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.
