Comic fetches record €1.1m

THE record price for a comic book, already broken twice this year, has been shattered again.

A copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comics No 1 sold for $1.5 million (about €1.1m) on the auction website ComicConnect.com. The issue features Superman’s debut and is widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books.

The same issue sold in February for $1m, but that was quickly eclipsed when a 1939 comic featuring Batman’s debut sold for a little over $1m.