A 1939 comic book in which Batman makes his debut sold at auction Thursday for more than $1 million, breaking a record set just three days earlier by a Superman comic, Heritage Auction Galleries said. The Dallas-based auction house said the rare copy of Detective Comics ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Superman and Batman's first appearances in comic books have each set auction sales records and broken the $1 million barrier, in an age when traditional investments have fared badly and superheroes look attractive. A 1939 comic with the first ever appearance of masked crime fighter Batman sold at auction in Dallas on Thursday for a record ...

A 1938 copy of the first comic featuring Superman has sold for a record-smashing one million dollars in New York. "It's the Holy Grail of comic books," ComicConnect.com auctioneers' founder Stephen Fishler said. The record price was reached Monday, easily breaking a 317,200 dollar record set last year when ComicConnect.com sold another, less well preserved copy ...