Action Comics #82 (1945) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Jack Burnley; inks: Stan Kaye; colors: Jack Adler	Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	Buzzy	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	The Water Sprite!	comic story	12	script: Alvin Schwartz; pencils: Ira Yarbrough; inks: George Roussos	Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Nellie Thornley; the Water Sprite [Kenneth Darby]
5	Mind Over Matter!	comic story	5	pencils: Thurston Harper; inks: Thurston Harper	Hayfoot Henry
7	Around the Clock with Armor	illustration	1	pencils: Raymond Perry; inks: Raymond Perry
8	Room, Board -- and Bullets!	comic story	5.67	script: Whitney Ellsworth; pencils: John Daly; inks: John Daly	Congo Bill; Mike
9	-	public service announcement	0.33
10	A Win for Packy	text story	2	script: Ted Loury	Packy
11	Magnet for Mobsters!	comic story	10	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: Mort Meskin	The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Hoglett; Baker
13	Facts and Fables!	comic story	8	pencils: William F. White; inks: William F. White	Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Jimmy Timms; his mother and father; Jan of Holland; Jack and his beanstalk; Red Riding Hood; the Pied Piper
15	-	public service announcement	1

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

Collection	Year
Superman: The Action Comics Archives #5 ISBN 1-4012-1188-7	2007	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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