We literally just reported the fact that someone (probably Gil) bought a CGA grade 8.0 first issue of Action Comics for $1,000,000. I was all set to acknowledge truth, justice, and the American way, but it appears that comic book buyers are a cowardly and superstitious lot because a CGA Grade 8.0 copy of Detective Comics #27, the first appearance of Batman, just sold for $1,075,500.
Ok, my humorous anecdote there doesn’t really fit, but you see my point. Wow. Just wow.
While I could make humorous remarks about how many better things this money could be used for, I would like to note that this is actually not that surprising, given Batman’s fandom. Batman’s fans seemingly go to the ends of the Earth to celebrate him, and this is obviously no different. I’m amazed that a comic could ever even sell for this much, and I can only imagine a) who bought it b) who sold it and c) what the person who bought it is really going to do with it! I mean, talk about a collector’s item, but certainly they’re not going to do something as uncanny as read it, right?
Needless to say, somewhere on the internet, a group of fanboys are laughing at Amazing Fantasy #15 right now.
