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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 ...
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 ...
Comic books focused on space, mystery, and suspense that television and other forms of media were turning to in the march toward scientific progress. [31] According to historian Michael A. Amundson, appealing comic-book characters helped ease young readers' fear of nuclear war and neutralize anxiety about the questions posed by atomic power. [32]
It includes Japanese manga, American comic books, and European comics. This list includes comic books that have sold at least 100 million copies. There are three separate lists, for three different comic book publication formats: collected comic book volumes, periodical single-issue floppy comics, and comic magazines. They are separated because ...
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 .