Comic Goes Up Up And Away

Action Comics #1, one of the holy grails of geekdom, has sold for $1 million dollars. This sale leaps over previous record sales in a single bound. The comic, which was published in 1938 and features the first appearance of Superman, was sold by a private seller to a private buyer. The two parties wished to remain anonymous.

The sale took place through the auction site comicconnect. com. Stephen Fisher, the co-owner of the site, said that the seller was well known in New York for having a top flight collection. And the seller was a familiar customer who had previous bought a lesser grade copy of Action Comics #1.

“Its considered by most people as the most important book,” offered comics enthusiast and System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan. “It kind of ushered in the age of the superheroes.” Dolmanyan is also a comics dealer who owns Torpedo Comics, and last year he brokered a deal to purchase a copy of Action Comics #1 for a client with a $317,000 price tag.

This copy of the comic book inflated to the million dollar mark due to it being in better condition then other copies. The book was given an 8.0 grade which rates it as being in “very fine” condition. The high rating is increasing rare for the comic book which is believed to have only around 100 copies in existence.

Even for a rare and historical comic like Action Comics #1, it seems insane to pay a million dollars for it. However, the really crazy part is that this is the second copy that the person has bought. There’s only 100 copies in known existance and this person has two of them? Stop hording the Action Comics! Sheesh.