The Complete Zabra Collection of Action Comics
Action Comics 340

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Action Comics #340 Universal
Grade: 9.6
Page Quality: WHITE
Pedigree: Twin Cities
Certification #: 9147136013
Owner: Zabra

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: The Complete Zabra Collection of Action Comics
Date Added: 5/27/2012
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

ACTION COMICS #340- TWIN CITIES PEDIGREE

Tragic story of Gary Dahlberg‘s death. A retired bus driver in Minneapolis,Minnesota Dahlberg was killed in June 2010 when the kitchen of his home caught fire. He had been a comic book collector since he was a child, and somehow, almost impossibly, his extensive comic book collection escaped damage from both the fire and the fire fighters’ water hoses.

62 years old when he died in June 2010, Dahlberg would have been about 10 years old as the Silver Age was getting underway in the mid/late 1950s. An important and exciting time to be entering your prime comic book reading age.

The collection includes extensive runs of Marvel, DC Comics, and other publishers from the Silver Age and beyond.

Dahlberg was an avid — and meticulous — comic book fan his entire life. Working for a bookstore while he was in high school in the 1960s, Dahlberg was able to choose his copies before they were placed on the racks for sale. That advantage and the great care he took in handling them, plus the cool Minnesota climate, makes his comics– designated by CGC as the Twin Cities pedigree –among the best-preserved Silver Age collections to ever surface. Many books in the collection are top-census copies (determined to be the highest grade of a given issue among copies certified by CGC so far) and even among those that aren’t structurally the best, observers have been impressed with the white pages and fresh, bright cover inks — the result of that cool northern climate.

Dahlberg’s family had little idea of his collection’s value. Bidders present at Heritage’s NYC auction venue in May 2011 noted that members of his family were quietly surprised at the prices realized and moved by the experience of watching other collectors affirm that what was important to Gary was important to other comic book fans as well. Dahlberg will be remembered for what he left his family and the comic collecting community for quite some time.


FIRST APPEARANCE OF PARASITE

Publisher: DC
Cover Date: August 1966
On Sale Date: June 30, 1966
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein

TWO Stories

1.Superman: "Power of the Parasite"
2.Supergirl: "The Supergirl Identity Hunt"

This is one of the finest available copies of a Super-Key, Silver age DC classic! The powerful PARASITE (Raymond Maxwell Jensen) brings the RUMBLE to the Man of Steel, and proves to be the most formidable foe Superman has encountered since Brainiac! "My power will sap your energy, Superman, leaving you weak & helpless! While I become invincible... invulnerable... immortal!" . Parasite ranks as the #61 Villain in the list of Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All-time. Parasite was one of the main characters in the second Marvel/DC crossover between Spiderman and Superman (Marvel Treasury Edition #28). In this story, he was recruited by Doctor Doom as an agent in Doom's latest plan to conquer the world by wiping out all power sources but his own fusion reactor. With its stunning WHITE PAGES, this TWIN CITIES pedigree from the heralded Gary Dahlberg collection is a RARE beauty.
  
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