"with the terrified man, which leads into the next issue. All the while, Clark tries to keep Superman out of the papers. ""Comics Buyer's Guide"" estimated in 2012 that only 50 to 100 original copies of ""Action Comics"" #1 exist. ""Action Comics"" #1 has set several sales records for comic books. On February 22, 2010, a copy of ""Action Comics"" #1 CGC Grade 8.0 sold at auction for US$1 million, becoming the first million-dollar comic book. The sale, by an anonymous seller to an anonymous buyer, was through the Manhattan-based auction company ComicConnect.com. On March 29, 2010, ComicConnect.com sold another"
"a much lower 5.5 (""fine minus"") sold for $956,000 in 2016. Shortly after the record-breaking million-dollar sale of ""Action Comics"" #1 in 2010, a copy of ""Detective Comics"" #27 featuring the first appearance of Batman was sold for $1,075,000 in a Heritage auction. Several factors determine the value of a first appearance. Note: All values are according to ComicsPriceGuide.com and are for editions certified by the Certified Collectibles Group (see below): While seemingly a simple concept, determining the first appearance may be complex. The following are instances in which a character's first appearance may be difficult to determine: Note: All"
"unreleased ""Motion Picture Funnies Weekly"" #1 from 1939. Eight copies, plus one without a cover, emerged in the estate of the deceased publisher in 1974. The ""Pay Copy"" of this book sold for $43,125 in a 2005 Heritage auction. The most valuable American comics have combined rarity and quality with the first appearances of popular and enduring characters. Four comic books have sold for over US$1 million , including two examples of Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman, both sold privately through online dealer ComicConnect.com in 2010, and Detective Comics #27, the first appearance of Batman, via public"
"2002, the highest price paid for a comic book was $350,000 for ""Marvel Comics"" #1, bought by Jay Parrino (USA) in November 2001. The sale of a CGC-graded 8.0 ""very fine"" issue of ""Action Comics"" #1 reportedly sold between an undisclosed buyer and seller on the comic book online auction site ""Comic Connect"" for $1,000,000 topped the list for a few days. It was quickly eclipsed by a CGC-graded 8.0 Very Fine ""Detective"" #27 (the first Batman comic book) at Heritage Auctions, which realized $1,075,500. In July 2010, another ""Action Comics"" #1, a CGC-graded 8.5 was reportedly sold between an"
"#1 (June 1938) sold at auction for $1 million, besting the $317,000 record for a comic book set by a different copy, in lesser condition, the previous year. The sale, by an anonymous seller to an anonymous buyer, was through the Manhattan-based auction company ComicConnect.com. Although DC had initially announced Marc Guggenheim as writer of the title following the ""War of the Supermen"" limited series, he was replaced by Paul Cornell. Cornell featured Lex Luthor as the main character in ""Action Comics"" from issues #890–900 and Death appeared in issue #894, with the agreement of the character's creator, Neil Gaiman."
"""holy grail"" of comic books, due to its cultural significance and rarity (fewer than one hundred copies are thought to exist). Superman is widely considered to have solidified, if not created, the superhero archetype; therefore, his first appearance is not only important to fans of the character but to fans of superheroes and comic books as a whole. Well-preserved copies of ""Action"" ""Comics"" #1 have been sold at auction for record-breaking prices. A copy graded at 8.0 (""very fine"") on the 10-point scale typically used by collectors was sold at auction for $1,000,000 in 2010. Even a copy graded at"
"that sold the most issues as well as the one that made the most money in the North American market in April 2018, according to Diamond Comic Distributors; the final tally for April was 449,787 units. In contrast, ""The Amazing Spider-Man"" #800—another heavily promoted milestone issue released in the following month of May—sold 411,480 copies to retailers. ""Action Comics"" #1000 also charted in May, as the 23rd most-ordered comic with another 52,129 units sold. Action Comics 1000 ""Action Comics"" #1000 (cover dated Early June 2018) is the thousandth issue of the original run of the comic book/magazine series ""Action Comics""."
