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TIL a man named David Gonzalez was renovating a home he purchased for $10,100. Inside a wall he found a copy of action comics #1 featuring the debut of superman. The comic sold at auction for $175,000. Afterwards he found a copy of superman #4 from the spring of 1940 worth between $500 and $5,000

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