DC • Jan 1937 Action Funnies #1 Ashcan Low $3.5K Mid $11.3K High $35K Price Guide View on Ashcan edition, printed for purposes of copyrighting the title 'Action Comics' and a way to prevent competitors from stealing a similarly named title Interior pages are from Detective Comics #10 The cover art was later used for Action Comics #3 Harry Donenfeld, the publisher of DC at the time also created ashcans with the title Double Action Comics and Triple Action Comics There are three copies of the Action Funnies ashcan known to exist: One is said to be locked in a DC Comics vault One graded 8.5 sold in 2021 for $57,600 One ungraded sold in 2012 for $10,157.50