9.12 million US dollars for a first edition Superman comic book

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A copy of the first Superman issue netted 9.12 million US dollars this month at a Texas auction house, which says it is the most expensive comic book ever sold. 

Three brothers discovered the book in a cardboard box beneath layers of brittle newspapers, dust and cobwebs in their deceased mother's San Francisco home last year. 

She had told her children she had a valuable comic book collection hidden away, but they had never seen it until they put her house up for sale and combed through her belongings. 

The "Superman No.1" comic, released in 1939 by Detective Comics Inc., is one of a small number of copies known to be in existence and is in excellent condition. 

The previous record was set last year, when an "Action Comics No.1" was sold for 6 million US dollars.