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Leo O'Mealia

DC Jan 1937

Action Funnies #1

Ashcan
Action Funnies #1
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Ashcan edition, printed for purposes of copyrighting the title 'Action Comics' and a way to prevent competitors from stealing a similarly named title
Interior pages are from Detective Comics #10
The cover art was later used for Action Comics #3
Harry Donenfeld, the publisher of DC at the time also created ashcans with the title Double Action Comics and Triple Action Comics
There are three copies of the Action Funnies ashcan known to exist:
One is said to be locked in a DC Comics vault
One graded 8.5 sold in 2021 for $57,600
One ungraded sold in 2012 for $10,157.50
DC May 1939

Detective Comics #27

Detective Comics #27
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$250K
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$890K
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$2.2M
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1st appearance of Batman
1st appearance of Commissioner Gordon
💰 Detective Comics #27 has sold for over one million dollars 9x with a record high sale in grade 7.0 for $2.31 million (February 2026)
DC Dec 1939

Flash Comics #1

Ashcan
Flash Comics #1
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$1.8K
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$6K
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$18K
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Black and white Ashcan printed in small quantities to establish title copyright during a time when publishers DC and Fawcett were competing to secure intellectual property
Cover art is from Adventure Comics #41, interior contents from All-American Comics #8
There are 5 copies known to exist

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