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Action Comics 15

ACTION COMICS #15

Cover Date: August 1939
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1939-06-24

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Cover Credits:
Art: Fred Guardineer


Story: [No Title] (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtPaul Cassidy
EditingVin Sullivan

Feature Character(s):

Superman

Supporting Character(s):

Kent's Editor

Villain(s):

Big Boy Chaney and his gang (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Daily Star

Comment(s):

This story takes place on Earth-Two.
Kent raises $15,000 and finds a million dollars in sunken treasure, along with $ 1,000,000 from another adventure and donates it all to Kidtown, a home for troubled boys.

Story Reprinted in:

Superman: The Action Comics Archives #1 (1997)
The Superman Chronicles #2 (2007)
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #1 (2013)
Superman: The Golden Age #1 (2016)


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Second Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtFred Guardineer
LetteringFred Guardineer
EditingVin Sullivan

Feature Character(s):

Pep Morgan

Comment(s):

This story continues from the previous issue.


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Third Story: [No Title] (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryKen Fitch
ArtBernard Baily
LetteringBernard Baily
EditingVin Sullivan

Feature Character(s):

Tex Thompson

Supporting Character(s):

Bob Daley
Achmed (first appearance?; Tex's manservant)

Villain(s):

Z. Diado (first appearance; attempts to smuggle a stolen diamond into the US)

Other Character(s):

Gargantua T. Potts (first appearance; a ship's mate who aids and accompanies Tex and Bob)

Location(s):

South America


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Fourth Story: "The Ice Menace" (11 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtFred Guardineer
LetteringFred Guardineer
EditingVin Sullivan

Feature Character(s):

Zatara the Magician

Supporting Character(s):

Tong

Villain(s):

Berhener (first appearance; a mad scientist who builds a heat ray to melt glaciers to flood New York; probably dies)

Other Character(s):

President Franklin Roosevelt

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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