Associated Press | The record price for a comic book, broken
twice this year, has fallen again. A copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1 sold Monday for $1.5
million on the auction Web site ComicConnect.com.

The issue features
Superman’s debut and is widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books.  The same issue sold in February for $1 million. That number was quickly
bested when a 1939 comic book featuring Batman’s debut sold for $1
million and change.

The issue that sold Monday was bought from a private collector and then
sold by Stephen Fishler and Vincent Zurzolo, the co-owners of ComicConnect.com.

Fishler declined to name the buyer but said he
was “a hardcore comic book fan.”