A very rare version of Action Comics issue #1, known famously as the issue that launched Superman, is up for auction starting Friday (Feb. 27) and is expected to fetch a bidding price of $400,000. The particular issue up for auction is an “unrestored” version of the comic and is worth considerably more than the remaining Action Comics #1 that are known to exist. There are only about 100 known copies left of the original 1938 comic which sold for only 10-cents when it first came out, but about 80% of those are said to have been restored.
The owner of this issue reportedly bought the comic 12 years after it was released for 35-cents and has since kept it in excellent condition.
If you want, you can read the entire issue here, but know that this isn’t the same copy up for auction.
it seems like superman doesn’t know how to fly in the first issue. he jumps everywhere.