Action Comics #1 just broke its own record - this time with a near-mint (9.0) grade and a $9 million auction price.

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/86-years-after-its-release-a-rare-superman-comic-just-became-the-most-expensive-ever-by-a-huge-margin/

Anyone ask Nicolas Cage if he's attended any auctions lately?

Got me thinking: what's the most valuable comic (or collectible) in your collection?

• Mine is a 9.0 Spider-Man #300 (First Full Appearance of Venom)

Original Star Wars Comic, been sealed up since I've been alive.

I have a 9.8 graded Edge of the Spider-Verse #2 (first Spider-Gwen). I think it's in the 800 to 900 range now, but every time a Spider-Verse movie comes out it flies about $1k.

I'm pretty impressed it managed to fetch that grade since it was my personal copy that I read, not one I bought later.

I’ve got a footlocker packed with the comics I collected as a kid, still sitting in storage. There are probably some surprises in there I’ve forgotten about, but from the ones I remember for sure, my biggest books are probably X-Men #266 (Gambit) and Raphael #1. I bought 3 copies of X-Men 266 when I first heard they were making a Gambit movie and they've went way up in value even though the movie never materialized.

My favorite and potentially most expensive is Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1, which is the first appearance of the Sinister Six. Bought it off of someone about 10 years ago at my local comic shop for around $100. It's not graded but it's still probably worth $500-$800 now in its condition.

I'm still kicking myself for not collecting the full run of Invincible before the show became popular. I considered doing it in college and probably could've collected every issue for just a couple hundred bucks, if that. Now it would cost thousands.

I have never had any of my comics graded. To be honest, I kind of think it is silly and defeats the purpose of having comics for me (I like being able to enjoy mine not just look at them all locked up in a case.) I have so many comics that I honestly don't really know what I have, save for a few really weird old ones that probably have value and some day I'll be responsible and catalog them all for basic insurance purposes.

That said, my parents were later in life parents and my dad was the younger kid around older kids in the 40s and 50s so I got the comics that were given to him when he was little. There are a few in there that are worth a couple of thousand even in well-loved condition. Dad swears there's a "really valuable old Superman" somewhere in his stuff so who knows what we will eventually come across in the attic.