Superhuman price for comic at $3.2m

The big comic story of the year – and one unlikely to be bettered – when two New York specialist dealers, Stephen Fisher and Vincent Zurzolo, paid $3.2m (£1.93m) for a copy of Action Comics No.1. When launched in June, 1938 it had originally cost just 10 cents.

This is, of course, the comic that saw the first appearance of Superman and the price paid for this …

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