Old comic books sell for $3.5m - collection with Batman debut - New York

An extraordinary collection of old comic books has sold for $3.5 million (£2.2 million) in New York.

The top comic, which featured Batman's debut, was "Detective Comics No 27", which sold for $523,000. It cost just 10 cents in 1939.

A remarkable collection of 345 comics belonged to Billy Wright, who bought the issues when he was a boy. It was found when Mr Wright died and a relative was clearing the basement of his home in Virginia, USA.

BBC STORY


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Man yanks own head off - wire attached to tree and speeds away in vehicle - gruesome suicide

A man decapitated himself after a domestic dispute by putting a wire round his neck, attaching it to a tree and accelerating away in a van in front of police in Yorktown, Virginia, USA.

Officers tried to talk him out of the vehicle, but he sped away and was pulled out of the Explorer SUV - with his head separating from his body.

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Owl swoops on prey - brilliant picture by boy, 9

A brilliant picture taken by a nine-year-old boy shows the moment an owl swooped on a mouse.

Allen Shank, 9, of Dayton, Virginia, US, took the picture using infrared sensors and flashes to freeze the action.

THE SUN

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