10 DC Comics Stories That Changed Everything

10. Action Comics #1 (1938)

Action Comics #1, published in 1938, is arguably the most important single issue of a comic book ever written. Regardless of its significance it holds the Guinness record for most valuable comic ever, having sold for $3.2 million at auction in 2014.

Even though Superman is on the cover, his feature shared the book with 10 others, one of them starring Zatanna's dad Zatara.

There's a reason the imagery of Superman lifting the car has been reused widely: it's almost the starting point of the whole Man Of Steel visual vocabulary, and it deserves its place at the foundation of the character's lore.