Action Comics 1 Action Comics 1 "Action Comics" #1 (cover dated June 1938) is the first issue of the original run of the comic book/magazine series "Action Comics". It features the first appearance of several comic book heroes—most notably the Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster creation, Superman—and sold for 10 cents (). It is widely considered to be both the beginning of the superhero genre and the most valuable comic book in the world. "Action Comics" would go on to run for 904 numbered issues (plus additional out-of-sequence special issues) before it restarted its numbering in the fall of 2011. It returned to
Action of 2 May 1707 after a warm dispute of half an hour. Claude Forbin's 60-gun "Mars" attacked Commodore Wyld's "Royal Oak". The ship having eleven feet water in her hold, managed to escape with great loss by running ashore, from where she was carried into the Downs. 6 Privateers. 55 Merchant ships. Action of 2 May 1707 The Action of 2 May 1707, also known as Beachy Head, was a naval battle of the War of the Spanish Succession in which a French squadron under Claude de Forbin intercepted a large British convoy escorted by three ships of the line, under Commodore Baron Wylde.