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Texas-based Heritage Auctions said Thursday that the Action Comics No. 1 print from 1938 surpassed the previous record comic sale, held by a copy of a Superman No. 1 sold privately for $5.3 ...
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).
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 ...
Superman is a superhero created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and first appeared in the comic book Action Comics #1 (cover-dated June 1938 and published April 18, 1938). Superman has been regularly published in comic books by DC Comics since 1938, and has been adapted to other media including radio serials, novels, films ...
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 ...
Superman is a superhero created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and first appeared in the comic book Action Comics #1, published in America on April 18, 1938. [1] Superman has been regularly published in American comic books since 1938, and has been adapted to other media including radio serials, novels, films, television shows ...
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.
A rare copy of a Superman #1 comic book that sold on newsstands for a dime in 1939 was purchased for $2.6 million in an auction. The comic showing Superman leaping over tall buildings on the cover ...