Heritage Auctions

A 1938 copy of the comic that first "introduced Superman to the world" has sold for a record-setting $6 million, the auctioneer that handled the purchase said last week.

Long relegated to an obscure corner of the collectibles market, VHS tapes have been fetching eye-popping prices at auctions in recent months, thanks to nostalgia and an appetite for new investment opportunities.

The Nobel Peace Prize auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold on June 20 night for $103.5 million, shattering the old record for a Nobel.

An original drawing used for the first published "Tintin" cover was sold at auction on June 8 in Dallas for $1.12 million, the Heritage Auctions house said.