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Comic Book Issue Details: Action Comics (Regular) Volume 1 Issue 26
26
July 1940
68
$0.10
 
Wayne Boring (Penciller)
Wayne Boring (Inker)
Whitney Ellsworth (Editor)
Murray Boltinoff (Editor)
Comic Book Title: Action Comics
Action Comics
Regular
1
DC Comics
1938-Current
Color; Standard Format; Saddle-stitched; ongoing monthly series (format changed several times)
United States
English
Stories
[Professor Cobalt's Quack Clinic]
13
Superman
Includes a one-panel plea after the end of the story for contributions to President Roosevelt's Infantile Paralysis Fund.
Professor Cobalt, proprietor of the Cobalt Clinic, has his advertisement turned down by the Daily Planet because it makes spurious claims.  Clark runs him out after Cobalt gets aggressive with George Taylor.  George gets Clark and Lois to investigate the clinic for an exposé. 
Penciller: Wayne Boring; Penciller: Paul Cassidy; Inker: Shuster Shop; Writer: Jerry Siegel;

[Trapped in the Snow]
6
Pep Morgan
On a hunting expedition to Saskatchewan, Canada, Pep and his friend Pierre are snowed in and must traverse hundreds of miles to get to the next outpost before another storm.
Inker: Fred Guardineer; Penciller: Fred Guardineer;

[Rescued]
4
Black Pirate
The Black Pirate is trapped in a shark-infested sea.    After fighting them off, he is picked up by another ship, run by Captain Courtney.  When they dock at Savannah, Jon Valor leaves town on horseback.  He meets up with a childhood friend, Jeanne, at an inn.  That night, a bearded intruder comes to the inn and demands the Black Pirate.
Inker: Sheldon Moldoff; Inker: Sheldon Moldoff; Penciller: Sheldon Moldoff; Penciller: Sheldon Moldoff;

[Ingrid Svenson's Inheritance]
6
Three Aces
Looking for adventure in California, Gunner encounters a crying girl, Ingrid Svensen, in a diner.  She needs an flight to New Guinea to retrieve pearls from on top of Devil Mountain, pearls that her father left to her in his will.  Once there, the Three Aces have to figure out how to help Ingrid get the pearls.
Inker: Chad Grothkopf; Penciller: Chad Grothkopf;

Introducing "Miss X"
10
Tex Thomson
Inker: Bernard Baily; Penciller: Bernard Baily; Writer: Ken Fitch;

[Claim Jumpers]
6
Clip Carson
Clip runs into Marion Trent in New York City and ends up helping her get to her father's cabin in the Hudson Bay area.  Her father found a lode, and Jacques Frontenac and his spies are after the location.
Inker: Sheldon Moldoff; Inker: Sheldon Moldoff; Penciller: Sheldon Moldoff; Penciller: Sheldon Moldoff;

The Jagtooth Gold Mine
11
Zatara
Zatara and Tong are in the far north searching for the Jagtooth Gold Mine he has been commissioned to find.  At a cabin beset by the plague, Zatara gives the inhabitants medicine and asks them about the mine.  They say that the mine is guarded by a vicious man, Tony, whom Zatara will have to defeat to return the mine to his friend, Henri Jardine. 
Writer: Gardner Fox; Inker: Fred Guardineer; Penciller: Fred Guardineer;







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