Action Comics #32 for Sale - First Appearance of Bonnie - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Action Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue: #32
Publication date: January 1941
Key date: 1941-01-00
On-sale date: 1940-11-22
Indicia publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Bonnie - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Leo Nowak	Clark Kent, Superman
2	The Gambling Racket in Metropolis	comic story	13	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Superman, George Taylor
3	-	in-house column	0.66	script: ? (credited as Clark Kent); letters: typeset
5	For Superman Fans!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Fred Ray; inks: Fred Ray
6	Here They Come Again!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Bob Kane; inks: Jerry Robinson
7	The Escaped Convicts	comic story	6	pencils: George Papp; inks: George Papp	Pep Morgan
8	Single Combat	comic story	4	pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff	Bonnie First, The Black Pirate, Jon Valor
10	-	cartoon	0.44	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
11	-	statement of ownership	0.23	letters: typeset
13	The Dali Lama	comic story	6	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Chad-; inks: Chad-	Fog Fortune, Gunner Bill, Whistler Will
14	Baby Sandy, Robert Taylor, Donald Duck, Ray Milland	cartoon	1	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
15	The Spectre!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard Baily
17	The Ranch's Minerals	comic story	8	script: Ken Fitch; pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard Baily	Bob Daley, Tex Thomson
18	Man of the Law	text story	1.33	script: Ted Miller; pencils: Fred Ray; inks: Fred Ray
24	The Treacherous Foreman	comic story	6	pencils: George Papp; inks: George Papp	Clip Carson
26	Opened by Censor	cartoon	0.5	script: Fred Schwab; pencils: Fred Schwab; inks: Fred Schwab; letters: Fred Schwab
28	-	text article	0.33	letters: typeset
30	The Antigravity Machine	comic story	9	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Joseph Sulman; inks: Joseph Sulman	Tong, Zatara
31	Here It Is -- All-Star No. 3...	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: E. E. Hibbard; inks: E. E. Hibbard

Plus 8.01 pages of advertisements and other matter across 15 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
With Canadian Price	price 0.10 USD; 0.15 CAD

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Superman: The Action Comics Archives #2 ISBN 1-56389-426-2	1998	On eBay ›
The Superman Chronicles #5 ISBN 978-1-4012-1851-5	2008	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #2 ISBN 978-1-4012-6324-9	2016	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age #3 ISBN 978-1-4012-7089-6	2017	On eBay ›

Reading the story costs a fraction of owning the issue. Both routes are on every file.

Before you buy

Golden-age paper is brittle. Ask about page suppleness and check edges for chips in the photos.
Check for trimmed edges, married covers, and clipped coupons - all common on books this old.
Confirm the indicia matches this plate; many golden-age titles changed names mid-run.

Series context

‹ #3132 of 866#33 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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