NESTLE QUICK GIVE AWAY

reprints Action #1 1987

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When Superman finally found a home, in 1938, it was in the first issue of a monthly comic book. Action Comics, wherein the strips had been cut up and the panels rearranged to make a thirteen-page featureWithin a short time. Action Comics- with Superman in each issue- was selling almost a million copies every month, the bimonthly Superman comic book was selling well over a million copies per issue, and the character had spread from comic books to radio and the movies. And to the newspapers- by 1941, Superman as a daily strip signed by Siegel and Shuster, was running in 230 papers If, in the mid-1930s, just one syndicate editor had come to a different decision and given Superman a test run, the history of comic books would surely have been different. Had Superman squeezed onto the newspaper comics pages before 1938, the strip probably would have wound up in a reprint comic book, and a second-hand Superman of that kind could not have Changed comic books the way that Action Comics and the Superman bimonthly did.

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