"first appearance of Spider-Man, sold for $1.1 million to an unnamed collector on March 7, 2011. Apocryphal legend has it that in 1961, Timely and Atlas publisher Martin Goodman was playing golf with either Jack Liebowitz or Irwin Donenfeld of rival DC Comics (then known as National Periodical Publications), who bragged about DC's success with the Justice League of America, which had debuted in ""The Brave and the Bold"" #28 (Feb. 1960) before going on to its own title. Film producer and comics historian Michael Uslan later contradicted some specifics, while supporting the story's framework: Silver Age of Comic Books"
"Batman. On February 22, 2010, a copy of ""Action Comics"" #1 (June 1938) sold at an auction from an anonymous seller to an anonymous buyer for $1 million, besting the $317,000 record for a comic book set by a different copy, in lesser condition, the previous year. National Allied Publications soon merged with Detective Comics, Inc., forming National Comics Publications on September 30, 1946. National Comics Publications absorbed an affiliated concern, Max Gaines' and Liebowitz' All-American Publications. In the same year Gaines let Liebowitz buy him out, and kept only ""Picture Stories from the Bible"" as the foundation of his"
"sold in November 2010 for $10.5 million. Another home in Nevada also faces foreclosure auction. In November 2011, Cage also sold his Action Comics 1 in an online auction for a record-breaking $2.16 million (the previous record being $1.5 million), to assist paying his tax liens and other debts. Cage purchased the comic in 1997 for $110,000. Now worth around $25 million (as of May 2017), Cage is reportedly ""taking [film] roles left and right"" in order to pay off his remaining debts. Kathleen Turner wrote in her 2008 memoir, ""Send Your Roses"", that Cage had stolen a chihuahua and"
"ideal selves in print. It was difficult to break into the comic world, but eventually, the two men found a publisher in called National Allied Publications (later DC comics), who wanted to create a book series called ""Action Comics."" The editor, Harry Donenfeld, paid Shuster and Siegel $130 for the first story, and purchased the rights to Superman. ""Action Comics"" published its first issue in June 1938, to much success, beginning the industry of Superman. Unfortunately, Shuster and Siegel were paid less than what Donenfeld and DC earned from the success of the Man of Steel, though it differed between"
"copy for US$1.5 million, making it the most expensive and most valuable comic book of all time. The copy sold is the third highest-graded copy from the CGC, which stands at 8.5 VF+ grade. As of 2011, there were six known Comic Guaranty LLC (CGC)-graded copies with a grade above VG (CGC 4.0), with only one issue having the grade of VF/NM (CGC 9.0) at that time. EC and ""Mad"" publisher William Gaines, whose father was also a comic book publisher and had business dealings with DC Comics at the time ""Action Comics"" #1 was published, claimed in a ""Comics"
"would be ""Action Comics"" (1938). Issue #1 introduced the superhero, Superman, created by artist Joe Shuster and writer Jerry Siegel, and the character's popularity created incredible profits; not only in comic book sales, but also in merchandising such as toys, costumes and even a radio show. At the end of 1941 Donenfeld's comic businesses took in $2.6 million. Max Gaines, future founder of EC Comics, formed All-American Publications in 1938 after successfully seeking funding from Harry Donenfeld., As Gerard Jones writes of Donenfeld's investment: In 1946, Gaines let Liebowitz buy him out, keeping only ""Picture Stories from the Bible"" as"
"auction. Updating the above price obtained for ""Action Comics"" #1, the first appearance of Superman, the highest sale on record for this book is $3.2 million, for a 9.0 copy. Misprints, promotional comic-dealer incentive printings, and issues with extremely low distribution also generally have scarcity value. The rarest modern comic books include the original press run of ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"" #5, which DC executive Paul Levitz recalled and pulped due to the appearance of a vintage Victorian era advertisement for ""Marvel Douche"", which the publisher considered offensive; only 100 copies exist, most of which have been CGC graded."
