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Action Comics 12 |
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Action Comics #12 Universal |
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CGC 2.0 |
| Cert #: |
0708653002
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Owner Comments
ACTION COMICS #12-IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF BATMAN AND THE FIRST GAY KISS APPEARANCE IN COMICS.
Cover Date: May 1939
Approx. On Sale Date: April 4, 1939
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Vincent A. Sullivan
Cover Artist: Fred Guardineer
Stories:
Superman : (Superman Declares War on Reckless Drivers)
Scoop Scanlon : (Under Cover)
Pep Morgan : (Death to Don Luis)
Marco Polo : (No Title)
Tex Thomson : (Queen of the Malays)
Chuck Dawson : (No Title)
Zatara : "The Land of the Fourth Dimension
This issue is near-impossible to find in any grade. A cool Sci-Fi cover featuring Zatara as well as a mini-appearance by Superman on the cover.
During Action Comics' earliest years, several rough-and-tumble second-stringers fought for attention and prominence, among them two-fisted cowboy Chuck Dawson, two-fisted prizefighter Pep Morgan, and two-fisted reporter Scoop Scanlon. Of them all, only ZATARA-a sorcerer who worked magic by speaking his spells backwards-gave SUPERMAN a run for his money (Covers #12 and #14). In time, however even Zatara was forced to concede that while Action Comics had several features, it had only one star.
This issue features the FIRST APPEARANCE of BATMAN EVER. Batman appears in a small panel within this issue making it PRICELESS. DETECTIVE Comics #27 went on sale approximately on April 18th, 1939 and Action Comics # 12 went on sale on April 4th, 1939 and thus had an Ad for BATMAN BEFORE he appeared on the cover of Detective Comics #27. This issue also has the FIRST GAY KISS APPEARANCE in comics. In a ZATARA story TWO QUEENS from the FOURTH DIMENSION seal the peace treaty with a KISS WHILE EMBRACING EACH OTHER and per ZATARA the necklace of BAYA was reserved for BOTH QUEENS.
This book is a rare and priceless treasure.
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Action Comics 36 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #36 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 5.5 |
| Cert #: |
0140652004
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Owner Comments
ACTION COMICS # 36- THE CLASSIC ROBOTS COVER
This is also one of my favorite cover. The "CLASSIC ROBOT COVER" and a TOUGH book to obtain in any grade. When my son was a toddler he loved this cover as in his view this cover had "Transformers" on it. This book is a beauty and a true treasure.
Interestingly, SUPERMAN'S emblem was BORDERED IN YELLOW on this cover and was eventually standardized on the cover of Action #63.
The cover is dated May 1941 and went on sale on March 21st, 1941. It was priced at 10 cents and had 64 pages.
The editor was Whitney Ellsworth and Cover Artist was the great Fred Ray who created a masterpiece in 1941.
The Stories included a Superman story "Fifth Columnists", a Pep Morgan story "The Fur Thieves",a Black Pirate story "Return to Spain",a
Three Aces story "The Mountain of Gold", a
Mr. America story "Blackmail",a Clip Carson story "The Central American General",and a Zatara story "The Dude Ranch Kidnappers."
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Action Comics 44 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #44 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 5.5 |
| Cert #: |
1158418001
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Owner Comments
ACTION COMICS #44- NAZI GUN WAR COVER
This is another fabulous Nazi cover with a smaller swastika compared to the cover of Action Comics # 59. It had three NAZI soldiers on it. The only other book to have three Nazi soldiers on it is Action Comics #53. None of the Nazi soldiers are full size. The only book to have a full sized Nazi is Action Comics # 43.
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: January 1942
Aprox. On Sale Date: November 20, 1941
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth
Cover Credits:
Artist: Fred Ray
6 Stories
1.Superman: (The Caveman Criminal)
2.Vigilante: "Galloping Gold"
3.Three Aces: (The Diamond Mines)
4.Mr. America: (The Circus Saboteurs)
5.Congo Bill: (The Vanishing Airplanes)
6.Zatara: (Theft by Rocket)
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Action Comics 49 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #49 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 5.5 |
| Cert #: |
0915009003
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Owner Comments
Action Comics #49- VERY SCARCE BOOK
A very RARE book. VERY TOUGH to find and seldom seen in mid-grade for sale.
