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Superman Comic Book No. 1 up for sale on Ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/311050328393

Here is a video of the history of the holy grail of comic books, an almost mint copy of the issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkj2r5ByM00

At 1.75 million now with no reserve.... any thoughts on the final sale?

I'm saying 3.6 million..... and whatever it sells for, I doubt it will ever be seen again by the public.

Was and still am a Superman fan... when I was a kid my entire room was Superman... I still have a lot of stuff... I have autographs from
Noel Neill ( First Lois Lane), Phyllis Coates, , Jack Larson all from the 50's TV series and Kirk Alyn (FIRST Silver screen actor to portray the man in blue)
Wish I would have gotten Christopher Reeve autograph... I have a box of comics most from the 70s and early 80s had a few of my dads and uncles but
wore them out reading them. Some of those where the silver age from the 50s! and of course some were taken away from me by
my 5th grade teacher! Never got those back! AAghhh!
I just have copies of that first one.... One was found about 2-3 years ago by a family that was loosing their home... they found it in a box of a great uncle's
things in the basement... it sold for over 1 million... what a blessing that was for them. I have this comic on my watch list... can you imagine finding one.
Wow....

I found the comic on eBay earlier and was going to post here too about it. Comics were my first obsession. I still have all the ones I collected as a kid.

I have the complete series of Superman through the whole 70's and almost all Action too. British rather than American imports (although I do have quite a few of those too).

Worth diddly Squat. but every time I come across them in the loft well I'm back there. Love them..

Keeping an eye on this one.. If I win the lottery before close I might even bid.

Dave

 

Very cool. I didn't read the ad. How many are known to still be around?

I wonder how big of a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation?

Not knowing all of the ins and outs of selling on EBay, is it possible that this guy could negotiate a sale offline prior to the ending of the auction and he is just using EBay as a cheap way to promote the sale (they obviously spent a few bucks for the professionally produced You Tube video) so prospective buyers can find him?  Sorry to be cynical :glare: but we see it with soda machines all the time.

Either way, it will be very interesting to see what this sells for.  One thing is for sure, you will not see my user name among the list of pre-qualified bidders! :biggrin:

 :drinking: Tim :drinking:

Tim - In the auction pics there's a scan of a letter from the Foundation that says the seller will be donating 1% of the sale price.  Seems like a pretty stand-up thing to do, I like the choice of charities.  Fitting.   :happydrinkers:

I know to each his own but a couple million for a comic book???? I just don't get it.
If I had 2 mil, a comic book would be way down my "to buy" list, like maybe item #10,000.

but the buyers for this comic just don't have 2 mil and they are collectors just like we are but with more money.
I can see the draw..

To them that comic would be like one of us finding a still in the original shipping crate RC 81.

its definately our rc 81

And with as many comics that were printed... I think I would find a Superman #1 before the RC 81... at least I hope so :hopefull:

A storage locker find with NOS Decapper, Cooler grill and matching RC 81/110 still wouldn't touch what this will go for.
My guess 2.3. Looks to be the second 9.0 from a quick scan of the below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Comics_1
Creighton
 

The difference is, the guy who buys this doesn't have to worry about the two mill. That's just a drop in the bucket! When people have that much money, money is common.  They want to be able to say they have the rarest, hardest to find, most collectible items in whatever they collect.

I'm good with my  free reprint of Action #1.