It's a bird! It's a plane! No – it’s the most expensive comic ever sold! An original "Superman" No. 1 comic, printed by DC Comics in 1939, sold for a world-record $9.12 million last Thursday, the most ever paid for a comic book, according to Heritage Auctions , which conducted the sale. The comic was discovered in 2024 by three brothers in San Francisco, who were going through their late mother's attic and discovered a hidden trove of vintage comics purchased by their uncle between the Great Depression and World War II, according to the Texas-based auction house. Heritage Auctions Vice President Lon Allen said the comics were previously unknown to the family, the members of which did not want to be identified. "They're in their 50s and 60s, and their mom had always told them she had an exp

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