by Kevin Zelman

A copy of “Superman No. 1,” the 1939 issue that introduced
everyone to the Man of Steel in his first solo title, sold for
$9.2 million on Thursday at an auction run by Heritage, in
near-pristine condition.

This price beats the previous record, set in 2024 when “Action
Comics No. 1,” the comic where fans met the Kryptonian hero,
sold for $6 million. Even prior to that, a copy of “Superman No.
1” held the record with a sale of $5.3 million in 2022.

For a comic being 86 years old, it’s in excellent condition,
being graded a 9.0 out of 10 by the Certified Guaranty
Company, the leading third-party grading service for
comic books.

This rare comic was discovered by three brothers in a box
full of yellowed newspaper clippings, while they were in the
attic of their late mother’s house.

Have Gun – Will Travel is a Western television series that was
produced and originally broadcast by CBS on both television
and radio from 1957 through 1963. The television version of
the series starring Richard Boone was rated number three
or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first
four seasons.

Richard Allen Boone
(June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981)

John Dehner (November 23, 1915 – February 4, 1992)

The sound effects department.

Robert Stack 
(January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003)

The Untouchables was a crime-drama that ran from 1959 to 1963, on
ABC and produced by Desilu Productions, with Special Agent Eliot
Ness played by Robert Stack. 

Stack won the 1960 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Performance by an Actor in a Series.

1959

This is a rare Roy Rogers first cover photo four – color Dell comic book, #38 – 1944, in good condition.

Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell
Publishing, which got its start in pulp magazines.

Its first title was The Funnies (1929), described by the
Library of Congress as "a short-lived newspaper tabloid
insert" rather than a comic book. Comics historian Ron
Goulart (below) describes the 16-page, four-color,
newsprint periodical as "more a Sunday comic section
without the rest of the newspaper than a true comic book.

Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry

Gene Autry, the cowboy crooner and Hollywood hitmaker who
helped popularize country-western music and became one of
the most celebrated performers in American history, was born
in Tioga, Texas, on this day in history, Sept. 29, 1907.

"In addition, his success as a singing cowboy launched an entire
genre of movies and paved the way for successful rivals such as
Roy Rogers and Tex Ritter."  (FOX NEWS)