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Issue: Action Comics #9
Publication Date: February 1939
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Issues: #9 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/02/1939
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date and volume number found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 1. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 411088.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #1 [First Printing] published February 1997
as Action Comics #9 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Superman Chronicles #1 [First Printing] published April 2006
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Golden Age Omnibus #1 published August 2013
as Action Comics #9 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Feature(s): Sport Data
First Line: Christy Mathewson never pitched a game...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside front cover.
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[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Wanted: Superman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; George Taylor (unnamed); Detective Captain Reilly; Mortimer Snoop
First Line: Lifting tremendous weights...
Synopsis: Superman, having torn down a slum area so that newer, more modern apartments could be built, is labeled as a crook by the Chief of Police, who assigns Detective Reilly (better known as "100% Reilly" because he always gets his man) to bring the Man of Tomorrow in.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #1 [First Printing] published February 1997
as Wanted: Superman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Superman Chronicles #1 [First Printing] published April 2006
as Wanted: Superman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Golden Age Omnibus #1 published August 2013
as Wanted: Superman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: "S" Symbol is all yellow.
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The Lefty Laroway Gang, Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (red tones)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Scoop Scanlon, Five Star Reporter
Character(s): Scoop Scanlon; Lefty Laroway
First Line: Hi, Logan...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Printed in red, black and white.
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The Ice Boat Race

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Pep Morgan
Character(s): Pep Morgan; Dick; the Professor
First Line: Hi, Pep! Goin' skatin'?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Feature(s): The Diddle Family
Character(s): The Diddle Family
First Line: Wow! Wait'll you see, Gramps...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): The Adventures of Marco Polo
Character(s): Marco Polo; Shela; Rajah Dahg
First Line: Jubilant at the happy outcome of the affair at Kerman...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Frozen Hazard [Part 2]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Tim Rourke; Bill Ryan
First Line: Tim Rourke, air mail pilot, is forced down in the Arctic wastes somewhere between...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations.

Pages include a few small ads.
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Dr. Kichung's Ape Army, Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Tex Thomson
Character(s): Tex Thomson; Dr. Kichung (villain)
First Line: Imprisoned by Dr. Kichung...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Feature(s): Sport-Data
Character(s): Christy Mathewson
First Line: Water boy going in at quarter...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Philately's Founder

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): World of Stamps
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page includes several small ads from stamps dealers.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (red tones)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): "Chuck" Dawson
Character(s): Chuck Dawson; Blacky (horse)
First Line: Chuck succeeds in drawing the gunmen from their attack...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Printed in red, black and white.
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The Mad Lama

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Zatara, the Master Magician
Character(s): Zatara; Tong; Jerbel; Tigress; Lalla Gor; Henri
First Line: High on the cold mountains of inner Asia, in the hills of Tibet, dwell the...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Candid Comic Camera
First Line: Hi'ya folks! Here are candid snapshots of famous inventors...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Five unrelated gag panels.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): AdventurEvents
Character(s): John Boyes; Anna Edson Taylor; David Farragut; Captain Gerhard Folgero
First Line: Young boy made king of savages!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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