DC Released January 1937

Action Funnies #1

Ashcan
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$3.5K
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Published January 1937
Pages 16

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Key Facts

  • 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

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