With this renumbering comes a new creative team featuring comics legend grant morrison and fanfavorite artist rag morales. Comic link the online vintage comic book and comic art. James huff on the most valuable comic books in the world. That started to move the comic book world from recycled comic strips and new comic strips to a world of superheroes. One of the first comics it would start out with reprints from the newspaper funny pages then move on to a mix of that and original characters such as prof. Action comics 1 dc, 2000 series february 2000 indexer notes. The oa offerings in this cc auction were slightly underwhelming, although hammer prices generally remained firm. It seems like new comic based tv shows and movies are announced daily. With so much hollywood comic book action happening, even we can barely keep up. Half sheet overlay outer cover and first day of issue us postage stamp featuring superman. Metropolis comics and collectibles metropolis collectibles. Its the holy grail of comic collecting, and weve never auctioned a highergraded, unrestored copy. The release of that comic book quickly launched a superhero boom, as superman was so popular that every existing comic book company wanted to have.
The issue was published in 1938 and cost just 10 cents. Swooping in almost at the last second to win the holy grail issue, the top bidder will now own the most expensive comic book. This is like a virgin comic in this instance, said vincent zurzolo, a coowner of comicconnect. Ad for more fun comics, new adventure comics and detective comics. For the first time ever, the inspiring, infuriating, and utterly insane story of comics, graphic.
This multiday cc event marks the end of 2017s fourth quarter auction cycle, during which four houses held original comic art auctions. As a result, the original art for nearly all the classic early works in comic books is lost forever, shredded and tattered, buried in landfills or incinerated and gone to ash. Welcome back everyone, lets go through the results of comicconnect s december 2017 auction. See all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. The sale, by an anonymous seller to an anonymous buyer, was through the manhattanbased auction company. Most of the action 1 comic books out there have been traded and resold many times. The release of that comic book quickly launched a superhero boom, as superman was so popular that every existing comic book company wanted to have their own. Action comics 2016 3rd series action comics philippine series 1938 atlas publishing. Someone out there just leapt all comic book purchase price records in a single bound. It reappeared the following month, in toneddown form, and continued publication until 12 november 1977, at which point it was merged with battle picture weekly. Comic books for sale buy dc, marvel comic books online.
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. April focused auction has closed thanks to all participants. These excellent reproductions include all covers and advertisements from the original comics. The sale of the book, which has been certified as the worlds highest graded copy at cgc 9. Action is a controversial weekly british anthology comic that was published by ipc magazines, starting on 14 february 1976 concerns over the comic s violent content saw it withdrawn from sale on 16 october 1976. Tomasi, marv wolfman, geoff johns, richard donner, scott snyder, tom king, louise simonson, paul dini, brad meltzer, brian michael bendis. Action comics is an american comic bookmagazine series that introduced superman, one of.
Nicolas cages nearlypristine copy of action comics no. Il sagit du premier comic dans lequel est apparu superman. Comicconnect the online marketplace for comic buyers. Unfollow action comics 1 to stop getting updates on your ebay feed.
Hopefully, their may 2017 auction featuring oa and comic books from renowned collector jon berk makes up. We offer free comic book pull list subscription service. Learn more about the new features of our site here. Unlike so many morrison books, you wont have to read a page twice to understand it, and much of that is down to morales. If you have high grade cgc or cbcs certified comic books to sell or consign, do yourself a favor and contact pedigree comics ceo and president, doug schmell. Accumulated wallet fatigue, coupled with the start of the festive spending and holiday period, may explain some of the bargains which were. The comic features the first appearance of superman by jerry siegel. I think anything connected to action 1 is not just a hot comic but a cultural artifact which will not diminish anytime in the foreseeable generations to come. Created by jerry siegel and joe shuster, superman is quite possibly the most recognizable fictional character in the world. Golden age superman and action comics at comicconnect.
This comic book is also the first featuring a superhero, and is considered to be the most valuable comic in the world. Sep 03, 2014 vincent zurzolo and his partner stephen fishler, owners of metropolis collectibles in manhattan, set a new record for the nearly pristine action comics no. A combination of several factors the first appearance of supermancertainly a cultural milestone superman is on the cover most of the copies have not survived into present day. Sit back and enjoy the earliest adventures of the first and greatest superhero of them all. After superman saves a group of miners from a cavein, clark kent senses a story that may mean that the mines owner, thorton blakely, is actually running unsafe mine operations and blaming accidents on the miners themselves.
The one and only grant morrison allstar superman returns to superman, joined by sensational artist rags morales identity crisis, to bring you tales of the man of steel unlike any youve ever read. Market report december 2017 comicconnect auction cbsi. You can now read the worlds most expensive comic book online. Action comics 1978 whitman action comics 1998 us postal service stamp set 53 of 53 in stock. I cant answer for him but i too could see him wanting both action 1 comic and this. He runs metropolis collectibles and the auctionconsignment house comicconnect in new york city. The blakely mine disaster, script by jerry siegel, art by joe shuster.
Click here to check out auction close dates lots start closing at 8pm eastern time each evening. Action comics is an american comic book magazine series that introduced superman, one of the first major superhero characters. Goldenatomic age comics although it has become near impossible to find golden age collections in todays market, we are constantly acquiring great golden age and 1950s comics to stock on our website every month, so for those collectors, keep an eye on the new arrivals as we are uploading over 100 new issues each week. You cant always predict what copies will be made available for sale in the future. Sep 11, 2011 the result is strong, wellexecuted superhero imagery and storytelling that flows effortlessly. It is widely considered to be both the beginning of the superhero genre and the most. Its the 80th anniversary of the comic book that introduced the world to. When people pile onto an item like this it sometimes feels as if they are threatened on some level at the possibility that people will value things outside of their collecting wheelhouse. This extrasized debut issue is the cornerstone of the entire dc universe. The first issue featured superman and except for a brief hiatus when the series was titled action comics.
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