Jerry siegel and fred guardineer story fred guardineer and bernard baily art joe shuster cover and art key comments. Or if you prefer, a pdf version is available to download at the bottom of the page. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format. Unfollow action comics 1 to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Im a huge batman fan and would have loved to find some homage covers to a book id be lucky to ever see in person let alone own. Action comics is an american comic bookmagazine series that introduced superman, one of the first major superhero characters. The amazing spiderman issue known for emulating the classic cover of. The sketchbook is included with the comic as a complimentary piece to be owned alongside this special, oneofakind, original cover art as rendered by artist caspell chavez. Action comics was the second longest running comic book series of all time, with only detective comics having been published longer. A rare and pristine copy of the first issue of action comics, famed for the first appearance of superman, has set a record wednesday for the most money paid. This was also the first appearance of lois lane, the plucky, and sometimes irritating reporter who becomes a staple of most superman stories.
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This is like a virgin comic in this instance, comicconnects vincent zurzolo says. This is a subreddit based around sharing awesome, usually minimal and singlepurpose websites and webtools. The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written. Following dcs crisis on infinite earths series in 1985 john byrne took over the superman titles and action comics became a superman teamup title. T h i s n e w p a m p h l e t i m p l e ments the army aviation. This extrasized debut issue is the cornerstone of the entire dc universe. Sit back and enjoy the earliest adventures of the first and greatest superhero of them all. Safety army aviation accident prevention program department of the army pamphlet 38590 history. 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. Superman remained the lead feature, and at times the sole feature, through the 1980s. Read what started it all, supermans first appearence in action comics number one.
If this subreddit gets huge, awesome, if it does not, i will simply use it to back up my bookmarks. The first issue featured superman and except for a brief hiatus when the series was titled action comics weekly, he has appeared in. Over time, as the number of pages dropped, the title dropped the number of carried features. 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. Unfollow action comics superman 1 to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. So i went with the next best thing action comics 1. Commando is britains longest serving war comic, publishing stories of action and adventure since 1961. The most important comic book ever published was overstreets note about this issue some years ago, and weve never heard anyone nominate any other comic. In 2018, it became only the second american comic book in history after the 1930s1960s dell comics title four color to publish a 1,000th issue aside from its venerable publication history, action comics is more famously known as the birthplace of superman. A complete list of all action comics volume 1 posts in chronological order. See more ideas about action comics 1, comics, comic books. These excellent reproductions include all covers and advertisements from. Its original incarnation ran from 1938 to 2011 and stands as one of the.
A combination of several factors the first appearance of supermancertainly a cultural milestone superman is on the cover most of the copies have not survived into present day. The portions affected by this rar are listed in the summary of change. It is widely considered to be both the beginning of the superhero genre and the most. Unfortunately, as the deadline crept in, i realized i needed a bit more time to look some more. This book included ten separate stories, only the first of which featured superman.
Created by jerry siegel and joe shuster, superman is quite possibly the most recognizable fictional character in the world. Avengers number 1 and giantsize xmen number 1 history duration. Superman captures alex greer and takes him on an unpleasant joyride hopping from building to building scaring the living. It is widely considered to be both the beginning of the superhero genre and. Half sheet overlay outer cover and first day of issue us postage stamp featuring superman. And comic collectors are wondering how this specific comic, which was once rated in a. You can now read the worlds most expensive comic book online. Commando digital subscription lets you read each months commando adventures thats four issues a fortnight on your browser, ipadiphone, kindle and android device. New teen titans aqualad flash hawk robin speedy wonder girl. All portions of the grand comics database, except where noted otherwise, are ed by the gcd and are licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4. Considered the first true superhero book, action comics arrived on the scene in 1938 and remains the longestrunning comic book in history. I did enjoy reading the superman story, but this item is. The one and only grant morrison allstar superman returns to superman, joined by sensational artist rags morales identity crisis, to bring you tales of the man of steel unlike any youve ever read.
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