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Man Of Steel Proves Super Strength In Record-Breaking Comic Auction

Staff

SUPERMAN CONTINUES TO HAVE SUPER-HUMAN STRENGTH on the auction block. A rare first copy of the first issue of 1938 Action Comics introducing Superman sold Wednesday for a record-breaking $2.16 million for a comic, the Associated Press reports.

The auction was held at www.comicconnect.com where bidding began at $1 with a $900,000 reserve.

Two previous copies of the same issue sold for $1.5 million and $1 million in 2010 but neither of those were in the same condition as the one that sold Wednesday which had been stolen back in 2000. Remarkably, the comic was recovered in a storage shed in California last April. Not in my wildest imagination could I have predicted that this legendary, stolen Action Comics No. 1 would be found, graded at 9.0 and break the record a year and a half later,” Stephen Fishler, CEO of ComicConnect.com and Metropolis Collectibles, told the AP.