Flash Comics #1 sells for $450,000

Heritage Auctions has announced a high-grade copy of “Flash Comics” No. 1 has sold for $450,000 on March 12.   A service called “Make Offer to Owner” allows buyers to make offers to buyers from previous Heritage Auctions.

The seller had originally obtained it for $273,125 in a January 2006 Heritage auction, and the buyer initiated this latest purchase directly through the new feature at HA.com.

“This is the finest known copy of the 1940 DC Comics first appearance of the Flash and Hawkman,” said Ed Jaster, Vice President of Heritage Auctions, in a news release.  “It’s graded by CGC as Near Mint Plus 9.6, and it was part of the famous Edgar Church ‘Mile High’ Collection, universally considered the finest comic book collection of all-time.”

The buyer’s and seller’s names were not released.

For more information, visit www.ha.com.

- Matt Price