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Good morning. A Heritage auction just reset the ceiling for comic book sales. Meanwhile, a new player is trying to untangle Diamond's bankruptcy mess, and DC's Absolute Batman continues to put up eye-watering preorder numbers.
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Heritage Auctions reports that Superman No. 1 has sold for $9.12 million, claiming the title of the world's most expensive comic book. The sale surpasses the previous high-water mark set earlier this year when Action Comics #1 sold privately for $15 million in January 2026, though that transaction was private while Heritage's sale occurred at public auction.
The sale price reflects a dramatic escalation in Golden Age key values over the past few years. In December 2021, a CGC 7.0 copy of Superman #1 sold through ComicConnect for $2,604,750. The new Heritage sale represents a 250% increase in under five years, though Heritage has not yet disclosed the grade of the copy that sold for $9.12 million.
Superman #1, published in summer 1939, marked the character's first self-titled issue after his debut in Action Comics #1 the prior year. The book reprinted early Superman stories from Action Comics and set the template for superhero-led ongoing series. Census data from CGC and CBCS shows fewer than 100 copies graded across all conditions, with high-grade specimens exceedingly rare.
The sale comes as Heritage and other major auction houses continue to expand comic book consignment programs, pulling in institutional-level investment alongside traditional collector demand. Heritage did not disclose the buyer, though the auction house typically handles transactions for both private collectors and investment funds seeking alternative assets.
Why it matters: The $9.12 million sale establishes a new public-auction benchmark for comic books and signals that Golden Age keys remain liquid even at eight-figure price points. For collectors, it confirms that Superman #1 now trades in the same rarefied tier as Action Comics #1, fundamentally reshaping the top end of the market and likely pulling up values for other 1939-1941 superhero firsts.
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Pop King offers to buy Diamond consignment inventory Pop King has made an offer to purchase Diamond Distributors' contested consignment inventory as ownership disputes continue in the company's bankruptcy proceedings. The offer addresses inventory that publishers consigned to Diamond but which remains in legal limbo following the distributor's collapse. Both Bleeding Cool and The Comics Beat reported the proposal, which could provide a path to return unsold books to publishers or liquidate them in an orderly fashion. Read at source (The Comics Beat) →
Absolute Batman #24 hits 487,000 preorders DC's Absolute Batman #24 has logged 487,000 preorders, according to Bleeding Cool. The figure continues the Absolute line's unusually strong performance in the direct market, though the report questions whether issue #25 can sustain similar numbers. The preorder total reflects orders placed by retailers ahead of distribution and does not yet account for consumer sell-through. Read at source (Bleeding Cool) →
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