Action Comics #101 (1946) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Superman Covers Atom Bomb Test!	cover	1	pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan Kaye; colors: Jack Adler	Superman [Clark Kent]
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	L Is for Lion	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	Crime Paradise!	comic story	12	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Joe Shuster, John Sikela, Stan Kaye	Superman [Clark Kent]; Specs Dour; Lois Lane; Craig Dennison; Bruce Doyle; Axel; P.J. Moran
6	Devilfish's Domain!	comic story	5.67	script: Alvin Schwartz; pencils: Ed Smalle; inks: Ed Smalle	Congo Bill; Malcolm Fitch; Fred Miller; Joe Roeding
7	Supermen of America	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
9	The Perfect Hideaway!	comic story	5	script: Alvin Schwartz; pencils: Stan Kaye; inks: Stan Kaye	Hayfoot Henry (a Policeman); Wilkens (villain, a young boy, swindler)
11	When East Goes West!	comic story	10	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: George Roussos	The Vigilante [Greg Saunders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Carstairs
12	Little Morton	comic story	0.5	script: Phil Berube; pencils: Phil Berube; inks: Phil Berube
14	Quiet Beat	text story	2	script: Stan Carter	Big Moose; The Duke
15	The Man Who Didn't Dare!	comic story	7	pencils: William White; inks: William White	Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Henry Peck; Mrs. Peck
17	Tops in Comics!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

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

Collection	Year
Superboy #9	1950	On eBay ›
Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #15	1956	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes #[nn] ISBN 0-8212-2076-4	1995	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #5 ISBN 978-1-4012-7476-4	2018	On eBay ›

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