Up, up and away - and not the way the Fifth Dimension meant it...

 Superman comic found in an attic in California sells for 

$9.12m to become most expensive ever sold...

 

Do you need any more proof that some people just have entrirely too much money? A comic book that sold for ten cents when it came out - which actually was a lot of money back then - is bought by some 'unnamed buyer' for enough money to feed 20 million people. Everything needs to be put in to perspective, I guess.

Anyway, The pristine copy of Superman No 1, the character’s first solo title from 1939, was discovered in an attic in California last year. The copy that sold on Thursday was found in 2024 under a stack of old newspapers in a cardboard box by three unnamed brothers in northern California while they were going through their late mother’s attic.

Their mother had bought the comic when she was nine years old and living in San Francisco, the brothers, who have asked not to be named, said. Over the years, she told her sons that she had “rare comics somewhere”, but they never found them.

 

Despite where the 86-year-old comic was kept, it was in pristine condition and became the highest-ever-graded copy of Superman No 1 with a score of 9.0 on the 10-point scale used in the industry to grade the condition of comic books. It is one of only seven known copies with a grade of 6.0 or higher.

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