Millennium Edition: Action Comics 1 #[nn]

(February 2000)

Action Comics #1 Birth of the Super-Hero (Table of Contents)

Remembering the Millennium / text article / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Greenberger

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

An overview of the context of this issue and the characters, stories, and credits, and the difficulties that Siegel and Shuster had in marketing Superman. Appears on inside front and inside back cover.

[One Page Origin of Superman] (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Joe Shuster

Inks:

Joe Shuster

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Shuster

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Superman (intro, brief origin)

Reprints:

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938)

Keywords:

Krypton (not named)

Indexer Notes

This strip was originally prepared for newspaper publication, cut up and repaged. Black shading used.

[The Coming of Superman] (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Joe Shuster

Inks:

Joe Shuster

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Shuster?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Superman; George Taylor (intro, not named); Lois Lane (intro); Evelyn Curry; Bea Carroll (villain); Butch Matson (villain); Senator Barrows (villain); Alex Greer (villain)

Synopsis:

Superman delivers a witness to the governor to stop an execution, then stops a wife-beater. Later Superman, as Clark Kent goes out with Lois, but she earns the wrath of Butch Matson and Superman must save her. Finally, Clark is assigned a story on the South American republic of San Monte. He heads to Washington DC to find out who is behind Senator Barrows pushing legislation which will embroil the United States in a war in Europe by grabbing lobbyist Alex Greer and scaring the truth out of him.

Reprints:

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938)

Keywords:

Daily Star

Indexer Notes

Story continues in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #2. Originally prepared for newspaper publication, cut up and repaged by Joe Shuster- not Harry Lampert as often claimed. Black shading used. Superman wears blue boots.

[The A-G Gang] (Table of Contents)

Chuck Dawson / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Homer Fleming?

Pencils:

Homer Fleming

Inks:

Homer Fleming

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; western-frontier

Characters:

Charles "Chuck" Dawson (intro); Uncle Dan; Notch Logan; John Burwell; Trigger Holt; Butch; Blacky (Chuck's horse)

Reprints:

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938)

Indexer Notes

Black and white. Story continued in Action Comics (1938 series) #2.

The Mystery of the Freight Train Robberies (Table of Contents)

Zatara / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Fred Guardineer

Pencils:

Fred Guardineer [signed]

Inks:

Fred Guardineer [signed]

Colors:

?

Letters:

Fred Guardineer?

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Zatara (intro); Tong (intro); Detective Brady (dies); Detective Brown; Captain Kennedy; Train Inspector Babcock; Monk; the Tigress (villain)

Reprints:

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938)

South Sea Strategy [Part 1] (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Capt. Frank Thomas

Pencils:

? (spot illos)

Inks:

? (spot illos)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Bret Coleman; Cottonball; Samuel Newton; Aruba (boat)

Reprints:

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938)

Indexer Notes

Story continued in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #2.

[untitled] (Table of Contents)

Sticky-Mitt Stimson / filler / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Russell Cole

Pencils:

Russell Cole [as Alger]

Inks:

Russell Cole [as Alger]

Colors:

?

Letters:

Russell Cole?

Content Information

Genre:

crime

Characters:

Sticky-Mitt Stimson

Reprints:

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938)

[untitled] (Table of Contents)

The Adventures of Marco Polo / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sven Elven

Inks:

Sven Elven

Colors:

?

Letters:

Sven Elven?

Content Information

Genre:

historical

Characters:

Marco Polo; Signor Polo; Niku

Reprints:

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938)

Indexer Notes

Story continues in Action Comics #2.

[The Light Heavyweight Championship] (Table of Contents)

Pep Morgan / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Fred Guardineer [signed]

Inks:

Fred Guardineer [signed]

Colors:

?

Letters:

Fred Guardineer?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Pep Morgan; Sailor Sorenson; Pop Burkett; Doc Lowry; Boomerang; O'Rourke

Reprints:

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938)

[The International Jewel Thief] (Table of Contents)

Scoop Scanlon / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Ely

Pencils:

Will Ely

Inks:

Will Ely

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Scoop Scanlon; Rusty; Arnold

Reprints:

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938)

Indexer Notes

Black and white.

[Murder in England] (Table of Contents)

Tex Thomson / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ken Fitch?

Pencils:

Bernard Baily [signed]

Inks:

Bernard Baily [signed]

Colors:

?

Letters:

Bernard Baily

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Tex Thomson (intro, later Mr. America [in #33], later Americommando [in #54]); Bobby; Sonja; Monk; Betty; Sergeant Smith

Reprints:

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938)

[untitled] (Table of Contents)

Stardust / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as the Star-Gazer]

Pencils:

? [as the Star-Gazer]

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Reprints:

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938)

Keywords:

celebrity

Indexer Notes

Facts about Fred Astaire; Constance Bennett; Charles Boyer; and Wheeler and Woolsey. Art MIGHT be by Sheldon Moldoff (per Craig Delich, July 16, 2006).

[L2] (Table of Contents)

L2; Levi's / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

? (photograph)

Inks:

? (photograph)

Colors:

? (photograph)

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Ad L2 clothes from Levi's, available at Kohl's, Mervyn's, Goody's, and Sears.