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The Superman Patriotic Comics & Comic Art Showcase Auction is coming to Heritage Auctions on July 7 with a host of material about the Man of Steel from the collection of Milt Rosenberg.

Rosenberg owned a stunning Supermen of America Action Comics prize ring, one of nine known to survive the journey from 1940 to today. And the only known complimentary copy of Superman No. 18 from 1942, complete with the Superman pinback button still affixed to the front cover. And a coveted original Supermen of America Leader patch from the late 1930s and early ’40s, which bestowed “strength, courage, justice” to each member of the fan club that was once filled with young readers.

A portion of his collection makes its debut at Heritage Auctions July 7 as The Superman Patriotic Comics & Comic Art Showcase Auction. More than 250 items from Rosenberg’s estate will be available, many of them in them in excellent condition – even old bread wrappers and cereal displays – each loved by a man for whom collecting was less a hobby than a way of life. The collection also includes something seldom seen: four pages removed from the August 5, 1939, issue of Triumph magazine – the first time Superman took flight on the front of and inside a British publication.