{"id":332,"date":"2010-02-27T22:39:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T06:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2010-02-27T22:39:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T06:39:34","slug":"detective-comics-27-sells-for-over-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/comic-book-values\/detective-comics-27-sells-for-over-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Detective Comics #27 Sells for Over $1 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a February it has been.  2 Comics and over $2 million realized.  Yes, you heard it correct.  What recession?  Earlier this month and Action Comics #1 sold for $1 million and now, on February 25th, a CGC 8.0 copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/comics.ha.com\/common\/view_item.php?Sale_No=7017&#038;Lot_No=91126\" target=\"_blank\">Detective Comics #27<\/a>, the first Batman, sold for $1,075,000.00 &#8211; truly amazing.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#wide468--><\/p>\n<p>The comic book sold at Heritage Auctions in Dallas and you can view a scan of the comic book below.  This is a beautiful copy.  Speaking of condition, what does a little restoration do to a comic book even if the apparent grade is higher?  Well, a Detective #27 in CGC 8.5 apparent grade with restoration sold for 66,920.00 &#8211; quite a difference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/det27cgc8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/det27cgc8.jpg\" alt=\"Detective Comics 27 CGC 8.0\" title=\"det27cgc8\" width=\"450\" height=\"715\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/det27cgc8.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/det27cgc8-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a February it has been. 2 Comics and over $2 million realized. Yes, you heard it correct. What recession? Earlier this month and Action Comics #1 sold for $1 million and now, on February 25th, a CGC 8.0 copy of Detective Comics #27, the first Batman, sold for $1,075,000.00 &#8211; truly amazing. The comic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/comic-book-values\/detective-comics-27-sells-for-over-1-million\/\">Read the rest of this entry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-book-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}