"Jungle Action Jungle Action is the name of two American comic book series published by Marvel Comics and its 1950s precursor, Atlas Comics. The Marvel version contained the first series starring the Black Panther, the first black superhero in mainstream comics, created by the writer/artist team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in ""Fantastic Four"" #52 (July 1966). The first series – published during a time of few superheroes, when comics featured an enormous assortment of genres – was a multi-character omnibus that ran six issues (Oct. 1954 – Aug. 1955). Each starred the blond-haired, Tarzanesque Lo-Zar, Lord of the"
"with writer-artist Parent in early 2012 received a GLAAD award for Outstanding Comic Book the following year. In March 2011, a copy of ""Archie Comics"" #1, first published in 1942, was sold at auction for $167,300, a record for a non-superhero comic book. In April 2011, Archie Comics became the first mainstream comic-book publisher to make its entire line available digitally on the same day as the print release. At the New York Comic Con in October 2011, Archie Comics announced that its superheroes would return as an all-digital line under the Red Circle imprint, a subscription model with back-issue"
"Captain Action Captain Action was an action figure created in 1966, equipped with a wardrobe of costumes allowing him to become Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Aquaman, the Phantom, The Lone Ranger (and Tonto), Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Sgt. Fury, Steve Canyon, and the Green Hornet. Captain Action was the Ideal Toy Company's answer to Hasbro's G.I. Joe—although the protagonist dolls of both toy lines were created and designed by the same toy-and-idea man, Stan Weston. Toy developer Stan Weston went to Hasbro's Don Levine with the idea of an articulated doll in the form of a soldier — a"
"Sales data first became public in 1960, and showed that Superman was the best-selling comic book character of the 1960s. Sales rose again starting in 1987. ""Superman"" #75 (Nov 1992) sold over 23 million copies, making it the best-selling issue of a comic book of all time, thanks to a media sensation over the supposedly permanent death of the character in that issue. Sales declined from that point on. In March 2018, ""Action Comics"" sold just 51,534 copies, although such low figures are normal for superhero comic books in general (for comparison, ""Amazing Spider-Man"" #797 sold only 128,189 copies). The"
"Hood and Company"", which made its appearance in comic books when McCall founded Anglo-American Publishing in 1941. The Golden Age of Comic Books and subsequent superhero boom began with the release in June 1938 of ""Action Comics"" #1. The cover story was the first appearance of Superman, drawn by Toronto-born Joe Shuster. Shuster modeled Superman's Metropolis after his memories of Toronto, and the newspaper Clark Kent worked for after the ""Toronto Daily Star"", which he had delivered as a child. These comics crossed the border and quickly gained Canadian fans as well. In December 1940, the War Exchange Conservation Act"
"2012 the original artwork to that issue's cover, which features Spider-Man dispatching the Hulk, sold for a record-breaking $657,250 USD, the highest auction price ever for any piece of American comic book art. McFarlane was succeeded on ""Amazing Spider-Man"" by McFarlane's future fellow Image Comics co-founder Erik Larsen. Wanting to appease McFarlane, Marvel offered McFarlane a new, adjectiveless ""Spider-Man"" title for McFarlane to both write and draw. """" #1 (August 1990) sold 2.5 million copies, largely due to the variant covers with which Marvel, seeking to capitalize on McFarlane's popularity, published the issue in order to encourage collectors into buying"
"the offer. Siegel and Shuster submitted their work in late February and were paid $130 (AFI $) for those 13 pages. In early March they signed a contract (at Liebowitz's request) in which they released the copyright for Superman to Detective Comics, Inc. This was normal practice in the business, and Siegel and Shuster had given away the copyrights to their previous works as well. Superman was finally published on April 18, 1938, in the first issue of ""Action Comics"". The magazine sold very well, and feedback from readers showed it was because of Superman. Siegel and Shuster read pulp"
"Wars"". After ""Watchmen"" and ""Dark Knight Returns"" made their mark, mainstream attention returned to the comic book industry in 1989 with the success of the movie ""Batman"" and again in 1992 with ""The Death of Superman"" storyline. Once aware of this niche market, the mainstream press focused on its potential for making money. Features appeared in newspapers, magazines and television shows detailing how rare, high-demand comics such as ""Action Comics"" #1 and ""Incredible Hulk"" #181 (the first appearances of Superman and Wolverine, respectively) had sold for thousands of dollars, with ""Action"" # 1 breaking the $1 million mark. During this"
"the highest value ever paid for a single issue of a comic book. The purchasers were Vincent Zurzolo and Stephen Fishler, the owners of Metropolis Collectibles; Zurzolo expected the value of the near-mint comic to continue to increase in time. Beginning in the mid-1970s, DC reissued several of its most popular Golden Age comics as ""Famous First Editions"", including ""Action Comics"" #1, published in 1974. These reprints were oversized, roughly double the size of the original editions, and had a cardboard-like cover. The interior, however, was an exact reprint of the original comic, right down to the ads. As a"
