Superman Defeats Batman
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NEW YORK — 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.There are about 100 copies
of Action Comics No. 1 believed to be in existence, and only a handful
in good condition. The issue that sold Monday was rated slightly higher
than the one that sold in February; it had been tucked inside an old
movie magazine for years before being discovered.
Enh. I’m sure this is all part of Batman’s elaborate plan to lull Superman into a false sense of financial discovery before selling a copy of Detective Comics #27 for $2 mil.
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