Western Penn. resident now owns classic Detective Comics #27

Now here's some awesome news: a copy of Batman's debut in 1939 was found in an attic in Pennsylvania and sold to a collector:

A near-mint copy of Detective Comics No. 27, a pre-World War II comic featuring Batman's debut, was recently found in an attic and sold to a local collector.

The comic is considered to be the second-most valuable available and can fetch up to $500,000. The only comic considered more valuable is Action Comics No. 1, in which Superman makes his first appearance.

Collector Todd McDevitt said the Batman issue he bought is worth about $250,000, but he won't say exactly how much he paid or who sold it to him.

"It was a typical story of someone cleaning up junk in their attic and finding an old comic book and wondering if this was one of those ones that was worth a lot of money," McDevitt told the Beaver County Times.

Something tells me it was once worth more than what's told, but the collapse of the market may have driven down the value. In any case, I congratulate the lucky guy who bought it.