2004 Comic Book News Archives

Action Comics #1

February 3, 2004: Newsday Publishes History of Comics Article

Last week Newsday.com published a detailed article chronicling the history of comics. Here's an excerpt from the article...

    In June 1938, the first issue of D.C.'s new title, Action Comics, appeared, featuring Siegel and Shuster's creation on the cover: Superman. The Man of Steel had arrived. Sixty-six years after his introduction, he lives on, a seminal figure in our culture, and a busy one, too: Superman's adventures are still chronicled in a half-dozen regularly published D.C. comic books as well as in his latest TV incarnation, the WB's "Smallville." Few other characters have his kind of super-longevity - or super-profitability: Today, Action Comics No. 1, with its cover of Superman lifting an automobile, is the most coveted comic book in the collectible world.

Read the entire article at the Newsday website.



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