Comic Profile: Action Comics #1, 1st Appearance of Superman

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Release Date
June 1938
Overstreet 39 NM- Value
$750,000
Best Known Copy
Mile High/Edgar Church copy (approximate value $2,500,000- the most valuable comic book in the world)
Highest Unrestored CGC Grade
8.5
Record Price Paid
$1,000,000 in a private sale by ComicConnect, February 2010. The 1st Million Dollar Comic Book
Significance
1st appearance of Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster.
Why it's profiled
First Superman.

First superhero, period.

The book that forever changed American comics.

Of course it's going to be featured.

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Clearly, this book is at the top of the hobby. The excitement generated by the recent Comic Connect sale was basically unprecedented and if a mid-grade copy can get people talking for two months straight and can garner coverage all over the mainstream media you know you've got a special book on your hands.

Test it out. Walk into a convention with even the most jaded collector or dealer and watch them gravitate to any copies of this book in the room. I know I get excited when I see an Action #1.

Chillin', Reading an Action #1

Now that's a comic.

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