Action Comics #3 (1938) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Leo E. O'Mealia; inks: Leo E. O'Mealia
1	Big Shots of the Comic Field!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.7	letters: typeset
2	Indicia	credits, title page	0.3	letters: typeset
3	The Blakely Mine Disaster	comic story	12.67	script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Clark Kent, Superman, George Taylor
4	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33
5	Murder at the Blue Bird Dance Palace	comic story	6	pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will Ely	Rusty James, Scoop Scanlon
6	Wins a Doubleheader	comic story	4	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Gene Baxter; inks: Gene Baxter	Pep Morgan
7	Shifty Simpson	comic story	4	script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: Alger	Shifty Simpson
8	Episode 3	comic story	4	pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven Elvén; letters: Sven Elven	Marco Polo
9	Sports at Sea	text story	2	script: Dick Lawlor	Ted Farrell; Captain Blake
10	The Sealed City, Part 2	comic story	12	pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard Baily; letters: Bernard Baily	Bob Daley, Tex Thomson
11	The 4-G Gang, Part 3	comic story	6	pencils: Homer Fleming; inks: Homer Fleming	Chuck Dawson
12	Death from the Air	comic story	12	pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred Guardineer	Tigress, Tong, Zatara
13	-	cartoon	1	pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan
14	$25 in Cash Prizes Waiting to Be Won by You!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Collection	Year
Superman #[1]	1939	On eBay ›
Superman: The Action Comics Archives #1 ISBN 1-56389-335-5	1998	On eBay ›
The Superman Chronicles #1 ISBN 1-4012-0764-2	2006	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 #1 ISBN 9781401261092	2016	On eBay ›
DC Finest: Superman: The First Superhero #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77952-833-9	2025	On eBay ›

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