Superman #7 for Sale - First Appearance of Perry White - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Superman (DC, 1939 series)
Issue: #7
Publication date: November-December 1940
Key date: 1940-11-00
On-sale date: 1940-09-06
Indicia publisher: Superman Inc.
Price: $0.10; 0.15 CAD
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Perry White - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Alan Scott - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Green Lantern - 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: Joe Shuster; inks: Wayne Boring	Clark Kent, Superman
2	World's Greatest Adventure Character	illustration	1	pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster, Paul Cassidy	Clark Kent, Superman
3	Metropolis's Most Savage Racketeers	comic story	13	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster, Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Superman, Perry White First
4	-	in-house column	1	pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Paul Cassidy	Clark Kent, Superman
5	The Loudest Noise on Earth!	cartoon	1	script: George Papp; pencils: George Papp; inks: George Papp	Chalchas the Greek
8	Rinaldo's Revenge	text story	1.5	script: G. B. Armbruster; inks: Gloria Kamen	Rinaldo; Domenick (death); Pietro (villain, death)
10	Superman Plus	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: various; inks: various; letters: ?; typeset	The Black Pirate, Clark Kent, Superman, Tex Thomson, Jon Valor, Zatara, Clip Carson, Fog Fortune, Gunner Bill, Whistler Will
11	The Exploding Citizens	comic story	13	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster, Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Superman, Perry White First
13	-	comic story	0.67	script: Fred Schwab; pencils: Fred Schwab; inks: Fred Schwab; letters: Fred Schwab	Shorty
15	Superman's Cleanup Campaign	comic story	13	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Superman, Perry White First
17	Here It Is - Better Than Ever!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: various; inks: various	Batman, Jim Corrigan, Wesley Dodds, The Flash, Jay Garrick, Dick Grayson, Green Lantern First, Clark Kent, Robin, The Sandman, Alan Scott First, The Spectre, Superman, Bruce Wayne
18	The Black Gang	comic story	13	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster, Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster, Joe Shuster	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Superman, Perry White First

Plus 7.83 pages of advertisements and other matter across 10 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Second Printing	See the GCD record for identification notes.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Action Comics #29	1940	On eBay ›
Detective Comics #44	1940	On eBay ›
Action Comics #30	1940	On eBay ›
Detective Comics #45	1940	On eBay ›
Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties #[nn] ISBN 0517551004	1983	On eBay ›
The Superman Archives #2 ISBN 0-930289-76-5	1990	On eBay ›
The Superman Chronicles #4 ISBN 978-1-4012-1658-0	2008	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-4189-6	2013	On eBay ›
Superman: The War Years 1938-1945 #[nn] ISBN 9780785832829	2015	On eBay ›
Superman: The Golden Age #2 ISBN 978-1-4012-6530-4	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

‹ #67 of 423#8 ›

Sources

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

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