Superman s pal jimmy olsen 48, october 1960, was published around august 16, 1960. Supermans pal jimmy olsen 48, october 1960, was published around august 16, 1960. The collections timespan ranges from the late 1930s through to the early 1960s, and includes many thousands of comic books in the superhero, scifi, and horror genres. Get the best deals on 10 cent comics when you shop the largest online selection at. Increase your comic book collection and enjoy reading this comic book featuring dcs superman. Superman is an ongoing american comic book series featuring the dc comics hero of the same name. Death of superman comic book value price guide comics watcher. The first annual superman comic book was published in 1960. Get the best deals on silver age superman comics when you shop the largest online selection at. Most comic fans know that superman actually began life in action comics. If the 1960s superman comics im assuming were talking about the main monthly titles, not spinoffs for supporting characters like lois and jimmy etc were in good condition by the average persons standards on a scale of bad, soso, good, an. This is a list of comic books featuring superman and related characters. And remarkably chilling for a comic book at the time.
It begins with a great introduction from comic book superstar mark waid who clearly has a fond love of this era. Vintage dc comic book lot of 5 1960s superman superboy. Supermans girl friend lois lane 16, april 1960, was published on february 9, 1960. Supermans girl friend, lois lane 1958 comic book price guide. Printed daily, they were the first stories to go into detail about the planet krypton, expounding on jorl and lara. Superman is an ongoing american comic book series featuring the dc comics superhero superman as its main protagonist. Superman the dark side of apokolips is a book that is part comic and part chapter book about superman who, in addition being super strong and able to fly, has some interesting powers, like ice breath. It is a dark, serious superhero drama that contains comic book characters fighting each other with violence. The great superman comic book collection 1981 dc, 1981 series.
Death of superman comic book value price guide comics. At its peak, the strip, featuring superman, was in over 300 daily newspapers and 90 sunday papers, with a readership of over 20 million. Superman annual 1960 comic book by dc 26 issues, 30 covers oct 1960 to oct 2009. The man of steel is the ultimate symbol of truth, justice, and hope. See more ideas about superman, superman comic and silver age comics. This item is in the category collectibles\comics\silver age 195669\superhero\superman. Price new from used from comics, october 1, 1960 please retry. He leads a rebellion against an evil villain, darkseid, who enslaved the people of planet apokolips. Jimmy shows a new intern around the city of metropolis, while superman fights a gun nut. Every superhero and comic book movie in chronological. This item is in the category collectibles\ comics \silver age 195669\superhero\ superman. Ongoing titles featuring superman in a starring roleedit. Superman was a daily newspaper comic strip which began on january 16, 1939, and a separate sunday strip was added on november 5, 1939.
There was soon a whole comic book industry creating men, women and even animals who possessed an unimaginable array of superpowers. Superman comic strips ran in newspapers from the 1930s through the 1960s, under the title superman. The first strip was published on january 16, 1939, with a separate sunday strip added on november 5, 1939, running continuously until may 1966. The strip proved so popular that national launched superman into his own selftitled comic book, the first for any superhero, premiering with. Postflashpoint comic books 20112016 action comics and superman comic books, specials, annuals and graphic novels 20112016. Superman volume 1 ran from 1939 to 1986 for 423 issues, with 12 annual s printed between 19601986 19601964 and 19831986. There is then a bittersweet ending with supergirl and krypto carrying on in superman s name. The print edition collected three digital chapters a month. Every superhero and comic book movie in chronological order here at flights, tights, and movie nights, my goal is to seek out and watch every superhero and comic book based movie out there, this is my attempt at creating a comprehensive list of every single one. Superman was the title of the monthly comic book featuring superman. Postflashpoint comic books 20112016 action comics and superman comic books, specials, annuals and graphic novels 20112016 superman unchained comic books 202015 batman superman comic books 202016 superman wonder woman comic books 202016 earth 2. Supermans girl friend lois lane comic books for sale. Hes also proved to me that he can write a more mature. And even that does not tell the entire story of his dominant position at dc.