"they started a new title they could go ahead with their plans. The first issue sold 2.65 million copies, setting a record at the time. The following year, Rob Liefeld's ""X-Force"" #1 (August 1991) went on to sell 3.9 million, then a couple of months later Jim Lee's """" #1 (October 1991) sold 7.5 million copies, these sales being driven by heavy use of collector cards and variant covers. Within a year these superstar artists left Marvel to form Image Comics off the back of the success on these titles, and developments started in these comics led to the speculator"
"have gone down to his local newsstand and asked a kid, ""Why are you reading this one?"" pointing to ""Action Comics"". ""Because it's the one that has Superman in it, mister."" The revised Superman first appeared in ""Action Comics"" #1, June 1938. Siegel and Shuster sold the rights to the company for $130 and a contract to supply the publisher with material. The ""Saturday Evening Post"" reported in 1960 that the pair was being paid $75,000 each per year, still a fraction of DC's Superman profits. In 1964, when Siegel and Shuster sued for more money, DC fired them, prompting"
"of stores in the United States. In March 2018, Action Man appeared in an advert for Moneysupermarket.com. In 2006 Hasbro licensed reproductions of a variety of the original boxed Action Man figures, under the 40th Anniversary ""Nostalgic Collection"" banner, in a packaging format similar to Hasbro's G.I. Joe collection. At the New York Comic Con 2011, Hasbro released a comic book called 'UNIT E' that featured comic strips of several toy lines that Hasbro are well known for and are bringing back. Among them, was a new iteration of Action Man. However, the comic was produced as a ""brain storming"""
"relaunch, DC restored ""Action Comics"" original numbering, releasing Action Comics vol. 1 #957 after Action Comics vol. 2 #52. Subsequently, a commemorative poster celebrating 1000 issues of ""Action Comics"" was released in 2018, which retroactively listed all issues of the New 52 ""Action Comics"" vol. 2 with their cumulative issue numbers. As a result, ""Action Comics"" vol. 2 #1 is now also considered to be ""Action Comics"" vol. 1 #905 overall. Action Comics 1 ""Action Comics"" #1 (cover dated June 1938) is the first issue of the original run of the comic book/magazine series ""Action Comics"". It features the first"
"a box-office success, while ""Hellman of Hammer Force"" was a ""Warlord""/""Battle""-style World War II adventure told from the point of view of a German Panzer commander. The first issue was published on 7 February 1976, with a cover date of 14 February 1976. The comic was instantly popular, particularly for its gritty tone and graphic gore. Within weeks the media had picked up on the title's violent content. The London ""Evening Standard"" and ""The Sun"" ran major articles on the comic, with the latter echoing the Victorian ""penny dreadful"" by dubbing ""Action"" ""the sevenpenny nightmare"" (the cover price was 7p)."
"cover. The Crimson Avenger debuted in issue #20 (October 1938). ""Detective Comics"" #27 (march 1939 with a printed date of may 1939) featured the first appearance of Batman. That superhero would eventually become the star of the title, the cover logo of which is often written as ""Detective Comics featuring Batman"". Because of its significance, issue #27 is widely considered one of the most valuable comic books in existence, with one copy selling for $1,075,000 in a February 2010 auction. Batman's origin is first revealed in a two-page story in issue #33 (Nov. 1939). Batman became the main cover feature"
"even rejecting a $3 million offer to buy the comic outright. On his decision to sell, he opted to use eBay instead of other comic auction houses like Heritage House, believing the auction site would reach a wider audience and was a better fit for the pop culture nature of the piece. After discussions with the site, Adams and eBay also arranged to donate 1% of the sale to the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, reflecting on Christopher Reeve's role as Superman in motion pictures. The auction ended on August 24, 2014 and sold for over $3.2 million. This was"
"dubbed The New 52. This included ending the original 73-year run of ""Action Comics"" with issue #904, October 2011 (on sale August 24, 2011). The first issue of ""Action Comics"" volume 2, with a cover date of November 2011, went on sale September 7, 2011. The New 52 version of ""Action Comics"" #1 has gone through five printings. The fifth printing, which went on sale March 28, 2012, is cover-dated May 2012 in both the UPC box on the cover and the indicia, with no mention of its original November 2011 cover date. In 2016, as part of the Rebirth"
"the licensing rights and has been producing an array of new merchandise, including statues, toys, comics, trading cards, collectibles and apparel. In March 2011, Round 2 Corp. and Captain Action Enterprises announced plans for a redesigned 1/6 scale Captain Action figure. National Periodical (DC Comics) licensed the character from Ideal and published five issues of ""Captain Action"" in 1968, illustrated at first by Wally Wood, then by Gil Kane. The scripts were by Jim Shooter and Gil Kane. The comic book story line had little to do with the toy concept, as some of the heroes licensed for use as"
"had 8 of the top 10 comic books, in spite of Marvel's heavily publicized replacement ""Ultimate Spider-Man"", Miles Morales debuting in that title the same month. ""Justice League"" #1 was the top selling comic book in 2011. Writer Warren Ellis was unimpressed with the relaunch's sales, stating that it garnered DC a half-point lead in dollar share and a five-point lead in units sold over Marvel Comics. Ellis also pointed out that the units DC sold are returnable. Columnist Heidi MacDonald stated that while the market share comparisons are correct, the sales figures for single issue books do not take"