![]() Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were paid $10 per page, for a total of $130 (equivalent to $2,503 in 2021) for their work on this issue. The first issue had a print run of 200,000 copies, which promptly sold out, although it took some time for National to realize that the "Superman" story was responsible for sales of the series that would soon approach 1,000,000 a month. Īction Comics was started by publisher Jack Liebowitz. Published on Ap ( cover dated on June 30, 1938), by National Allied Publications, a corporate predecessor of DC Comics, it is considered the first true superhero comic and though today Action Comics is a monthly title devoted to Superman, it began, like many early comics, as an anthology. The cover has been compared to Hercules and the Hydra by Antonio del Pollaiuolo. On August 24, 2014, a copy graded 9.0 by CGC was sold on eBay for $3,207,852 USD it was the first comic book to have sold for more than $3 million for a single original copy. It returned to its original numbering with issue #957, published on J( cover-dated August) and reached its 1,000th issue in 2018. Action Comics would go on to run for 904 numbered issues (plus additional out-of-sequence special issues) before it restarted its numbering in the fall of 2011. It is widely considered to be both the beginning of the superhero genre and the most valuable comic book in the world. 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 2021). ![]() Action Comics #1 ( cover dated June 1938) is the first issue of the original run of the comic book/ magazine series Action Comics. ![]()
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