Superman #1 (DC, 1939) CGC Apparent VG/FN 5.0 Extensive (P) Cream to off-white pages. Not only is this one of the five most ...

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Superman #1 (DC, 1939) CGC Apparent VG/FN 5.0 Extensive (P) Cream to off-white pages. Not only is this one of the five most valuable comic issues ever published, it's one of the most significant comics ever published as well. At a time when all comics were either newspaper-strip reprints, cartoon-character vehicles, or anthology titles like Action or Detective, this series devoted an entire comic to a character who was created for the comic book medium... and this new series was a huge success! The famous cover is by Superman's co-creator Joe Shuster. To get an idea of how this book electrified kids of the time, just ask Ron Seawright, who bought this very copy at a drugstore in Hermosa Beach, CA as a young boy in 1939: "A friend of the family told me excitedly about 'a new comic that just came out about a strong man with a cape who could fly, jump over buildings, lift cars and everything'," he says, "back then they didn't have a word for superhero." A few years later, the patriotic youngster, whose father was in the service, did what he could for the war effort by taking his comic collection to donate to a USO paper drive, even parting with his Detective Comics #27. But Mr. Seawright, now 72, told us to pass this on to our bidders: "I didn't donate my Superman comics to the USO... I saved them for you." CGC notes, "Restoration includes: color touch, pieces added, tear seals, cleaned, reinforced." Overstreet 2006 GD 2.0 value = $18,250; VG 4.0 value = $36,500; FN 6.0 value = $54,750.

View the certification for CGC Certification ID 0749473001, including grader's notes if available and a link to the latest full census report for the issue.*

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