SUPERMAN DAY: Siegel and Shuster’s groundbreaking DC comic was released 88 years ago, on April 18, 1938…
Joe Shuster
It’s Superman Day — aka the anniversary of DC’s release of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s Action Comics #1, on April 18, 1938!
This year, we’re celebrating with 13 COVERS that homage the famed original by Shuster.
Up, up and away!
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Jerry Ordway and Wayne Boring (inside the crystal ball)
Todd McFarlane
Jackson Guice
Bruce Ozella
Dan Jurgens pencils, Joe Rubinstein inks
Karl Altstaetter
Ron Frenz pencils, Rubinstein inks
Patrick Gleason pencils, Mick Gray inks
Dan Mora
Bill Galvan
Dan Parent
McFarlane
Alex Ross
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— Super-Sublime! Dig These 13 Rare JOE SHUSTER SUPERMAN Illustrations. Click here.
— SUPERMAN’s History Through 13 CLASSIC COLLECTIBLES. Click here.
April 18, 2026
Also Action Comics #484 (Google it), the cover where it was the 40th Anniversary of Action Comics #1. The Golden Age Superman marries Lois, and he’s carrying the green car he originally lifted on the Action #1 cover. Classic cover by Jose Garcia Lopez
April 18, 2026
https://gocollect.com/comic/action-comics-484
How’s he balancing that car?
April 19, 2026
telekinesis? force of pushing forward? love the cover but the perspective is off compared to the angling of the building below. still, just her hand alone makes it great art.
April 18, 2026
Love the Underdog one!
April 18, 2026
One of these days, someone needs to do a Transformers/DC crossover so we can have a cover where a car throws Superman!
April 18, 2026
Is Kevin Keller ever not smirking?
April 20, 2026
When Archie took that assassin’s bullet for him over a decade ago.
April 21, 2026
I don’t think I want to know.
April 18, 2026
They’re all great fun!
The Dan Mora effort is probably my favorite.
April 18, 2026
I’m not a big fan of modern facsimiles, but we totally need a facsimile of Secret Origins #1.
April 20, 2026
Yes! Roy Thomas really knocked that one out of the ballpark with Kal-L’s extended origin.
April 19, 2026
I only realized a couple of years ago that a few superhero TV shows have homaged that scene. The TV movie pilot of “The Greatest American Hero” has Ralph proving to his girlfriend he isn’t crazy by hoisting a car and the Seventies TV pilot movie of “The Incredible Hulk” has the big green guy likewise tipping a car.
April 20, 2026
You forgot “Fantastic Four” #291.