VERY RARE 1st SUPERMAN SUNDAY PAGE ORIGIN INTRO TEASER 1939 - ACTION COMICS #1
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VERY RARE 1st SUPERMAN SUNDAY PAGE ORIGIN INTRO TEASER 1939 - ACTION COMICS #1:
$1399.00
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With Action Comics #1 selling now for OVER three Million dollars, this amazing item is a stellar long term investment. This Rare 1st Sunday page is not only highly prized for its fantastic graphics (by co-creator JOE SHUSTER) but it contains the origin of Superman.
The first Superman Sunday episode was released on November 5, 1939. But as newspapers across the nation signed up for the SUPERMAN sunday pages, it was apparent that an entirely new audience would be reading SUPERMAN for the first time. So this fantastic introduction story was created inlateNovember 1939 and was to be displayed one week before the strip would begin in each paper signing up to run SUPERMAN in their Sunday Funnies section.Presented here is that amazing introduction story, explaining who SUPERMAN is, his origin, his alter ego (Clark Kent), his relationship with the beautiful reporter (Lois Lane), his astounding strength and abilities, and the promise of an exciting adventure each week. This is truly a critically important piece of SUPERMAN history with only the very early KEY Action Comic books a better find.
A bit of HISTORY:
Superman, created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, first appeared in 30 daily strips that they labored over for four years (from concept to finished work in 1934 - 1938). These daily strips were reworked several times in order to produce a hopeful comic strip star, with their final submission sent to McClure newspaper syndicate in the early Spring of 1938. They were rejected once again but the strips were literally sitting on the desk of the editor when Vincent Sullivan happened to come by looking for rejected material for the purpose of comic book ideas. The Superman strips were handed to him and he immediately knew they would be perfect for the new title he was working on, called ACTION COMICS.
Securing permission from Siegel and Shuster, the rejected newspaper strips were cut up and arranged on comic book pages. He had Siegel and Shuster create a few more panels to allow for better transition and asked them to create a cover. The result was Action Comics #1 (June, 1938).
Action Comics #2 and #3 were created in this same way, being cut up from these rejected newspaper strips.
By the end of 1938 it was apparent that McClure syndicate had made a HUGE blunder by rejecting the SUPERMAN series and literally allowing DC Comics to take them for nothing (other than paying Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster a paltry $130 to buy the daily strip art). In the fall of 1938 McClure acquired the rights to publish SUPERMAN as a daily adventure series, but they negotiated with DC comics instead of Siegel and Shuster, as DC thought that $130.00 paid to the boys gave them the rights of ownership (but that is another story).
A huge campaign was initiated by McClure touting the coming of Superman in their papers (these early ads are quite rare and valuable by the way) and on January 16, 1939 SUPERMAN’s first adventure strip was published. With a readership that eventually dwarfed the comic books, Superman became a national sensation. The daily strip series became extremely successful and by the Winter of 1939 SUPERMAN had been awarded a spot in the full color Sunday pages. The art and stories of these early newspaper stories are spectacular, showcasing some of Shuster’s best art by the way.
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VERY RARE 1st SUPERMAN SUNDAY PAGE ORIGIN INTRO TEASER 1939 - ACTION COMICS #1:
$1399.00