Action Comics #227 (1957) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Man with Triple X-Ray Eyes!	cover	1	pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan Kaye; colors: Jack Adler	Superman [Clark Kent]
2	The Man with the Triple X-Ray Eyes	comic story	12	script: Edmond Hamilton; pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan Kaye	Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane
4	Buzzy Learns about Careers in Nursing	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Amilcar Ruben Moreira; inks: Amilcar Ruben Moreira; letters: Milt Snapinn
5	-	comic story	0.67	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
6	Superman's Secret Message	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
7	The Great Jungle Animal Count!	comic story	6	script: Jack Miller; pencils: Howard Sherman; inks: Howard Sherman	Congo Bill; Janu the Jungle Boy; Mr. Hadley
9	-	comic story	0.67	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
10	Did You Enter the Superman DC National Comics Slogan Contest?	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33
11	Strange Road under the Sea	text article	1	letters: typeset
12	The Girl Planeteer	comic story	6	script: Otto Binder; pencils: Jim Mooney; inks: Jim Mooney	Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Jerry Hale

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

Collection	Year
Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties #[nn] ISBN 0517551004	1983	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
1956-1959 ISBN 978-1-68405-061-1	2017	On eBay ›
The Silver Age of Superman The Greatest Covers of Action Comics from the '50s to the '70s #[nn] ISBN 0-89660-055-6	1995	On eBay ›

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