Superman No. 1.
