Action Comics #218 (1956) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Super-Ape from Krypton!	cover	1	pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan Kaye; colors: Jack Adler	Superman [Clark Kent]; Super-Ape
2	The Super-Ape from Krypton	comic story	12	script: Edmond Hamilton; pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan Kaye	Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Super Ape (introduction); Shir Kan (flashback); Jor-El (flashback); John Trask (villain); Paul Spender (villain)
4	Do-It-Yourself Safety Rules!	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Amilcar Ruben Moreira; inks: Amilcar Ruben Moreira; letters: Ira Schnapp
5	The Strange Jungle Jinx	comic story	6	pencils: Leonard Starr; inks: Leonard Starr	Congo Bill; Janu the Jungle Boy; Chota (chimpazee); Jim Bell; Fred Troy
8	-	comic story	0.67	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff	Little Pete
9	Superman's Secret Message	in-house column	0.33	letters: typeset
10	How to Be a Skin Diver	text article	2	script: John Maxton
11	Showcase	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
12	The Interplanetary Aquarium	comic story	6	script: Otto Binder; pencils: Jim Mooney; inks: Jim Mooney	Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Captain Brent Wood

Plus 6 pages of advertisements and other matter across 7 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Action Comics #289	1962	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
1956-1959 ISBN 978-1-68405-061-1	2017	On eBay ›
The Silver Age of Superman The Greatest Covers of Action Comics from the '50s to the '70s #[nn] ISBN 0-89660-055-6	1995	On eBay ›
The Rocket's Blast Comicollector #146	1978	On eBay ›

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