This cover was dated June 1942 and the approximate on sale date was April 21, 1942
The Cover Price was 10 cents and it had a Page Count of 64. The editor was F. Whitney Ellsworth and the Cover Artist was FRED RAY.
Stories:
Superman : (The Wizard of Chance)
Vigilante : "The Rainbow Man"
Three Aces : "The Mystery of the Meandering Mansion"
Mr. America : "The Crime Machine"
Congo Bill : "The Last Shipment"
Zatara : "The Story of the Magical Mobsters"
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Action Comics 54 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #54 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 3.5 |
| Cert #: |
1158418002
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Owner Comments
ACTION COMICS #54- NAZI U-BOAT WAR COVER
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1942
Aprox. On Sale Date: September 15, 1942
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth
Cover Credits:
Artist: Jack Burnley
6 Stories
1.Superman: "The Pirate of Pleasure Island"
2.Vigilante: "The Rookie Who Fought a Ghost"
3.Three Aces: "Fire Over the Yunnanfu Road"
4.Mr. America: "Destination, Berlin"
5.Congo Bill: "Idol of Doom"
6.Zatara: "Recipe for Robbery"
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Action Comics 58 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #58 Apparent SA |
| Grade: |
CGC 0.5 |
| Cert #: |
1158418003
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Owner Comments
ACTION COMICS #58- SLAP A JAP WAR COVER
A RARE book to find and very seldom appears for sale in any grade. I thought that I had secured a copy but it graded as a APPARENT SA O.5.
Unfortunately, this is the ONLY RESTORED BOOK in my entire collection but I intend to change that in the future. Still a beautiful original book with a controversial cover.
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1943
Aprox. On Sale Date: January 19, 1943
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Jack Schiff
Cover Credits:
Artist: Jack Burnley
6 Stories
1.Superman: "The Face of Adonis"
2.Vigilante: "The Dummy and the Dumbbell"
3.Three Aces: "Double-X for the Axis"
4.Mr. America: "The Brigade of the Biting Rabbit"
5.Congo Bill: "The Full-Dress Rebellion"
6.Zatara: "The Seven Year Itch"
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Action Comics 59 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #59 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 4.0 |
| Cert #: |
0915986001
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Owner Comments
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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Action Comics 61 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #61 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 5.5 |
| Cert #: |
0914983002
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Owner Comments
ACOMICS COMICS #61-HISTORIC ATOMIC RADIATION COVER
Rarely appears for sale in mid-grade and its tough to find a copy of this issue in ANY grade.
The Historic Atomic Radiation Cover. This is one of my favorite covers along with Action Comics #101. When it came to unbridled heroism, Superman was graced with the right stuff. On this cover Superman is capping a flaming oil well with his super-strength. Beautiful and colorful cover art.
This Cover was Dated June 1943. Approximate On Sale Date was April 20, 1943.The Cover Price: $0.10 and Page Count was 56.
The Editor was Jack Schiff and Cover Artist was: Jack Burnley
Stories:
Superman : "The Man They Wouldn't Believe"
Vigilante : "The Cat and the Fiddler"
Three Aces : "One Arabian Night"
Mr. America : "The Dikes of Death"
Congo Bill : "A Blowout in Istanbul"
Zatara : "The Man Who Stole Magic"
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Action Comics 63 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #63 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 2.5 |
| Cert #: |
0990636027
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Owner Comments
ACTION COMICS #63-CLASSIC JAPANESE WAR COVER
FIRST APPEARANCE OF RED-YELLOW PENTANGLE ON SUPERMAN'S TUNIC.
A true beauty created by Jack Burnley
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: August 1943
Approx. On Sale Date: June 17, 1943
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 56
Editor: Jack Schiff
Cover Artist: Jack Burnley
Stories:
Superman : "When Star Collide"
Vigilante : "Dummy, Dummy & Dummy, Inc."
Three Aces : "Leatherneck Luck"
Mr. America : "A Right in Der Fuehrer's Face"
Congo Bill : "The Curse of Catellaria"
Zatara : "The Pirate of Pleasure"
The FIRST appearance of the trademarked formal red-and yellow pentangle on Superman's tunic. Though simple in design, the elegant triangular "S" shield has become recognized world-wide as Superman's emblem took years to standardize in color and shape.
