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Superman #1

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Superman #1 is a comic book with a cover date of Summer 1939, published by National Allied Publications, the company that became DC Comics, featuring the character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster who had already proven popular in Action Comics #1 the previous year. It was the first time any superhero was given a dedicated comic book series of their own, an unprecedented step at the time, and Superman quickly became the first superhero to be published in more than one ongoing magazine at once. The series went on to reach circulation of over a million copies a month in the early 1940s.

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English 1
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1939 1
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Comics, Media Forms
Source Superman comic book (Wikipedia)
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1. Superman comic book (Wikipedia)
  • Superman volume 1 section
    Superman #1 appeared on the shelves in the summer of 1939.
  • Superman #1, lead paragraph (Wikipedia), original language
    Superman has been regularly published in American comic books published by DC Comics since then, and has been adapted to other media including radio serials, novels, films, television shows, theater, and video games.
  • In Medium: Comics, Article lead sentence
    Superman is an ongoing American comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero Superman as its protagonist.
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