Overview
- Heritage Auctions sold the unrestored 1939 Superman No. 1 on Nov. 20 for $9.12 million, the highest price ever paid for a comic book.
- CGC graded the copy 9.0, and Heritage confirmed it as the highest-graded unrestored example on record.
- Three brothers in Northern California discovered the issue in their late mother's attic in 2024, stored in a box under old newspapers.
- The price exceeds the prior record, a $6 million sale in 2024 of a 1938 Action Comics No. 1 that introduced Superman.
- Originally priced at 10 cents, Superman No. 1 was the first comic devoted to a single superhero, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.