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Sunday Morning Runaround – Anyone Seen My Stolen Action Comics #1?

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Online pundits enthusiastically cheer isolated incidents of sales blips after pirated works manage to move stock which, by any objective standard, would be considered low.

Historicist: Toronto's Golden Age of Comic Books – Torontoist

But on December 6, 1940, in a large-scale intervention in the economy, the federal government passed the War Exchange Conservation Act with the aim of retaining Canada's foreign exchange credits for the war effort. The Act prohibited the importation of American comic books and periodicals, among other non-essential goods. With a sudden foothold in the market, four Canadian companies raced to fill the vacuum.

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The story here is pretty much what you'd expect. There are cowboys. There are aliens. There are also cowgirls and Native Americans, but that kind of goes without saying.

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Have you seen this comic?

Sunday Morning Runaround – Anyone Seen My Stolen Action Comics #1?

Action Comics No. 1
dated June, 1938
original comic book featuring the first appearance of 'Superman'
LAPD DR# 00-0805258 (Case 1-4/00)

If you have information on this case,
please contact:
LAPD Art Theft Detail
213 485-2524

Joe Simon's Fawcett Testimony

Then Simon was asked about his involvement with Fawcett Publications. Joe describe being contacted by Al Allard, Fawcett's art editor. Simon was asked if he was willing to take on an assignment to put together a magazine of Captain Marvel. This work would end up being Captain Marvel Special Edition, the first time the big red cheese had appeared in his own comic book have previously appeared in Whiz Comics. Allard stated that Captain Marvel was a "take-off of Superman".

Judge orders cops to stop harassing superheroes

You'd think Wolverine, Batman, Superman, Catwoman and Iron Man would collectively hold enough superpower to keep the cops at bay.


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