Man of Silver and Bronze
Action Comics 484

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Action Comics #484 Universal
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 0916660020
Owner: Brandon Shepherd

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Man of Silver and Bronze
Date Added: 9/28/2012
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

"Superman Takes a Wife!"
Cover Date: June, 1978

Cary Bates story
Curt Swan & Joe Giella art
José Luis García-López & Dick Giordano cover

Superman & Lois Lane of Earth-2 wed.
Wizard appearance.
40th Anniversary issue.

Grade Date: 08/10/2012
Acquired: 09/23/2012
1 of 3 in 9.8 when purchased.

Patience was essential in obtaining this piece, the census did not list a 9.8 copy until May, 2012. Two months later the first certified 9.8 copy with off-white to white pages sold for a pretty penny on eBay. Three months later another certified 9.8 copy with white pages came to Heritage Sunday Comics, with a much lower hammer price. On another note, on the day this issue was graded by CGC, I was rear-ended on my way to work, totaling my car and spilling coffee all over my white shirt - at I won this book!

This cover really shines when looking at the <i>Action Comics</i> cover run in numerical order. I’ve seen this cover a few times in Overstreet and have also read about it in the <b>Krypton Companion</b> and in the introduction to <b>Superman in Action Comics: The Second 25 Years of Covers</b>, putting this issue at the top of my want list for several years.

Other <i>Action Comics</i> wedding covers:
#143 (April, 1950) “The Bride of Superman”
#206 (July, 1955) “Superman Marries Lois Lane”
#836 (April, 2006) “This is Your Life (Part II of III)”

Reprinted in <b>Superman in the Seventies</b> (2000) and <b>Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman the Deluxe Edition</b> (2018).
  
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