The Nicest Action Comics #1 You'll Ever See
04-05-24 | 01:56 PM
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That looks really nice. There are only 5 copies that have been graded higher than that: https://www.cgccomics.com/gallery-co...spx?comic=9950
04-05-24 | 04:21 PM
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Nice!
04-06-24 | 08:17 PM
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We're probably past the time in history when any undiscovered mint copies of Action Comics #1 would pop up out of nowhere.
04-06-24 | 08:26 PM
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04-07-24 | 11:43 AM
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That looks really nice. There are only 5 copies that have been graded higher than that: https://www.cgccomics.com/gallery-co...spx?comic=9950
Most copies of that comic book were either thrown in the trash, lost, or beaten death by kids. I'm really amazed that that many could have survived the years following initial publication.
Even if someone wanted to keep all of their copies of Action Comics, it's still amazing that so many survived in such good condition without getting creased or torn.
Wonder if there were OCD collectors as back as 1939.
04-08-24 | 04:43 PM
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I think it's more that a fraction of people basically hoard everything they buy and would often put the comic away in storage soon after purchase, leaving it in a spare bedroom or basement for decades. Doing it that way for everything they buy. I bet that accounts for most of the better Action Comics #1's.
11-20-25 | 06:00 PM
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A new Highest-Valued comic has just been announced! Not Action #1, but Superman #1. I recently read about this, where a couple of siblings found it in their mother's attic after she died. Just sold for 9.12 million!!
CGC story here
11-21-25 | 12:18 PM
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Read that story this morning, the article I read mentioned that there were other comics in the box in the attic, including early issues of Action Comics, but this was the big one. I'm curious what the other comics in the box were.
11-21-25 | 04:02 PM
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There's a lot of old new stock out there. All the time people run across cases of 50 year old toys and trading cards, etc. in warehouses and back rooms of stores. Probably a lot of comics out there that were never for sale in the first place. Didn't they find a ton of brand new silver age Marvels that never went on sale in a warehouse someplace?
11-21-25 | 04:46 PM
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Yeah, what happens is a random collector has extremely valuable items filed away in their collection and no one in their life is clued-in to the rare stuff. Then they die and the kids or surviving family just dump it all at once.
If I suddenly died, my family would have almost no idea how to disburse it or separate out the high-end items for maximum value.
If I suddenly died, my family would have almost no idea how to disburse it or separate out the high-end items for maximum value.
11-21-25 | 07:26 PM
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Chuck Rozanski details that story here: https://www.milehighcomics.com/tales/cbg65.html
11-25-25 | 04:01 PM
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Wonder if they were affidavit returns? Sounds like the Mile High II find, but that was in 1985.
Chuck Rozanski details that story here: https://www.milehighcomics.com/tales/cbg65.html
Chuck Rozanski details that story here: https://www.milehighcomics.com/tales/cbg65.html
01-10-26 | 06:34 AM
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rare-su...llion-dollars/
A rare copy of the comic book that introduced the world to Superman — and was also once stolen from the home of actor Nicolas Cage — has been sold for a record $15 million.
The private deal for "Action Comics No. 1" was announced Friday. It eclipses the previous record price for a comic book, set last November when a copy of "Superman No. 1″ was sold at auction for $9.12 million.
The Action Comics sale was negotiated by Manhattan-based Metropolis Collectibles/Comic Connect, which said the comic book's owner and the buyer wished to remain anonymous.
About 100 copies of Action Comics No. 1 are known to exist, according to Metropolis Collectibles/Comic Connect President Vincent Zurzolo.
The comic book was stolen from Cage's Los Angeles home in 2000, but was recovered in 2011 when it was found by a man who had purchased the contents of an old storage locker in Southern California. It eventually was returned to Cage, who had bought it in 1996 for $150,000. Six months after it was returned to him, he sold it at auction for $2.2 million.
The private deal for "Action Comics No. 1" was announced Friday. It eclipses the previous record price for a comic book, set last November when a copy of "Superman No. 1″ was sold at auction for $9.12 million.
The Action Comics sale was negotiated by Manhattan-based Metropolis Collectibles/Comic Connect, which said the comic book's owner and the buyer wished to remain anonymous.
About 100 copies of Action Comics No. 1 are known to exist, according to Metropolis Collectibles/Comic Connect President Vincent Zurzolo.
The comic book was stolen from Cage's Los Angeles home in 2000, but was recovered in 2011 when it was found by a man who had purchased the contents of an old storage locker in Southern California. It eventually was returned to Cage, who had bought it in 1996 for $150,000. Six months after it was returned to him, he sold it at auction for $2.2 million.
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01-10-26 | 12:39 PM
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Whoa, crazy price!
Out of curiosity I pulled out my old 1981-82 Overstreet Price Guide that I got for Christmas when I was 14 years old (the first one I ever got and man, I seriously studied that book that whole Christmas vacation
). It lists a mint copy of Action #1 for $11,500 (at that time Marvel Comics #1 was still the top valued comic, at a whopping $14,000). Man, if I had the money and actually tracked down a mintish copy for sale (both things would have been an impossibility for me of course!) I could have stuck it in a safety deposit box for 40 years and been a multi-millionaire, good return on investment!
