Action Comics #179 (1953) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Supermanor!	cover	1	pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; colors: Jack Adler	Superman [Clark Kent]
2	Super Manor!	comic story	12	script: Bill Woolfolk; pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan Kaye	Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Miss Amanda; Miss Hepzibah
3	-	cartoon	0.5	script: H. T. Elmo; pencils: H. T. Elmo; inks: H. T. Elmo; letters: H. T. Elmo
5	Superman Says: "People Are People!"	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp
6	I Mined for Diamonds and Death!	comic story	5.67	pencils: Ed Smalle; inks: Ed Smalle	Congo Bill; Kuji; Joad
9	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5
10	-	comic story	0.67	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
11	Supermen of America	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
12	The Secret of Adventure Moon	comic story	5.67	pencils: Jim Mooney; inks: Jim Mooney	Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Captain Brent Wood; Brower; Jon Jarrel; Winden
14	On Top of Your Head	text article	1	script: Eugenia Bedell; pencils: Raymond Perry; inks: Raymond Perry
15	Coining a Phrase	text article	1	pencils: Raymond Perry; inks: Raymond Perry
16	Mountie for a Day	comic story	8	pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Bob Brown	The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Captain Purdee
17	Strange Adventures; Detective Comics	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

Plus 5.66 pages of advertisements and other matter across 8 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›

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