Do you have 10¢? Good. Do you have a time machine? No? Too bad. If you had I would have told you to travel back to May of 1940 to pick up Batman No.1 “spring issue” (keep it mint) and bring it back to 2012 where you could have gotten a cool $850,000 for it!
The 9.2 graded near-mint condition issue of Batman No.1
The AP is reporting that a collector sold his copy of the comic for $850, 000 to an investment partnership through a private sale set up by Heritage Auctions located in Dallas, Texas. The collector, who is not identified, had bought the comic roughly 2 years ago and at that time paid $215,000 for it which was a record for this comic. Now with the price nearly double, the record was shattered.
Vice President of Heritage Auctions, Ed Jaster, has been quoted as saying, “This particular copy of Batman No.1 is the finest known surviving example, graded near-mint condition 9.2 on a scale of one to ten by Certified Guaranty Company“.
Batman’s first appearance came in issue #27 of Detective Comics (May of 1939). Batman was so popular that he was given his own book. Batman No.1 has in it the first appearances of Catwoman and The Joker.
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