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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published August 1938
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Notes Reprint info by Bob Hughes, 2003-06-20 (Per Sandell ed.).

Cover Details

Characters A sailor.
Genre adventure
Pencils Leo E. O'Mealia (signed)
Inks Leo E. O'Mealia (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Reprint info by Bob Hughes, 2003-06-20 (Per Sandell ed.).
Reprinted From Action Funnies [ashcan] (DC, 1937 series) #nn (1937); in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #1.

13 page Superman story "The Blakely Mine Disaster"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; George Taylor (not named); Stanislaw Kober; V: Thornton Blakely.
Synopsis After Superman saves a group of miners from a cave-in, Clark Kent senses a story that may mean that the mine's owner, Thorton Blakely, is actually running unsafe mine operations and blaming accidents on the miners themselves.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel (signed as Jerome Siegel)
Pencils Joe Shuster (signed)
Inks Joe Shuster (signed)
Notes Superman appears in only one panel in this story. Wears blue boots. Modified synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-3-08.
Reprinted In Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939); in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #1; in Superman: the Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #1 [recap]; in Superman #1 [Masterpiece Edition] (Chronicle Books, 1999 series) #[nn]

6 page Scoop Scanlon, Five Star Reporter story "Murder at the Blue Bird Dance Palace"

Characters Scoop Scanlon
Genre adventure
Pencils Will Ely (signed)
Inks Will Ely (signed)

4 page Pep Morgan story "Wins a Doubleheader"

Characters Pep Morgan
Genre adventure
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Fred Guardineer [signed as Gene Baxter]
Inks Fred Guardineer [signed as Gene Baxter]
Notes Wtiter credit added by Craig Delich 8-9-08.

4 page Shifty Simpson filler

Characters Shifty Simpson
Genre humor
Script Russell Cole (signed as Alger)
Pencils Russell Cole [signed as Alger]
Inks Russell Cole [signed as Alger]

4 page Adventures of Marco Polo story

Characters Marco Polo
Genre period
Pencils Sven Elven (signed)
Inks Sven Elven (signed)
Letters Sven Elven
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 8-3-08.

2 page text story "Sports at Sea"

Genre adventure
Script Dick Lawlor (signed)
Pencils ? (spot illos)
Inks ? (spot illos)
Letters typeset

12 page Tex Thomson story "[The Sealed City] [Part 2] "

Characters Tex Thomson
Genre adventure
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Letters Bernard Baily
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 8-3-08.

6 page Chuck Dawson story

Characters Chuck Dawson
Genre adventure
Pencils Homer Fleming (signed as H. Fleming)
Inks Homer Fleming (signed as H. Fleming)

12 page Zatara Master Magician story "Death from the Air"

Characters Zatara; Tong.
Genre occult
Pencils Fred Guardineer (signed)
Inks Fred Guardineer (signed)

1 page Here and There filler

Genre fact
Pencils Vincent Sullivan ?
Inks Vincent Sullivan ?