Batch save FIRST page only of PDF as JPEG??

Ok, frustrating afternoon here in sunny England...
I have a large number of PDF magazines, of varying lengths.
I would like to
Open JUST the first page of the PDF (ie the cover) as an image
Flatten it
Save it as a JPEG
Which sounds fairly simple. I can record an action and then run it with File>Automate>Batch no problem, but my action doesn't seem to move past the first stage, no matter what I specify in the batch options, or whether I include Save and/or Close stages in the action itself
So, my action opens page 1 of each PDF, (I've suppressed open dialog boxes so it goes with the default behaviour of rasterizing page 1, which is great), but then it stops, leaving all four of my test files open in PS, although it doesn't throw any errors
Before I get really frustrated, is this sort of thing achievable using Actions or should I be looking elsewhere??
Thanks
Christian
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