Action Comics #55 for Sale - First Appearance of Mort Weisinger - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Action Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue: #55
Publication date: December 1942
Key date: 1942-12-00
On-sale date: 1942-10-13
Indicia publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Mort Weisinger - 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: Jack Burnley; inks: Jack Burnley	Superman
2	A Goof Named Tiny Rufe	comic story	13	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: John Sikela; inks: Ed Dobrotka	Mort Weisinger First
3	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
4	-	in-house column	0.67	letters: typeset
5	Maj. Frank D. Sharp	cartoon	1	pencils: Cliff Young; inks: Cliff Young	Maj. Frank D. Sharp
6	I Ask You!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5
7	How Can They Do It??	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5
8	Bullets for Breakfast!	comic story	12	pencils: Mort Morton Jr.; inks: George Roussos	The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
10	The Clever Chinese	text story	2	script: Paul Evans
12	Aces of Fire	comic story	6	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Louis Cazeneuve; inks: Louis Cazeneuve	Three Aces [Fog Fortune; Gunner Bill; Whistler Will]
13	Escape from the Scaffold!	comic story	8	script: Joseph Greene; pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard Baily	Americommando [Tex Thomson]; Fatman [Bob Daley]
14	Darwin's Theory	text article	0.5	script: Sidney M. Elias
16	A Modern Robinson Crusoe!	comic story	6	pencils: Ed Smalle; inks: Ed Smalle	Congo Bill; Matt Dunahm; Six-fingers; Mushy
17	Loaded with Dynamite!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.44
20	Crimes by Coincidence	comic story	9	pencils: Joseph Sulman; inks: Joseph Sulman	Zatara
22	Don't Miss Your Favorites!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

Plus 6.06 pages of advertisements and other matter across 7 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Superman: The Action Comics Archives #4 ISBN 1-4012-0408-2	2005	On eBay ›
The Superman Chronicles #10 ISBN 978-1-4012-3488-1	2012	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
Superman: The War Years 1938-1945 #[nn] ISBN 9780785832829	2015	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #3 ISBN 978-1-4012-7011-7	2017	On eBay ›
Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War #[nn] ISBN 978-1-60699-987-5	2017	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age #5 ISBN 978-1-4012-8797-9	2020	On eBay ›

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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

‹ #5455 of 866#56 ›

Sources

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

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