How popular is Action Comics vs. Detective Comics ?

[showcase4]

Action #1 is the hobbies "big" book...always has been / always will be.

 

Aside from extreme interest in that single issue though, these Boards are full of what appears to be a very large dominant percentage of Batman/Detective threads, Avatars, and 'wanted to buys'. So I guess my question is, what do you think is the percentage of Action/Superman collectors vs. Detective/Batman collectors?

 

Does the Boards Batman/Detective preference mirror the National comics collector/investor marketplace, or are the CGC Gold Boards just inordinately 'Batman heavy'?

 

Your opinions are appreciated.

Steve

[batman_fan]

Batman in number one in my book. I always like how he had no super powers, just lots of hard work.

[Earl Davis]

I like them both.

 

Earl.

[Point Five]

Whatever the skew on these forums, I think there's very equal, very strong demand for both.

[Norrin_Radd]

Batman in number one in my book. I always like how he had no super powers, just lots of hard work.

 

In other words... Batman is cool, Superman is boring.

[Scrooge]

Batman in number one in my book. I always like how he had no super powers, just lots of hard work.

 

In other words... Batman is cool, Superman is boring.

 

Way cool Batman is -

 

[Norrin_Radd]

That's not a Detective Comic!

[Point Five]

[Scrooge]

That's not a Detective Comic!

 

 

 

 

[batman_fan]

lets not go there, have you seen some of the SUperman and Action covers ?

[Scrooge]

lets not go there, have you seen some of the SUperman and Action covers ?

 

I take it you don't like custard?

 

 

[nearmint]

I actually don't see too many Detective threads that cover the whole title. They tend to be pre-Robin Detective threads.

 

On the other hand, there are several Action threads.

 

One of the aspects of Action Comics that, in my mind, will always make the title more attractive than Detective is the presence of numerous war covers. I can understand why they didn't have B&R in Europe fighting the Germans or the South Pacific fighting the Japanese, but there could have been some very cool homefront/espionage war covers in Detective, had they chosen to do so. My favorite Batman covers are the war covers, 12, 15, 17, 18, & 30.

[Norrin_Radd]

 

That issue happens to have a pretty cool story where Batman takes down a local loan shark. Just wish they had done something better for the cover.

[Aman619]

Ive always thought Detectives (and Batmans) were more heavily collected than Actions (and Supermans.) But Ive seen a trend toward Actions of late evening it out a bit.

[G.A.tor]

interesting...back in the early 90's...I collected action 1-100 and Batman 1-100....didn't collect detectives or superman (the action 1-14 kind of "fell" into my lap, but Batman was the title I wanted)...

today, i am collecting Batman 1-103 (done), Detective 27-200 (ain't even close) and Superman 1-20 or so (already did the action, so I have decided to go after some supes)...

that said, if a nice collection of both action and detective hit the market, I would likely want the tecs more than the actions..

gator

[HouseofComics.Com]

I agree, it's not overwhelmingly one-sided in the GA/SA. Once you hit 1968-present it is Batman all the way. I think I sell bronze Batman/Detective 3-1 over Superman titles. (And the Batman collectors never want World's Finest--interesting isn't it?) For modern books? Batman 4-1 or more. Action Comics after issue 500 never sells for me whereas Detective does as do all the Bat titles.

[Point Five]

the action 1-14 kind of "fell" into my lap...

 

Yeah, I know what you mean! Happens to me all the time...

[Point Five]

One of the aspects of Action Comics that, in my mind, will always make the title more attractive than Detective is the presence of numerous war covers. I can understand why they didn't have B&R in Europe fighting the Germans or the South Pacific fighting the Japanese, but there could have been some very cool homefront/espionage war covers in Detective, had they chosen to do so. My favorite Batman covers are the war covers, 12, 15, 17, 18, & 30.

 

Nice point, & much agree!

[HouseofComics.Com]

Aghh, I'm surrounded by a bunch of people who care more about the covers than what's inside.

[HouseofComics.Com]

Btw, I would much rather see a Superman war cover than Batman war cover.