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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 comic book marketed with a variant cover was the 1986 first issue of The Man of Steel, which featured two different covers by writer/artist John Byrne.One featured a full shot of Superman ripping open the shirt comprising part of his civilian clothing to reveal the "S" emblem on his chest, along with a shot of the spaceship that brought him to Earth escaping Krypton.
Prior to wide release, a full-color, 16-page ashcan edition was available at the April 2018 C2E2 convention in Chicago, Illinois. [12] The first issue was promoted on the cover of the May 2018 Previews catalog from Diamond Distribution, [13] then released on July 11, 2018. [3] Comic specialty stores ordered around 27,000 copies of the first ...
In 2017, the comic book market size for North America was just over $1 billion with digital sales being flat, book stores having a 1% decline, and comic book stores having a 10% decline over 2016. [34] The global comic book market saw a substantial 12% growth in 2020, reaching a total worth of US$8.49 billion.
1980 in comics - debut: Bloom County, She-Hulk, Starfire, Cyborg, The Far Side, Raw; 1981 in comics - debut: Thrud the Barbarian, Torpedo; 1982 in comics - debut: Camelot 3000 (first Maxi-series) 1983 in comics - published: Metropol #1; 1984 in comics - debut: Dragon Ball, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; 1985 in comics - debut: Calvin and Hobbes
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A market for such comic books soon followed. The first modern American-style comic book, Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics (also a reprint collection of newspaper strips), was released in the U.S. in 1933 [29] and by 1938 publishers were printing original material in the new