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The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

Before Superman was a comic book, it was a comic strip. That no one wanted. A small publication was created to sell Superman to newspaper editors by the McClure syndication company, before those strips were cut up, abridged and reassembled into Action Comics #1. After the publication of Action Comics, which mashed up said strips into a comic, the Superman newspaper strip was revived. And this was the publication used to try and get newspaper interest.

That comic recently sold for over a million dollars.

This original publication is currently on a Buy It Now on eBay for $37,500

The entire scanned publication runs below, with cover, ads and the like….

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay

The Superman McClure Dailies File Copy From 1938 Hits eBay


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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