Action Comics #80 for Sale - First Appearance of Casey the Cop - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Action Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue: #80
Publication date: January 1945
Key date: 1945-01-00
On-sale date: 1944-11-14
Indicia publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 52

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Why this issue matters

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

First appearance of Volto from Mars - 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: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan Kaye	Clark Kent, Mr. Mxyztplk, Superman
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	Superman; Batman; Boy Commandos	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67	letters: typeset
3	Mr. Mxyztplk Returns!	comic story	11	script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Ira Yarbrough; inks: Ira Yarbrough	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Mr. Mxyztplk, Superman, Perry White
5	The Riddle of the Reservoir!	comic story	5.67	script: Whitney Ellsworth; pencils: John Daly; inks: John Daly	Congo Bill
6	The Big All-American Comic Book	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33
8	-	comic story	2	script: Tom McNamara; pencils: Tom McNamara; inks: Tom McNamara; letters: Tom McNamara	Grandpa Peters
9	The Pillager of the Parthenon!	comic story	10	pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: Mort Meskin	Greg Sanders, Stuff, Vigilante
10	-	comic story	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff	Casey the Cop First
11	Superman's Secret Message	in-house column	0.5
12	Escape by Night	text story	2	script: Jesse Merlan
13	The Hair That Wasn't There!	comic story	5	pencils: Thurston Harper; inks: Thurston Harper	Hayfoot Henry
15	Tumbling Timber!	comic story	8	pencils: William F. White; inks: William F. White	Zatara

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Superman #272	1974	On eBay ›
Superman: The Action Comics Archives #5 ISBN 1-4012-1188-7	2007	On eBay ›
Special Edition, Action Comics #1	1944	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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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

‹ #7980 of 866#81 ›

Sources

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

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