Action Comics (1938 DC) comic books 1973

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $8.80

Add to cart Fine $7.80

Add to cart FN 6.0 $7.80

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $2.80

Cover by Nick Cardy. Towbee the Minstrel of Space in "The Made-to-Order Menace!", script by Elliot S! Maggin, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson; A space-travelling bard who has the power to create what he sings about comes to Earth and creates a super-menace for Superman to battle. "The King of the Jungle Contract!", script by Len Wein, art by Dick Giordano; Christopher Chance is hired by famous hunter Gunther King, who believes that his rival Ernest Holoway is trying to kill him; The Human Target travels around disguised as King on safari in Kenya, dealing with traps that have been set for him; After fighting a lion and a buffalo, he gets into a gunfight with the hidden Holoway. Letter to the editor from comics writer David (Dave) Micheline. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart VF 8.0 $42.50 View scans

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $20.50 View scan

Cover by Nick Cardy. First appearance of Captain Strong (he looks like Popeye!) in "The Fantastic Feats of Captain Strong!", script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson; Superman encounters Captain Strong, who becomes super-powerful by eating seaweed grown from alien spores. "The Headline Maker!", script by Elliot S! Maggin, pencils by Sal Amendola, inks by Dick Giordano; After saving patrons from a burning theater and trading bon mots with a press agent, Green Arrow switches to Oliver Queen and helps Dinah Lance open her new flower shop in Star City; Since he needs a job, he is inspired to become a press agent, and promises to get Dinahs shop in the headlines; Not long afterward, he spies hitman Lucas Branson, learns he is about to perform a killing, and phones the city newspapers saying that Green Arrow will take down Branson in front of Dinahs shop. Letter to the editor from comics writer Bob Rozakis. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $6.49

Add to cart Very Good $4.80

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $3.30

Cover by Nick Cardy. "The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis!", script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson; Woody Nescott has had to live in one room for all his life due to a strange blood disease, but his path crosses Supermans when he produces white cells that grow to giant size and begin devouring things. "The Shadows-of-Yesterday Contract!", script by Len Wein, art by Dick Giordano; Christopher Chance takes on Hyram Walsh as his client, a man who is being pursued by a ruthless killer with ties to Chance's past; The assassin is the same man who killed his father; He takes on the case for nothing because the man can't pay, and reflects on his origins; Christopher Chance becomes the Human Target. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $14.50	Add to cart Fine $10.00	Add to cart Fine $10.00	Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $9.00
Add to cart Very Good $7.49	Add to cart GD 2.0 $3.70

Cover by Nick Cardy. "Luthor's Hammer of Hate!", script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson; Lex Luthor finds a means of transferring his hatred for Superman - and a loss of control and judgment - into Superman himself via an energized hammer. "The Deadly Dancer Contract!", script by Len Wein, art by Dick Giordano; Christopher Chance poses as a man named Hyram Walsh, an accountant informing on the mob, to draw out a hitman named Dancer who killed his father; He takes out two thugs who try to collect the price on his head and leaves them both knocked out in an alleyway. Tracking the killer down to an abandoned movie theater, he confronts Dancer and the two men fight against each other. It is an intensely physical struggle, with a single gun between them, and after a number of blows are exchanged, Chance grabs the weapon. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Very Good $6.60

Add to cart VG 4.0 $6.60

Cover by Nick Cardy. "Gorilla Grodd's Grandstand Play!", script by Elliot Maggin, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson; Gorilla Grodd escapes his prison in Gorilla City and destroys the force-field that hides the city from humans; Solovar, the gorilla chieftain decides to focus his efforts on the bigger problem of Gorilla Citys exposure instead of pursuing Grodd; Superman battles Grodd. "The Candy Kitchen Caper!", script by Elliot S! Maggin, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Dick Giordano; After failing to stop two jewel thieves, Green Arrow changes into his Oliver Queen identity, goes by Ye Olde Candy House on an impulse, tries some of confectioner Evelyn Woodhouses fudge, and is quite pleased; The jewel thieves are using the shop as a front for their diamond-stealing operation, and are encasing the gems in fudge and smuggling them out. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $9.00	Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $12.00	Add to cart Fine $7.50	Add to cart FN 6.0 $8.00
Add to cart Very Good $7.20	Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $5.00

