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Issue: Action Comics #23
Publication Date: April 1940
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Issues: #23 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/23/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 22 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: This is the first issue with a DC bullet on cover.

The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 449540. The filing states that Detective Comics, Inc. is the publisher and copyright holder.
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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:  
Disclose Reprinted In7
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
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Adult Image
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Content Items
 
Title Pages Job Number Notes
[untitled]
Illustration on Cover, Front		 1    
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		 1   Inside front cover.
Europe at War, Part 2
Story on Interior Page(s)		 13   Radio show begins 2/12/40; Superman #4 on sale 2/15/40. Although this predates Action 23, the Luthor story here comes first. The last panel of this story is an illoed promo ad for the Sandman in ASdventure Comics.
Now on Sale!
Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)		 1    
Supermen of America
Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)		 1    
Trouble at the Mine
Story on Interior Page(s)		 6    
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Story on Interior Page(s)		 4   Title is given in panel 3, page 1 of story.
The Lost City of Gold
Story on Interior Page(s)		 6    
No. 1 - Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Text Article on Interior Page(s)		 0.75    
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		 0.25    
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		 0.5    
How to Find Bones
Story on Interior Page(s)		 0.17    
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		 0.33    
The Man with the Rubber Face
Story on Interior Page(s)		 10    
Spy's Return
Text Story on Interior Page(s)		 1.5    
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		 0.5    
Revolution in Verdania, Part 1
Story on Interior Page(s)		 6    
Red Cross Anniversary
Text Article on Interior Page(s)		 1   Page includes many small ads from stamps dealers.
The Treasure Tower
Story on Interior Page(s)		 11    
Six Big Headline Features for the "Big Six" Comic Magazines!
Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)		 1    
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		 1   Inside back cover.
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)		 1   Back cover.
 
 

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