Out of curiosity I pulled out my old 1981-82 Overstreet Price Guide that I got for Christmas when I was 14 years old (the first one I ever got and man, I seriously studied that book that whole Christmas vacation
). It lists a mint copy of Action #1 for $11,500 (at that time Marvel Comics #1 was still the top valued comic, at a whopping $14,000). Man, if I had the money and actually tracked down a mintish copy for sale (both things would have been an impossibility for me of course!) I could have stuck it in a safety deposit box for 40 years and been a multi-millionaire, good return on investment!
01-10-26 | 01:25 PM
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Whoa, crazy price!
Out of curiosity I pulled out my old 1981-82 Overstreet Price Guide that I got for Christmas when I was 14 years old (the first one I ever got and man, I seriously studied that book that whole Christmas vacation ). It lists a mint copy of Action #1 for $11,500 (at that time Marvel Comics #1 was still the top valued comic, at a whopping $14,000). Man, if I had the money and actually tracked down a mintish copy for sale (both things would have been an impossibility for me of course!) I could have stuck it in a safety deposit box for 40 years and been a multi-millionaire, good return on investment!
Out of curiosity I pulled out my old 1981-82 Overstreet Price Guide that I got for Christmas when I was 14 years old (the first one I ever got and man, I seriously studied that book that whole Christmas vacation
). It lists a mint copy of Action #1 for $11,500 (at that time Marvel Comics #1 was still the top valued comic, at a whopping $14,000). Man, if I had the money and actually tracked down a mintish copy for sale (both things would have been an impossibility for me of course!) I could have stuck it in a safety deposit box for 40 years and been a multi-millionaire, good return on investment!
I recall back in the late '60s at a used book store my friends and I went to when we could get one of our parents to drive us said that had had a copy of Superman #1 that they sold for $100. We were in awe of such a thing!
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01-10-26 | 03:03 PM
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If you want to get your mind blown, here's a photograph taken inside of Cherokee Book Shop on in Hollywood Blvd in 1965.
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01-10-26 | 03:45 PM
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That's amazing! Wouldn't it be great to walk into that photo and browse around in that store? It's incredible to think that those EC comics on display weren't much more than 10 years old at the time.
Do I see copies of Action #1, Detective #27 and Whiz #2 on the table??
Do I see copies of Action #1, Detective #27 and Whiz #2 on the table??
01-10-26 | 04:47 PM
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Anyone know when comics were first getting bagged and boarded? Was it the 1970s? I am fairly sure Silver Age comics never saw them until years after publication. Looks like bags of some sort were around in 1965 going by the pic.
01-10-26 | 07:06 PM
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That's amazing! Wouldn't it be great to walk into that photo and browse around in that store? It's incredible to think that those EC comics on display weren't much more than 10 years old at the time.
Do I see copies of Action #1, Detective #27 and Whiz #2 on the table??
Do I see copies of Action #1, Detective #27 and Whiz #2 on the table??
Wonder if there's a Marvel Comics #1 under something...
01-10-26 | 07:09 PM
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Kind of weird to think about it, but in the late 1960s, that issue of Superman #1 was less than thirty years old. It was newer then than books like X-Force #1 and (adjectiveless) X-Men #1 are now.
If you want to get your mind blown, here's a photograph taken inside of Cherokee Book Shop on in Hollywood Blvd in 1965.
If you want to get your mind blown, here's a photograph taken inside of Cherokee Book Shop on in Hollywood Blvd in 1965.
I could be mis-remembering the layout of the store - and I may be recalling a different Hollywood store. But I do know I went to the Cherokee once around that time. But this is how I remember it now, so that's that!
Another trip to Hollywood (they had the coolest used book stores back then!) was when we could drive. A store on some side street had a copy of Daredevil #1 for $6. After much self-debate (six bucks was a fortune to me then!) I snagged it. Geez, that practically cover price for current issues now!
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01-10-26 | 09:51 PM
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That photo is colorized though, right? Everything behind that Batman #1 and the whole left side part seems sepia toned, and blurry (and the photo is cropped). The same with a lot of the stuff on the right, and the comics under Jumbo Comics. Still, great stuff!
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01-10-26 | 10:46 PM
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Yep, I see those and Superman #1, plus with the color pic that Bronkster posted I see Human Torch #5 as well. I was also wondering about Marvel #1 but I don't see it. But man, Jumbo Comics really was a jumbo size!
That photo is colorized though, right? Everything behind that Batman #1 and the whole left side part seems sepia toned, and blurry (and the photo is cropped). The same with a lot of the stuff on the right, and the comics under Jumbo Comics. Still, great stuff!
That photo is colorized though, right? Everything behind that Batman #1 and the whole left side part seems sepia toned, and blurry (and the photo is cropped). The same with a lot of the stuff on the right, and the comics under Jumbo Comics. Still, great stuff!
Also, that thread mentioned that this photo was the "elite" area, and that most stuff was in the back areas and hallways, which jives with what I remember.
01-11-26 | 11:38 AM
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Yeah, that photo has, pretty obviously, been artificially colored. Not only was it colorized, but it also looks like whoever colorized it also went in and pasted new covers on the known books. Notice how the Batman #1 is bright and colorful, while the book behind it is the same sort of sepia color as the other unrecognizable books. Does make it easier to identify the books, though.
01-15-26 | 07:25 PM
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I think AI can colorize old photos now fairly well.