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 Comics 1 dubbed The New 52. This included ending the original 73-year run of "Action Comics" with issue #904, October 2011 (on sale August 24, 2011). The first issue of "Action Comics" volume 2, with a cover date of November 2011, went on sale September 7, 2011. The New 52 version of "Action Comics" #1 has gone through five printings. The fifth printing, which went on sale March 28, 2012, is cover-dated May 2012 in both the UPC box on the cover and the indicia, with no mention of its original November 2011 cover date. In 2016, as part of the Rebirth