Action Comics #26 (1940) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Wayne Boring	Clark Kent, Superman
2	Professor Cobalt's Clinic	comic story	12.88	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster, Joe Shuster; inks: Siegel and Shuster Studio; letters: Frank Shuster	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Superman, George Taylor
3	-	public service announcement	0.12
4	-	in-house column	0.67	letters: typeset
6	Attention!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Paul Lauretta	Clark Kent, Superman
8	Trapped in the Snow	comic story	6	pencils: Gene Baxter; inks: Gene Baxter	Pep Morgan
9	Rescued	comic story	4	pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff	The Black Pirate, Jon Valor
10	Ingrid Svenson's Inheritance	comic story	6	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Chad; inks: Chad	Fog Fortune, Gunner Bill, Whistler Will
12	Introducing "Miss X"	comic story	10	script: Ken Fitch; pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard Baily; letters: Bernard Baily	Bob Daley, Tex Thomson
13	Message to the Major [Part 2]	text story	1	script: G. F. Fox	Subaltern Jones
17	Claim Jumpers	comic story	6	pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff	Clip Carson
19	The Jagtooth Gold Mine	comic story	11	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred Guardineer	Zatara
20	The "Big Six" Comic Magazines Still Lead the Field!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

Plus 7.83 pages of advertisements and other matter across 10 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Superman: The Action Comics Archives #2 ISBN 1-56389-426-2	1998	On eBay ›
The Superman Chronicles #4 ISBN 978-1-4012-1658-0	2008	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-4189-6	2013	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age #2 ISBN 978-1-4012-6530-4	2017	On eBay ›

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