By Aaron Couch Film Editor A copy of Action Comics No. 1 flew off the auction block Thursday, selling for $3.18 million, the fourth-largest sum ever for a comic book. 1938’s Action Comics No. 1 ...

Update: The auction for this Action Comics #1 CGC 8.5 has resumed today due to a website glitch at auction close. See update for details. Update 2: With the auction now final, the hammer price on ...

The Man of Steel is more valuable than ever. A pristine copy of Action Comics No. 1, the first appearance of Superman in 1938, sold for a record $3,207,852 Sunday in an auction on eBay.

A second copy of Action Comics sold at the same auction, breaking a different record — professionally restored to “an apparent grade” of 8.0, per Heritage, the comic sold for $576,000.That ...

A copy of Action Comics No. 1, the 1938 comic book that debuted Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster's Superman, was found in the walls of a Minnesota house during a renovation and sold for $175,000 on ...

This copy of Action Comics #1 is one of the four highest-graded copies graded by CGC, with two CGC 9.0 copies and two CGC 8.5 copies currently at the top of the CGC census. It is the highest ...

Good morning. I'm Michel Martin. A very rare copy of Action Comics No. 1 has sold for a record-setting $6 million. The issue is known to comic book fans for introducing the character of Superman.

The modern superhero was born in 1938, when Cleveland friends and collaborators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster debuted Superman in Action Comics #1. So few copies of the comic are known to exist in ...