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‘Superman’ No. 1 Leaps to $9.12 Million at Heritage, Becomes Most Expensive Comic Ever Sold

‘Superman’ No. 1 Leaps to $9.12 Million at Heritage, Becomes Most Expensive Comic Ever Sold

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Step Back in Time to 1952: American comics in your local newsagents!

A photograph used to promote a book of street photography of a newsagent’s in Bethnal Green, London, offers a fascinating ​glimpse of how American comics once rubbed shoulders with their British counterparts on the high street

A photograph used to promote a book of street photography of a newsagent’s in Bethnal Green, London, offers a fascinating glimpse of how American comics once rubbed shoulders with their British counterparts on the high street. Look closely in the top part of the window of “S. Lavner”, and you can see copies of comics such as DC Comics The Flash on display. Older downthetubes readers will well…

Step Back in Time to 1952: American comics in your local newsagents!

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New study, “Desegregating Comics” released, turning spotlight on historical American comics representation

Recently published by Rutgers University Press is Desegregating Comics - Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics, edited by Qiana Whitted

Recently published by Rutgers University Press is Desegregating Comics – Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics, edited by Qiana Whitted. Some comics fans view the American comic industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious witch doctors, or…

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With thanks to cartoonist Scott Shaw… Strangely, a few issues later, the Riverdale gang protested against destroying forests into wood pulp that eventually would become the low-grade material that comic books were printed on.

PLIFE WITH ARCHIE No. 115 (Archie Comics Publications, Inc./Archie Series, November 1971.) Cover art by Dan DeCarlo.

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