well Batman has broken the record, bids went up to $1,075,500, which includes the buyer's premium, the astonishing figure broke a record set just three days earlier by a Superman comic, Heritage Auction Galleries said, it was not even a first copy, but it was a rare Detective Comics No. 27, the seller had bought the Batman comic in the late 1960s for $100, with a bright yellow background, the comic features Batman swinging on a rope above city rooftops,
J.C. Vaughn, associate publisher of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, said most people had predicted it would be the comics with the first appearance of Superman and Batman that broke the $1 million barrier, if only my Dad had bought one in 1939 for 10 cents!
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