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Posted on 11/17/2017 12:02:11 PM PST by mairdie
The copy in question is rare because it is what's known as a silver print - these comics are exceedingly rare because in the 1930s, publishers would create black and white copies of the comics for artists to fill in themselves - making the copy going to auction one-of-a-kind.
'This is one of the rarest, most historically significant items we've offered,' said Stephen Fishler, founder and co-owner of ComicConnect.com.
Only around 100 original copies of Action Comics #1 are estimated to be extant - they're significant because they're Superman's first appearance in comic books. In 2014, a copy of Action Comics #1 sold for more than $3 million at auction - the only comic book to have attained such a high price.
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You’re just jealous you didn’t keep your comic book collection. I’m still working on forgiving mother for giving away mine.
Is this Fairy Superman or Normal Superman?
This is the only issue that Da Vinci painted, so it should go for quite a lot!
The big and beautiful original Superman, back in the days when the comics cost 10 cents and you saved for them from your allowance.
“Superperson”
That's got to sting a little bit. If only my dad had been into comic books. In 1938 he would have been the right age too, 13.
That really was amazing that a painting with such a questionable provenance (no written records when most of Da Vinci’s works were recorded) should fetch like that. Collecting at prices like the comic book and the Da Vinci just pass over my head. But I suppose if you have the money, you call it investment.
I never read comic books as a kid.Perhaps that makes me culturally deprived.But one thing's for sure....spending a million on a mint condition 1935 Mercedes sounds pretty silly to me.Spending a million on a 1935 comic book,even an original,sounds silly to the tenth power.
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Any DC comics before 2004 were almost pro America and conservative. DC and Marvel comics nowadays are unreadable leftist crap. You can download all good comic story series like DarKest Night etc on the web.
I have a fairly extensive comic book collection from the early 70’s through the mid-eighties. I’m guessing I have approximately 20,000 total. I need to catalog and sell them.
I would never have sold any, so I only regret the loss of childhood memories. Mother always collected backwards. When Roosevelt dimes came out, she ignored silver Liberties and only collected new Roosevelts.
What in the Dickens is a Canuck doing in Cleveland? ;-)
” I’m still working on forgiving mother for giving away mine.”
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I was the mother that tossed the comic book collection.
It was in a dusty carton under my son’s bed when he went off to college.
GONE !!!
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He was straight, liked girls and America too! Making it even more rare!
One of the reason that the Golden age books from the 30’s and 40’s are so rare as compared to Silver (60s-early 70s), etc is due to the paper drives during WWII. Huge amounts of comics, magazines, newspapers, etc were gathered for those drives and it was considered a civic duty to turn them in.
Most of the ones that remain were either found in serious collections from business men well past draft age when those owners passed or discovered in attics and other out of sight places.
A lot of mine went missing while I was in the service for a few years.
At times she took up brat sitting and comic books, football / baseball cards, and toys walked off.
I should have padlocked my closet.
I have a fairly extensive comic book collection from the early 70’s through the mid-eighties. I’m guessing I have approximately 20,000 total. I need to catalog and sell them.
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Don’t take them to the guys on “Pawn Stars” Lol
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