Action Comics #1 sells for $317,200

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Sun Mar 15, 2009 — by Glenn Hauman

Action Comics #1 sells for $317,200

A copy of Action Comics #1, featuring the first appearance of Superman, was bought at auction for $317,200 on Friday, after 88 prior bids. The CGC FN: 6.0 book was sold through ComicConnect.com and its parent site, Metropolis Collectibles.

There are two neat extra tidbits to this story, according to the AP story:

The winning bid for the book was submitted Friday evening by John Dolmayan, drummer for the rock band System of a Down, who is also a dealer of rare comic books. (He bought it for a client.)
The man who had previously owned the book purchased it in a secondhand store in the early 1950s when he was nine years old... for 35 cents. AAAAAAAAAGH!

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