Every superhero and comic book movie in chronological order here at flights, tights, and movie nights, my goal is to seek out and watch every superhero and comic book based movie out there, this is my attempt at creating a comprehensive list of every single one i can find as well as the ones coming out in the near future. After a month of spotlighting the strange if endearingly strange history of comic books and especially the silver age, i think it is worthwhile to show the comic books of the silver age that are simply great stories period, without any enjoyably goofy aspect to them. When lois and clark take slum kids out into the country for a day, editor white decides to have the planet sponsor a fundraising campaign to build a resort for the underprivileged children out in. Oct 18, 2018 this video is intended for mature audiences only.
If youve been collecting comic books since you were a kid, now is the time to list. You can find out values of action issues by clicking here. This page lists prices for the first 100 issues of superman s appearances in his solo series, which began in 1939. Mort weisinger was the editor, and the cover was pencilled by curt swan and inked by stan kaye, featuring this issues third and final story.
Gcd issue the great superman comic book collection. Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive the man of steel fights a neverending battle for truth, justice, and the american way. The strip proved so popular that national launched superman into his own selftitled comic book, the first for any superhero, premiering with the. Comic book value guide how to value your comics in 3 easy steps. Everything you love about comics, now in bitesized bits.
This is the third superman decade collection and it may or may not be the best, but its the most fun. It contained 32 pages for the cover price of a dime. Superman s pals pal, script by chris duffy, pencils by neil vokes, inks by terry austin. The inaugural issue of action comics marked the first appearance of superman and helped kick off the. Superhero comics and books page 3 of 5 comic book plus. Get the best deals on 10 cent comics when you shop. A protoplasmic being appears in metrolpolis with the power to assume any form, including superman, which ends with a confrontation with superman. If i had kept my superman comic books from the 1960s and. Supermans pals pal, script by chris duffy, pencils by neil vokes, inks by terry austin. This 1941 comic was the second issue of dc comics then called nationals book that contained both superman and batman stories in it. Superman, superboy, lois lane, jimmy olsen, action, worlds finest and adventure. I can only imagine how a kid in 1961 would have handled this comic book. The editor was mort weisinger, and the cover was pencilled by curt swan and inked by stan kaye. Here are some comic books i remember reading when i was growing up.
Superman is an ongoing american comic book series featuring the dc comics superhero. See more ideas about superman, silver age comics and comic covers. For some reason, the covers of dc comic books of that time 6569 reached out to me, they made me want to buy as many of them as i could, and lunch money went less for lunch and more and more for comic books at the nearest drug store after school. Dust shadow on right edge, right edge rip a little over 12 inch near word balloon. Superman romances lyla and witnesses jonathan kents proposal to martha, while brainiac shrinks and steals kandor. Has superman stories through the years, so that you can see how superman changed, how comic art changed, how comic storytelling changed, etc.
Mar 21, 2009 seven of the top nine comic titles published in 1962 featured superman prominently. Every superhero and comic book movie in chronological order. I read all the silver age superman titles as i worked in my dads drugstore, and i could read the comics while handling the front of the store cash register sales. Which doesnt really explain how they expected to keep him. So figure how my step brother had issues 117 then 21 thru 34 of superman in mint condition in a box along with batman 1 22 all in mint condition and he ran from the government for tax reasons, got very ill and passed away, and they are. In 1941, the mcclure syndicate had placed the strip in hundreds of newspapers. Here is an archive of all the silver age comics features so far we begin with the first death of superman, from 1961s.
From his blue uniform to his flowing red cape to the s shield on his chest, superman is one of the most immediately recognizable and beloved dc super heroes of all time. Vintage superman comic book tin metal sign 8 x 11 10 cent, august, 1939. An opened version would depend on the condition of the actual comic book. October 15, 2019 comments off on superman comic books available this week october 16, 2019 has released the list of comic books and other items on sale this week. Superman newspaper comic strips superman wiki fandom. The first official use of the word kryptonite didnt happen until three years later, and it was in the radio serial, the adventures of superman, not the comics. Unfollow superman 1960 to stop getting updates on your ebay feed.
Superman s kryptonian romance superman s return to krypton. This was the first issue of the series to be titled worlds finest comics, the title it would retain for the next 45 years. Supermans kryptonian romance supermans return to krypton. Society comic books 20152016 doomed comic books 20152016. Cover is fully attached, book lays flat, supple pages and cover, no brittleness. Estimated within 1628 business days help icon for estimated.
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