As a comic book collector since 1974, I've had a few comics that have increased in value, but nothing like the first issue of Superman #1 from 1939. For the most part, I only read DC Comics (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, the Spectre, Red Tornado, Catwoman, Nightwing - all my favorites - etc). I used to read Marvel in the 1970s and early 80s before they developed 20 X-men groups and 5 Avengers groups (to make money, of course). Today, people mostly know Marvel heroes because they don't read comics - they go to the movies. But they're missing out on a LOT by not reading comics. Movies take a lot of liberties and change characters. Pick up a comic book and you'll see what you're missing. Here's the story of the auction>>
The comic showing Superman leaping over tall buildings on the cover was sold Thursday night to a buyer who wishes to maintain a secret identity, according to ComicConnect.com, an online auction and consignment company.
The seller, Mark Michaelson, bought the comic in 1979 from its original owner and kept it in a temperature-controlled safe. Michaelson, now semi-retired and living in Houston, paid his way through college by buying and selling comics.
The character created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster is a pioneer of the superhero genre, and comics featuring the Man of Steel have netted super prices recently. ComicConnect announced in April that a copy of Action Comics #1, the comic that introduced Superman in 1938, sold for $3.25 million.
“Now you look at the comic books and you go ‘superheroes everywhere.’ You look back in the ’30s, there was no such thing. So this was literally the first superhero,” said ComicConnect CEO Stephen Fishler.
Fishler said what really makes the copy sold this week notable is that it is very difficult to find high-quality copies of Superman #1.
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