Action Comics #83 (1945) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Introducing Hocus and Pocus Magicians by Accident	cover	1	pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: John Sikela	Superman [Clark Kent]; Hocus [Doc]; Pocus [Flannelhead]
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67	letters: typeset
3	Hocus & Pocus...Magicians by Accident!	comic story	12	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Superman [Clark Kent]; Hocus [Doc]; Pocus [Flannelhead]; Hijack Dorley
5	Custom Tailored Crime!	comic story	5	pencils: Thurston Harper; inks: Thurston Harper	Hayfoot Henry; Count Tenn
7	Wild Horses!	comic story	5.67	pencils: John Daly; inks: John Daly	Congo Bill; Jim Traden; Bricker; Clanner; Bradley; Jumper (horse)
8	Superman's Secret Message	in-house column	0.33	letters: typeset
10	In the Soup	text story	2	script: Ted Loury
11	The Boners	comic story	0.5	script: Lit-Win; pencils: Lit-Win; inks: Lit-Win
13	A Fortune for a Fossil!	comic story	10	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: Mort Meskin	The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Professor Higgins; Professor Watling; Big Time Bennie (crook)
15	The Innocent Thief!	comic story	8	pencils: William F. White; inks: William F. White	Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Gerald Miller; J.D. Gorgon

Plus 6.5 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 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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