Western Penn. resident now owns classic Detective Comics #27
Published by Avi Green on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 1:05 PM.
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.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.
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.
