the Hollywood Reporter reported. It went for a cool $2,220,000, including the buyer’s premium fee.“Batman #1” isn’t the first comic to feature the Caped Crusader — that honor goes to “Detective Comics #27” from the year prior (which coincidentally held the previous record for most expensive Batman comic ever sold for when it went for $1.5 million in November).
However, the superhero story does mark the debut of iconic Batman baddies the Joker and Catwoman. The high price can be attributed to the landmark story’s 9.4 CGC designation, meaning that it is one of the rare high-quality holdovers — with white pages, no less — from the Golden Age of comics.
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