Action Comics No. 1

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:31 pm

No particular relevance to anything seasonal, but I thought that some may enjoy this:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EUG02/yeun ... cover.html

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:45 pm

I heard a rumor that York #3 was in the trunk...

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:18 pm

With an otherwise "mint" copy shoved down its bell by a shoolboy who got "busted" reading it instead of paying attention in rehearsal.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:34 pm

The artist contest school is still in business. When my wife was a girl, she sent one in. They wrote her back and said they would have given her a "full scholarship," but she was too young, and resubmit when she got old enough. Ah, but she never did!

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:43 pm

I liked the "Johnson Smith & Co" ad on the back cover. I remember reading about "X-Ray Spectacles", "Whoopee Cushions" and "The Secrets of Hypnosis" in just about every comic book when I was a kid.

Amazingly, Johnson Smith is still in business:

http://www.johnsonsmith.com/

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:59 am

There are some striking differences with what we traditionally think of Superman and what the original Superman was like:
1. He was found by a motorist and stayed in an orphanage in Action Comics No. 1. The Kent family was not mentioned.
2. His home planet was destroyed by old age.
3. He could LEAP over tall buildings but he couldn't FLY over them.
4. The newspaper is the Daily Star.
5. Get a load of what Lois Lane looked like!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:34 am

LoyalTubist wrote:There are some striking differences with what we traditionally think of Superman and what the original Superman was like:
1. He was found by a motorist and stayed in an orphanage in Action Comics No. 1. The Kent family was not mentioned.
2. His home planet was destroyed by old age.
3. He could LEAP over tall buildings but he couldn't FLY over them.
4. The newspaper is the Daily Star.
5. Get a load of what Lois Lane looked like!

Like every great religion, there were errors to be corrected, and non-believers to be purged!

trseaman · Post by **trseaman** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:13 am

Very Cool, thanks for sharing!

Tim

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:10 pm

LoyalTubist wrote:There are some striking differences with what we traditionally think of Superman and what the original Superman was like:
1. He was found by a motorist and stayed in an orphanage in Action Comics No. 1. The Kent family was not mentioned.
2. His home planet was destroyed by old age.
3. He could LEAP over tall buildings but he couldn't FLY over them.
4. The newspaper is the Daily Star.
5. Get a load of what Lois Lane looked like!

This Superman fights corruption in Congress and clobbers evil lobbyists.