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Action Comics #1 8.5 Ready To Smash Batman's Record For Good

It looks like it's happening again.

Only a few weeks after the first appearance of Superman, Action Comics #1 (8.0 CGC) hit a million dollars, only for the first appearance of Batman, Detective Comics #27 (8.0 CGC) to beat that by another $75,000 later that week.

Well, it transpires that Comicconnect.com, the people who sold the Action Comics #1 for $1 million, have acquired another copy with a CGC rating of 8.5, the highest ever graded copy of the comic by CGC. And they will sell it to the first buyer who offers the price that they will set.

CGC, Certified Guaranty Companu, are an industry-wide company that grade the preservation levels of comics books on a scale from 0 to 10, before "slabbing" them in a tamper-proof case. They have enabled comic book collectors and dealers a professional guarantee of the status of a comic book they wish to purchase, which has helped see certain sales of books rocket in value of late.

I understand Comicconnect.com paid more than the $1.075 million that Detective Comics #27 sold for, in a private sale, so the asking price is going to beat the new records.

Expect an announced sale later this year. Here's the comic in question…

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