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Action Comics (1938) - #23
DC Comics

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Joe Shuster
  

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Cover Date: April 1940
Cover Price: US $0.10

Issue Tagline: WORLD'S LARGEST SELLING COMIC MAGAZINE

Format: Color; Standard Comic Issue; 64 pages

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Reprinted/Collected in:
The Superman Chronicles (2006) TPB vol. 03
Superman In The Forties (2005) TPB
Superman Vs. Lex Luthor (2006) TPB
Superman: The Action Comics Archives (1998) HC vol. 02

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This was the first Action cover to feature the "DC bullet"—that is, it was the first issue to be published under a DC logo.

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