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Issue: Millennium Edition: Action Comics 1 #[nn]
Publication Date: February 2000
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue (2 Printings)
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Variant: Direct Sales
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC Comics Millennium EditionView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 12/01/1999
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 76194122339100111
Price: $6.25 CAD
$3.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 14 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: This edition is missing the following from the original 1938 edition of Action Comics #1: a contest page from the inside front cover, an "Odds 'N' Ends" sports facts feature from the inside back cover, and an ad on the back cover. Cover and logo design by Glen Parsons.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #1 published June 1938
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]minus the price, and (like all reprints of this issue) flying rocks, one bead of sweat, and about an inch off the bottom of the cover
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Action Comics #1 Birth of the Super-Hero

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Remembering the Millennium
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: An overview of the context of this issue and the characters, stories, and credits, and the difficulties that Siegel and Shuster had in marketing Superman. Appears on inside front and inside back cover.
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One Page Origin of Superman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman (intro, brief origin)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #1 published June 1938
was Superman Origin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This strip was originally prepared for newspaper publication, cut up and repaged. Black shading used.
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The Coming of Superman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; George Taylor (intro, not named); Lois Lane (intro); Evelyn Curry; Bea Carroll (villain); Butch Matson (villain); Senator Barrows (villain); Alex Greer (villain)
Synopsis: Superman delivers a witness to the governor to stop an execution, then stops a wife-beater. Later Superman, as Clark Kent goes out with Lois, but she earns the wrath of Butch Matson and Superman must save her. Finally, Clark is assigned a story on the South American republic of San Monte. He heads to Washington DC to find out who is behind Senator Barrows pushing legislation which will embroil the United States in a war in Europe by grabbing lobbyist Alex Greer and scaring the truth out of him.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #1 published June 1938
was The Coming of Superman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #2. Originally prepared for newspaper publication, cut up and repaged by Joe Shuster, not Harry Lampert as often claimed. Black shading used. Superman wears blue boots.
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The A-G Gang

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, western
Character(s): Charles "Chuck" Dawson (intro); Uncle Dan; Notch Logan; John Burwell; Trigger Holt; Butch; Blacky (Chuck's horse)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #1 published June 1938
was The A-G Gang [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Black and white. Story continued in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #2.
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The Mystery of the Freight Train Robberies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, occult
Character(s): Zatara (intro); Tong (intro); Detective Brady (dies); Detective Brown; Captain Kennedy; Train Inspector Babcock; Monk; the Tigress (villain)
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From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #1 published June 1938
was The Mystery of the Freight Train Robberies [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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South Sea Strategy [Part 1]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Bret Coleman; Cottonball; Samuel Newton; Aruba (boat)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #1 published June 1938
was South Sea Strategy [Part 1] [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Sequence carries the byline "by Captain Frank Thomas." Issue credits (on inside back cover) says "Story & Art by Unknown." Story continued in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #2.
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Sticky-Mitt Stimson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, humorous
Character(s): Sticky-Mitt Stimson
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From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #1 published June 1938
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Marco Polo; Signor Polo; Niku
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From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #1 published June 1938
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #2.
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The Light Heavyweight Championship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Pep Morgan; Sailor Sorenson; Pop Burkett; Doc Lowry; Boomerang; O'Rourke
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From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #1 published June 1938
was The Light Heavyweight Championship [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The International Jewel Thief

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Scoop Scanlon; Rusty; Arnold
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From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #1 published June 1938
was The International Jewel Thief [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Black and white.
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Murder in England

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Tex Thomson (intro, later Mr. America [in #33], later Americommando [in #54]); Bobby; Sonja; Monk; Betty; Sergeant Smith
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #1 published June 1938
was Murder in England [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as the Star-Gazer]
Penciller(s): ? [as the Star-Gazer]
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: celebrity, non-fiction
Synopsis: Facts about Fred Astaire; Constance Bennett; Charles Boyer; and Wheeler and Woolsey.
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From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #1 published June 1938
was Fred Astaire, Constance Bennett, Charles Boyer, Wheeler and Woolsey [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Facts about Fred Astaire; Constance Bennett; Charles Boyer; and Wheeler and Woolsey. Art MIGHT be by Sheldon Moldoff.
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L2

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): L2; Levi's
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Ad L2 clothes from Levi's, available at Kohl's, Mervyn's, Goody's, and Sears.

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