Comic book collection fetches £2.2m

Detective Comics No 27 sold for more than 300,000 pounds

AP/Courtesy of Heritage Auctions

23/02/2012 By pa.press.net

Detective Comics No 27 sold for more than 300,000 pounds (AP/Courtesy of Heritage Auctions)

The bulk of a man's childhood comic book collection that included many of the most prized issues ever published has sold at auction for about 3.5 million US dollars (£2.2 million).

A copy of Detective Comics No. 27, which sold for 10 cents (6p) in 1939 and features the debut of Batman, got the top bid at the New York City auction.

It sold for about 523,000 dollars (£333,000) , including a buyer's premium, said Lon Allen, managing director of comics for Heritage Auctions, the Dallas-based auction house overseeing the sale.

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