5 h. ago Rare Superman comic becomes most expensive ever sold at auction after being discovered in an attic

It's a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a very expensive comic book that is now worth a record-breaking $9.12m

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13 h. ago It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a rare Superman comic book! And it fetched $9.12M!

A copy of the first Superman issue, unearthed by a trio of brothers cleaning out their late mother’s attic, netted $9.12 million at a Texas auction house which says it is the most expensive comic book ever sold

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4 d. ago Superman No 1 sells for $9.12m, becoming most expensive comic ever sold

The pristine copy of Superman No 1, the character’s first solo title from 1939, was discovered in an attic in California last year A copy of Superman No 1 that was discovered in an attic in California last year has become the world’s most expensive comic book after selling for US$9.12m (£6.96m, A$14.14m).Superman No 1 was published in 1939 and was the Man of Steel’s first solo title. It marked the first time a character that debuted in a comic book had their own title devoted entirely to them. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Watch the moment a Gustav Klimt painting sells for record amount at auction

A Gustav Klimt painting has become the most expensive piece of modern art ever after it was sold at auction.

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6 d. ago The 13 most expensive artworks sold at auction, as Gustav Klimt fetches over $200 million

The fiercely fought auction was completed after a 20-minute bidding war amongst six different bidders

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6 d. ago Gustav Klimt painting sells for $236.4 million as the most expensive piece of modern art ever sold at auction

The piece was owned by beauty tycoon Leonard Lauder who died in June and was son and heir to Estee Lauder.

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6 d. ago Gustav Klimt portrait sells for $236.4m, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction

Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war, sells at Sotheby’s auctionA painting by Gustav Klimt has sold for a record-breaking $236.4m (£179.7m, A$364m) with fees, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction and the most expensive work of modern art sold at auction.The six-foot-tall painting, titled Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, was painted by the Austrian painter between 1914 and 1916 and shows Lederer, a young heiress and daughter of Klimt’s patrons, draped in a Chinese robe. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Rare Superman comics bought for £20 at a car boot sale sell for wild amount

The incredibly rare Superman comic books were thought to have been missing for more than 40 years before being bought at a car boot sale and then forgotten

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2 w. ago Man buys rare Superman comics from car boot sale for £20 and they sell for wild amount

The incredibly rare Superman comic books were thought to have been missing for more than 40 years before being bought at a car boot sale and then forgotten in an attic

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3 w. ago The one change that worked: I struggled with stress after work – until I made a discovery in my attic

When my son was growing up, his school recorder was the bane of my life. Now it’s what I reach for at the end of a hard day, rather than a glass of wineI’m like a coiled spring after work. Shoulders tense, breath fast and shallow. Usually the sound of my laptop lid slamming shut would be followed by the squeak of a cork pulled from a bottle of red, the wine hastily sploshed into a glass, that first mouthful putting a much-needed full stop on the working day.Then, a few months ago, I came across my now-adult son’s old school recorder in the attic. I idly blew into it, immediately transported back to the days it was the bane of my life – his daily practice a violent assault on my eardrums, the piercing shriek still reverberating through my head hours after he had gone to bed. Continue reading...

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