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Action Comics 31

ACTION COMICS #31

Cover Date: December 1940
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1940-10-23

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Joe Shuster
Inks: Leo Nowak


Story: [No Title] (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtJack Burnley
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane

Villain(s):

Baron Munsdorf (first appearance; attempts to take a far-ranging sleep gas for his foreign masters)

Location(s):

Brentville (first appearance; a small country town within driving distance of Metropolis)

Story Reprinted in:

Superman: The Action Comics Archives #2 (1998)
The Superman Chronicles #4 (2008)
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #1 (2013)
Superman: The Golden Age #2 (2017)


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Second Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtGeorge Papp
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Pep Morgan (playing football for Midtown College)

Location(s):

Midtown College

Comment(s):

This story takes place during the football season.


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Third Story: [No Title] (4 Pages)

Credits:

ArtSheldon Moldoff
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Black Pirate

Villain(s):

Captain Treble and his crew

Comment(s):

This story continues from the previous issue and into next issue.


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtChad Grothkopf
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Three Aces
Fog Fortune
Whistler Will
Gunner Bill

Location(s):

Arabia
Norrka (first appearance; an abandoned city inhabited by a giant snake)


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryKen Fitch
ArtBernard Baily
LetteringBernard Baily
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Tex Thompson

Supporting Character(s):

Bob Daley
District Attorney Maloney
Miss X

Villain(s):

Insurance scammers (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

New York City, NY
Kiwan City


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Sixth Story: "Mottled Death" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtJoseph Sulman
Associate editingMurray Boltinoff
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Zatara the Magician

Location(s):

A European city (attacked by a neighboring country)


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