*DC: It’s not very often that Action Comics this early ever get offered for sale in the UK. They’re not exactly common in the USA either. This copy of Action #14 is the earliest we’ve ever had through our hands in 30 years, so early in fact that Superman doesn’t even make the cover, apart from a small ident. Instead, it’s the magician Zatara (these days most famous as Zatanna’s Dad) who takes the cover scene, and what a great image conjured by Fred Guardineer! Zatara features inside in the story ‘The Fountain Of Youth’, but of course the lead story is the 13 page Superman feature where he clashes with the Ultra-Humanite. Other strips feature a whole host of adventure characters, including the debut of Clip Carson. Writers and artists read like a Who’s Who of comics in 1939: Jerry Siegel, Gardner Fox, Paul Cassidy, Bernard Bailey, Bob Kane and Fred Guardineer. This is a CGC blue label unrestored copy, graded at 0.5 (Incomplete); the CGC label has the following information: ‘Last page missing, affects story. Spine of cover completely split and detached. Incomplete. Brittle pages.’ You can see a few chips out at the edges of front and (mainly) back covers, but these do not detract from the vivid cover scene. A great artefact from the dawn of the Golden Age of Comics.
PICTURED: ACTION COMICS #14 CGC 0.5 INCOMPLETE £455 SOLD