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CATALOG RECORD

Action Comics #100

DC · Series began 1938 · September 1946

Dates

Cover date
September 1946
On sale
July 15, 1946
Pages
52

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Wayne Boring, Ira Yarbrough, Graham Hunter, Stan Kaye, Fred Ray, Jack Callahan, Lit-Win, Mort Meskin, William Whiteinks: Ed Dobrotka, Graham Hunter, Stan Kaye, Fred Ray, Jack Callahan, Lit-Win, George Roussos, William Whitescript: Al Schwartz, Ben Ballard, Jack Callahan, Don C. Cameron

Stories

  • The Sleuth Who Never Failed! · 12 pages

    Inspector Hawkins tries to trap Clark Kent into revealing he is Superman.

  • The Rhyming Horse! · 4 pages
  • The Case of the Captive Seals! · 6 pages

    Bill captures a gang of seal poachers in the Arctic.

  • Indian Sign · 2 pages
  • Sunshine Nelly · 1 pages
  • The Book That Was Too Real! · 10 pages

    J. Scriver Tome is the author of successful crime novels. A gang of crooks uses his plots to commit crimes until The Vigilante and Stuff step in.

  • Magic -- Past or Present! · 7 pages

    The spirits of great magicians of past ages return to challenge the young upstart Zatara, but he outwits them at every turn. Having been declared by his peers the greatest magician of all time, he wakes up, unsure whether the experience was real or merely a dream.

Reprinted in

Detective Comics (1937), Star Spangled Comics (1941), Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2013)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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