Action Comics #234 (1957) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Creature of 1,000 Disguises!	cover	1	pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Stan Kaye; colors: Jack Adler	Superman [Clark Kent]
1	Teddy Roosevelt: Guardian of Nature	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Amilcar Ruben Moreira; inks: Amilcar Ruben Moreira; letters: Ira Schnapp
2	The Creature of 1,000 Disguises	comic story	12	script: Edmond Hamilton; pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan Kaye	Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Gollo (alien shape-shifter); Johnny Miles; his mother
3	Tomahawk; Superman	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
4	Bird to Worm	activity	1	script: Martin Naydel; pencils: Martin Naydel; inks: Martin Naydel; letters: Martin Naydel
5	-	comic story	0.67	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
6	Superman's Secret Message	in-house column	0.33	letters: typeset
7	The Robot Animals	comic story	6	script: Robert Bernstein; pencils: Howard Sherman; inks: Howard Sherman	Congo Bill; Janu, the Jungle Boy; Carl Kirk
8	The First Baseball Game	text article	1	letters: typeset
9	-	comic story	2	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
10	The Interplanetary Hitch-Hiker	comic story	6	script: Otto Binder; pencils: Jim Mooney; inks: Jim Mooney	Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Black Star (space villain); Captain Brent Wood
12	Clue Cartoon	activity	0.5	script: Martin Naydel; pencils: Martin Naydel; inks: Martin Naydel; letters: Martin Naydel

Plus 3.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

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