He appeared on pages 1 as well as adorning the front cover. Jerry siegel and fred guardineer story fred guardineer and bernard baily art joe shuster cover and art key comments. They were published after his death in 1939, including the ongoing king of the royal mounted series. Flash gordon was featured in three serial films starring buster crabbe. Org is a free, noncommercial project with the goal of preserving selected paperbased cultural artifacts for future generations of readers, in the form of cover images in jpg format, and, where available, complete covertocover scans in pdf format. Created by jerry siegel and joe shuster, superman is quite possibly the most recognizable fictional character in the world. Flash gordon on library circuit united states court of. You can now read the worlds most expensive comic book online. The publisher accepts no responsibility for unsolicited material. Original usa color comic, based on hasbro action figures toys this comic is in average used condition, but is still a decent looking. Its the holy grail of comic collecting, and weve never auctioned a highergraded, unrestored copy. Shop for action comics 1938 comics on, your friendly online comic book store.
Free delivery and returns on ebay plus items for plus members. In the mid1980s, action comics endured several format changes. We are unable to process magazines to other destinations at this time. Considered the first true superhero book, action comics arrived on the scene in 1938 and remains the longestrunning comic book in history. Original editor vin sullivan was succeeded by mort weisinger in 1941.
Superman captures alex greer and takes him on an unpleasant joyride hopping from building to building scaring the living. In september of 1986, the title went on a fourmonth publishing hiatus, in order to prepare for the. Now free from its confines after more than seventy years, this copy, though showing the effects of its long service as insulation, boasts bright, sparkling colors and sturdy offwhite pages. Have all the new comics published each month delivered to your door in a sturdy box. While nothing really is remarkable with supes in this issue, i could just imagine how phenomenal it was back in 1938. In the nearly 15 years since our first auction, weve offered a total of 18 complete copies of the iconic issue, but only nine of those had earned the cgc blue universal label. The 1936 flash gordon serial was condensed into a featurelength film titled flash gordon or rocket ship or space soldiers or flash gordon.
Although it only cost ten cents upon release, its now. Or if you prefer, a pdf version is available to download at the bottom of the page. Like dcs previous titles, action comics was originally an anthology. It is definitely worth reading, at least once, for any fan of the comic books in. It was 68 pages long 64 interior pages plus the covers, and included stories featuring characters like chuck dawson, zatara master magician, pep morgan, and cowboy tex thompson. Superman continues his adventures in the comic book where he made his debut in 1938.
Action comics be sure to address your envelopes to colorpage contest lexington ave. New items and upgraded copies will be added to the. Four new series set in the world of the vertigo classic. Superman action comics 001 1938 pdf free download epdf. It took me two issue to realise that superman have super powers, but cannot fly, always tought he. Flash gordon 1936, flash gordons trip to mars 1938, and flash gordon conquers the universe 1940.
The publisher was originally known as detective comics, inc. Publication date 20170105 usage public domain mark 1. All items should unpack into a compatible directory structure. Action comics launched the costumed superhero genre in 1938 with the introduction of superman, created by writer jerry siegel and artist joe shuster. Stezi will fill this request, just give me a few hours or so.
Advance orders available for comics, magazines, books, toys, poster, and comics apparel. The fourth ongoing title of original material published by dc, and the second pubished by detective comics, inc. Dec 11, 2008 action comics is the comic book series that introduced superman, the first major superhero character as the term is popularly defined. The original comic book, coverdated june, 1938, hit the newsstands sometime during the late spring of that year. If you use the add to want list tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. This is the last series dc founder major malcolm wheelernicholson was involved in. Action comics 1 dc, 2000 series february 2000 indexer notes. Half sheet overlay outer cover and first day of issue us postage stamp featuring superman. It is the best comic reader for pc, it is designed for comfortable viewing of image sequences and to easily create, open and manage files as cbr, cbz, cba, cb7, zip, rar, ace or 7zip. Gonvisor is a multipleformat viewer for pc which supports pictures, comics, magazines and books in electronic format.
I did enjoy reading the superman story, but this item is. In order to meet the first issues deadline, shuster cut, pasted, and redrew supermans daily strips into comic book sized pages. Comics related in house ads a, logos l, mural m, posters p, and fanart. Magazine subscriptions offered at can only be shipped within the 50 united states, apofpo address and u. However, i had never read the urtext that started it all until this evening. Ongoing titles featuring superman in a starring role action comics. Supermans backstory was first described in 1938, in action comics no. Various formats from 240p to 720p hd or even 1080p. This book included ten separate stories, only the first of which featured superman. Curious, gonzales looked up the comic book onlineand discovered it was action comics 1supermans first appearance. This was also the first appearance of lois lane, the plucky, and sometimes irritating reporter who becomes a staple of most superman stories. Mtcdc 02 stops at 900 and the single torrents are dead.
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