Action Comics #196 (1954) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Adventures of Mental-Man!	cover	1	pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; colors: Jack Adler	Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Mental-Man
1	Buzzy Says: "Work Can Be Fun!"	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp
2	The Adventures of Mental-Man!	comic story	12	script: Bill Finger; pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan Kaye	Superman [Clark Kent; Mental-Man, the Eighth Wonder]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Al Fallon
5	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	letters: typeset
6	The Jungle Circus!	comic story	6	pencils: Ed Smalle; inks: Ed Smalle	Congo Bill; Janu the Jungle Boy; Bombo (elephant); Jasper Troy [Dick Beeding]
7	Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
8	-	comic story	0.67	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
9	Superman's Secret Message	in-house column	0.33	letters: typeset
10	The World Series of Tomorrow!	comic story	5.67	pencils: Jim Mooney; inks: Jim Mooney	Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Captain Brent Wood
11	Three Exciting New Adventures	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33
12	It's in the Bag	text article	2	letters: typeset
13	-	activity	1	script: Martin Naydel; pencils: Martin Naydel; inks: Martin Naydel; letters: Martin Naydel
14	Vigilante -- Foreign Correspondent!	comic story	8	pencils: Howard Sherman; inks: Howard Sherman	Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Bill Turner

Plus 4.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
The Best of DC #1	1979	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
DC Finest: Science Fiction: The Gorilla World #[nn] ISBN 978-1-79950-215-9	2025	On eBay ›

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