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Issue: Action Comics #17
Publication Date: October 1939
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Issues: #17 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/24/1939
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date and volume number found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 427466.
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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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Content Items
 
Title Genre Feature(s) Character(s)
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Illustration on Cover, Front		 superhero   Superman [Clark Kent]
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		   Johnson Smith & Co.  
The Return of the Ultra-Humanite
Story on Interior Page(s)		 superhero   Superman [Clark Kent]; George Taylor (unnamed); Ultra-Humanite
Superman's Special Message to the Superman of America
Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)		   Supermen of America  
A Second Big Book of Superman!
Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)		     Superman [Clark Kent]
On the Ranch
Story on Interior Page(s)		 adventure   Pep Morgan; Mary Smith; Mr. Smith; Buck; Pedro (villain)
The Mysterious Rescue
Story on Interior Page(s)		 historical   Marco Polo; Kargan; Abu El Kaf (villain)
The Cult of the Tiger, Part 1
Story on Interior Page(s)		 adventure "Clip" Carson Clip Carson; Japur Chunda; Jaffeer; Panjore; The Cult of the Tiger (villains)
A Lion's Share
Text Story on Interior Page(s)		 adventure   Bill; Tom
The Return of the Gorrah, Part 1
Story on Interior Page(s)		 adventure   Tex Thomson; The Gorrah (villain); Bob Daley; Gargantua T. Potts; Ali-Baba
The Horse That Breathes Through His Neck!
Cartoon on Interior Page(s)		 sports   Peter Song (a horse); George Varoff
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		   The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company  
Royal Academy Commemorated
Text Article on Interior Page(s)		 non-fiction Action Stamp Page Jons Jacob Berzelius; King George VI; Pope Pius XII
The Stage Hold-Up
Story on Interior Page(s)		 adventure   Chuck Dawson; gun-hawks (villains); Ham; Blacky (horse)
Autographs of Adam and Eve and of Judas Iscariot
Cartoon on Interior Page(s)		 informational   John Wilkes Booth
The Peril of Ophir
Story on Interior Page(s)		 occult   Zatara; Beth Jordan; John Jordan; Setap (villain)
Superman at the World's Fair!
Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)		   New York World's Fair Comics Superman; Zatara; Sandman
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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		   Johnson Smith & Co.  
Be a Frontiersman
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		   Daisy Air Rifles Kit Karr
 
 

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