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Action Comics (1938-2011) #1
Action Comics (1938-2011) #1 | Jerry Siegel, Homer Fleming, Fred Guardineer
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The comic book that started it all. Supermans very first appearance! In Action Comics #1 Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster not only launched one of the longest running comic book series of all time, they also captured the hearts of America as for the very first time they introduced the Man of Steel, the worlds most iconic superhero! Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! The Man of Steel burst into the comic book world with a bang, kicking off the golden era of superheroes, paving the way for the hundreds if not thousands of super-powered heroes who have come since. As a distant planet takes its final breath, a scientist places his infant son into a space ship sending it to the planet Earth! Crash landing in rural Kansas, the boy is found by Jonathan and Martha Kent, where the couple take in the boy as their own. Unbeknownst to them the boy will one day grow up to be Earths mightiest champion, Superman!
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TheKidUpstairs
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#OnThisDay in 1938 National Allied Publications released Action Comics No 1. Featuring the first appearance of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's "strange visitor from another planet" – Superman – it is now considered the most valuable comic in the world. Costing just $0.10 at the time, a mint edition recently sold for over $3 million at auction. #HistoryGetsLIT

Sharpeipup Talk about return on investment! 2y
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GrilledCheeseSamurai
Action Comics (1938-2011) #1 | Jerry Siegel, Homer Fleming, Fred Guardineer
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Superman hit 82 years today in comics.
(copyright date). 🎉

Lreads 👏🦸🏻‍♂️ 4y
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Yossarian
Action Comics (1938-2011) #1 | Jerry Siegel, Homer Fleming, Fred Guardineer
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Action Comic #1, June 1938

I understand why Superman wants his alter ego to be a weakling, but why does he also have to be a whiny bitch?

She agreed to go on a date with you. Don‘t spend it whining that she hasn‘t gone on a date with you before.

Lois‘s face is the face of a woman who will NOT be giving Clark a second chance.

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Yossarian
Action Comics (1938-2011) #1 | Jerry Siegel, Homer Fleming, Fred Guardineer
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Action Comic #1 (June 1938)

I feel like the decision to make Clark Kent a newspaper reporter is based on a faulty conception of how journalism works. Who calls in a wife-beating tip to the newspaper before calling the cops, so that Clark can arrive while the beating is still in progress?

JanuarieTimewalker13 Hmmmm, excellent point, but they probably got the tip from the police, no? 4y
JanuarieTimewalker13 Here‘s my guess, a civilian worker at the precinct calls the paper. 4y
Reggie Maybe the wife beater is a politician? 4y
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Yossarian @JanuarieTimewalker13 Maybe, but so quickly that he gets there before the police do? 4y
JanuarieTimewalker13 Uhmmm, he‘s Superman. 4y
JanuarieTimewalker13 Here‘s a real world hypothesis: Siegel and Shuster originally wanted Superman to be in Newspaper comics, so maybe they sweetened their chances by making Clark a journalist. They were rejected, and then went to comic books. I don‘t know, just a guess. 4y
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