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Superman in Action Comics: Featuring the Complete Covers of the First 25 Years (Tiny Folio)
Superman in Action Comics Featuring the Complete Covers of the First 25 Years - Tiny Folio Author:Mark Waid The superhuman visitor from Krypton burst from the minds of two Cleveland teenagers in the summer of 1933. Five years later, after surviving seventeen separate rejection slips, America's mightiest comic-strip hero was placed on the cover of Action Comics. — The first twenty-five years of Action Comics covers are strikingly r... more »eproduced in this tiny volume. A look at the Action covers is a quick look at the history of Superman and his adventures. There we meet all his friends and foes...Lex Luthor, Lois Lane, Supergirl. We watch him evolve from the patriotic Nazi-fighter of the '40s to the powerful crimefighter of Metropolis. It was on these covers that the blue tights, red cape and famous S insignia developed into an emblem recognizable the world over.
These remarkable covers continue to attract a lot of attention; a copy of Action Comics # 1 sold for $82,500 in 1992.« less