Sensible Erection | Action Comics #1 $1,100,000.00

Wednesday, 23 April 2008

quote [ Action Comics #1 June 1938 PGX 9.0 White Pages! The Very First Appearance of Superman, also the first super-hero comic book! VF/NM 9.0, Highest Graded issue of its kind. ]

Gee, I wounder if I have $1,100,000.00 worth of change in my sofa.

If your a Superman fan or comic collector, this is kinda cool to see. They took very detail pictures and scans of it. Any SEer got money for this? LOL

Grab the hirez scan while you can! I think Im going to make a poster out of mine. Im sure alot of you wont care but again, the Superman and comic books fans is who Im posting this for!

I am in no way have anything to do with them. I just saw this on the local news this morning and wanted to share!

[literature] [by MrRBlack@8:47pmGMT] [+8 Interesting]

Comments

happyman said @ 8:57pm GMT on 23rd Apr
Oh wow. that is a sweet mint copy. But then, Supe's only in the first 13 pages.

The scanned copy I have of it, the cover is all dog-eared and tattered, but the pages inside are still ok

happyman said @ 9:03pm GMT on 23rd Apr [Score:1 Underrated]
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/yeung/actioncomics/cover.html

here, you can save a scan for yourself too.

ComposerNate said @ 9:05pm GMT on 23rd Apr
SuperWoman:
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Torias said @ 12:31am GMT on 24th Apr
NSFW

supergirl:

http://www.wwoec.com/tcatt/art/DC/TCT97-supersex.jpg

more at http://www.tcatt.net/

conga said @ 9:27pm GMT on 23rd Apr

Cool. Anyone have a guess as how many of those issues are left in existence? I remember seeing a copy on display in the Smithsonian.

lesbionage said @ 10:09pm GMT on 23rd Apr
In the auction catalog, it says "with fewer than a dozen copies known" ... but that was written in 1980...

shiney things said @ 11:28pm GMT on 23rd Apr
my school (the university of texas) has a copy

cardinal said @ 10:09pm GMT on 23rd Apr
Read it. It was ok.

cb361 said @ 12:14am GMT on 24th Apr
I could never understand the appeal of an invulnerable incorruptible hero who can do anything. Perhaps I'm missing the point, but it doesn't seem like there's anywhere for the character to go.

mrslippyfist said @ 12:32am GMT on 24th Apr
He could come out of the closet...

Mr. Langosta said @ 1:46am GMT on 24th Apr [Score:1 Insightful]
I can think of a lot of responses, but the one that jumps to mind first is that while he is fairly invulnerable, everything he cares about isn't. His friends, his family, his people, his city, his adopted planet -- they're all very vulnerable, and so his story is his role of protector.

beats2001 said @ 3:22am GMT on 24th Apr

phunkeybuddha said @ 5:07am GMT on 24th Apr
His argument is flawed. Take Batman for example. While he was not born as Batman, Bruce Wayne serves more as the facade while Batman is the true personality. Metaphorically, Bruce Wayne died along w/ his parents and, at the same time, Batman is born. If you look at how Batman is generally written, whenever he puts on the cowl is when he is at most home & comfortable w/ himself while putting on the disaffected playboy billionaire is the 'costume'. Batman has more in common w/ Superman than most other comic superheroes.

arctan said @ 3:28pm GMT on 24th Apr
It's not really an "argument", it's a description of an actual editorial decision they made with the comics. John Byrne specifically said in his reboot of the franchise in 1986 that he was dumping the old concept of "Superman is the real person, Clark Kent is the secret identity" for the reverse.

I mean, I personally think any halfway *interesting* take on the character is going to put the "truth" somewhere in the middle -- anyone who actually lives a double life does so because there are some ways he can only really be "himself" in one identity that he can't in the other.

But it is informative to actually look at how much the story's changed when you look at the usual Superman stories today and you compare them to the original. In the original it was very clear that Clark Kent was nothing but a schtick, and a really overdone one too -- Superman plays Clark Kent as a total nerd who wimps out on *everything*, a klutz who can't do anything right, and has basically no attractive qualities.

Compare that to a modern story where the Clark Kent/Lois Lane (or Lana Lang, in Smallville) story is all about how Clark is just a regular guy and Lois/Lana really likes Clark for who he is but sometimes Clark is called away to do superheroic things and pretend he doesn't really know her and put on the "mask" of Superman. (This is really a schtick that started with Spider-Man, which was *designed* to turn the trope on its head -- Peter Parker's an ordinary dude who steps up to do the superhero thing because he has to, not because he's "really a superhero inside" -- that has now become the default way most superheroes are handled now.)

arctan said @ 3:32pm GMT on 24th Apr
A lot of the more recent stories zero in on the secret identity Clark Kent/Superman thing, and talk about how while he's invulnerable, and using his superpowers he's even got a fair shot of protecting the *safety* of the things and people he cares about, the life he leads, his happiness, his relationships -- those are all very delicate.

I remember an episode of the old Lois & Clark show where Clark Kent got shot and had to pretend to "die" in front of everybody. For the rest of the episode he was shattered about the fact that, while he was still alive and he still had the power as Superman to protect the people he cared about, he could never interact with them as friends or have an ordinary job and an ordinary life again -- he'd have to either stay "dead" or reveal his secret, either way destroying the life he'd made as Clark Kent irrevocably.

That's actually a really old plot that they recycled from various old-school Superman comics ("Superman's greatest challenge... to avenge the murder of Clark Kent!") but that TV script addressed the poignancy of that situation more directly than I remember the old comics doing.

arctan said @ 3:23pm GMT on 24th Apr
It took a while before he became really "invulnerable". In the old pre-WWII stories there were still plenty of things that could harm Superman. Him becoming this godlike being who could do anything was a matter of slow accretion, that a lot of people criticized.

Jestyr said @ 7:41am GMT on 24th Apr
I cannot even imagine trip that comics been through. no matter what, a 9.0 that's 70 years old is... it's got to be one-of-a-kind in many, many ways. Even with the minor restoration this thing's been through, I am dumbfounded by the condition that thing is in.

I know people who would merrily pay more than their asking price if they had the money for something like that. Hell, I'm one of em, despite the fact that I don't like supes all that much. Maybe I'd like his earlier stuff more, I hear he was quite the asshole back then, and a super-strong, invulnerable guy wandering around being a dick to people is a pretty funny concept.

Crowe, though, that that thing even exists in such a state is a testament to somebody's devotion.

metternich said @ 8:21am GMT on 24th Apr
As a kid, I had my older cousin's reprint of this that came from like Nestle Quick. Hmmm, wonder if it is worth anything at all.

Pirate_Monkey said @ 2:05pm GMT on 24th Apr
it's probably worth exactly the same as what this one goes for.