First Superman comic sold in $317,200

There's a great stirring in the mainstream media today about some economic stimulus, Kryptonian-style.

Below you can read a bit from the story from the New York Daily News, but there's also an Associated Press story that ran in the Los Angeles Times, the Toronto Star and many other papers.

Maybe they should call him Man of Gold.

Superman proved to be super-expensive when a rare copy of the first comic book featuring him sold late Friday for $317,200 in an Internet auction.