Superman, the most loved and most valued superhero for decades, has been dethroned. It’s easy to imagine who has beaten you.
For almost a century, the comic Action Comics Issue 1, published in 1938, has been the most valuable in history. A few months ago they paid $ 3.25 million for one copy. But on September 9, he was dethroned by another superhero.
There is only fictional character in the world of comics more beloved than Superman. You sure know who he is: Spider-Man. A copy of Amazing Fantasy Number 15, Spider-Man’s first appearance, has sold for $ 3.6 million. New record, which will not take long to be surpassed.
Amazing Fantasy Number 15 was published in 1962, and as we have said has broken the record for the most expensive comic because it supposes Spider-Man’s first appearance:
It was put up for sale at the price of 12 cents on the dollar, about 10 euro cents, so we are facing one of the most revalued products in history.
It is not just a change of leader. That Superman has been surpassed by Spider-Man after almost 80 years supposes a cataclysm in the comic world.
The Action Comics Issue 1 it has an insurmountable symbolic charge. It not only represents the appearance of Superman, it is also the start of superheroes in comics. It was thanks to the success of Superman that other classics released almost three decades later, such as Spider-Man, could be the light.
For what it represents, and why is a comic 24 years older than Spider-Man, for many experts it is significant that he has been dethroned.
But now that we live in full boom (saturation, in my opinion), of superheroes, no one doubts that if this Superman Action Comics is put on sale again today, it would once again break the sales record.
Were printed 200,000 units in 1938, but due to the low quality of the paper and before it was unthinkable that they would be revalued and people would throw them away, only about 100 copies are preserved, very few in perfect condition.
The comics superheroes are the most valuable of all. Detective Comics Number 27, which collects the first appearance of Batman, is the third most expensive, when paying for a copy $ 2.2 million.