The Zabra Collection-PRIMARY SET
Action Comics 455

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Action Comics #455 Universal
Grade: 9.6
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 1260301002
Owner: Zabra

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: The Zabra Collection-PRIMARY SET
Date Added: 10/24/2015
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

ACTION COMICS # 455 CGC 9.6-THE CHARLESTON COLLECTION

THE CHARLESTON COLLECTION

This wonderful new collection was unveiled by Metropolis Collectibles at the 2014 Javits Special Edition ComicCon in June 2014. The Charleston Collection is named after the West Virginia capital near where the collector once hailed, this incredible find boasts exhaustive runs of some of DC Comics' rarest and most collectible titles. From the Golden straight up through to the Copper Age, including extremely scarce war and horror issues that otherwise never come to market, and some of the scarcest Wonder Woman issues of the Golden Age, this collection is a real find!

The gentleman who built this run was a DC fanatic. He was such a huge fan of the publisher that he became a regular on the letters pages of several DC titles, and was determined to build as complete a run as he could of his favorites. Starting his buying off the newsstands in the mid-1960s, the dedicated fan soon searched out back issues of Golden and early Silver Age issues to complete his run -- not an easy task in those pre-comic-shop days. What's impressive is that he was building a run of rare Golden Age and tough 1950s DCs during the mid-60s, when it was nearly impossible to find a lot of this stuff, since cons and comic shops weren't even really a thing yet outside of major cities. But somehow he did it, including tracking down some of the toughest of Wonder Woman issues and early DC war issues that are really, really scarce. It's was a true labor of love for this collector.

Cover by Bob Oksner. "Junkman - The Recycled Superstar!", script by Elliot S! Maggin, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Tex Blaisdell; A freak accident in Kandor transmits super-power to a junkpile robot, and Superman, the Atom, and Green Arrow must find a way to stop it before it destroys the bottle city. 36 pgs., full color. $0.25. Cover price $0.25
 
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