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Issue: Sports Action #12

- Attribution History

Publication Date: May 1952

Issue #12
- Sport Stars
- #2
- #3
- #4
- #5
- #6
- #7
- #8
- #9
- #10
- #11
- ✔ #12
- #13
- #14
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Issues: #12 of 13 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Sports Action Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code

Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Stan Lee

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Reprinted In1

Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:

Sports Action #14 published September 1952 as Short and Snappy [Text Story on Interior Page(s)] Illustration, from story "Behind the Mask"

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (6 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed); ?

Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed); ?

Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: sports

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Pages: 1

Behind the Mask

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Marty Elkin (signed)

Inker(s): Marty Elkin ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: sports

Character(s): Lou Hastings; Sally Wenton; Migs Chase

Synopsis: After Lou pitches a no-hit game he begins to resent sharing credit with his catcher, Migs, and begins a rivalry which threatens to tear the team apart.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: A-127

They Call Him Punchy

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Martin Rose (signed)

Inker(s): Martin Rose (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: sports

Character(s): Slats Slattery; George; John the Barber; Frankie; Pete; Maxie Lobart; Jacobi

Synopsis: Slattery is a strong fighter until he refuses to lose a fight to Lobart; hoodlums rough up Slattery, weakening him so that he loses the fight. Dubbed 'punchy', Slattery's career falls into ruin from the internal damage he suffered at the gangsters' hands.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: A-130

Doomsday for the Pitcher

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Morris Weiss (illustration)

Inker(s): Morris Weiss (Illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: sports

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: 9902

A Letter for Lenny

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Sy Grudko (signed)

Inker(s): Sy Grudko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: sports

Character(s): Lenny Steele; Coach Brannigan; Jane Riordon; Red Orsatti

Synopsis: Lenny plays college football but fails to measure up. However, the speed he demonstrates on the field results in him joining the college's track team where he becomes a star.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: A-128

Glory Hound!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: sports

Character(s): Tex Rondell; Charley Lane; Chet; Phil Coyne

Synopsis: Tex is a highly-anticipated player just promoted from the bush league but he finds it hard to live up to the expectations the crowd has for him and decides to return to the bush league.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: A-129