The Clique - Superman [Single Version | 2:33
CliqueFan65 | 322 subscribers | 4,412 views | October 3, 2010
Posted on 11/23/2025 6:52:59 PM PST by artichokegrower
They had heard the family legend about the rare comic books for years. But the three brothers had never seen their mother’s collection in her California home, so when they were cleaning out the attic last year, they didn’t imagine they’d find one, let alone a singular book that would make them $9.1 million.
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Ain’t nothing in my attic except dust and woolyboogers.
(4 Yorkshiremen voice) At least you have an attic. All we had was a cardboard box.
For the uninitiated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE&t=36s
Luxury
Is that where I left it? I’ve been looking all over fir it. Such a relief. Go ahead and send it to me and I’ll send you a generous reward. I’m sure I have a Starbucks gift certificate around here somewhere.
The Clique - Superman [Single Version | 2:33
CliqueFan65 | 322 subscribers | 4,412 views | October 3, 2010
The group of three brothers were smart to keep their identity private. Nothing brings grifters forward quicker, than to hear somebody you know has just won the lottery or come into a great deal of cash.
I collected those comics in the 60’s, but I never worried about keeping anything spotlessly clean. I collected them in a dresser drawer until the drawer got full. Then, I threw the contents out and started the collection all over.
Back then, we burned our trash in the back yard.
Fun times!
This is why you should have been responsible for cleaning your room, instead of letting mom do it.
Heritage Auctions Vice President Lon Allen said in a news release that the Northern California climate probably led to the immaculate preservation of the comic. “If it had been in an attic here in Texas, it would have been ruined,” Allen said in the release.
True!
Some people have too much money if they can waste it on an old comic book. They could have built a children’s clinic or something worthwhile with it.
Not really. It’s only because the Mom’s threw the comic books away that the surviving one’s are rare and valuable.
“64 PAGES...ALL IN FULL COLOR”
That was quite a luxury before I was an adult.
What was the print run in thousands?
I love stories like this. It’s like finding a priceless painting by Rembrandt or a well-preserved vintage car.
Wish there was a comic book museum.
I remember the 25 cents PEZ dispensers, my Charlie Brown doll, my unfortunate brother, and a young girl’s Monkees lunch box, and a beautiful young girl.
“An intact version of this comic is incredibly rare. While around 500,000 copies were originally printed, instructions inside told kids to cut out the back cover photo of Superman and frame it as a poster.”
Darn! Now I regret paying $6.9 million just last week for one of the original Pet Rocks, #234 in the series and pristine.i’m kinda tapped for the moment ....
The collectibles market is not for the faint of heart.
I remember coming home to my home without a Hot Wheels set.
Neither my mom nor me said a word.
Great song, much better than the REM version IMO
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