Stolen 1938 Superman Comic Set to Fetch Record Returns

A 1938 copy of the first Superman comic, which cost a paltry 10 cents then – a comically small amount by today’s standards – is now set to fetch more than a million dollars in an auction at ComicConnect.com.

Superman #1

The issue was stolen from  a collector of comic books on the West Coast in 2000.

According to ComicConnect.com, it was revealed in an investigation into the comic that a Californian entrepreneur had bought the contents of a storage unit and that when he tied to sell the comic it was found to be the same issue as had been stolen in 2000

Vincent Zurzolo, COO, ComicConnectcom said: “It was offered to us by a gentleman is brokering it for somebody with purchased it out of a storage locker.”

The auction ends today. The winning bid is expected to surpass the previous Guinness World Record (2010) of $1.5 million fetched by a comic auctioned on the very same ComicConnect.com.

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