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It\u2019s a bird, it\u2019s a plane … it\u2019s a Superman comic beyond most of our price range!<\/p>\n
A pristine copy of \u201cSuperman\u201d No. 1 sold for $9.12 million<\/a> at Heritage Auctions on Thursday, making it the most expensive comic book ever sold at auction. The closing price smashed the record previously set by another Superman-related comic, a copy of \u201cAction Comics\u201d No. 1, which sold for $6 million<\/a> through Heritage Auctions in 2024. <\/p>\n The first issue of \u201cSuperman\u201d was among a small trove of comic books found by three brothers in Northern California who were sorting through their late mother\u2019s belongings. The collection had been tucked under a pile of old newspapers and cobwebs in the attic of their family home, according to a press release<\/a> from Heritage Auctions. <\/p>\n The copy of \u201cSuperman\u201d No. 1 was graded 9.0 on a 10-point scale by the Certified Guaranty Company (CGC), a third-party service that authenticates and grades collectibles, including comics, trading cards and video games. It\u2019s the highest-ever graded copy of the 1939 comic book. (That newspapers helped preserve the comic\u2019s condition would make reporters Lois Lane and Clark Kent proud.) <\/p>\n Superman made his comic book debut in 1938 in \u201cAction Comics\u201d No. 1<\/a>. The anthology comic is often credited<\/a> as kicking off the superhero genre in comics. The popularity of the Man of Steel \u2014 created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster \u2014 led to the launch of his own comic book series in 1939. <\/p>\n In addition to the launch issue of \u201cSuperman,\u201d the mother\u2019s comic book collection included issues of \u201cAction Comics\u201d Nos. 9, 12, 15, 18 and 21. <\/p>\n According to Heritage Auctions, this copy of \u201cSuperman\u201d No. 1 is one of just seven known copies with a CGC grade of 6.0 or higher. A CGC graded 8.0 copy of \u201cSuperman\u201d No. 1 sold for $5.3 million in 2022. <\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s a bird, it\u2019s a plane … it\u2019s a Superman comic beyond most of our price range! A pristine copy of \u201cSuperman\u201d No. 1 sold for $9.12 million at Heritage Auctions on Thursday, making it the most expensive comic book ever sold at auction. The closing price smashed the record previously set by another Superman-related […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2171099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2171098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Superman-comic-found-in-attic-sells-for-912-million-at.com2F3b2F172Fa6e39c4846e49ae3ccfbb3ab.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171100,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171098\/revisions\/2171100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}