Maurice mitchell is a sciencefiction and comic book critic, blogger, and journalist. Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your anwer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e. Though action comics began as an anthology, collecting a variety of tales, over the past few decades it has become a monthly title dedicated to its launch character, superman. If you find any comic book from this era do not attempt to make the comic book look nicer. Grading guide recent value changes report missing issues. The cover bears the famous if somewhat crude drawing of superman smashing a car against a rock. The series has run continuously since that time, and has reached 974 issues as of february 2017. Written and drawn by jerome siegel and joe shuster, the comic introduced superman as champion of the oppressed, the physical marvel who had.
Its the 80th anniversary of the comic book that introduced the world to. The inaugural issue of action comics marked the first appearance of superman and helped kick off the superhero genre. Superman was the title of the monthly comic book featuring superman. The numbering for this series continues from action comics volume 1 and adds in the issues from the new 52 volume 2 preceded by action comics volume 2 collected editions. View market values for books, store your collection, and meet fellow comic fans. The strip proved so popular that national launched superman into his own selftitled comic book, the first for any superhero, premiering with coverdate june 1939. Kathie lee, tom hanks, sean connery, burt reynolds snl duration. Only 52 have been graded by cgc plus 82 restored copies. Nicolas cages nearlypristine copy of action comics no. Get the best deals on superman golden age comics 19381955 when you shop the largest online selection at. Unfollow action comics superman 1 to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Action comics is a comic book series featuring superman.
It has been graded by mycomicshops experienced graders. Its a bird, its a plane, its a priceless superman comic. Action comics is an american comic bookmagazine series that introduced superman, one of the first major superhero characters. This comic book is also the first featuring a superhero, and is considered to be the most valuable comic in the world.
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Considered the first true superhero book, action comics arrived on the scene in 1938 and remains the longestrunning comic book in history. Each comic pages with 7 frontback pages only contains only the superman related story and has had their edges neatly trimmed, with holes poked through the left margin. After superman saves a group of miners from a cavein, clark kent senses a story that may mean that the mines owner, thorton blakely, is actually running unsafe mine operations and blaming accidents on the miners themselves. He keeps it locked in a safety deposit box instead of at home, after all. Action comics is nothing less than the comic book that introduced superman, the first major superhero character as the term is commonly defined. The publisher was originally known as national allied publications, and later as national comics publications and as national periodical publications, before taking on its current name of dc comics. Half sheet overlay outer cover and first day of issue us postage stamp featuring superman. The first issue featured superman and except for a brief hiatus when the series was titled action comics weekly, he has appeared in nearly every issue. Almost any early superman comic book has value if its in reasonable condition. Action comics is an american comic book that is best known for introducing superman to the world.
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