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The Stock Exchange – Selling Superman For Super Dollars
By the end of the day today, one of the most impressive Superman collections assembled in one auction will close, with the highlight being an much discussed Action Comics #1, graded 9.0 by CGC, making it the highest graded copy to go up for sale In March of last year, a CGC 8.5 copy sold[...]
Fools and Their Money
For example, there's this CGC 9.9 Action Comics #1, which sold for an ungodly $511.99 There are over 100,000 first printings of this book in circulation, with scores more of second and third printings There is no way whatsoever that this book will ever be worth anywhere near close to this, especially since DC is[...]
Thirteen Thoughts About Thirteen DC New 52 #3 Comics – Action Comics, Animal Man, Stormwatch, Detective Comics, Green Arrow, OMAC, Men Of War, Batwing, Red Lanterns, Hawk And Dove, Static Shock, Swamp Thing and Justice League International
A freak of a comic this one. Action Comics #3 If Grant is showing a world in which Superman can operate as a socialist superhero.Here, he portrays the other side of the equation, the Krypton upper class, building their fortress and exiling themselves after being set upon by protesters Mind you, a 20 page comic for[...]
DC To Make Major Creator Announcements For New 52, Starting With Andy Kubert
DC tells The New York Post: DC will reveal some big-time creators who'll be jumping on board the "New 52" — the 52 titles it just launched with fresh takes on iconic characters like Superman, the Flash and Wonder Woman. The first name to drop is Andy Kubert joining Grant Morrison on Action Comics for #5 and[...]
Batman #1 Best Seller In September As DC Comics Take Seventeen Of Top Twenty
More surprisingly, the heavily hyped Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1 only comes in at ninth place. This month, Batman #1 became literally the standard against which all other books are judged, the bestselling comic of the month, just ahead of Action Comics #1 (in sales if not dollars) and well ahead of all the other books, and[...]
A Comic Show – The Incredibles Meets Pet Sematary
Anna and Aaron from A Comic Shop in Florida flips through tomorrow's comics today and they both enjoy Action Comics #2, Swamp Thing #2 and Animal Man #2, and divide over Detective Comics #2 and Red Lanterns #2 Guess how. And Anna pushes Last Of The Greats from Image despite Aaron's protestations Less so over Axe[...]
Action Comics #2 "Goes To Backorder" (UPDATE)
I've been told that orders for Action Comics #2 have "gone to backorder" on Diamond Comic Distributors' site, which means retailers are currently unable to increase their orders for the title without being sure they'll get copies All available copies have been snapped up by stores increasing their orders,. While this won't include copies that have[...]
Gene Ha To Draw Pages For Action Comics #3
Action Comics #1 was 29 pages long, and subsequent issues look like they'll be of a similar or greater size We've already heard that Brent Anderson of Astro City fame will be contributing a few pages to an upcoming issue to help out, now Bleeding Cool understands that Gene Ha of[...]
Batgirl #1 And Action Comics #1 To Get Third Prints Along With Justice League #1
Bleeding Cool understands that both Batgirl #1 and Action Comics #1 will get third prints, to arrive in stores for October 12th Just a with the second prints, Batgirl and Action Comics third prints will get a common colour theme. They join Justice League #1 and Justice League Combo #1 in third prints. Something tells me a[...]
Swipe File: Action Comics #1 Vs Israel Embassy Protest In Egypt
Above, Superman as seen in Action Comics #1 this week in a Superman T-short, blue jeans and with something red around his shoulders acting as a cape A reinvention of the character based on the original version as created by Jewish creators Joe Siegel and Jerry Schuster. Below, Egyptian activists celebrate as they demolish a concrete[...]
Friday Trending Topics: Brought To You By The Letters 'G' And 'D'
 There's a research project in there, somewhere. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: North Carolina Comic Shop To Boycott Action Comics One comic shop is North Carolina, The Comics Conspiracy, has decided enough is enough Because of this panel. Grant Morrison Responds To GD-Gate Grant Morrison has replied on DC's website saying; Fantomex, Rachel, Longshot, Madrox And Polaris On The X-Men Gold Team No[...]
Thursday Trending Topics: What Has Grant Morrison Done To Superman?
The subject of today's most-read story is not the first place I've seen it asserted that the new Action Comics is a significant departure from the Superman we know But let's look at the history — and Superman history is something that we know that Grant Morrison has studied carefully One thing Morrison[...]
North Carolina Comic Shop To Boycott Action Comics
This week, DC Comics published a new first issue of Action Comics, the series that introduced Superman to the world back in the nineteen thirties. In doing so, writer Grant Morrison, who had already written the insanely successful All Star Superman comic, took the character back to his original roots Reinvented as a social crusader, targeting[...]
Tuesday Comics Reviews: Stormwatch, Batgirl, Batwing, Animal Man, Detective Comics, Action Comics, Men Of War, Swamp Thing, JLI, Green Arrow, OMAC, Hawk & Dove, Static Shock
In dream and then in flesh… Action Comics #1 by Grant Morrison, Rags Morales and Rick Bryant It's the business Simultaneously set in the present with some futuristic touches as well as the tone of the nineteen thirties, this comic is an anachronistic marvel A Superman who runs and jumps from mission to mission without a real[...]
Action Comics #1 To Go On Sale In The UK Fifteen Hours Before USA
Not only will this be ten hours before they usually go on sale, but it will be fifteen hours before they go on sale in New York. The titles will be: Action Comics #1 Animal Man #1 Batgirl #1 Batwing #1 Detective Comics #1 Green Arrow #1 Hawk And Dove #1 Justice League International #1 Men Of War #1 OMAC #1 Static Shock #1 Stormwatch #1 Swamp Thing #1 I[...]
Wednesday Trending Topics: DCU Day 1
Whenever I want to try to capture that certain something that comics has, I often think about what it might have been like to have been there when one of the key moments happened — to have picked up Action Comics #1 off the newsstand, talked about it with my friends, and thought about where[...]
Superman Citizenship Question Revisited In Final Action Comics (SPOILERS)
The final Action Comics before the DC Comics relaunch is published today We get the big end to the Return Of The Doomsdays plot, and it doesn't end well, as the Superman family and the Doomsday family clash for the final time Not everyone is walking out of there in one piece. But there's also a[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: More Powerful Than A Locomotive
I kind of wish Jim Lee had gone forward with this Action Comics design, because it's a reinterpretation of one of the most classic Superman motiffs, which first appeared on a Superman cover on the original (and it's weird to have to put it that way, but here we are) Action Comics #13  by Joe[...]
Two Rejected Jim Lee Action Comics #1 Variant Cover Designs
Two designs by Jim Lee for his upcoming Action Comics #1 variant cover, but both rejected by him The former, apparently, does bear some resemblance to the finished version. Two designs by Jim Lee for his upcoming Action Comics #1 variant cover, but both rejected by him The former, apparently, does bear some resemblance to[...]
DC's Bullet Points On The New Superman: "Younger, Brasher, And More Brooding"
There's lots of news swirling around about Superman today, and DC has just issued a made-for-mainstream-news set of points covering what's going on with the relaunch, along with a bigger version of this morning's official, actual Action Comics #1 cover: He has been called the Man of Steel, the Last Son of Krypton and a strange[...]
Cover To Action Comics #1, Superman In Jeans And An American Citizen Again
From the NY Post, the cover to Action Comics #1 by Rags Morales, shipping from DC in September. Grant Morrison is quoted as saying "We felt it was time for the big adventures of a 21st-century Paul Bunyan who fights for the weak and downtrodden against bullies of all kinds, from robot invaders and crime lords[...]