Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1939-01-02
Editing: Vin Sullivan (credited as Vincent A. Sullivan) (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #9 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:sports
Reprints (8)

Issue Data

  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: monthly
  • Printer: [none printed]

Indexer Notes

On sale date from the publication date and volume number found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 1. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 411088.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Sport-Data / cartoon / 0.67 page

Script:
Pencils:
George Papp (signed as GEP)
Inks:
George Papp (signed as GEP)
Letters:
?
  • Genre:non-fiction; sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Christy Mathewson never pitched a game...

Indexer Notes

Found on the inside front cover. Writer credit added by Craig Delich.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 2)

credits, title page / 0.33 page

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

[Wanted: Superman]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Superman / comic story / 13 pages

Script:
Jerry Siegel (credited)
Pencils:
Joe Shuster (credited)
Inks:
Joe Shuster (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:adventure; superhero
Characters:
Detective Captain Reilly; Mortimer Snoop
Synopsis:
Superman, having torn down a slum area so that newer, more modern apartments could be built, is labeled as a crook by the Chief of Police, who assigns Detective Reilly (better known as "100% Reilly" because he always gets his man) to bring the Man of Tomorrow in.
Reprints (6)

Indexer Notes

"S" Symbol is all yellow.

There are no apparent Lauretta inks here, but evidence of Boring on both pencils and inks.

[The Lefty Larroway Gang, Part 1]
(Table of Contents: 4)

Scoop Scanlon / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely)
Inks:
Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely)
Colors:
? (red tones)
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; crime; detective-mystery
Characters:
Mace (villain); Stoop (villain); Logan (dies); Lefty Larroway (villain); Spud (villain)

Indexer Notes

Printed in red, black and white.

[The Ice Boat Race]
(Table of Contents: 5)

Pep Morgan / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hi, Pep! Goin' skatin'?
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Dick; the Professor

Indexer Notes

Writer credit added by Craig Delich.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 6)

The Diddle Family / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:domestic; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Wow! Wait'll you see, Gramps...
Characters:
The Diddle Family

Indexer Notes

Script credit and letterer credit verified by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

Episode 9
(Table of Contents: 7)

The Adventures of Marco Polo / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Sven Elven (credited as Sven Elvén) (illustrated by)
Inks:
Sven Elven (credited as Sven Elvén) (illustrated by)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:adventure; historical
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Jubilant at the happy outcome of the affair at Kerman...
Characters:
Shela; Rajah Dahg

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.

Frozen Hazard [Part 2]
(Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 1.65 pages

Script:
Richard Martin (credited)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Tim Rourke, air mail pilot, is forced down in the Arctic wastes somewhere between...
  • Keywords:Arctic
Characters:
Tim Rourke; Bill Ryan

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustrations.

Pages include a few small ads.

This Genuine Junior Guitar For You!
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 9)

Lancaster County Seeds / advertisement / 0.05 page

All-Wave Air Scout
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 10)

Air Scout Jr. Radio / advertisement / 0.1 page

Boys! Earn Money and a Bike!
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 11)

Crowell / Crowell-Collier Publishing Company Magazines / advertisement / 0.2 page

[Dr. Kichung's Ape Army, Part 2]
(Table of Contents: 12)

Tex Thomson / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Bernard Baily (credited, signed)
Inks:
Bernard Baily (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:adventure; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Imprisoned by Dr. Kichung...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Alicia Stockton; Dr. Kichung (villain); Koyto

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 13)

Sport-Data / cartoon / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
George Papp (signed as GEP)
Inks:
George Papp (signed as GEP)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:non-fiction; sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Water boy going in at quarter...
Characters:
Christy Mathewson

Indexer Notes

Writer credit added by Craig Delich.

Philately's Founder
(Table of Contents: 14)

World of Stamps / Stamp Action / Action Stamp Page / text article / 0.6 page

Script:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Page includes several small ads from stamps dealers.

[no title indexed]
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Abell Stamps; Capital Stamps; Daub Stamps; Dolin Stamps; Eureka Stamps; Floral City Stamps; Frasek Stamps; Kent Stamps; Pearson Bros. Stamps / advertisement / 0.4 page

[The 4-G Gang, Part 9]
(Table of Contents: 16)

Chuck Dawson / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
? (red tones)
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; western-frontier
Characters:
Blacky (horse)

Indexer Notes

Printed in red, black and white.

The Mad Lama
(Table of Contents: 17)

Zatara / comic story / 12 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Fred Guardineer (credited)
Inks:
Fred Guardineer (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; superhero; fantasy-supernatural
Characters:
Jerbel; Lalla Gor; Henri

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 18)

Candid Comic Camera / cartoon / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Bob Kane (credited)
Inks:
Bob Kane (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hi'ya folks! Here are candid snapshots of famous inventors...

Indexer Notes

Five unrelated gag panels.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 19)

AdventurEvents / cartoon / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:non-fiction; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Young boy made king of savages!
Characters:
John Boyes; Anna Edson Taylor; David Farragut; Captain Gerhard Folgero

Indexer Notes

Found on the inside back cover.

[no title indexed]
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 20)

Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog / advertisement / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
  2. ["Christy Mathewson never pitched a game..."]
    Sport-Data
  3. [no title indexed]
  4. [Wanted: Superman]
    Superman
  5. [The Lefty Larroway Gang, Part 1]
    Scoop Scanlon
  6. [The Ice Boat Race]
    Pep Morgan
  7. ["Wow! Wait'll you see, Gramps..."]
    The Diddle Family
  8. Episode 9
    The Adventures of Marco Polo
  9. Frozen Hazard [Part 2]
  10. This Genuine Junior Guitar For You!
    Lancaster County Seeds
  11. All-Wave Air Scout
    Air Scout Jr. Radio
  12. Boys! Earn Money and a Bike!
    Crowell / Crowell-Collier Publishing Company Magazines
  13. [Dr. Kichung's Ape Army, Part 2]
    Tex Thomson
  14. ["Water boy going in at quarter..."]
    Sport-Data
  15. Philately's Founder
    World of Stamps / Stamp Action / Action Stamp Page
  16. [no title indexed]
    Abell Stamps; Capital Stamps; Daub Stamps; Dolin Stamps; Eureka Stamps; Floral City Stamps; Frasek Stamps; Kent Stamps; Pearson Bros. Stamps
  17. [The 4-G Gang, Part 9]
    Chuck Dawson
  18. The Mad Lama
    Zatara
  19. ["Hi'ya folks! Here are candid snapshots of famous inventors..."]
    Candid Comic Camera
  20. ["Young boy made king of savages!"]
    AdventurEvents
  21. [no title indexed]
    Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog
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