Wow! Heritage comics sells Detective #27 for over a million bucks!

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News item here of interest.

A comic showing the debut of superhero Batman has been sold for more than $1m (£655,000) at an auction in Dallas.

The rare 1939 copy of Detective Comic No 27 was bought by an anonymous bidder from a seller who also wished to keep their identity secret.

The sale comes just days after an early edition of a Superman comic sold for $1m - only to be outdone by Batman.

Barry Sandoval, of auction house Heritage, claimed it was the biggest price on record for a comic book





So as a topic of conversation - What's the most you've ever paid for a single issue of a monthly comic? (Graphic Novels and Prestige editions etc don't count unless they have a good anecdote connected with them! :) )

tags - title: detective comics, char: batman/bruce wayne, creator: bob kane
 

Comments

[thebigapricot]

Wow, $1.50? Was that recently? I bought mine last year. I wanted to have the first issue of all three Batgirl series.

[saralakali]

No, it was back in 1983 or '84. I picked it up at a flea market. Like I said, it was less than mint. It looks like someone folded the whole thing lengthwise and there's some wear and tear around the edges.