Action Comics (1938)
Published
Action Comics #1, DC, June 1938
The cover that started everything: Superman, drawn by Joe Shuster, smashes a green sedan against a rock while the men around him scatter. The issue introduced Superman and Lois Lane, and nothing on the cover explains who he is, which is part of its power. A reader in 1938 saw only a strongman in a cape doing the impossible.
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