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A copy of the comic in which Superman made his debut was sold at a US auction for $1.5m (£995,500) – weeks after a Batman comic had fetched $1.075m.
The June 1938 edition of Action Comics No 1 was sold originally for 10 cents.
It is the third time the record has been broken recently – a copy of the same Superman comic fetched $1m just days before the Batman comic was sold.

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The comic was reportedly in better shape than the copy that fetched a mere $1 million. This makes me wonder how much my mint copy of Spider HamWhat The?! No. 3 would get me. Probably at least $400,000. That almost-complete 1988 set of Fleer baseball cards has got to be worth at least $120,000 now. Oh, and that 1990 Score Bo Jackson with the shoulder pads and baseball bat (#697) is going for $3.95!

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10 replies on “Action Comics No. $1.5 Million”

  1. Not to be a pisser, but my childhood forces me to correct these:

    That’s the cover of “What The?!” – it wasn’t exclusively Spider-Ham, but there was a Spider-Ham series.

    Also, I think you mean Fleer? Not Fleet

  4. I spent more time than I’d care to admit at flea markets in central Florida thumbing through Score packs (the ones in clear plastic) to find that Bo card.

  8. @7, that was some real $ back when people thought Valiant comics were superior. That was a fun year, eh?

    I am sure there’ll be a rapture of most early 90s comics, and those of us who still have them in boxes will be laughing and lighting cigars with $100 bills.

    “Why yes, I have 6 copies of Turok I can sell you…”

    (also, have you re-read that Archer series in the last decade? It really sucked.)

  9. @ 8, that issue ended up being the only one I ever owned or read because I just didn’t like it. I was more of a Shade: The Changing Man sort of guy. So yeah, I think I’m due for a much smaller payday than you.

    I remember Dan Clowes made fun of that phenomenon in Eightball once. Something like Geek 1: “I’m buying 100 copies of Gamma Force!” Geek 2: “Should I get some of these Delta Squad comics?” Geek 1: “What are you, nuts???”

  10. My Mom – bless her heart – threw away my baseball cards probably before one of our moves.

    I’d be livin’ large now…if only…

    Of course, the only reason baseball cards are worth anything is that *everyone’s* mother threw away their collection.

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