Action Comics #9

(February 1939)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Sport Data / cartoon / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

George Papp ?

Pencils

George Papp (signed as GEP)

Inks

George Papp (signed as GEP)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Christy Mathewson never pitched a game...

Genre

non-fiction; sports

Indexer Notes

Found on the inside front cover. Writer credit added by Craig Delich.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

credits, title page / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

[Wanted: Superman] (Table of Contents: 3)

Superman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Jerry Siegel (credited)

Pencils

Joe Shuster (credited); Wayne Boring (credited as Joe Shuster)

Inks

Joe Shuster (credited); Wayne Boring (credited as Joe Shuster)

Colors

?

Letters

Paul Lauretta

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Lifting tremendous weights...

Genre

adventure; superhero

Characters

Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; George Taylor (unnamed); Detective Captain Reilly; Mortimer Snoop

Synopsis

Superman, having torn down a slum area so that newer, more modern apartments could be built, is labeled as a crook by the Chief of Police, who assigns Detective Reilly (better known as "100% Reilly" because he always gets his man) to bring the Man of Tomorrow in.

Reprints

• in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #1 (1997 [February 1998])
• in Clásicos DC (NORMA Editorial, 2004 series) #6 - Los Archivos de Superman en Action Comics Volumen 1 (Marzo 2005)
• in The Superman Chronicles (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([April] 2006)
• in Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2013 series) #1 ([August] 2013)
• in Superman: The Golden Age (DC, 2016 series) #1 ([May] 2016)

Keywords

Daily Star

Indexer Notes

"S" Symbol is all yellow.

There are no apparent Lauretta inks here, but evidence of Boring on both pencils and inks.

[The Lefty Laroway Gang, Part 1] (Table of Contents: 4)

Scoop Scanlon, Five Star Reporter / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely)

Inks

Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely)

Colors

? (red tones)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hi, Logan...

Genre

adventure; crime

Characters

Scoop Scanlon; Lefty Laroway

Indexer Notes

Printed in red, black and white.

[The Ice Boat Race] (Table of Contents: 5)

Pep Morgan / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Fred Guardineer (credited as Gene Baxter)

Inks

Fred Guardineer (credited as Gene Baxter)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hi, Pep! Goin' skatin'?

Genre

adventure; sports

Characters

Pep Morgan; Dick; the Professor

Indexer Notes

Writer credit added by Craig Delich.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

The Diddle Family / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Gustavson (credited as Gustavson)

Pencils

Paul Gustavson (credited as Gustavson)

Inks

Paul Gustavson (credited as Gustavson)

Colors

?

Letters

Paul Gustavson (credited as Gustavson)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Wow! Wait'll you see, Gramps...

Genre

domestic

Characters

The Diddle Family

Indexer Notes

Script credit and letterer credit verified by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Sven Elven (credited)

Inks

Sven Elven (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Sven Elven

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Jubilant at the happy outcome of the affair at Kerman...

Genre

adventure; historical

Characters

Marco Polo; Shela; Rajah Dahg

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.

Frozen Hazard [Part 2] (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Richard Martin (credited)

Pencils

Fred Guardineer

Inks

Fred Guardineer

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Tim Rourke, air mail pilot, is forced down in the Arctic wastes somewhere between...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Tim Rourke; Bill Ryan

Keywords

Arctic

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustrations.

Pages include a few small ads.

[Dr. Kichung's Ape Army, Part 2] (Table of Contents: 9)

Tex Thomson / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Ken Fitch ?

Pencils

Bernard Baily (credited, signed)

Inks

Bernard Baily (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bernard Baily

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Imprisoned by Dr. Kichung...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Tex Thomson; Dr. Kichung (villain)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Sport-Data / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

George Papp ?

Pencils

George Papp (signed as GEP)

Inks

George Papp (signed as GEP)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Water boy going in at quarter...

Genre

non-fiction; sports

Characters

Christy Mathewson

Indexer Notes

Writer credit added by Craig Delich.

Philately's Founder (Table of Contents: 11)

World of Stamps / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Page includes several small ads from stamps dealers.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming)

Inks

Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming)

Colors

? (red tones)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Chuck succeeds in drawing the gunmen from their attack...

Genre

adventure; western-frontier

Characters

Chuck Dawson; Blacky (horse)

Indexer Notes

Printed in red, black and white.

The Mad Lama (Table of Contents: 13)

Zatara, the Master Magician / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Fred Guardineer (credited)

Inks

Fred Guardineer (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

High on the cold mountains of inner Asia, in the hills of Tibet, dwell the...

Genre

adventure; superhero

Characters

Zatara; Tong; Jerbel; Tigress; Lalla Gor; Henri

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

Candid Comic Camera / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bob Jane ?

Pencils

Bob Kane (signed)

Inks

Bob Kane (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hi'ya folks! Here are candid snapshots of famous inventors...

Genre

humor

Indexer Notes

Five unrelated gag panels.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15)

AdventurEvents / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Terry Gilkison (signed)

Inks

Terry Gilkison (signed)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Young boy made king of savages!

Genre

non-fiction

Characters

John Boyes; Anna Edson Taylor; David Farragut; Captain Gerhard Folgero

Indexer Notes

Found on the inside back cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

Johnson Smith & Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)