Action Comics #61 (1943) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Jack Burnley; inks: Jack Burnley	Superman
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	The Big Eight	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	The Man They Wouldn't Believe!	comic story	12	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Sam Citron; inks: Don Komisarow	Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Craig Shaw (villain)
4	Sgt. David Woody	cartoon	0.5	pencils: Cliff Young; inks: Cliff Young	Sgt. David Woody
5	-	in-house column	0.5	letters: typeset
7	The Cat and the Fiddler!	comic story	12	script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: Charles Paris	The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff [Jimmy Leung]; VILLAINS: The Fiddler; Fiddler's Gang--Sailor; Droop; Sport
8	One Arabian Night	comic story	4.9	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Louis Cazeneuve; inks: Louis Cazeneuve	Three Aces [Fog Fortune; Gunner Bill; Whistler Will]
10	The Dikes of Death!	comic story	8	script: Joseph Greene; pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard Baily	Americommando [Tex Thomson]; VILLAINS: Herr Spitzen; Van Der Clos
12	A Dog's Life	text story	1.67	script: George Ward
14	A Blowout in Istanbul	comic story	6	pencils: Ed Smalle; inks: Ed Smalle	Congo Bill; Emil; Mustafa Pasha
15	-	comic story	1	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff	Pvt. Pete
16	The Man who Stole Magic!	comic story	7	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Joseph Sulman; inks: Joseph Sulman	Zatara; VILLAIN: Chilly Sly
17	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

Plus 3.43 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Superman: The Action Comics Archives #4 ISBN 1-4012-0408-2	2005	On eBay ›
Superman: Cover to Cover #[nn] ISBN 1-4012-0770-7; 978-1-4012-0770-0	2006	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #3 ISBN 978-1-4012-7011-7	2017	On eBay ›

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