The Complete Zabra Collection of Action Comics
Action Comics 59

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Action Comics #59 Universal
Grade: 4.0
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 0915986001
Owner: Zabra

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: The Complete Zabra Collection of Action Comics
Date Added: 4/9/2012
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

ACTION COMICS #59-NAZI WAR TANK COVER

THE LARGEST NAZI TANK AND THE LARGEST SWASTIKA AMONGST ALL THE ACTION COMICS WAR COVERS

This is my MOST favorite Action Comics WAR cover.


Publisher: DC
Cover Date: April 1943
Approx. On Sale Date: February 16, 1943
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Jack Schiff
Cover Artist: Jack Burnley

Stories:
Superman : "Cinderella -- a la Superman"
Vigilante : "Fiddler's Fee"
Three Aces : "Sky Knights of Malta"
Mr. America : "Missive for Mussolini"
Congo Bill : "The Phantom Warriors"
Zatara : "Crime Takes a Detour"


A fantastic WAR COVER. Superman ripping open a NAZI TANK. A RARE book very seldom appears for sale. If you see a copy for sale just grab it otherwise it may be a while before you can come across another one. This issue was printed during a period of World War II rationing and paper drives, so only one staple holds this book together.This is the only Action Comics cover to have the LARGEST SWASTIKA and the LARGEST NAZI TANK. A truly beautiful cover and a true rarity. No collection is complete without this amazing book.

The swastika is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing form or its mirrored left-facing form. Earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization of Ancient India as well as Classical Antiquity. Swastikas have also been used in other various ancient civilizations around the world. It remains widely used in Indian religions, specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, primarily as a tantric symbol to evoke 'shakti' or the sacred symbol of auspiciousness. The swastika is also a Chinese character used in East Asia representing eternity and Buddhism.

The right-facing swastika was adopted as a symbol of the Nazi Party of Germany in 1920.In 1920, Adolf Hitler decided that the Nazi Party needed its own insignia and flag. For Hitler, the new flag had to be "a symbol of our own struggle" as well as "highly effective as a poster."

On August 7, 1920, at the Salzburg Congress, this flag became the official emblem of the Nazi Party.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler described the Nazis' new flag: "In red we see the social idea of the movement, in white the nationalistic idea, in the swastika the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work, which as such always has been and always will be anti-Semitic."

Because of the Nazis' flag, the swastika soon became a symbol of hate, antisemitism, violence, death, and murder. The Nazis used the swastika as a symbol of an alleged Aryan race. After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s, a swastika was incorporated into the Nazi party flag, which was made the State Flag of Germany. As a result, the Swastika became strongly associated with Nazism and related ideologies such as Fascism and White Supremacism since the 1930s in the Western world and is now largely stigmatized in the West. It has notably been outlawed in Germany if used as a symbol of Nazism. Many modern political extremists and Neo-Nazi groups such as the Russian National Unity use stylized swastikas or similar symbols.
  
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