Overview
- Heritage Auctions sold the CGC-certified copy on November 20 for $9.12 million, the highest price ever paid for a comic book.
- The sale eclipsed the $6 million Action Comics #1 record set in 2024 and a $5.3 million private sale of Superman #1 in 2022.
- Three brothers in California found the issue in their late mother's attic, where it had been stored in a box with old newspapers.
- CGC authenticated and graded the book at 9.0, the highest known for this 1939 issue, with CGC’s president calling the result a testament to rarity and preservation.
- CGC reports only 209 copies of Superman #1 in its population data from an original half‑million print run, and the auction total includes the buyer’s premium.