Curiously, all of these artists were contemporaries of one another, and the fact that plastinos work appeared alongside these other artists in so many issues of both superman and action comics in the 1940s70s speaks to his appeal to the editors, if not always the readers, of dc comics. Action comics was the second longest running comic book series of all time, with only detective comics having been published longer. Gcd issue action comics 1 reprint death of superman. Clearly, some of these items may not, and probably do not exist in that grade. Cole the first appearance of superman in action comics no. Find great deals on ebay for action comics 1 and action comics 1 reprint. Over 50 years later, superman is still going strong, appearing not only here, but in several other comic titles, including superman, and superman. In the 1990s man gives a coin to a beggar who is revealed to be superman. But if that size isnt a tipoff, then cover details that were cropped out of the reprint will clue you in.
Beginning of a dialog window, including tabbed navigation to register an account or sign in to an existing account. Beginning batman vol 1 19402011 batman began publication. Free download and read online all superheroes action comics series hindi pdf find more download hindi english all type of comics pdf visit at. 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. Ad for more fun comics, new adventure comics and detective comics. Action comics is an american comic bookmagazine series that introduced superman, one of the first major superhero characters. As a distant planet is destroyed by old age, a scientist places his infant son in a space capsule and launches it toward earth. Batman began publication in the spring of 1940 and was published until 2011. Find great deals on ebay for action comics 1 reprint and action comics 1 reprint 1976. 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. Swooping in almost at the last second to win the holy grail issue, the top bidder will now own the most expensive comic book.
Sep 26, 20 a bunch of tributes, homages, references, nods, ripoffs, swipes, et al. Superman and the men of steel the new 52 by morrison, grant and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The capsule is found by a passing motorist, who brings the baby to an orphanage, where the child astounds the attendants with his superhuman powers. Getcomics is an awesome place to download dc, marvel, image, dark horse, dynamite, idw, oni, valiant, zenescope and many more comics only on getcomics. This is an interesting and unique item sold in limited quantities by usps in 1998. This golden anniversary 80 page giant commemorates 50 years of superman and 600 issues of action comics. Superman manages to escape the resulting mob wanting to have his autograph and such and goes to the slum he now lives in. That was the first appearance of a certain muscular guy from the planet kryptonbetter known to the world as superman. This book included ten separate stories, only the first of which featured superman. It is widely considered to be both the beginning of the superhero genre and. No other information, no mention of it being a reprint, etc.
The blakely mine disaster, script by jerry siegel, art by joe shuster. Getcomics getcomics is an awesome place to download dc. You can find out values of action issues by clicking here. This comic book is also the first featuring a superhero, and is considered to be the most valuable comic in the world.
Considered the first true superhero book, action comics arrived on the scene in 1938 and remains the longestrunning comic book in history. This batman comics price guide will help you to value all the early. 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. This 16page comic book, published by dc comics in 1988 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of superman in action comics, reprints the very first superman story by siegel. You can now read the worlds most expensive comic book online. In 2018, it became action comics vol 1 1938 action comics was the second longest. This page contains information about action comics volume 1. While plastinos figure work was competent and solid. Most comic fans know that superman actually began life in action comics.
With each pricing update we compute and show here the 100 most valuable comic books. 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. 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. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format. 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. It has been graded by mycomicshops experienced graders. This page lists prices for the first 100 issues of supermans appearances in his solo series, which began in 1939.
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