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Action Comics (1938)
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#57
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Editor(s):
Whitney Ellsworth
Jack Schiff
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John Sikela
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Cover Date:
February 1943
Cover Price:
US $0.10
Issue Tagline:
WORLD'S LARGEST SELLING COMIC MAGAZINE
Up pops
THE PRANKSTER
SUPERMAN'S
most puzzling foe...
in the fast and
screwball adventure
titled
"CRIME'S COMEDY KING"
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Color; Standard Comic Issue; 68 pages
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Reprinted/Collected in:
Superman: The Action Comics Archives (1998) HC vol. 04
Wanted, the World's Most Dangerous Villains (1972) #9
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