Brothers Find Superman No. 1 Comic in Mom’s Attic and It Sells For $9.12 Million!
Last year, Action Comics No. 1, the comic that first introduced the Kryptonian hero Superman to the world, sold for $6 million. Before that, a copy of Superman No. 1 held the record with a sale of $5.3 million in 2022 while a copy of 1962’s Amazing Fantasy No. 15, the first appearance of Spider-Man, sold for $3.6 million in 2021. This week, that record was broken… by a lot.
A copy of Superman No. 1, the 1939 issue that introduced the Man of Steel in his first solo title in astonishingly near pristine condition, sold for $9.12 million Thursday at an auction run by Heritage. While the value of comics in general has declined, this particular copy had a lot of factors that made it special.
For a comic being 86 years old, it is in excellent condition, and it graded a 9.0 out of 10 by the Certified Guaranty Company, the leading third-party grading service for comic books.
Plus there is a cool attic backstory like the one we all dream about, which enhances the comic’s pedigree. The comic was discovered by three brothers in the attic of their late mother’s house, in a box of yellowed newspaper clippings.
Their mother bought the comic, along with several others, when she was nine and living in Depression-era San Francisco. Over the years, the mother occasionally insisted to her sons that she had “rare comics somewhere.”
But she could never remember where, and the boys assumed it was just a family legend. The mother died just before the pandemic, and the house sat untouched until the brothers were ready to go through it earlier this year.
It’s a cool story, and it’s further evidence that we should go through all the old boxes of our loved ones. You never know what kind of treasure you’ll find.
via: THR