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Issue: Action Comics #26
Publication Date: July 1940
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Issues: #26 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: 05/22/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 22 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 3. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 461255.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #2 published November 1998
as Action Comics #26 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #2 published November 1998
as Back Cover [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]back cover; 1/4 page
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Golden Age Omnibus #1 published August 2013
as Action Comics #26 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Yellow "S" on blue shield on cape.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Professor Cobalt's Clinic

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; George Taylor (unnamed); Tommy; Little Mary; Dr. Wortington; Professor Clarence Cobalt (villain); Grafton (villain)
Synopsis: Professor Cobalt, proprietor of the Cobalt Clinic, has his advertisement turned down by the Daily Planet because it makes spurious claims. Clark runs him out after Cobalt gets aggressive with George Taylor. George gets Clark and Lois to investigate the clinic for an exposé.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #2 published November 1998
as Professor Cobalt's Clinic [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Golden Age Omnibus #1 published August 2013
as Professor Cobalt's Clinic [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Includes a one-panel plea after the end of the story for contributions to President Roosevelt's Infantile Paralysis Fund.
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Supermen of America

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.67
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Feature(s): Model Airplane News
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Pages: 0.33
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Attention!

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Feature(s): Superman
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Pages: 0.5
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Superman Is on the Radio!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): The Adventures of Superman
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Pages: 0.5
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Trapped in the Snow

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Pep Morgan; Pierre
Synopsis: On a hunting expedition to Saskatchewan, Canada, Pep and his friend Pierre are snowed in and must traverse hundreds of miles to get to the next outpost before another storm.
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Pages: 6
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Rescued

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Genres: historical
Character(s): The Black Pirate [Jon Valor]; Captain Courtney; Jeanne; Captain Ruff's brother (villain)
Synopsis: The Black Pirate is trapped in a shark-infested sea. After fighting them off, he is picked up by another ship, run by Captain Courtney. When they dock at Savannah, Jon Valor leaves town on horseback. He meets up with a childhood friend, Jeanne, at an inn. That night, a bearded intruder comes to the inn and demands the Black Pirate.
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Pages: 4
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Ingrid Svenson's Inheritance

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Three Aces
Character(s): Three Aces [Fog Fortune; Gunner Bill; Whistler Will]; Ingrid Svensen; New Guinea natives
Synopsis: Looking for adventure in California, Gunner encounters a crying girl, Ingrid Svensen, in a diner. She needs an flight to New Guinea to retrieve pearls from on top of Devil Mountain, pearls that her father left to her in his will. Once there, the Three Aces have to figure out how to help Ingrid get the pearls.
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Pages: 6
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Popsicle
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Pages: 2
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Introducing "Miss X"

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): "Tex" Thomson
Character(s): Tex Thomson; Bob Daley; Miss X (introduction); Special Prosecutor Maloney; J. Vander Wallace; Lefty
Synopsis: Since Gargantua T. Potts joined the French Army, Tex and Bob find things pretty dull, but a phone call threatening death if they mix in with the new prosecutor, Maloney, gets them set on a new investigation. Maloney deputizes them to help sniff out rackets. Working on the case, they are helped by the mysterious Miss X.
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Pages: 10
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Message to the Major [Part 2]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: war
Character(s): Subaltern Jones
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Across two pages.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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Pages: 0.25
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Feature(s): Morrow Coaster Brake
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: At the bottom of the second page of the text story.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Several small ads on both pages of the text story.
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Claim Jumpers

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Clip Carson
Character(s): Clip Carson; Marion Trent; James Trent; Villains: Jacques Frontenac; the "devil wolf"
Synopsis: Clip runs into Marion Trent in New York City and ends up helping her get to her father's cabin in the Hudson Bay area. Her father found a lode, and Jacques Frontenac and his spies are after the location.
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Pages: 6
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Action Stamp Page
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: All ads.
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The Jagtooth Gold Mine

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Genres: occult
Character(s): Zatara; Tong; Annette Devere; Francois Devere; Henri Jardine (flashback); Tony
Synopsis: Zatara and Tong are in the far north searching for the Jagtooth Gold Mine he has been commissioned to find. At a cabin beset by the plague, Zatara gives the inhabitants medicine and asks them about the mine. They say that the mine is guarded by a vicious man, Tony, whom Zatara will have to defeat to return the mine to his friend, Henri Jardine.
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Pages: 11
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The "Big Six" Comic Magazines Still Lead the Field!

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Remington Rand
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Feature(s): Home Recording Co.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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