There is a particular pleasure in finding the late Silver Age in clean, high-grade condition — that brief window after the wild experimentation of the Schwartz era and before the harder edges of the Bronze Age took hold. Action Comics in 1969 was at its most quintessentially itself: confident, inventive, slightly absurd, and beautifully drawn.
This issue carries an unusual cover credit — Curt Swan's familiar pencils, but Neal Adams on the inks. The combination gives the cover a sharpness uncommon for the title. Inside, two stories: Otto Binder's amnesiac Superman who decides he must be the President of the United States, and a Supergirl tale drawn by Kurt Schaffenberger, who shaped the visual language of Kara Zor-El across two decades.
CGC 9.6 copies of any 1969 Bronze-cusp DC are scarce. This one will sit comfortably in any serious Superman or Silver Age collection, and the timing — Supergirl returning to theaters this summer — gives it a moment.
There is a particular pleasure in finding the late Silver Age in clean, high-grade condition — that brief window after the wild experimentation of the Schwartz era and before the harder edges of the Bronze Age took hold. Action Comics in 1969 was at its most quintessentially itself: confident, inventive, slightly absurd, and beautifully drawn.
This issue carries an unusual cover credit — Curt Swan's familiar pencils, but Neal Adams on the inks. The combination gives the cover a sharpness uncommon for the title. Inside, two stories: Otto Binder's amnesiac Superman who decides he must be the President of the United States, and a Supergirl tale drawn by Kurt Schaffenberger, who shaped the visual language of Kara Zor-El across two decades.
CGC 9.6 copies of any 1969 Bronze-cusp DC are scarce. This one will sit comfortably in any serious Superman or Silver Age collection, and the timing — Supergirl returning to theaters this summer — gives it a moment.
