Action Comics #162 (1951) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	It	cover	1	pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; colors: Jack Adler	Superman [Clark Kent]
1	Superman Says: "The World Is Our Schoolroom!"	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp
2	It!	comic story	10	script: Bill Finger; pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan Kaye	Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; It (intro)
5	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5
6	The Interplanetary Restaurant!	comic story	8	pencils: Curt Swan; inks: John Fischetti	Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Wally Martin; Eben Kinnel (crook)
8	The Insect with the Longest Life Span of All Insects...17 Years	activity	0.75	script: Martin Naydel; pencils: Martin Naydel; inks: Martin Naydel; letters: Martin Naydel
10	Mission of Mystery!	comic story	6	pencils: Ed Smalle; inks: Ed Smalle	Congo Bill; Ali Mirovna; Bura; Budra; Jim Calvert
11	-	cartoon	0.67	script: H. T. Elmo; pencils: H. T. Elmo; inks: H. T. Elmo; letters: H. T. Elmo
13	-	comic story	0.67	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
14	Superman's Secret Message	in-house column	0.33	letters: typeset
15	"Thar She Blows..."	text article	2	script: Erik H. Arctander
16	A Horse for Vigilante!	comic story	8	pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Bob Brown	Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; the Ramrod gang (crooks)
17	Enter Here -- If You Dare!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

Plus 4.08 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
Superman in the Fifties #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77950-758-7	2021	On eBay ›

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