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.

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 ...

What stands out when looking at the cover of the new, once-in-a-lifetime 1,000th issue of “Action Comics” is that 80 years after giving birth to the superhero genre, Superman hasn’t ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

What increases in value by $370,000 in just one year? Must be a sought-after comic book: Action Comics #1 “Rocket Copy” goes for record $3.5 million I believe that comics remain one of the ...