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That's right the ground breaking auction for Detective Comics #27 has broken a Guinness World Record for Signature Vintage Comics and Comic Art on Feb. 25 - listen to the auction recording below!
The world paid rapt attention to Heritage Auctions, and to the soaring market for fine comic books and choice original art, in the last two weeks of February as the company staged back-to-back record setting auctions – Signature Illustration Art on Feb. 18 ($4.5 million+) and Signature Vintage Comics and Comic Art on Feb. 25 ($5.6 million).
This biggest story to come out of the two auctions, and perhaps any auction in the nation so far this year, was the $1,075,500 total price (including Buyer's Premium) paid for an exceedingly rare high grade CGC-certified 8.0 copy of Detective #27, the first appearance of "The Batman," which became the single most valuable comic book on the planet at 2:26 PM CT on Thursday, Feb. 25.
"We knew a couple months ago that this Detective #27 was a good candidate to break the previous auction record for a comic book of $317,000," said Lon Allen, Director of the Comics Department at Heritage, "and then around the time of the auction we suspected it could go as high as $800,000. The fact that it then topped seven figures, and nosed out Superman for the world record price was simply amazing to us all. I've never been in an auction room with such excitement."
This biggest story to come out of the two auctions, and perhaps any auction in the nation so far this year, was the $1,075,500 total price (including Buyer's Premium) paid for an exceedingly rare high grade CGC-certified 8.0 copy of Detective #27, the first appearance of "The Batman," which became the single most valuable comic book on the planet at 2:26 PM CT on Thursday, Feb. 25.
"We knew a couple months ago that this Detective #27 was a good candidate to break the previous auction record for a comic book of $317,000," said Lon Allen, Director of the Comics Department at Heritage, "and then around the time of the auction we suspected it could go as high as $800,000. The fact that it then topped seven figures, and nosed out Superman for the world record price was simply amazing to us all. I've never been in an auction room with such excitement."
Click here to listen to this historic auction as it climbs to a record breaking price!
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