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Issue: Action Comics [ashcan] #1

- Attribution History

Publication Date: December 1937

Issue #1

Detail

Issues: #1 of 1 Issue

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Merwil

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume:

Pages: 20

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 3 (2 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Ashcan edition. Printed up only to secure trademark of a title with the U.S. patent and trademark office.

Per Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office. Volume 492, July 1938 (July 19), page 500, title submitted to Trademark Office on January 28, 1938. Logo submitted was that on this ashcan edition, which is nearly the same as the one later used for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (dated June 1938, but on sale April 18, 1938). There are slight differences between the two in the word 'Comics'. Trademark serial number 402,431. Merwil Publishing Co. Inc., New York, New York. Action Comics for magazine publication. Claims in use since December 1, 1937.

Hand trimmed.

Updated contents from Leonardo de Sa.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: black and white cover; black and white interior ?

Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. size

Paper Stock: glossy Velox cover ?; pulp rebound pages used for interior

Binding: stapled

Publishing Format: ashcan

Format Notes:

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