A first issue of Action Comics, featuring Superman, has set a record $2.16 million for a single comic book.
The comic graded at 9.0, was auctioned online at www.comicconnect.com. The starting bid with a reserve price of $900,000.
“When we broke the record in 2010 by selling the Action Comics No. 1, graded at 8.5, for $1.5 million, I truly believed that this was a record that would stand for many years to come,” said Stephen Fishler, CEO of ComicConnect.com and Metropolis Collectibles.
ComicConnect.com is based in New York.
