AR / ITEM / 00100429
Superman #1, CGC 9.0
DC Comics · Jerry Siegel · Joe Shuster
The highest-graded Superman #1, found by three brothers in their late mother's California attic and sold at Heritage in November 2025 for a record $9.12 million.
- Date
- 1939
- Catalogue
- Superman #1
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Record
Over the 2024 holiday season three brothers from Northern California, clearing their late mother's attic, found six comics that she and her brother had bought between the Great Depression and the Second World War. This Superman #1 was graded CGC 9.0, the highest of the 209 copies in CGC's census. Heritage sold it on 20 November 2025 for $9.12 million, the most paid for any comic book, overtaking the $6 million Kansas City pedigree Action Comics #1.
- Culture
- American
- Origin
- United States
In the Tapestry
- Created by · 1939
- Jerry SiegelA
- Created by · 1939
- Joe ShusterA
- Associated with · 2025
- Heritage AuctionsB
Sources
- A
Overstreet Access, 'Superman #1 CGC 9.0 Found in Family Attic Heads to Heritage'
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CGC, 'CGC-certified Superman #1 Realizes $9.12 Million, Shattering Record for Any Comic'
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