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Action Comics (1938)
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Editor(s):
Murray Boltinoff
Whitney Ellsworth
Mort Weisinger
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Fred Ray
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Cover Date:
May 1942
Cover Price:
US $0.10
Issue Tagline:
WORLD'S LARGEST SELLING COMIC MAGAZINE
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Color; Standard Comic Issue; 68 pages
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Reprinted/Collected in:
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