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100September 1946
$0.10

Action Comics #100

DC · September 1946 · on sale 1946-07-15

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Identification plate

Series
Action Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue
#100
Publication date
September 1946
Key date
1946-09-00
On-sale date
1946-07-15
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
52

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0The Sleuth Who Never Failedcover1pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Ed DobrotkaSuperman; Inspector Hawkins; Clark Kent
2The Sleuth Who Never Failed!comic story12script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe ShusterSuperman [Clark Kent]; Inspector Hawkins (introduction); Lois Lane
5The Rhyming Horse!comic story4script: Al Schwartz; pencils: Stan Kaye; inks: Stan KayeHayfoot Henry
7The Case of the Captive Seals!comic story6pencils: Fred Ray; inks: Fred RayCongo Bill
8Editorial Advisory Boardpromo (ad from the publisher)0.33letters: typeset
9K Is the Letter for Kangaroopromo (ad from the publisher)0.67
10Indian Signtext story2script: Ben Ballard
11Sunshine Nellycomic story1script: Jack Callahan; pencils: Jack Callahan; inks: Jack Callahan
12-comic story0.5pencils: Lit-Win; inks: Lit-Win
14The Book That Was Too Real!comic story10script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: George RoussosThe Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; J. Scriver Tome; Blast Beadle (reformed crook)
15Here's a Fact Magazine with Superman Punch!promo (ad from the publisher)0.67
16Supermen of Americapromo (ad from the publisher)0.33letters: typeset
17Magic -- Past or Present!comic story7script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: W. F. White; inks: W. F. WhiteZatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Merlin; Toth; the Delphic Ooracle; Appolonius; Cagliostro; Morpheus

Plus 6.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 7 sequences, as published.

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Superman in Action Comics #1
ISBN 1-55859-595-3
1993On eBay ›
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ISBN 978-1-4012-7476-4
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