Have you read Action 1?

[hobbes]

This may have been posted before. If so I apologize.

 

Action Comics 1

 

I thought it was pretty cool and decided to share.

[FlyingDonut]

It has been posted, but thanks - it is so very cool.

[hobbes]

Thanks. I figured as much. I did a search before posting but the list was long so I just posted the link anyway. Plenty of new people around who may not have seen it.

[shrunkenhead]

I must've missed that link before. Awesome, thank you!

[Zanarkand]

Reads like an issue of Flaming Carrot. NOW I get it!

[aardvark88]

Thanks for the link. Now we know what the centerspread looks like.

[Silver Surfer]

I have now, that is so very cool.

[jbud73]

You know I've never read Action Comics #1 - not a Superman fan, but you'd have thunk just for posterity sake, have to remedy that, thanks.

[reddog4063]

If you owned the book featured is this thread would you restore it?

[jmg3637]

I have read it several times by now. in at least one or two of the reprints as well as again when I got the Action Archives.

 

Including duplicates I have close to 40 of those as well as 10 or so of the Marvel and EC type editions I love reading the stories in those books that would cost in the millions if i were ever able to own them.

 

And yes I think I would have it restored and whatever treatment done to conserve it so that it did not deterioate anymore

[Artboy99]

Cool thread, but isnt that a reprint of Action 1?

The tell tale signs on the cover say so.

 

Artboy99

[spider9698]

Unbelievable story lines:

1) Female prisoner about to be put to death

2) Domestic abuse

3) Corruption in government

Thanks for posting.

[DarrenSmith]

Cool thread, but isnt that a reprint of Action 1?

The tell tale signs on the cover say so.

 

Artboy99

 

Yep, it's a reprint. It looks like the one someone was trying to sell on Ebay 4 years ago.

[esquirecomics]

Cool thread, but isnt that a reprint of Action 1?

The tell tale signs on the cover say so.

 

Artboy99

 

Yep, it's a reprint. It looks like the one someone was trying to sell on Ebay 4 years ago.

 

Is the presumption that it was purposefully mangled and beat up to make it look original?

[DarrenSmith]

Cool thread, but isnt that a reprint of Action 1?

The tell tale signs on the cover say so.

 

Artboy99

 

Yep, it's a reprint. It looks like the one someone was trying to sell on Ebay 4 years ago.

 

Is the presumption that it was purposefully mangled and beat up to make it look original?

 

If it is the same book, the seller told me he bought it at a local auction (a non-comic book auction) and he said he was told "It was a valuable comic book" He pulled the auction upon receiving the information that it was a reprint.

 

Darren

[reddog4063]

You're all right....no glare on the fender and other signs its a fake.....It just looked real and i got into reading it and assumed it to be an original

[BradleyX2]

You're all right....no glare on the fender and other signs its a fake.....It just looked real and i got into reading it and assumed it to be an original

 

 

Specifically, that's the "Famous First Edition" reprint from the mid-70s.

 

But don't let it sour your appreciation of the story/art. It's still an exact reprint (except for size and cover variaitions) of the Holy Grail of comic books!

[hobbes]

You're all right....no glare on the fender and other signs its a fake.....It just looked real and i got into reading it and assumed it to be an original

 

 

Specifically, that's the "Famous First Edition" reprint from the mid-70s.

 

But don't let it sour your appreciation of the story/art. It's still an exact reprint (except for size and cover variaitions) of the Holy Grail of comic books!

 

AH! I did not know any of that. Thanks.

[Point Five]

And speaking of Action 1, take a look at this puzzle up on ebay! I really love the Superman merchandise from the '39/'40 era...if budget permitted I could easily make the leap to collecting this stuff. Never seen this one before.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=35752&item=6517213536&rd=1

[bobpfef]

I thought it was interesting that is was b/w for some stories and color for some others. I hadn't run across any other old comics that did that. Was that a common thing for those really earlier comics?