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Vintage Copy of 'Superman No. 1' Featured in Heritage Auctions First Comics & Comic Art Auction of 2024
Posted on January 05, 2024 by Neil Cole
The new year hasn't even begun, yet it wouldn't be hyperbole to call Heritage's January 11th - 14th Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction the event of 2024 - or, perhaps, of a lifetime.
Collectors will find among its superpowered offerings numerous iconic covers soaring alongside key Golden and Silver Age comic books in impossibly high grades, each one as stunning as it is significant. These books don't look a day older than Kal-El when he crash-landed in a cornfield or Peter Parker when he was bitten by that radioactive spider or Wonder Woman when a warplane fell onto Paradise Island. They all look like a million bucks - or, likely and deservedly, much more than that.
Among the various offerings featured in the Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction is one of the world's finest copies of 'Superman No. 1', one of only two in the world graded Fine/Very Fine 7.0 by Certified Guaranty Company. Throughout its history as the world's premier comic-book auction house, Heritage has never auctioned an unrestored copy of this historic book bearing such high marks.
In addition, collectors will be thrilled with the opportunity to take home a platinum offering from the Silver Age featuring the world's highest-graded copy of 'The Brave and the Bold No. 28', in which the Justice League of America makes its debut. As the catalog notes, it has been 15 years since Heritage offered a copy graded 9.2 - and back then, collectors raced to Heritage HQ to lay eyes on the Silver Age grail before sparking a bidding war for the ages. This one's even better; a CGC Near Mint+ 9.6 copy, which may never again surface following this event.
This event also teems with numerous classic DC covers, among them one of the most iconic from the spinner-rack era; Ernie Chan's art for 'Justice League of America No. 125', in which Two-Face seemingly joins the JLA (over Flash's objections). It's one entry in a holy trinity of early JLA covers, which also includes Dick Dillin and Joe Giella's 'Justice League of America No. 65', featuring T.O. Morrow gloating that he's "killed off" the League, and Neal Adams and Dick Giordano's classic 'Justice League of America No. 92', with Solomon Grundy holding a limp Superman as the zombie villain towers over other fallen Leaguers.
For more information on the Heritage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction, please visit Comics.HA.com.
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