A comic book featuring Superman's first appearance sold for $6 million, making it the most valuable comic book in existence.
Texas-based Heritage Auctions announced Thursday that a 1938 “Action Comics No. 1” print has surpassed the comic book sales record for “Superman No. 1,” which sold privately in 2022 for $5.3 million. .
The previous record for a comic book sold at auction was $3.6 million for “Amazing Fantasy #15,'' also held at Heritage, which featured Spider-Man's debut.
The Action Comics edition released this week is part of a collection known as the Kansas City Pedigree, which debuted in the late 1960s and consists of approximately 250 first edition issues published between 1937 and the 1940s.
Information about the buyer was not immediately available. Other famous owners of Action Comics No. 1 include actor Nicolas Cage, whose book was stolen in 2000. and Lebanese billionaire Ayman Hariri.
Superman was created in the early 1930s by writer Jerry Siegel and illustrator Joe Shuster and published several early versions before Action Comics published the version most familiar to readers today in June 1938. He appeared in person. Action Comics #1 sold for his 10 cents. Today he runs for $2 — about $200,000. Publisher National Allied Publications was his predecessor to DC Comics, which now owns the rights to Superman.
The Heritage auction was held in Dallas and included online bidding. By Saturday, more than $25 million in comics had been sold. Auction ends Sunday.
