The first Superman comic sells for 2.7 million euros

First issue of 'Action Comics' featuring Superman.REUTERS

Superman, the classic American comic book hero, first hit newsstands in April 1938, in

Nobody suspected that this 13-page story written by Jerry Siegel and drawn by Joe Shuster was the starting point of a new genre, that of superheroes.

That comic originally sold for 10 cents on the dollar.

Yesterday Wednesday it was auctioned on the ComicConnect website for 3.2 million dollars, about 2.7 million euros.

The first page of Superman's debut comic explains the character's origin without naming Krypton.

It is estimated that there are only about 100 copies of the Flying Man debut, out of an original print run of 200,000.

It is the most valuable comic.

It is by no means the first time that such expectation has been generated with this number in an auction.

In August 2014, an Ebay a copy was sold for more than three million euros.

Three years earlier, actor Nicolas Cage had set a record by selling this coveted copy from his personal collection for nearly two million.

Vincent Zurzolo, co-owner of ComicConnect, commented in a press release that this copy of

was found in a box full of movie magazines from the thirties "almost intact" and that this comic "really was something spectacular."