Action Comics #119 (1948) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Superman for a Day	cover	1	pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Stan Kaye	Superman
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	Superman for a Day!	comic story	12	script: Edmond Hamilton; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer	Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; The Helicopter Bandits (villains); Jim Banning (also spelled Blanning); Martin Grew
6	Treasure Trove!	comic story	5.67	pencils: Ed Smalle; inks: Ed Smalle	Congo Bill; Count Narski (villain); Greg Whitney; Otto
7	Superman's Secret Message	in-house column	0.33	letters: typeset
9	Concert for Crime!	comic story	7	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: William White; inks: William White	Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; P. Piper; the Mayor of Oak City (villain)
12	Cabbie Casey	comic story	4	script: Jack Farr; pencils: Jack Farr; inks: Jack Farr; letters: Jack Farr	Cabbie Casey; Moiph
13	Cooking with Gas	text story	2	script: Charles Winslow	Unnamed escaped convict; Mrs. Garrick
14	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
15	The Birthday That Backfired!	comic story	9	script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: George Roussos	The Vigilante [Greg Saunders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; The Rainbow Man (villain); Pop Gunn
16	Western Comics	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
17	-	comic story	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
19	Leave It to Binky	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

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

Collection	Year
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #6 ISBN 978-1-4012-9193-8	2019	On eBay ›

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