Action Comics #97 (1946) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: John Sikela; colors: Jack Adler	Hocus; Pocus; Superman
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	H Is for Hippopotamus	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	The Magician's Convention!	comic story	12	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Hocus [Doc]; Pocus [Flannel-Head]; Conrad the Conjuror; Gregor the Great
6	The Rhyme That Wasn't There!	comic story	4	script: Alvin Schwartz; pencils: Stan Kaye; inks: Stan Kaye	Hayfoot Henry
8	The Animal Master!	comic story	10	pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: George Roussos	The Vigilante [Greg Saunders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Fanger (villain)
9	Scuffy the Tramp	comic story	0.5	script: Lit-Win; pencils: Lit-Win; inks: Lit-Win
11	Crime's Partners	text story	2	script: Tom Neill	Big Nick; Tommy Gerard; Charley the Gyp; Evan Roberts
12	The Reindeer Racketeers!	comic story	5.67	script: Alvin Schwartz; pencils: Edwin Smalle; inks: Edwin Smalle	Congo Bill; Eskimos (First Nations tribe); Yukon Pete
13	Superman's Secret Message	in-house column	0.33	letters: typeset
15	Magic Sports!	comic story	7	pencils: William White; inks: William White	Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Weak Willie

Plus 8.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 9 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Superman #272	1974	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #5 ISBN 978-1-4012-7476-4	2018	On eBay ›

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