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Action Comics 33

ACTION COMICS #33

Cover Date: February 1941
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1940-12-20

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Cover Credits:
Art: Wayne Boring


Story: [No Title] (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtJack Burnley
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane
Perry White

Villain(s):

Brett Hall (first appearance; a lumber executive who kills his brother; dies)
Francois Berner (first appearance; a large burly lumberjack working for Hall)

Location(s):

Metropolis
North Woods

Solicitation:

Clark and Lois investigate cases of sabotage and mysterious deaths at a lumber camp!


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Second Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtGeorge Papp
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Pep Morgan (aids the FBI in finding a stolen air rifle)

Villain(s):

A Foreign Spy (first appearance; steals an air rifle that shoots gas bullets)

Other Character(s):

"Slim" Pickins (first appearance; Pep's college roommate)

Location(s):

Brentville

Comment(s):

Pep is a student at Midtown College, near Brentville.


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Third Story: "Dead Men Tell No Tales" (4 Pages)

Credits:

ArtSheldon Moldoff
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Black Pirate

Villain(s):

Lu-Chan (first appearance; a pirate Chinese pirate)

Other Character(s):

A Lady Pirate (first appearance?)

Location(s):

Atlantic Ocean

Comment(s):

This story continues in the next issue.


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtChad Grothkopf
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Three Aces:
Fog Fortune
Whistler Will
Gunner Bill

Villain(s):

Mongolian bandits (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Mongolia


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Fifth Story: "Mister America" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryKen Fitch
ArtBernard Baily
LetteringBernard Baily
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Tex Thompson (takes on the heroic identity of Mister America beginning with this story; begins dyeing his hair black)

Supporting Character(s):

Bob Daley
NY Special Prosecutor Maloney

Villain(s):

Saboteurs (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

New York City, NY
Atlantic Ocean

Comment(s):

This story is retold in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #29/3 with new details.
This story takes place in late November, 1940.


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtJoseph Sulman
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Zatara the Magician

Villain(s):

Fred Hart (first appearance; tries to steal a platinum idol; turned into platinum)

Location(s):

Catskill Mountains, NY
Matto Grasso, Brazil


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