Action Comics #25 (1940) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Wayne Boring	Clark Kent, Superman
2	Amnesiac Robbers	comic story	13	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Superman, George Taylor
3	-	in-house column	1.2	letters: typeset
6	Enemy Sub	comic story	6	pencils: Gene Baxter; inks: Gene Baxter	Pep Morgan
7	Captured by Captain Ruff	comic story	4	pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff	The Black Pirate, Jon Valor
8	The Living Statues	comic story	6	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Chad; inks: Chad	Fog Fortune, Gunner Bill, Whistler Will
10	The Kidnapping	comic story	10	script: Ken Fitch; pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard Baily; letters: Bernard Baily	Bob Daley, Gargantua T. Potts, Tex Thomson
11	Message to the Major [Part 1]	text story	1.33	script: Gardner F. Fox
13	Calero the Rebel Leader	comic story	6	pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff	Clip Carson
14	Russian Notables	text article	0.2	colors: ? (red, blue & black letters)
16	The One Man Crime Wave	comic story	11	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred Guardineer	Zatara
17	Attention!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Paul Lauretta; letters: Joe Shuster

Plus 7.27 pages of advertisements and other matter across 8 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Superman: The Action Comics Archives #2 ISBN 1-56389-426-2	1998	On eBay ›
The Superman Chronicles #3 ISBN 978-1-4012-1374-9	2007	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-4189-6	2013	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age #2 ISBN 978-1-4012-6530-4	2017	On eBay ›
DC Finest: Superman: The First Superhero #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77952-833-9	2025	On eBay ›

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