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Superman does tend to be overvalued a bit.
At Allentown this past year, there were two Superman pins. Both were around average condition. Some playfield wear, cab issues, some minor backglass issues. One was $800 and the other was $1200. I don't think either one sold.
I've seen a couple examples on craigslist in my area that sat for months since they were non-working and over-priced. I put in an offer on one of them, but the guy thought he was sitting on a goldmine and wouldn't budge.
Nice examples can go for a bit more, since they are unusual to find. A couple years back, there was a HUO example that went for around $3500 on ebay, if I remember right. It basically looked brand new.
Like Gottlieb's Hulk and Spider Man, popular comic book character pins just seem to fetch more than non-comic themes. And sometimes you'll have people bidding on stuff for the collector value, rather than the actual pin value. So yeah, the value on a Superman pin is kind of fluid since there are two camps going after it.
I own one because I'm both a Superman fan and have an affinity for the often unloved Atari pins. I wouldn't pay top dollar for one, though. It's really not that great of a game.
At some point, I thought I might try hook up an MP3 trigger device to play some of the music from the Taito Superman video game to liven it up a bit. It's just one of those projects I haven't really gotten around to working on.