The record price for a comic book, already broken twice this year, has been shattered again.

A copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1 sold Monday for $1.5 million on the auction Web site ComicConnect.com.

The same issue of Superman’s Action Comics debut sold for one million dollars in February, but that was not in as good condition as the copy sold Monday.

Back in 1938 the Superman comic, boasting a cover picture of the red-caped hero lifting a green car, cost just 10 cents.

A rare copy of the first Superman comic book, Action Comics #1, sold for $1 million on February 22, a record price for a collectible comic.

Meanwhile, a Batman book waits in the wings. The auction for Detective Comics #27, the inaugural Batman comic is now open for bidding and could climb close to its fellow action hero as the highest figure ever paid for any comic.

Monday’s private transaction was conducted by ComicConnect.com and Metropolis Collectibles, with neither buyer nor seller releasing their names.

According to the art website Artdaily, the owner of Torpedo Comics has paid $ 317,200 at auction for the first edition of Action Comics, featuring the debut adventures of Superman.

John Dolmayan, drummer for System of a Down and owner of Torpedo Comics, is now the owner of the first edition of Action Comics, from June of 1938 which is famous for having in its pages the debut of the “Man of Steel”.

This sets a record price for a comic book, but far from the $500,000 that Comic Connect estimated it to be worth.

A very rare version of Action Comics issue #1, known famously as the issue that launched Superman, is up for auction and is expected to fetch a bidding price of $400,000.

The particular issue up for auction is an “unrestored” version of the comic and is worth considerably more than the remaining Action Comics #1 that are known to exist.

There are only about 100 known copies left of the original 1938 comic which sold for only 10-cents when it first came out, but about 80% of those are said to have been restored.