Bid On The Check That BOUGHT SUPERMAN. For A Cool $37,000.

You can buy the check  that bought the rights to Superman. Now in my world in the Multiverse where I rule supreme atop a throne of golden Diet Dew cans, with Jennifer Lawrence a-clutching my perfectly chiseled biceps and cooing at me, this would give you the rights to the actual comic character.

Comics Alliance:

A unique piece of comic book history could be yours – if you happen to have a spare $37,000 lying around.  The check that bought Superman  is up for auction online, and with a couple of weeks left in the bidding, it’s already worth  more than 200 times its original value.

The $130 check, to Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster by “Detective Comics, Inc.” (Signed by then-publisher, Jack Liebowitz, and with both Siegel and Shuster’s names misspelled on it),  first surfaced online in October of last year  when  Infinite Horizon  writer Gerry Duggan tweeted a picture following the item coming into the possession of ComicConnect.com, an online auction house specializing in rare comic-related collectibles.

Bidding, which – as of this writing – has already reached $36,055, remains open until April 16, with ComicConnect  describing the check  as “a truly unique pop-culture artifact” that “must be considered in the same breath as the most valuable contracts, checks and signatures known to exist in the collecting world.” Whether such descriptions will help drive the winning bid to such heights as the auction house’s record-setting  Action Comics  #1 amount of $2.16 million last year remains to be seen.