Overview
- The copy realized $9.12 million at Heritage's Comic Books Signature Auction on Nov. 20, establishing a new high for any comic book sale.
- The result surpassed the previous record of $6 million set in 2024 by a copy of Action Comics No. 1.
- CGC authenticated and graded the book at 9.0, the highest grade ever recorded for this issue, with only 209 copies listed in CGC’s population report.
- Three brothers discovered the comic in 2024 in their late mother’s Northern California attic, where it had been stored in a cardboard box beneath old newspapers.
- Published in 1939 as Superman’s first dedicated title, the issue saw large print runs but high-grade survivors are scarce partly because the back cover encouraged readers to cut out a poster.