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It’s not even a debate. It’s a fact.

As Darren said:

“Action Comics #1 CGC 8.0 sold for $1 million
Detective Comics #27 CGC 8.0 sold for $1.075 million

The Detective sold for more, case closed.”

Indeed. I think those arguing in favor of Action Comics are letting their personal bias affect their better sense; this isn’t about which character is better.

Rather, it’s about how much a collector is willing to pay for a piece of contemporary art — and that price includes any commissions, finder’s fees, taxes or any other cash outlay on the part of the buyer that was necessary to complete the purchase.

Batman is more lucrative as a character, but in terms of investments if someone told me to pick between Action Comics #1 and Detective Comics #27 I’d have to go with Action Comics #1 for reasons already mentioned.

And the comics are only as valuable as someone will pay for them. How much money could the buyer expect to make on DC #27 when he sells it vs the person who bought AC#1?

I have lived in Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Virginia I have never paid sales tax on Comics.

I have also toured the US (46 states) I believe I have paid tax on comics, but not often

As for the premium it is clearly stated when you go to Heritage if OR when they ask a premium and how much it is so there is no question that the guy/gall who bought it knew there was a premium to pay.So it did not sell for 900 000$ BUT 900 000$+premium=1.075 million! Or like Stan would say:Nuff Said!!!!

http://stevenduque.com/2010/02/zeitgeist-supermans-first-comic-sells-online-for-1m/

The Detective sold for more, case closed.

Where do you live you don’t pay tax on comics for being periodicals? Everything I buy on the magazine rack has tax… This sounds like it might be isolated to where you live. Lots of cities have different taxes on different things… but I have always paid sales tax on comics in every place I have lived.

Both were CGC rated at an 8.0 condition, according to the various reports.

Someone stepped on Supermans cape that day. It’s now history. Worlds most expensive comic! Today.

This is the REAL comparison “Apples to Oranges”
Superman Returns was released around the same time as Batman Begins and outperformed it in the Box Office. You can’t compare Superman Returns to Dark Knight when you’re talking Box office returns.

As Far as Nolan/Goyer Superman re-boot. Don’t get your hopes too high, no one wants to admit it…but had Heath Ledger lived, you could pretty much cut Dark Knight’s box office returns in half.

Ben: think of it like buying a house. If a house is for sale for $900k and you buy it at that, that’s not what you PAY. Perhaps you pay a 1% commission to the broker as a finder’s fee, plus there’s closing costs. So all in, you PAY, say $925k. Now, when the neighbor wants to sell their house and they get a fair-market appraisal, the comp will be based on recently sold houses in the area. Will the comp be $900 or $925 because of fees? It’s going to be $900.

Put another way, if another Detective #27, CGC 8.0 went on the market today, would the bid now be $1.1m because of the total price paid yesterday? Well, that’s a 22% markup over the high BID of yesterday’s winner. But let’s say that someone does buy the book for $1.1m. Now THEY have to pay a 19.5% buyer’s premium, so does that mean the value of the book is now hyper-inflated to a little over $1.3m? Basically every time this book gets listed on Heritage Auction’s site, it will have at least a 19.5% increase in “value”. Yet, sold on Comic Connect’s site, without that buyer’s premium, the “value” wouldn’t inflate as fast.

Action Comics #1′s value is one million dollars, because that was the winning bid, absent of fees. Detective #27′s value is $900k, because that was the winning bid, absent of fees. That’s the apples to apples comparison.