Action Comics #1
- Maker
- DC Comics (National Allied)
- Year
- 1938
- Rank
- 1 of 100
Action Comics #1
Action Comics #1 by DC Comics (National Allied) (1938) is ranked 1 in the FLOAT 100 for Comics. It sold for $15,000,000 in January 2026. First appearance of Superman; the birth of the superhero genre and the single most important comic book in existence.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
First appearance of Superman; the birth of the superhero genre and the single most important comic book in existence.
Action Comics #1, CGC 9.0
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $15,000,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- January 2026
CGC 9.0 sold for a record-shattering $15,000,000 in a private sale negotiated by Metropolis Collectibles / ComicConnect, reported Jan 9 2026. A CGC 8.5 Kansas City pedigree realized $6,000,000 at Heritage in Apr 2024 as the public-auction high.
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08