WHISTLER WILL

Action Comics #18"The Atlantis Mystery"

Earliest catalogued appearances of Fog Fortune, Gunner Bill, and Whistler Will.

Nov 1939

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Action Comics #19"The Zombies; The Gorilla King"

Dec 1939

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Action Comics #20"The Zombies; The Moon Men"

Jan 1940

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Action Comics #21"The Deaths on the Moor"

Feb 1940

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Action Comics #22"The Mask"

Mar 1940

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Action Comics #23"Dead Men Tell No Tales; The Treasure Tower"

First appearance of Lex Luthor. Earliest catalogued appearance of Black Pirate.

Apr 1940

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Action Comics #24"The Magician Murder"

May 1940

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Action Comics #25"Amnesiac Robbers"

Jun 1940

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Action Comics #26"Professor Cobalt's Quack Clinic"

Jul 1940

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Action Comics #27"The Brentwood Rehabilitation Home"

Aug 1940

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Action Comics #28"The Strong-Man Robberies"

Sep 1940

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Action Comics #29"The Life Insurance Scam"

Oct 1940

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Action Comics #30"A Summer Snow"

Nov 1940

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Action Comics #31"The Hand of Morpheus"

Dec 1940

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Action Comics #32"The Preston Gambling Racket"

Jan 1941

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Action Comics #33"The Lumber Millionaire's Will"

Feb 1941

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Action Comics #34"The Coal Mine Heiress"

Mar 1941

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Action Comics #35"The Worthless Gold Mine"

Apr 1941

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Action Comics #36"Fifth Columnists"

May 1941

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Action Comics #37"Clark Kent, Police Commissioner"

Jun 1941

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Action Comics #38"Hypnosis by Radio"

Jul 1941

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Action Comics #39"The Man With the Radioactive Touch"

Aug 1941

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Action Comics #40"The Reformation of Nancy Thorgenson"

Earliest catalogued appearances of Star-Spangled Kid and Pat Dugan.

Sep 1941

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Action Comics #41"The Sabotage Ring"

Oct 1941

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Action Comics #42"Superman: "The Empire in the Sky""

Earliest catalogued appearance of Vigilante (Saunders).

Nov 1941

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Action Comics #43"The Pilot's Revenge"

Dec 1941

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Action Comics #44"Galloping Gold!"

Jan 1942

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Action Comics #45"Superman: "Superman's Ark""

Feb 1942

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Action Comics #46"The Devil's Playground; Crimes in Color; The Djinn; Iron Giant; The Death of Congo Bll; Fights the Nazis in Europe"

Earliest catalogued appearance of Rainbow Man.

Mar 1942

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Action Comics #47"Powerstone; The Green Cowled Menace; Go to War; The Skeletons in Armor; The Red Khan; Nargo, the Ruler of Atlantis"

Apr 1942

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Action Comics #48"The Adventure of the Merchant of Murder; Crime's Caravan; The Adventure of the Secret Submarine; The Pied Piper of Doom; Suddenly at War; The Case of the Maddening Music"

May 1942

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Action Comics #49"The Wizard of Chance"

Jun 1942

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Action Comics #50"The Professional Baseball Player; The Man Who Came Back; The Island Where Time Stood Still; Blackmail; The Man of a Thousand Lives; The Case of the Man Who Could Not Die"

Jul 1942

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Action Comics #51"The Case of the Crimeless Crimes"

Earliest catalogued appearance of Prankster.

Aug 1942

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Action Comics #52"The Emperor of America; Sing a Song of Six Guns; The Battle of a Thousand Years; The Case of the Stolen Spectacles; The One Man Army; Crime on Ice"

Sep 1942

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Action Comics #54"The Pirate of Pleasure Island; The Rookie who Fought a Ghost; Fire Over Yunnanfu Road; Idol of Doom; Recipe for Robbery"

Nov 1942

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Action Comics #55"A Goof Named Tiny Rufe; Bullets for Breakfast; Ace of Fire; Escape from the Scaffold; A Modern Robinson Crusoe; Crimes by Coincidence"

Dec 1942

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Action Comics #56"Design for Doom; Melody of Menace; Warhawks of Greenland; The Man the Whole World Feared; The Game for Life; The Case of the Phoney Funny Man"

Jan 1943

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Action Comics #57"Crime's Comedy King!; The Fued of Rimfire Ridge!; Veiled Desert Bandits!; Mightier than the Sword; The Galloping Ghosts; Treasure Trove"

Feb 1943

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Action Comics #58"The Face of Adonis!; The Dummy and the Dumbbell; Double-X for the Axis; The Brigade of the Biting Rabbit!; The Full-Dress Rebellion!; The Seven Year Itch!"

Mar 1943

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Action Comics #59"Cinderella - a la Superman!; Fiddler's Fee!; Sky Knights of Malta; Missive for Mussolini; The Phantom Warriors!; Crime Takes a Detour"

Earliest catalogued appearance of Susie Tompkins.

Apr 1943

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Action Comics #60"Lois Lane--Superwoman!; Rainbow over Crimeville; The Lieutenant from Corregidor!; Rations for Victory; Jungle Justice!; Styles in Crime"

May 1943

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Action Comics #61"The Man They Wouldn't Believe; The Cat and the Fiddler; One Arabian Night; The Dikes of Death; A Blowout in Istanbul; The Man Who Stole Magic"

Jun 1943

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Action Comics #62"There'll Always Be a Superman"

Jul 1943

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Action Comics #63"When Stars Collide"

Aug 1943

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