This copy of Superman #1 — the character's first standalone comic book — was discovered in an attic decades after being tucked away, surviving in remarkably high grade for an 86-year-old newsstand comic.
Its November 2025 sale briefly made it the most expensive comic book ever sold — a record it held for barely two months before the Nicolas Cage copy of Action Comics #1 above took the crown, capping off one of the wildest stretches in comic-collecting history.
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