Action Comics #79 (1944) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Jack Burnley; inks: Stan Kaye; colors: Jack Adler	Superman [Clark Kent]; J. Wilbur Wolfingham
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67	letters: typeset
3	The Golden Fleece!	comic story	12	script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Ira Yarbrough; inks: George Roussos	Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; J. Wilbur Wolfingham
5	The Taming of the Tiger!	comic story	5	pencils: Thurston Harper; inks: Thurston Harper	Hayfoot Henry
7	Birds of Ill Omen!	comic story	10	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: Mort Meskin	The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; The Fiddler (villain); Fiddler's gang [Sailor; Droop; Spike] (villains)
8	-	comic story	0.67	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff	Chief Hot Foot
9	Superman's Secret Message	in-house column	0.33	letters: typeset
11	Kid Brother	text story	2	script: Joseph Greene
12	High in the Andes!	comic story	5.67	script: Whitney Ellsworth; pencils: Edwin Smalle; inks: Edwin Smalle	Congo Bill; Drake; Trigger Garson; Blackie; Taltec
15	When Magic Fails!	comic story	8	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: William F. White; inks: William F. White	Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Peter Paunch

Plus 6.33 pages of advertisements and other matter across 7 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Superman: The Action Comics Archives #5 ISBN 1-4012-1188-7	2007	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #4 ISBN 978-1-4012-7257-9	2017	On eBay ›

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