Action Comics #40
| Cover Credits |
| Artist: Fred Ray |
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Comic Title: Action Comics #40
Publisher: DC
(Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1941
Approx. On Sale Date:
July 22, 1941 Copyright Date July 18, 1941
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.
Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth
Notes:
This issue contains a 3-page ad for the Star-Spangled Kid debuting in Star-Spangled Comics #1.
| Pages | Feature | Note |
| FC | Superman | Fred Ray (a?) |
| IFC | Ad; Indicia | Johnson Smith Co.; Detective Comics Inc. |
| 1 | Superman | by Siegel and Shuster |
| 2 | Superman | |
| 3 | Superman | |
| 4 | Superman | |
| 5 | Superman | |
| 6 | Superman | |
| 7 | Superman | |
| 8 | Superman | |
| 9 | Superman | |
| 10 | Superman | |
| 11 | Superman | |
| 12 | Superman | |
| 13 | Superman | |
| 14 | Text Feature | Supermen of America |
| 15 | Pep Morgan | by Geo. Papp |
| 16 | Pep Morgan | |
| 17 | Pep Morgan | |
| 18 | Pep Morgan | |
| 19 | Pep Morgan | |
| 20 | Pep Morgan | |
| 21 | House Ad | Superman #11, More Fun Comics #71 |
| 22 | Black Pirate | by Sheldon Moldoff |
| 23 | Black Pirate | |
| 24 | Black Pirate | |
| 25 | Black Pirate | |
| 26 | Text Feature; Ad | Books Worth Reading; Superman on Radio |
| 27 | Filler | "Private Pete" by Henry Boltinoff |
| 28 | Three Aces | (No Title) |
| 29 | Three Aces | |
| 30 | Three Aces | |
| 31 | Three Aces | |
| 32 | Three Aces | |
| 33 | Three Aces | |
| 34 | Filler | "Middy the Mariner" |
| 35 | Filler | |
| 36 | Mr. America | by Bernard Baily |
| 37 | Mr. America | |
| 38 | Mr. America | |
| 39 | Mr. America | |
| 40 | Mr. America | |
| 41 | Mr. America | |
| 42 | Mr. America | |
| 43 | Mr. America | |
| 44 | Text Story; Ad | "Birds of a Feather" by Robert Stowe; Prize Comics |
| 45 | Text Story | |
| 46 | Congo Bill | "The Adventure of the Prehistoric Valley" |
| 47 | Congo Bill | |
| 48 | Congo Bill | |
| 49 | Congo Bill | |
| 50 | Congo Bill | |
| 51 | Congo Bill | |
| 52 | Text Feature | The Star-Spangled Kid Preview |
| 53 | Text Feature | |
| 54 | House Ad | Star Spangled Comics #1 - on sale Aug 6th |
| 55 | Zatara | by Joseph Sulman |
| 56 | Zatara | |
| 57 | Zatara | |
| 58 | Zatara | |
| 59 | Zatara | |
| 60 | Zatara | |
| 61 | Zatara | |
| 62 | Zatara | |
| 63 | Zatara | |
| 64 | House Ad | Superman, Batman, All-Star, Mutt & Jeff |
| IBC | Ad | Book Give-Away Plan |
| BC | Ad | United States Rubber Company |
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