The most valuable comedian ebook in the planet sold at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas this 7 days.
A duplicate of Motion Comic No. 1, the comic ebook that introduced the planet to Superman, was sold Thursday for $6 million.
Known as the most critical, impactful comic guide at any time published, it was accompanied by a letter from just one of the creators of Superman that outlines little-known specifics about Superman’s initial origin tale.
“This is where it began for all superheroes in any medium,” explained Heritage Auctions vice president Barry Sandoval.
The Dallas auction property claimed the comedian e-book, which price tag just 10 cents in 1938, is just one of the world’s best copies. Only two other unrestored concerns featuring Superman’s initially flight – or, at least, his 1st leap around a tall making – have at any time graded better.
“The curiosity in this has been unprecedented simply because it is really the finest copy we’ve at any time experienced of the finest comedian there is,” claimed Sandoval ahead of the auction. “Again in the 70s this was the initially comedian in which any person at any time compensated $1,000 for, then at some level, it grew to become the only a single that was truly worth $100,000, and then it was the only a single truly worth $1 million and then it is really absent up from there.”
The document $6 million sale leaps in excess of the preceding planet report held by, who else, Superman. In accordance to comedian reserve grading enterprise Qualified Warranty Firm’s record of most high priced comics ever described marketed, a duplicate of Superman No. 1 offered privately for $5.3 million in 2022, which bested an Amazing Fantasy No. 15 comedian reserve featuring the debut of Spider-Person which bought at Heritage Auctions for $3.6 million in 2021.
Other history-setters through Thursday’s auction included the Avengers, Justice League, Question Woman and Daredevil.
Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Artwork Auction continues through April 7.
