Superman First Edition
A first edition of the comic book in which Superman made his debut has become the world’s most expensive, selling for an eye-watering $2.16 million (£1.4m).
The Action Comics No.1 (graded nine out of 10 for quality) introduced the world’s most recognisable super hero to the world in 1938.
And having originally hit news stands priced at just 10 cents, it has now fetched the staggering sum after an online auction in New York.
The book, one of just 100 thought to be left in existence, had been stolen from the home of a California collector in 2000.
And despite an 11-year police hunt, the valuable and extremely rare comic mysteriously vanished off the face of the earth.
But in April, a Californian businessman who bought up the contents of an auctioned off storage unit, unearthed the pristine magazine inside.
