Drummer Pays for $317,200 for a Comic Book
March 15th, 2009 by Brian
How I wish I could have kept the old comic books when I was a kid. Though it was something unforeseen, would you believe you could sell comic books for a fortune if you had them around? There are people who will pay big bucks for rare find comic books and John Dolmayan proves that point.
John Dolmayan, drummer for the rock band System of a Down and owner of Torpedo Comics, just picked up a rare copy of the first edition of Action Comics. The comic book from June 1938 marks the debut of Superman. Dolmayan paid $317,200 in an internet auction, setting a record for the comic book which some estimated to sell for as much as $500,000. This particular copy was in the same hands since the 1950s when he purchased it for just 35 cents. Only about 100 copies of Action Comics No. 1 are said to be in existence.
According to the LA Times, Dolymayan bought the comic book on behalf of a client whom he did not name. He referred to the comic book as the “Holy Grail of comic books.”
(Source) Comic Connect
- Posted in Books & Magazines
