Action Comics #1 sets new world record with $3.25 million sale
A rare, high-grade copy of
Action Comics #1 has sold for $3.25 million, setting a new world record for the most expensive comic book sale of all time.
Released in 1938,
Action Comics #1 is one of the most famous comic books in history, marking the first appearance of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s Superman.
Only around a hundred copies are still believed to exist, and this particular copy – a CGC-certified 8.5 (VF+) comic – is the second-highest graded behind two CGC 9.0 VF/NM copies, one of which held the previous record sale price of $3,207,852.
The
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Up, Up and Away: First Superman comic that cost just 10 cents new soars to a record-breaking price of $3.2million
Action Comics #1 cost 10 cents when it was released in 1938 but the iconic issue has now fetched $3.25 million in a private sale
It narrowly beat the previous record for the comic of $3.2 million in 2014
The comic is the earliest to feature Superman, the first recognized superhero
Guillermo del Toro Overcomes Claim The Shape of Water Was Plagiarized
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A copyright suit alleging the Oscar winner ripped off a Pulitzer Prize winning author was revived last year by an appeals court. Now comes a dismissal and a statement how claims of plagiarism were unfounded.
The producers of
The Shape of Water will no longer have to contend with a copyright lawsuit that claims that Oscar-winning Guillermo del Toro film infringed the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Zindel. On Friday, Disney s Fox units, Guillermo del Toro and other defendants filed court papers indicating that the parties in the litigation had reached an agreement to dismiss the case.
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