Top 10 Most Valuable Comic Books. Less than two days remain in the auction of Nicolas Cage’s highly graded Action Comics #1. […] By Jack Greer. September 7, 2017, 12:39am.

The previous record for an American comic book was held by Nicolas Cage’s copy of Action Comics No. 1, which sold for $2.1 million in 2011. It had been lost for a decade after being stolen from ...

Before that, the most valuable comic in the world was a copy of 1962’s Amazing Fantasy No. 15, the first appearance of Spider-Man, which sold for $3.6 million in 2021.