Heritage is shining the Bat-signal to begin 2021 by offering Batman #1 CGC 9.4. This highest graded copy of the major Golden Age key will be sold in Heritage’s Comics & Comic Art Auction on January 14-15, 2021.

“This Batman #1 is just breathtaking,” Heritage Senior Vice President Ed Jaster said.

Batman #1 is the second most valuable Batman comic, following the character’s introduction in Detective Comics #27. This unrestored copy of Batman’s first self-titled book hits the market weeks after Heritage sold a copy of Detective Comics #27 CGC 7.0 for $1.5 million. That sale achieved the highest price ever paid for a Batman comic.

This Batman #1 is a newly discovered and recently certified copy that Heritage estimates will sell for over $1 million.

“Of course, no one can say for certain, but it’s highly unlikely that a better copy is anywhere out there,” Jaster says. “It has great color and white pages – not off-white, not off-off-white, but white,” as though it has just been bought off the newsstand. “And the color strike is exceptional.”

Batman #1 features an iconic cover of Batman and Robin swinging into action and contains “The Legend of the Batman” origin story that originally appeared in Detective Comics #33. It is also notable for presenting the first appearances of two of the Caped Crusader’s most important characters: the Joker and Catwoman.

This copy has spent the last 38 years in the collection of Billy T. Giles, who bought it along with five other issues from the first nine Batman comics. When he died in 2019, Giles’ son inherited his collection and is now offering this finest known copy of Batman #1 to a new home.