Detective Comics #27 Sells for $1.07 Million: Batman Makes More Money Than Superman

Hot on the heels of an issue of Action Comics #1 (the first appearance of Superman) selling at auction for $1 million, an issue of Detective Comics #27 (the first appearance of Batman) has sold for more than $1 million.  $75,500 more, to be exact.

To which this Batman fan says: MUWAHAHAHA!  According to Bleeding Cool, the comic was expected to sell for “around $300,00 [sic] but in the light of a copy of Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman, selling for a straight $1,000,000 this week, clearly a Batman Vs Superman grudge match was in the offing. And we know how that always goes.”

Indeed we do. 

After all, Batman has more money, a hot car, he’s never been killed, he owns the Daily Planet, he’s better with the ladies, and he didn’t have his mommy make his costume for him.

Well, I guess that would be because his parents are dead.  Hm.  We also gotta respect Superman for being a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Still.  We all know how it goes down whenever they fight.  Superman might be more the boy scout, but Batman is always prepared.

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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