![]() First published in April 1938, the comic flew off the newsstands for ten cents apiece an original copy later auctioned in 2022 for $3.18 million. ![]() This primal energy buzzes throughout Superman’s rollicking debut in Action Comics #1, included in this collection in the form of a glorious 68-page replica, complete with original accompanying strips and charming vintage ads. Many of the founding Super Heroes of DC Comics are the stuff of Olympian myth – Superman, Wonder Woman and Aquaman are practically gods – while Batman and the Joker are carved from the darkness of our own world. Presented in a dynamic clamshell case with a separate art print by modern Batman artist Yanick Paquette, DC Comics: The Golden Age explores the roots of a pop culture phenomenon, the first instalment in a brand-new series from The Folio Society in partnership with DC Comics. This astonishing collection includes a complete 68-page replica of Action Comics #1, the world’s very first superhero comic. Discover original work by the founding fathers of the genre, from Superman creators Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, Batman’s Bob Kane with Bill Finger, and Wonder Woman writer William Moulton Marston. ![]() Scanned directly from original copies held in the DC archives, these seminal stories collect the earliest – often startling – incarnations of our modern Super Hero icons. Former DC Editor-in-Chief Jenette Kahn selects and introduces eighteen epoch-making stories published during the formative age of American comic books. The groundbreaking debut adventures of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and more return in Folio’s earth-shattering new collection DC Comics: The Golden Age. Witness the creation of the world’s first multiverse, when the publisher that would become DC Comics founded the superhero genre as we know it today.
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