The cover wrap of Action Comics No. 1 shattered the auction record books for a stand-alone cover on June 26 when it sold for $408,000 in the first session of Heritages four-day Comic & Comic Art Signature Auction. Per the independent tracking site www.GPAnalysis.com, the previous record for a loose cover was $20,000 for a Flash Comics No. 1 cover that sold in January 2025. If a few months ago someone had asked me to find them an attractive loose cover for Action Comics No. 1, I probably would have laughed, stated Barry Sandoval, vice president of Heritage Auctions. So I wasnt surprised by the fervent bidding as this may well be the only such specimen that will ever come up for sale. The image, drawn by Joe Shuster, has been called the most famous image in comic book history, and adorns the issue that launched Superman, the superhero genre and, in many ways, the entire comics-collecting hobby. The auction marks what is believed to be the first public sale of just the cover wrap of what Overstreet once called the most important comic book ever published. Action Comics No. 1 is ranked first on Overstreets Top 100 Golden Age Comics list. A recap of the entire sale will appear in an upcoming issue.