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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 appearance of several comic-book heroes—most notably the Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster creation, Superman—and sold for 10 cents (equivalent to $2 in 2023).
- April 18, 1938 (on sale), June 1938 (cover date)
Rare Superman comic sells for record $3.25m. Action Comics #1, which sold for 10 cents in 1938, is the world's most valuable comic book.
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Superman made his first appearance in June of 1938 in the title sequence story from Action Comics #1 . For the first several years of publication, Action Comics existed as an anthology series, featuring multiple twelve-page stories featuring a variety of characters ranging from Congo Bill to Zatara.
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Language. English. 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 appearance of several comic-book heroes—most notably the Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster creation, Superman —and sold for 10 cents (equivalent to $2 in 2021).
Apr 27, 2023 · Action Comics Makes Superman an Overnight Sensation. DC Comics. This new Superman was an alien, and wore a costume like a circus strongman. He now had physical powers and not mental ones. He...
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 1941 that the pair was being paid still a fraction of DC's Superman profits.
1 day ago · On May 18, 1939 — 85 years ago —Superman #1 soared to the newsstands, just one year and one month after his first appearance on April 18, 1938 in Action Comics #1. The contents of Superman #1 were basically reprints of the Superman stories that first appeared in Action Comics #1-4 … but there were 13 new things that were added that would ...
