"She had told her children she had a valuable comic book collection hidden away, but they had never seen it until they put her house up for sale and decided to comb through her belongings for heirlooms, said Lon Allen, vice president of comics at Heritage Auctions. The brothers uncovered the box of comics and sent a message to the auction company, leading Allen to fly out to San Francisco earlier this year to inspect their copy of "Superman No. 1"."
""It was just in an attic, sitting in a box, could have easily been thrown away, could've easily been destroyed in a thousand different ways," Allen said. "A lot of people got excited because it's just every factor in collecting that you could possibly want all rolled into one." The "Superman No. 1" comic, released in 1939 by Detective Comics Inc., is one of a small number of copies known to be in existence and is in excellent condition."
Three brothers discovered a copy of Superman No. 1 while clearing their late mother’s San Francisco attic and submitted it for appraisal. Heritage Auctions inspected the comic, which had been stored in a cardboard box beneath brittle newspapers and cobwebs alongside other rare pre‑World War II issues. The 1939 Detective Comics Inc. Superman No. 1 is one of few known copies and is in excellent condition, with Superman’s early cultural significance boosting its value. The comic sold for $9.12 million at a Texas auction house, surpassing prior high‑water marks for rare comic sales.
Read at Fast Company
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