Action Comics #86 (1945) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	7th War Loan	cover	1	pencils: Jack Burnley; inks: Stan Kaye	Superman [Clark Kent]
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	People Like to Laugh!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	The Enchanted Mountain!	comic story	11	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Superman [Clark Kent]; the Wizard of Wokit; Lois Lane
6	Mysterious Marauder!	comic story	5.67	script: Jack Miller; pencils: John Daly; inks: John Daly	Congo Bill; Gul Khan; Blake; Randall
7	-	public service announcement	0.33
9	Orient of the Occident!	comic story	10	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: Mort Meskin	The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Wang Shi
11	In the Cards	text story	2	script: Blair Bolton
12	The Pyrotechnician!	comic story	5	pencils: Stan Kaye; inks: Stan Kaye	Hayfoot Henry
14	Crime -- Off the Record!	comic story	8	pencils: William F. White; inks: William F. White	Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Butch Baker
16	-	comic story	0.5	script: Lit-Win; pencils: Lit-Win; inks: Lit-Win
17	-	in-house column	0.5

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

Collection	Year
Superman #272	1974	On eBay ›
The Best of DC #38	1983	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War #[nn] ISBN 978-1-60699-987-5	2017	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #5 ISBN 978-1-4012-7476-4	2018	On eBay ›

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