Action Comics #1000
 

Anyone planning on picking this up tonight or tomorrow? Its official release date is Wednesday, but there are many stores that are having midnight release parties and the book will be on sale right at midnight.

I plan to go to pick up one of the issues and just want to see how much of a crowd they will get for this at midnight. I almost hate the fact that they are doing multiple variant covers for this issue. Seems like there may be about ten wide release variants and then a number of stores/ companies will have their own variant. There could be as many as 100 different covers for this issue. It's sad there won't be any "official" non variant cover for this issue. When everyone thinks of Action Comics #500 or Amazing Spider-Man #300, they will have that one iconic cover in mind. Now when people think of Acion Comics #1000 everyone will be thinking of different covers.

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Actually, there is a regular, non-variant cover done by Jim Lee

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But I think this will be the iconic image people will remember years from now and it was done for the hardcover version

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I wish they did something similar to this for the 80th anniversary/Action Comics 1000

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I had thought the Jim Lee cover was the 2010's decade version. I do like that version with the covers in the background. I think that one is the best out of all of them. I'm glad it's not that silhouette version that they've been showing for the past few months. I'm not sure which one I will get. I was thinking about getting the Jim steranko version of the 1970s cover because he will be in Philadelphia next month. But I may get with that one with the other covers in the background. I also may get the sketch cover version.

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I already ordered it off eBay - went for the '60s 80-Page Giant version. Even though I no longer collect, I may grab issue 1021 when it comes out so that I'll have a (very incomplete) span of 1,000 issues - from #21 to #2021. http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...psef3fb118.gif

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I haven't decided if I will hunt down one of the more rare variants or will settle for the regular cover.

I don't think it's a great piece of Jim Lee art - his Superman ten years ago looked better.

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I'm just getting the Neal Adams variant with his homage to the Superman #14 cover.

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This was a great book for Superman fans. I enjoyed it all, but the car and the bullet stories were stand outs.

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I picked a copy up this morning. Haven't read it yet, but flipping through it there doesn't appear to be a digital code, unless I totally missed it. For 8 bucks there really ought to be.

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I grabbed it too and enjoyed it. The setup for the future was my favorite part.

I also enjoyed reading all the media coverage for the occasion. Hopefully it got some new\lapsed readers to try it out and be exposed to so many talented writers.

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It was a good compilation of shorter Superman stories. The art seemed a little more hit or miss than I expected, but I have to remember that some of these artists haven't done Superman work in years.

Jerry Ordway is still a fantastic artist. I wish he was doing a monthly DC book.

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My local comic book store sent out an email last week that they were only getting ten copies and it was first come, first serve. They were having a midnight release party. I figured unless I camped out (which I won't do for anything) there would be no chance of me be lucky enough to snag one, so I stayed home.

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I have a copy on order with DCBS, but it’s been difficult to resist picking up a copy in the meantime. I imagine it will give me similar feels to what that first Rebirth issue did.

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Same, but I ended up going to the shop and grabbing the Jurgens cover. Youre right though, it gave me the feels like Rebirth did

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My LCS was out of my favorite cover, the 60s "80 Page Giant" version. They could have ordered one but I didn't want it that badly so just purchased the regular Jim Lee cover (after all - it'll go in a box and rarely see the light of day so in the long run who cares?). Overall I felt it was somewhat lackluster. Art was average and the pile on of short homage type stories got old by the end. What a difference from the hard cover tribute book. That one is spectacular! The only thing missing from that HC is a multi-page spread with miniatures of the 1000 covers (something like's on the cover).

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That's good to hear, I'm thinking about that hardcover tribute book.

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I snagged a copy on eBay since I don’t have a local shop. Might be getting somewhere this coming weekend with a local comic shop but I wanted to grab a copy just in case.

I got this one:
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Sorta wanted one with the DC bullet logo as that’s still my favorite of their logos and from the era I read most but I liked that cover best.

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Stopped by a comic shop on Saturday to buy one of these and they were sold out :(

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Instocktrades still has copies. And of course they are all over eBay. My local shop sold out by Wednesday afternoon.

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I stopped in to my local shop Thursday and they were out already. They also announced that they are closing at the end of June.

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So he's taking all the profits from AC#1000 and running off to some island?

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Just got my copy. This is a nice issue. I expected just a standard floppy but it’s got a nice glossy cover and a spine. Glad I ordered it. I’ll give it a read through later probably.

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Problem is, he probably only ordered 10 copies plus whatever subscriptions he had for it. So not a very big or far island.

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Finished it tonight. Pretty much what I expected, a nice nostalgic ride thru multiple eras of Superman. Between this and the story in DC Nation, I’m excited about trying the books again, and have the Bendis mini pre-ordered. It was especially great seeing art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (praise be his name) again.

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DC must have short-printed the 80th Anniversary Superman hardcover that came out in time for #1000. Reviews have been really positive about it and it's sold out at many places.

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^ Haven’t cracked the seal on that one yet, but I’ve only heard good things.

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My shop still has a stack of the hardcovers.

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Bumpity! Wow, so much has changed in a few short years! I got totally back into collecting Superman-related comics, filling in the gaps from my years of not collecting. I now have a continuous run of Action Comics from #192 (1954) on.

But back to issue #1000. In my quest to fill the early Action Comics gaps, I see Action #1000 pop up a lot - with covers I hadn't seen before. Officially, there were 9 covers, and a buttload of store variants. So I started thinking it might be fun to collect all those variants (I have the 9 regular variants). But I had no idea how many are actually out there! One website has 49!! (and asks if it's missing any!) Granted, some are variants of themselves - logo or no logo, B/W sketch ... I may concentrate on something else instead. :lol: Although, there are a few I really want ... :gah:

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That's pretty cool having that long of an Action Comics run. Some of the #1000 variants were pretty cool. I snagged prints for a couple of them that I ended up framing.

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That's a nice run!! I can't believe I created this post three years ago!! I ended up buying the Steranko cover variant. I almost got the 1930's and 1940's variants instead.

About six months ago the local comic shop was having a pop up sale where they had a few hundred long boxes and you get comics for $1 each or fill a Diamond box for $75. I found this mint condition Dynamic Forces variant B&W sketch cover signed by Bendis with a COA in one of the long boxes. I ended up fitting close to 250 comics in the Diamond box, so I figured I paid about 30 cents for this one.

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I'm so weak. I just received my 30th variant and have two more coming. I regret nothing!! :rock2:

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Pix or it didn't happen.

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How many total different covers for this issue were produced?

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At least 49, based on a website I had bookmarked but no longer exists :whofart:

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Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. I only got the main cover and the Decades covers. Did the same with Detective Comics #1000 but I did pick up the Midnight variant there.

Here's a list of variants with artists listed (scroll down). Not sure if this is all of them - https://comicvine.gamespot.com/actio...0/4000-666763/

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Thanks for the link. I still have a few to go!

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I recently acquired another blank copy of Action #1000 with the intent of having my buddy draw on it (or "remark" as it seems to be termed) and list it on Ebay (and split the profit with him, of course). My friend has no connection with Superman, but he is a semi-well known cartoonist for Hustler - and I thought that might be unique enough to garner interest on Ebay. So I do the listing, being careful about what I say and altering the photos to hide the naughty bits. But Ebay rejects the submission and firmly (!!) states that I better not try that again! Yikes! I don't know what the offense was, since Hustler Humor is sold there, but I was told that I was violating Ebay policy. So, I'm going to just keep it (I was actually leaning that way after seeing what he drew, haha) and add it to my collection. Here's the uncensored cover - front and back - spoilerized due to NSFW content. (it's just a cartoon!!)