Object label
DC Comics · Comics · Action Comics · 1938
Action Comics #1
Action Comics · 1938
In Action Comics #1 Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster not only launched one of the longest running comic book series of all time, they also captured the hearts of America as for the very first time they introduced the Man of Steel, the world's most iconic superhero! Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! The Man of Steel burst into the comic book world with a bang, kicking off the golden era of superheroes, paving the way for the hundreds if not thousands of super-powered heroes who have come since. As a distant planet takes its final breath, a scientist places his infant son into a space ship sending it to the planet Earth! Crash landing in rural Kansas, the boy is found by Jonathan and Martha Kent, where the couple take in the boy as their own. Unbeknownst to them the boy will one day grow up to be Earth's mightiest champion, Superman!
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Action Comics #1 belongs to a comics graph built around publisher, series, issue number, characters, creators like Bernard Baily, Frank Thomas, and Fred Guardineer, and story context. The important part is not just the issue record, but how it connects into runs, appearances, and adjacent covers.
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Action Comics #1 is a comics collectible connected to DC Comics and Action Comics. Useful collector signals include release year 1938, issue #1, and artist context from Jerry Siegel, Jack Adler, and Bernard Baily. Action Comics has 46 catalogued releases on GrailHub, making this page a route into completion, variants, and nearby objects.
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Collector notes
Action Comics #1 is a comics entry for issue #1 in Action Comics from 1938. GrailHub tracks publisher, series, issue number, cover date, creators, characters, and first appearances where that data is available.
DC Comics pages connect this issue back to its publisher, series, creators, and related issues. For comic collectors, those links matter because discovery often starts with a character, creative team, first appearance, or a run of issues rather than one isolated record.
Characters associated with this issue include Alex Greer, Bea Carroll, Butch Matson, Chuck Dawson, George Taylor, and Kal-L.
Series context
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- 46 objects
- Release span
- 1938-2001
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Quick facts
- Publisher
- DC Comics
- Series
- Action Comics
- Issue number
- #1
- Cover date
- Jun 1, 1938
- Characters
- Alex Greer, Bea Carroll, Butch Matson, Chuck Dawson, George Taylor, Kal-L +7 more
- Creators
- Bernard Baily, Frank Thomas, Fred Guardineer, Gardner Fox, Homer Fleming, Jack Adler +8 more
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Data source
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- Metron
- Source ID
- 34837
- Source URL
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