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Record buyers/collectors need to step they game up
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090314/ap_on_re_us/superman_first_issueCollectibles, Friday, Feb. 27,2009 in New York, the June, 1938 ???NEW YORK ??? A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $317,200 in an Internet auction. The previous owner had bought it for less than a buck.It's one of the highest prices ever paid for a comic book
, a likely testament to the volume's rarity and its excellent condition, said Stephen Fishler, co-owner of the auction site ComicConnect.com and its sister dealership, Metropolis Collectibles.The winning bid for the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, which features Superman lifting a car on its cover, was submitted Friday evening by John Dolmayan,
for the rock band System of a Down, according to managers at ComicConnect.com.Dolmayan, who is also a dealer of rare comic books, said he acquired the Superman comic on behalf of a client he declined to identify."This is one of the premier books you could collect," he said in a telephone interview. "It's considered the
of comic books. I talked to my client, and we made the move."Dolmayan said the client has "a small collection, but everything he has is incredible."
Only about 100 copies of Action Comics No. 1 are known to exist and they seldom come up for sale.
"Maybe in a booming economy, it would have done a hundred grand more (
), but in this economy, I think the price is great," Fishler said.The man who had previously owned the book purchased it in a secondhand store in the early 1950s when he was nine years old.He paid 35 cents.[/b]
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It's the foundation of the comic game. There were strips before it, but Superman's first appearence is like owning a rare Bible.