Action Comics #1 features the first appearance of Superman, a creation of
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The publication is considered to be both the
genesis of the super-hero genre as well as the most valuable comic book 
of all time, with a single original copy selling for more than $2 million in
2011.

From left: Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
who were originally paid only $130 by DC Comics in 1938. 

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1971

Cher and Gene Simmons of Kiss 

Mary Hopkin was one of the first musicians to
sign on to The Beatles’ Apple Label. She will
be 63 in May.

1968

Paul McCartney and Mary Hopkin

The teenage tragedy song was written by Jean Dinning and her
husband, Red Surrey.

Dinning’s addiction to alcohol eventually ended his career. He would show
up at appearances too intoxicated to perform causing promoters to stop
booking him and he eventually faded from public view. Denning died from
a heart attack on March 22, 1986 in Jefferson City, Missouri. He was 52.