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ACTION COMICS #23
Cover Date: April 1940
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1940-02-23
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Joe Shuster
Inks: Paul Cassidy
Colors: Jack Adler
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Credits:
| Story | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Paul Cassidy |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Luthor (first appearance; a munitions exporter; revealed to be behind the war; next in Superman #4)
- General Luco (first appearance; working with Luthor; dies)
Location(s):
- Galonia (a small European country)
- Belardia
- Toran (a neighboring European country)
Comment(s):
- This story continues from the last issue.
Story Reprinted in:
- Superman: The Action Comics Archives #2 (1998)
- Superman in the Forties (2005)
- The Superman Chronicles #3 (2007)
- Superman: The Golden Age #2 (2016)
Credits:
| Art | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Black Pirate (Jon Valor; first appearance; a pirate captain)
Supporting Character(s):
- Donna Bonita (first appearance; first name also given as Dona; survivor of a wrecked ship; unnamed in this story)
Villain(s):
- Captain Ruff (first appearance; a pirate captain)
Comment(s):
- A caption gives the date as 1800, but it must occur much earlier.
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Chad Grothkopf |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Scavengers (first appearance for all)
Location(s):
- Sierra Madres Occidental mountains, Mexico
Credits:
| Art | Bernard Baily |
| Lettering | Bernard Baily |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- An unnamed Scientist (first appearance; creates synthetic skin and bones; dies)
- Enak (first appearance; the Scientist's hunchback's assistant)
Other Character(s):
- Dolores Clark (first appearance; being held captive by the Scientist for ransom)
Credits:
| Story | Fred Guardineer |
| Art | Fred Guardineer |
| Lettering | Fred Guardineer |
| Associate editing | Murray Boltinoff |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Zatara the Magician (next in Madame Xanadu Vol. 2 #9)
Villain(s):
- Tigress (next in issue #25/6)
- Kartzoff (first appearance; an insane engineer who builds a tower that kills treasure seekers; dies)
Other Character(s):
- Rick Evans (first appearance; an old classmate; enlists Zatara in helping him find a treasure)
Location(s):
- An unnamed east coast city
- Maine