Check That Bought SUPERMAN RIGHTS Sells For $160,000. G’damn.

The check that bought the rights to Superman has sold, and for quite the pretty penny. Imagine having so much money that you spend over $100k on a check? Yeah, I can’t neither.

Robot 6:

The $412 check written in 1938 by Detective Comics to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster for, among other things, the rights to Superman  sold last night at auction  for a whopping $160,000. The piece of paper has been described as“the most important $412 in comics history”  and  “possibly the most important pop-culture artifact known to exist.”

“The concept of the superhero was born with Superman,” Vincent Zurzolo, co-owner of auction website ComicConnect, told  Reuters. “That $130 check essentially created a billion-dollar industry.”

Signed by Publisher Jack Liebowitz, it included $130 for the Man of Steel, with the remaining $282 serving as payment for stories contributed to  Detective Comics,  Adventure Comics  and  More Fun Comics. Liebowitz misspelled the last names of both Siegel and Shuster, leading them to endorse the check twice.

Written March 1, 1938, the check was key to several legal and moral disputes, the first beginning barely a year after its signing. According to  ComicConnect, it was among a box of old court documents handed over to DC Comics by its legal team in 1973 during a lunch celebrating what everyone  thought  was the final victory in their decades-long fight with Siegel and Shuster for the Superman rights.

I have a hard time imagining that the check itself is more valuable in the halls of pop culture than say..the first issue of Action Comics. Is that just me?