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Issue: Action Comics #21
Publication Date: February 1940
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Issues: #21 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/24/1939
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 at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 440423.
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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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Title Pages Job Number Notes
[untitled]
Illustration on Cover, Front		 1    
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		 1   Inside front cover.
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		 1    
The Atomic Disintegrator
Story on Interior Page(s)		 13   Oddity: on page 1, Clark Kent mysteriously is shown in a suit, then undershirt, and back to suit again with no explanation. The last panel of the story introduces by illo and text a new feature called The Spectre.
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		 1    
The Florida Handicap Race
Story on Interior Page(s)		 6    
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)		 4    
The Gun-Running Racket
Story on Interior Page(s)		 6   Moldoff signs on the final page.
Last Chance... Act Now!!
Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)		 2    
The Doll Murders
Story on Interior Page(s)		 10    
A Blaze of Glory
Text Story on Interior Page(s)		 1.67    
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		 0.33   Several small ads in the right-hand column of the second page of the text story.
The Lost Scot Gold Mine, Part 1
Story on Interior Page(s)		 6    
[untitled]
Cartoon on Interior Page(s)		 0.5    
[untitled]
Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)		 0.5    
1940's Fair Honored
Text Article on Interior Page(s)		 1   Page includes lots of small ads from stamps dealers.
The Deaths on the Moor
Story on Interior Page(s)		 11   Zatara is visiting Lord Ralway in Sussex, England, and his host mentions in the first panel that they are close to where Sherlock Holmes "used to perform his feats of detection". Holmes did retire to Sussex in his old age, but the plot makes greater use of themes from "The Hound of the Baskervilles", which occur mainly on Dartmoor, in the county of Devon.
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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		 1   Inside back cover.
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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		 1   Back cover.
 
 

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