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Returned by mail on March 3, 1938 [8] Superman was published on April 18, 1938, in Action Comics #1, [9] and was an immediate and great success. Siegel and Shuster now regretted selling the copyright for so little. Nevertheless, DC Comics retained Siegel and Shuster because they were popular with the readers.
Superman began as one of several anthology features in the National Periodical Publications comic book Action Comics #1 in June 1938. The strip proved so popular that National launched Superman into his own self-titled comic book, the first for any superhero , premiering with the cover date summer 1939.
As part of the deal which saw Superman published in Action Comics, Siegel and Shuster sold the rights to the character in return for $130 and a contract to supply the publisher with material. [26] [27] [28] Due to financial difficulties, Wheeler-Nicholson had formed a corporation with Harry Donenfeld and Jack Liebowitz called Detective Comics, Inc.
A 1938 comic featuring Superman’s first appearance sold for $6 million at auction on Thursday, becoming the most expensive comic ever, according to Heritage Auctions, which handled the sale.
A comic book in which Superman made his first appearance has just sold at auction for a record-breaking amount. A copy of the original "Action Comics" No. 1 from 1938 sold for $6 million ...
In March 1938, they sold all rights to Superman to the comic-book publisher Detective Comics, Inc., another forerunner of DC, for $130 ($2,814 when adjusted for inflation). [12] Siegel and Shuster later regretted their decision to sell Superman after he became an astonishing success. DC Comics now owned the character and reaped the royalties.
By the time the US had entered WWII, Superman had invoked an economic golden age in the comic book industry and had engendered the new genre of the "superheroes" (though whether Superman can be named the first superhero is controversial), which by then had included Batman, Captain America, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Captain Marvel, Robin, the Flash, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman.
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).