Read Valuable Comic Books. Choose the correct answers on the right.
1 Which comic book do you like to read? Have you got a favourite one? Are
2 you more a Disney type or are you into superheroes? Did you know it
3 pays off to hold on to your comics?
4 A few weeks ago on eBay somebody paid $3.2 million for the first issue
5 of Action Comics featuring Superman. This makes this comic book the
6 most valuable comic book of all time. Before, another copy of the Action
7 Comics No.1 issue, was the most valuable one. That one had sold for
8 more than $2.1 million in 2011.
9 Harshen Patel works for the CGC, an organisation that keeps track of
10 which prices comic books are sold for in the USA. He explains that
11 along with baseball cards, comic books are collected all over the world.
12 Collectable comic books have to be in mint condition though. This
13 means the comic book hasn’t been read or hasn’t been read much. The
14 most expensive comics are the stories on the superheroes first
15 adventures. The first adventures of these superheroes happened back
16 in the 1930s up to the 1950s. Think of Spiderman, Superman, the Hulk
17 and Captain America that feature these comic books.