A copy of Superman No 1 that was discovered in an attic in California last year has become the world’s most expensive comic book after selling for US$9.12m (£6.96m, A$14.14m).

Superman No 1 was published in 1939 and was the Man of Steel’s first solo title. It marked the first time a character that debuted in a comic book had their own title devoted entirely to them.

The copy that sold on Thursday was found in 2024 under a stack of old newspapers in a cardboard box by three unnamed brothers in northern California while they were going through their late mother’s attic. Superman is super woke? How politics play into the new man of steel Read more

Their mother had bought the comic when she was nine years old and living in San Francisco, the brothers, who have asked not to be named,

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