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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).
The first ever comic featuring Spider-Man overtook it later the same year, when it sold for $3.6 million, according to CGC Comics, before another issue of the Man of Steel’s adventures in ...
The first edition of "Action Comics," featuring Superman's debut that sold for 10 cents in 1938, set an out-of-this-world auction record Monday, leaping to an astonishing $1 million dollar value ...
The original cover art for the first issue of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns achieved $2.4 million at a June 2022 Heritage Auctions sale, making it the most expensive American comic book cover art sold. [46] Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov's Nobel Peace Prize, sold to benefit refugees from Ukraine through UNICEF. The medal sold on June 21 ...
A comic book featuring Superman's first-ever appearance has sold for $6 million, making it the most valuable comic edition in existence. The June, 1938 cover of Action Comics. (Metropolis ...
Company sales and circulation increase, enabling the company to buy and sell merchandise for less. 1955 - Mad Magazine runs a zany lampoon of Johnson Smith ads on the cover of its March issue #21 [8] that creates even more business. [citation needed] 1966 – Paul Hoenle joins the company. Arthur Smith decides to retire as his health declines.
The best-selling comic book categories in the US as of 2019 are juvenile children's fiction at 41%, manga at 28% and superhero comics at 10% of the market. [8] Another major comic book market is France, where Franco-Belgian comics and Japanese manga each represent 40% of the market, followed by American comics at 10% market share. [9]
The Man of Steel, a six-issue comic book limited series written and penciled by John Byrne, [4] inked by Dick Giordano and published by DC Comics, debuts. The mini-series is designed to revamp the Superman mythos, using the history-altering effects of Crisis on Infinite Earths as an explanation for numerous changes to previous continuity .