How has Roy of the Rovers stayed relevant 67 years on? You may also be interested in:. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The "Bat-Signal" has been beamed around the world to mark Batman's 80th birthday. The editors of DC comics wanted to produce three regular ongoing Superman titles. It maintained this status until the celebrated 50th anniversary landmark th issue. From issue — , Action Comics became a page anthology series again, however this time issues were distributed on a weekly basis and the title was officially changed to Action Comics Weekly.
With issue , Action Comics Weekly reverted to its original monthly publication, and the title was changed back to Action Comics.
Its brief tenure as a weekly contributed to Action passing the older Detective Comics in issue count. With the return of a monthly publishing schedule, Superman stories began to follow a chapter-based continuity, with storylines moving from one title to the next. In order to provide an easily accessible reading order for consumers, the DC editorial staff began using a secondary numbering system displayed on the cover of each issue. These continuity markers were informally known as the "triangle" numbers, and were recycled at the end of each publishing year.
Every Superman comic book published from the mid to late s including Annuals and Specials possessed a sequential chapter number on the cover. Harleen Quinzel has discovered a revolutionary cure for the madness of Gotham City-she just needs to prove it actually works. But with the criminal justice and mental health establishments united against her, the brilliant young psychologist must take drastic measures to save Gotham from itself. Scott Free is the greatest escape artist who ever lived.
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As comic books shrank in size, the Silver Age saw editor Mort Weisinger forced to move away from the anthology format, instead choosing to focus on the quickly-expanding Superman mythology. Corresponding and working for over a year before finding out, Mort had no idea he had hired a year old.
Mort retired in , allowing editor Julius Schwartz to update the mythos by destroying all kryptonite on earth and making Clark Kent a TV reporter for 17 years until DC decided to update the Man of Steel again at the hands of John Byrne. In more recent years, the comic has served as a testing ground for new ideas.
Lex Luthor was the main character for ten issues in the late s. The New 52 relaunch in saw famed writer Grant Morrison and artist Rags Morales reset the clock on Superman, choosing instead to focus on his early days as a costumed crime-fighter.
No matter the incarnation, Action Comics continues to be one of the most popular titles in modern publishing history.
Action Comics may have briefly become Action Weekly in and started the numbering over with the second run of Action Comics in which ran until But the third run picked up the old numbering system and continues with the DC Rebirth-branded relaunch in Action Comics has now numbered over 1, issues! Action Comics can be worth hundreds to thousands of dollars, with Action Comics 1 occasionally fetching millions at auction.
While Action Comics 1 is obviously an outlier, even later comics in the run 2 - can fetch thousands, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands from collectors. Be aware that no matter the comic, the condition of the comic has an overwhelming effect on its value — with mint condition comics being exponentially more valuable than anything else.
It was certified as a 9. While there was an initial run of , copies, only around are thought to still exist in the world. The combination of scarcity and the amazing condition of the comic itself led to this being the most valuable comic of all time.
All of these comics have one big thing in common: Superman is on the cover, and their unrestored condition was graded as a 7. The cover art for Action Comics 1 was created by Joe Shuster, a well-known comic book artist, and the co-creator of Superman.
Action Comics 1 is known for featuring the first appearance of Superman and Lois Lane. Since this was an anthology series, there are also stories featuring other Action Comics characters, the most notable being Zatara and Tex Thompson.
The rest have entered the dustbin of history. Containing 11 separate stories, the most notable feature is the first in the book and is untitled. The page story opens with the now-familiar 1-page origin story of Superman. His birth parents send him to safety as their home planet of Krypton is destroyed.
The boy grows up as Clark Kent with adoptive parents on Earth and uses his unique powers including the ability to outrun a freight train, jump over buildings and lift incredible weights to thwart evil. While it is difficult to determine exactly how many original Action Comics 1 are still around today due to many of these comics being part of private collections, it is estimated that between 50 and remain intact.
Not only is Action Comics 1 difficult to find, but it is also nearly impossible to locate one of these comics in Good or better condition according to the Certified Guarantee Company's comic book registry.
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