Cover by Nick Cardy. "The Last Moa on Earth!", script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Frank Giacoia; The hunter Jon Halaway shoots the last of the moa birds and is guilt-ridden by this; Eventually he finds a moa egg and returns to Metropolis; The moa hatches and has gained super-powers. "13 Old Men Who Run the World!" starring the Atom, script by Elliot S! Maggin, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Mike Esposito and Frank Giacoia (as Phil Zupa); Jean Loring is defending Dr. Selzheim in a case where he is framed by a mafia boss for stealing gold bullion. "The Short-Walk-to-Disaster Contract!", script by Len Wein, pencils by Neal Adams, inks by Dick Giordano; Human Target is hired by his servant Luigi to pose as Luigi's cousin Antonio; He is a circus artist, and his act has been sabotaged a couple of times. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $12.00	Add to cart FN 6.0 $9.00	Add to cart FN- 5.5 $9.00	Add to cart FN- 5.5 $9.00
Add to cart VG 4.0 $6.60	Add to cart VG 4.0 $6.60

Cover by Nick Cardy. "Master of the Moon Rocks!", script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson; Terra-Man starts an anti-moon rock cult in order to get moon rocks to fuel an anti-Superman weapon. "The Wrong Side of the Tracks!", script by Elliot S! Maggin, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Dick Giordano; Oliver Queens suspicions are aroused when two truckers ask directions for an address from him, while driving a truck from a firm that has been defunct for two years; Traveling to the address as Green Arrow, he discovers the truth: that Osborne Foundation president Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. is being electronically bugged by his vice-president, Gregory Gates, who was demoted from general finance manager by Osborne; Dinah Lance/Black Canary appearance. "The Short-Walk-to-Disaster Contract!" starring the Human Target, script by Len Wein, art by Dick Giordano. Letter to the editor from comics writer Bob Rozakis. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $8.40	Add to cart Fine $6.00	Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $4.80	Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $4.40
Add to cart Very Good $4.00	Add to cart CGC 9.6 $199.99 View scan Paper: White Label #3711850007 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Nick Cardy. "The Man Who Never Lived!", script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson; A programmed assassin of the 21st Century sets in motion a plan for an ancestor of his to encounter Superman and prevent his future existence. "The Time Thief Strikes But Once!", script by Elliot S! Maggin, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Dick Giordano; Chronos breaks jail and issues a challenge to the Atom to try and stop his next crime before he can commit murder. Letter to the editor from comics writer Bob Rozakis. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $8.40

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $7.20

Add to cart Fine $6.00

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $2.50

Cover pencils by Nick Cardy, inks by Nick Cardy and Murphy Anderson (Superman poster only). "Whatever Happened to Superman?", script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson; Lex Luthor puts a satellite into orbit that causes everyone to believe Superman has vanished for the last ten years. "The Plot to Kill Black Canary!", script by Elliot S! Maggin, art by Dick Giordano; Green Arrow commits Black Canary to be the spokesman for a motorcycle company; While doing a display of the motorcycle at a car show, two thugs try to kill Black Canary. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $4.80

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $4.40

Cover by Nick Cardy. "The Man Who Wrote Superman's Obituary!", script by Elliot S! Maggin, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Bob Oksner; After Superman defeats Oxymaxias, a monster from ancient Earth, he learns that the Daily Planets morgue keeper has learned his secret identity thanks to an accidental link between his teletype and the diary-writing device at the Fortress of Solitude; Cameos by Supergirl, Flash, Batman, and Green Lantern. "The Rodeo Riddle Contract!" starring the Human Target, script by Len Wein, art by Dick Giordano. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Fine $9.00	Add to cart FN 6.0 $9.00	Add to cart Very Good $6.00	Add to cart VG 4.0 $6.00
Add to cart VG- 3.5 $4.80	Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $4.20

Cover by Nick Cardy. "Bus-Ride to Nowhere!", script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson; Superman is warned about a lizard-being from the 420th Century, the Quakerer, who has the power to change his own appearance or that of other beings or objects, and who has come back to the 20th Century to find a weapon that will destroy the humans of the future; The Quakerer is disguised as one of Clarks neighbors, but he does not know who. "Up Pops The Atom" starring Atom, Hawkman, Batman, the Flash, and Green Lantern, script by Elliot S! Maggin, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Dick Giordano; While taking Jeans nephew to an amusement park, Ray Palmer has to become the Atom to trap two spies. Letter from comics writer Bob Rozakis. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.