Another WAR COVER. "CLASSIC JAPANESE WAR COVER" reminding me of PEARL HARBOUR. Superman IN COMBAT WITH A JAPANESE BOMBER.My favorite in the JAPANESE WAR SERIES along with Action Comics # 48.The Cover is dated August 1943 and went on sale on June 17, 1943. It was priced at 10 cents with 56 pages.The Editor was Jack Schiff and theCover Artist was the talented Jack Burnley who created another CLASSIC.The stories include a Superman story "When Star Collide", a Vigilante story "Dummy, Dummy & Dummy, Inc", a Three Aces story "Leatherneck Luck". a Mr. America story "A Right in Der Fuehrer's Face", a Congo Bill story "The Curse of Catellaria" and a Zatara story "The Pirate of Pleasure."
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Action Comics 66 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #66 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 3.5 |
| Cert #: |
1158418004
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Owner Comments
ACTION COMICS #66-COMBAT WAR COVER
A wonderful Jack Burnley cover.
This book is hard to find in higher grade and even in lower grades it is not often offered for sale. This cover is a great depiction of Superman's support for the GIs. This is a fine book with white pages but unfortunately sustained slight water exposure thus pulling down the grade. But it still has bright colors and great eye appeal.
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1943
Aprox. On Sale Date: September 16, 1943
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 56
Editor: Jack Schiff
Cover Credits:
Penciller: Jack Burnley
Inker: Stan Kaye
6 Stories
1.Superman: "The Boy Who Came Back"
2.Vigilante: "The Sword of Destiny"
3.Vitamin Vic: (No Title)
4.Congo Bill: "The Talking Trees"
5.Mr. America: "Burma Remembers"
6.Zatara: "Circus Daze"
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Action Comics 110 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #110 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.2 |
| Cert #: |
0015892012
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Owner Comments
ACTION COMICS #110-OHIO PEDIGREE
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: July 1947
Aprox. On Sale Date: May 15, 1947
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff
Cover Credits:
Penciller: Wayne Boring
Inker: Stan Kaye
5 Stories
1.Superman: "Mother Goose Crimes"
2.Congo Bill: "The King of Gorillas"
3.Zatara: "Danger is Where You Make It"
4.Hayfoot Henry: "Sleepyside's Meanest Thief"
5.Vigilante: "The Girl Sheriff of Benton City"
The OHIO PEDIGREE Action Comics include #109,110, 112 and 113. Its almost impossible to find these copies as they are in high demand and once brought by collectors these books disappear off the market for decades. Once they surface for sale again they are highly sought after and sell for premium prices.
It's rare to find a collector who remained an active buyer for decades, as most lose interest within a few years. Even Edgar Church and Davis Crippen, two of the biggest pedigree stalwarts, petered out after 15 years. This makes the Ohio collection special, as it runs unbroken for nearly 30 years-- from the Golden Age all the way into the 1970's. Only the Big Apple pedigree can boast such a span.
Emerging from Akron, Ohio, this monster collection required two brokers and six years to bring out every issue. Dealer Nelson Dodds was ultimately responsible for introducing the Ohio collection to the comic market in 1994, but even he did not realize its size and quality until years later. Known for having great pages (ranking in the top 10) and easily identifiable distributor codes on the covers, Ohio books have been sought after by major pedigree collectors for over a decade. Though stocked with many high grade Silver Age issues, it's the Golden Age copies that made the Ohio collection famous.
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Action Comics 113 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #113 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.2 |
| Cert #: |
0015892014
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Owner Comments
ACTION COMICS # 113- OHIO PEDIGREE
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: October 1947
Aprox. On Sale Date: August 20, 1947
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff
Cover Credits:
Penciller: Wayne Boring
Inker: Al Plastino
5 Stories
1.Superman: "Just an Ordinary Guy"
2.Zatara: "The Man Who Was Always Late"
3.Congo Bill: "Skulduggery in the Subway"
4.Hayfoot Henry: "The Too-Fragrant Vagrant"
5.Vigilante: "Gold Rush – 1947"
THE FOUR CRITERIA FOR A PEDIGREED
COMIC BOOK COLLECTION INCLUDE:
1) ORIGIN
A pedigreed collection must have been accumulated by one individual during the time the comics were released on the newsstand.
2) QUALITY
A pedigreed collection must primarily consist of high quality comic books.
