This just in from Art Daily…

“A longtime Alaska comic book buff is selling one of the gems in his vast collection, a rare copy of Batman No. 1 published 70 years ago. Mike Wheat of Fairbanks has put the 1940 comic book on the auction block through Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries, where it’s expected to fetch more than $40,000.

Online bids will compete with a live auction set for Thursday.”

For those of you who are planning on getting on the action better have some serious money for the auction because online bids have already reached US$35,000.00 for the book and will probably go higher.

It is believed to be one of fewer than 300 still in existence with a grade of 5.5 from a scale of 1 to 10.

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