At Dallas based auction house, Heritage Auction Galleries, on 25 FEB 2010, a copy of Detective Comics #27 which is notable for having first mentioned the caped crusader, Batman, sold for a world auction record of $1,075,500.00. The previous auction record for a comic book was $317,000.00. Prior to that the highest ever reportedly paid for a comic was a fixed-priced sale for a Superman comic, Action Comics #1, for $1 million dollars.
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