3) COMPLETENESS
A pedigreed collection must contain a substantial number of key or rare issues, or represent a significant portion of a particular genre, company, period, or classic title/character.
4) MARKET ACCEPTANCE
CGC and the collecting community must continue to recognize the pedigree name of a collection past the point of initial sale.
The OHIO PEDIGREE Action Comics include #109,110, 112 and 113. Its almost impossible to find these copies as they are in high demand and once brought by collectors these books disappear off the market for decades. Once they surface for sale again they are highly sought after and sell for premium prices.
It's rare to find a collector who remained an active buyer for decades, as most lose interest within a few years. Even Edgar Church and Davis Crippen, two of the biggest pedigree stalwarts, petered out after 15 years. This makes the Ohio collection special, as it runs unbroken for nearly 30 years-- from the Golden Age all the way into the 1970's. Only the Big Apple pedigree can boast such a span.
Emerging from Akron, Ohio, this monster collection required two brokers and six years to bring out every issue. Dealer Nelson Dodds was ultimately responsible for introducing the Ohio collection to the comic market in 1994, but even he did not realize its size and quality until years later. Known for having great pages (ranking in the top 10) and easily identifiable distributor codes on the covers, Ohio books have been sought after by major pedigree collectors for over a decade. Though stocked with many high grade Silver Age issues, it's the Golden Age copies that made the Ohio collection famous.
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Action Comics 163 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #163 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 8.0 |
| Cert #: |
0007076007
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Owner Comments
ACTION COMICS #163-MILE HIGH PEDIGREE (EDGAR CHURCH)
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: December 1951
Aprox. On Sale Date: October 19, 1951
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 40
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Cover Credits:
Artist: J. Winslow Mortimer
4 Stories
1.Superman: "The Girl of Tomorrow"
2.Tommy Tomorrow: "The Junkman of Space"
3.Congo Bill: "The Bandit Ghost"
4.Vigilante: "The Strangest Posse in the World"
The most remarkable collection of vintage comic books ever discovered. The Mile High's immense size and extraordinary grade influenced a major shift in both price structures and the comic book grading standard itself. It is the benchmark against which all other collections are compared.
This took years to happen after the collection was discovered in 1977.
Edgar Church (November 28, 1888 – 1978), was a comics collector and artist who worked independently and eventually for the telephone company in Colorado illustrating commercial telephone book advertisements, precursors to Yellow Pages advertisements.
Church kept thousands of miscellaneous periodicals in his Colorado home to use as references for his art. From these magazines he would clip images which he would store in one of hundreds of labeled boxes. The collection of comic books that he amassed, later known as the "Edgar Church collection" or the "Mile High collection", is the most famous and valuable comic book collection known to surface in the history of comic book collecting. The collection consisted of between 18,000 and 22,000 comic books, most of them in high quality grades, and was discovered and bought in 1977 by Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics. About 99% of it was later sold by him to various collectors. The collection is famed for holding the highest quality copies of many Golden Age comic books.
Edgar Church was married twice and had one child with each of his wives. Church died in 1978 at age 89.
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Action Comics 176 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #176 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 5.0 |
| Cert #: |
1168372001
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Owner Comments
ACTION COMICS #176- VERY SCARCE BOOK
This is one of the toughest book to find in high grade and at this time is the second highest graded copy.
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: January 1953
Aprox. On Sale Date: November 19, 1952
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 40
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Artist: J. Winslow Mortimer
4 Stories
Superman: "Muscles for Money"
Congo Bill: "The Man-Eater of Mandalao"
Tommy Tomorrow: "The End of the Planeteers"
Vigilante: "The Impossible Legend"
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Action Comics 233 |
| Item: |
Action Comics #233 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 6.5 |
| Cert #: |
0023730005
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Owner Comments
A attractive copy of this issue, bright and pleasing colors.
The Cover is Dated October 1957 and went on sale on August 29, 1957. It was priced at 10 cents with 32 pages.
Editor was Mort Weisinger
Cover Penciller was Curt Swan
Cover Inker was Stan Kaye
Stories include:
Superman Story "The Land of a Million Supermen"
Congo Bill Story "The Jungle Eskimo"
Tommy Tomorrow Story "The Forbidden Robots"
A beautiful book and a true treasure.
Do you dare to enter the KINGDOM OF BORGONIA without a Superman costume?
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