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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 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 ...
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).
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 ...
November 11: Fred Spencer, American animator and comics artist (Disney comics), dies at age 34 in a road accident. [34] November 15: Harry Grant Dart, American illustrator and comics artist (The Explorigator), dies at age 79. [35] November 18: Joan Llaverías, Spanish painter, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 63. [36]
An event cited by many as marking the beginning of the Golden Age was the 1938 debut of Superman in Action Comics #1, [2] [3] published by Detective Comics [4] (predecessor of DC Comics). Superman's popularity helped make comic books a major arm of publishing, [5] which led rival companies to create superheroes of their own to emulate Superman ...
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.
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 ...