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Action Comics #1 Ashcan Sells For $204,000 At Auction
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A copy of the Action Comics #1 Ashcan recently sold for $204,000 at auction. One of only three known copies, the last one sold for $50,000 twelve years ago and the other is in the DC Comics vaults. Intriguingly, the Action Comics ashcan doesn t have any Superman in it, just pages from Detective Comics and it was only a way to secure a trademark on a comic book title for a publisher. But it does have a cover that was never used. The auction listing explains it all. And you can watch the auction, as it took place, below.
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Stan Lee s legacy is complicated - this new book casts a shadow on it
Stan Lee poses in New York, June 15, 1978.
(JTA) - Stan Lee, arguably the most famous American comic book creator, died at age 95 in 2018. Honoring his Jewish identity, many evoked the phrase may his memory be a blessing (coming from the Hebrew zichrono l bracha ) when reporting on his passing.
Just what this memory looks like, however, and what it should look like, is a topic that is increasingly up for debate.
To most people with a passing knowledge of comic books, Lee - who may be best known to the general public for his 30-plus cameos in the many Marvel superhero movies - is believed to be one of the most creative figur.
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The Souls of Black Folk, written in 1903 by W.E.B. DuBois, the author describes the African American experience as a Double Consciousness, a psychological condition brought on from living in a world as a Black person through the eyes of racist white people. Comic historian Ken Quattro was profoundly affected by DuBois work while he conducted research for IDW s
Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books, his new book chronicling the lives and work of 18 Black men the comic book industry not only forgot but barely acknowledged existed.
Men like Matt Baker, Elmer C. Stoner, Orrin C. Evans, and E. Sims Campbell may not be household names, but they are part of the group introduced in