Action Comics #77 (1944) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan Kaye	Superman [Clark Kent]; The Prankster
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	Action Comics; Detective Comics; All Funny Comics	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	The Headline Hoax!	comic story	12	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Sam Citron; inks: Don Komisarow	Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Amos Amster; Thomas Todd; Joe; The Prankster
5	The Punctured Picture!	comic story	5	inks: Stan Kaye	Hayfoot Henry
7	The Rainbow Man Sees Red!	comic story	10	pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: Mort Meskin	The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; The Rainbow Man (villain); Spike (convict); Egghead (convict)
8	-	comic story	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff	Clancy
9	-	in-house column	0.5
11	The Leaping Leopard!	comic story	5.67	pencils: Ed Smalle; inks: Ed Smalle	Congo Bill; Jack Blane; Farbach; Zollini
12	You Can Save His Life!	public service announcement	0.33
13	Terror's Victim	text story	2	script: Tod Lowry
15	The Pranks of Pan!	comic story	8	pencils: William White; inks: William White	Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Pan; Jim Baker; Rocky Clark (crook)

Plus 6 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Superman: The Action Comics Archives #5 ISBN 1-4012-1188-7	2007	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 #4 ISBN 978-1-4012-7257-9	2017	On eBay ›

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