Action Comics #126 (1948) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Superman on Television	cover	1	pencils: Al Plastino; inks: Al Plastino, Charles Paris	Superman
2	Superman on Television!	comic story	12	pencils: Al Plastino; inks: Al Plastino	Superman [Clark Kent]; John Sterling; Danko (crook); Hans van Spaaken; Lois Lane; Perry White; Governor Wilcox; The Chameleon (villain)
5	Terror atop Mt. Machin!	comic story	6	pencils: Ed Smalle; inks: Ed Smalle	Congo Bill; Blue Edwards; Batsyak
8	Reggie Strikes It Rich!	comic story	7	pencils: W. F. White; inks: W. F. White	Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Reginald Vander Coot; Hector; Miss Simmons
11	Ozzie	comic story	1	script: Phil Berube; pencils: Phil Berube; inks: Phil Berube	Ozzie; Ozzie's father
13	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	letters: typeset
15	North Pole Trail-Blazer	text story	2	script: David Stanley
16	Trodwell, the Tramp	comic story	0.5	script: Phil Berube; pencils: Phil Berube; inks: Phil Berube	Trodwell
19	The Secret of the Desert Bandit!	comic story	8	pencils: Joe Kubert; inks: Frank Giacoia	The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Snuff; The Desert Bandit (villain)
21	-	comic story	0.67	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
22	Superman's Secret Message	in-house column	0.33	letters: typeset
23	All-American Western	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

Plus 12 pages of advertisements and other matter across 13 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Superboy #35	1954	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #7 ISBN 978-1-77950-560-6	2023	On eBay ›

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