Millennium Edition: Action Comics 1 [Direct Sales]

(February 2000)

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

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

Script

Robert Greenberger (credited)

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: 2)

Superman / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jerry Siegel (credited)

Pencils

Joe Shuster (credited)

Inks

Joe Shuster (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Shuster

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: 3)

Superman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Jerry Siegel (credited)

Pencils

Joe Shuster (credited)

Inks

Joe Shuster (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Shuster ?

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: 4)

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

Script

Homer Fleming (credited)

Pencils

Homer Fleming (credited)

Inks

Homer Fleming (credited)

Letters

?

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"Chuck" Dawson

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 (DC, 1938 series) #2.

The Mystery of the Freight Train Robberies (Table of Contents: 5)

Zatara / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Guardineer (credited)

Pencils

Fred Guardineer (credited, signed)

Inks

Fred Guardineer (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Fred Guardineer ?

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Zatara, Master Magician

Genre

adventure; fantasy-supernatural; superhero

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: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Vin Sullivan ?

Pencils

? (spot illustrations)

Inks

? (spot illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure

Characters

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

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Sequence carries the byline "by Captain Frank Thomas." Issue credits (on inside back cover) says "Story & Art by Unknown." Story continued in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #2.

Sticky-Mitt Stimson (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Russell Cole (credited as Alger)

Pencils

Russell Cole (credited as Alger)

Inks

Russell Cole (credited as Alger)

Colors

?

Letters

Russell Cole ?

Genre

humor

Characters

Sticky-Mitt Stimson

Reprints

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Sven Elven (credited as Sven Elvén)

Inks

Sven Elven (credited as Sven Elvén)

Colors

?

Letters

Sven Elven

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The Adventures of Marco Polo

Genre

historical; adventure

Characters

Marco Polo; Signor Polo; Niku

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

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

[The Light Heavyweight Championship] (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

Gardner Fox; Fred Guardineer (credited)

Pencils

Fred Guardineer (credited, signed)

Inks

Fred Guardineer (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Fred Guardineer ?

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"Pep" Morgan

Genre

adventure

Characters

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

Reprints

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

Keywords

boxing

[The International Jewel Thief] (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script

Bill Ely (signed as Will Ely); ?

Pencils

Bill Ely (signed as Will Ely)

Inks

Bill Ely (signed as Will Ely)

Letters

?

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Scoop Scanlon, Five Star Reporter

Genre

adventure; detective-mystery

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: 11)

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

Script

Ken Fitch ?; Bernard Baily (credited)

Pencils

Bernard Baily (credited) (signed as BERNARD BAILY [thin font])

Inks

Bernard Baily (credited) (signed as BERNARD BAILY [thin font])

Colors

?

Letters

Bernard Baily

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Tex Thomson

Genre

adventure; detective-mystery

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)

Keywords

England

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

Stardust / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

? [as the Star-Gazer]

Pencils

? [as the Star-Gazer]

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Feature Logo

Stardust

Genre

non-fiction; biography

Synopsis

Facts about Fred Astaire; Constance Bennett; Charles Boyer; and Wheeler and Woolsey.

Reprints

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

Keywords

celebrity

Indexer Notes

Per Craig Delich, art MIGHT be by Sheldon Moldoff.

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