The copy of Action Comics #1 from the Billy Wright
Collection which sold for about $US299,000 at auction this
week. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Heritage Auctions)
The bulk of a man's childhood comic book collection that
included many of the most prized issues ever published has sold
for about $US3.5 million ($NZ4.2m).
Lon Allen, managing director of comics for Dallas-based
Heritage Auctions, says Billy Wright's 1939 copy of Detective
Comics No. 27 that features the debut of Batman got the top
bid at the New York City auction. It sold for about $523,000,
including a buyer's premium.
Action Comics No. 1, a 1938 issue featuring the first
appearance of Superman, sold for about $299,000. And Batman
No. 1 from 1940 sold for about $275,000.
Wright died in 1994. Relatives found the 345 well-preserved
comics he bought as a child while cleaning out his wife's
Virginia home following her death last February.
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