This just in courtesy of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette:
ELLWOOD CITY -- Holy collectibles, Batman!
A near-mint copy of Detective Comics 27, a pre-World War II comic featuring Batman's debut, was recently found in an attic and sold to a local collector.
The comic is considered to be the second-most valuable available, after Action Comics 1, where Superman makes his first appearance.
Collector Todd McDevitt said the Batman issue he bought is worth about $250,000, but he won't say how much he paid for it or who sold the book to him.
McDevitt, owner of the Pittsburgh area's five New Dimension Comics stores, said he has been saving money since 1986 so that he could buy a valuable comic when it appeared. Experts estimate there are between 20 to a few hundred copies of the Batman debut.
In appraising the book, McDevitt graded the issue at Fine to Very Fine, reported the comic book Web site newsarama.com. But even that slight distinction between grades has meaning -- according to Overstreet Price Guide, there's a $110,000 price difference between copies in those two conditions.
"The real kicker is that it's nice copy, newly discovered and not obviously restored," McDevitt said in a story posted to the newsarama site. "Most of the copies out there are worked on and many buyers shy away from that. The right guy who has been waiting for just this kind of copy will be thrilled."
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