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NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR COMICS #1
Cover Date: April 1939
Cover Price: $.25
Publication Date: 1939-04-30
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Cover Credits:
Art: Vin Sullivan
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Credits:
| Story | Jerry Siegel |
| Art | Joe Shuster |
| Lettering | Joe Shuster |
| Editing | Vin Sullivan |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Nick Stone (first appearance; a wanted criminal)
Location(s):
- Metropolis
- New York City, NY
- New York World's Fair
Comment(s):
- This story takes place on April 30, 1939.
Story Reprinted in:
- Superman: The World's Finest Comics Archives #1 (2004)
- DC Comics Rarities Archives #1 (December 2004)
- The Superman Chronicles #1 (2006)
- Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #1 (2013)
- Superman: The Golden Age #1 (2016)
Credits:
| Art | Will Ely |
| Editing | Vin Sullivan |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Rusty James
Villain(s):
- Bronson and his Bat's Wing Gang (first appearance; tries to stop a new bomber plane from being exhibited)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
- New York World's Fair
Story Reprinted in:
- DC Comics Rarities Archives #1 (December 2004)
Credits:
| Story | Jerry Siegel |
| Art | Joe Shuster |
| Editing | Vin Sullivan |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Tony Spinelli and his gang (first appearance; uses Shorty to deliver a map of buried loot)
Location(s):
- Cleveland, OH
- New York City, NY
- New York World's Fair
Story Reprinted in:
- DC Comics Rarities Archives #1 (December 2004)
Credits:
| Plot | Gardner Fox |
| Story | Bert Christman (as Larry Dean) |
| Art | Bert Christman (as Larry Dean) |
| Editing | Vin Sullivan |
Feature Character(s):
- Sandman (last in Adventure Comics #40; next in Sandman Mystery Theatre #5; invents a new "ray-gun")
Villain(s):
- Evarts (first appearance; president of Dodds-Bessing Steel Corp.; tries to steal plans for the ray-gun)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Story Reprinted in:
- Golden Age Sandman Archives #1 (October 2004)
- DC Comics Rarities Archives #1 (December 2004)
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox, Fred Guardineer |
| Art | Fred Guardineer |
| Lettering | Fred Guardineer |
| Editing | Vin Sullivan |
Feature Character(s):
- Zatara the Magician (in between Action Comics #12/5 and #13/5)
Supporting Character(s):
- Tong (in between Action Comics #11/5 and #13/5)
Villain(s):
- Mongolian Bandits (first appearance for all)
- Hu Song (first appearance; a Chinese warlord in Shanghai)
- Rodgers (first appearance; a rival antiquities collector)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
- New York World's Fair
- Shanghai, China
- Mongolia
Comment(s):
- This story ends on April 30th.
Story Reprinted in:
- DC Comics Rarities Archives #1 (December 2004)