Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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 ...
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).
Action Comics is an American comic book/magazine series that introduced Superman, one of the first major superhero characters. The publisher was originally known as Detective Comics Inc. , which later merged into National Comics Publications (later National Periodical Publications), before taking on its current name of DC Comics .
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 ...
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 ...
These were titles in which Superman starred: The Adventures of Superman was originally Superman (vol. 1). It ran titled as The Adventures of... from 1987 to 2006, issues #424 to 649, with a #0 issue (October 1994) published between issues #516 and 517 during the Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! crossover event and a #1,000,000 issue (November 1998) published between issues #562 and 563 during the ...