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Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 7:01 PM

Batman beats Superman

NEW YORK – Pow! Take that Superman! A copy of Batman's debut in a 1939 comic book has sold for 1.075 million US dollars, narrowly beating another huge auction this week for a Superman comic.

Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, Texas, said the copy of Detective Comics Number 27, which pictures Batman swooping on a villain, sold Thursday for 1,075,500 US dollars.

That beat the record price paid for a comic set just Monday when the first issue of Action Comics to feature Superman sold for one million US dollars in New York.

"The first appearance of Batman, this comic has been considered among the top books in the hobby ever since comic collecting began," Heritage Auction said.

- AFP/ir

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So evidently buying $3 comics and toys is now the equivalent of investing in real estate and stocks. Really, if somebody had told me this earlier I would have been investing my pocket money on these instead of eating every recess.

It is interesting that items like this are once again in fashion. Some quick research tells me that comic writers in the early '40s and '50s are currently broke and living off Government support.

I hope somebody will find it in themselves to use this money to help out the very people who have provided to the childhoods and fantasies of 30 years worth of people.

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