The first comic to feature Superman sold in an Internet auction for $317,200, even though the comic is valued at $470,000. A poor economy is blamed for the lower sale price. The winning bid came from John Dolmayan, drummer for the rock band System of a Down. Dolmayan, who is also a dealer of rare comic books, said he acquired the Superman comic on behalf of a client he declined to identify. Dolmayan said in a phone interview:

"This is one of the premier books you could collect. It’s considered the Holy Grail of comic books. I talked to my client, and we made the move. My client has a a small collection, but everything he has is incredible."

Only about 100 copies of Action Comics No. 1 are known to exist and they seldom come up for sale.

The original price for the comic book was just 10 cents. The man who had previously owned the book purchased it in a secondhand store in the early 1950s when he was nine years old.

He paid 35 cents.

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When I think of Superman I don’t think of a chubby disheveled guy half naked standing on a porch trying to get a better Wi-Fi signal with his laptop, but that’s just what Tom Welling is doing. If Welling normally turns you on, then you might want to get your memory erased, and watch a few episodes of Smallville. Maybe this is what Clark Kent looks like, which means he really isn’t superman after all. Kent is pudgy, but Superman looks like a muscle bound god of a man who races trains, catches bullets in his teeth, and in his spare time oils himself up and poses nude for art classes. Maybe Clark, I mean Welling, should start lifting weights or something.