Action Comics #33 for Sale - First Appearance of Mr. America - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Action Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue: #33
Publication date: February 1941
Key date: 1941-02-00
On-sale date: 1940-12-20
Indicia publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Mr. America - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Wayne Boring	Clark Kent, Superman
2	Something Amiss at the Lumber Camp	comic story	13	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Jack Burnley; inks: Jack Burnley	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Superman, Perry White
3	Supermen of America	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
5	The Gas Rifle	comic story	6	pencils: George Papp; inks: George Papp	Pep Morgan
6	The Capture of the Queen of the Seas	comic story	4	pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff	The Black Pirate, Bonnie, Jon Valor
7	Here You Are, Fans!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
9	The Treasure of Kublai Khan	comic story	6	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Chad Grothkopf; inks: Chad Grothkopf	Fog Fortune, Gunner Bill, Whistler Will
10	Just Like Junior	comic story	2
11	The Origin of Mr. America	comic story	8	script: Ken Fitch; pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard Baily	Mr. America First, Tex Thomson
12	Human Chessmen	text story	1.28	script: Gardner Fox
16	Mr. Z.	comic story	6	pencils: George Papp; inks: George Papp	Clip Carson
17	The Spectre	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	letters: typeset
18	A Town Crier	cartoon	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
19	Minnesota	cartoon	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
20	Hurry Hurry Hurry!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	letters: typeset
22	The Platinum Idol	comic story	9	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Joseph Sulman; inks: Joseph Sulman	Zatara
23	At the Top of the Field!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset

Plus 6.66 pages of advertisements and other matter across 9 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Superman: The Action Comics Archives #2 ISBN 1-56389-426-2	1998	On eBay ›
The Superman Chronicles #5 ISBN 978-1-4012-1851-5	2008	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #2 ISBN 978-1-4012-6324-9	2016	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age #3 ISBN 978-1-4012-7089-6	2017	On eBay ›

Reading the story costs a fraction of owning the issue. Both routes are on every file.

Before you buy

Golden-age paper is brittle. Ask about page suppleness and check edges for chips in the photos.
Check for trimmed edges, married covers, and clipped coupons - all common on books this old.
Confirm the indicia matches this plate; many golden-age titles changed names mid-run.

Series context

‹ #3233 of 866#34 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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