Action Comics #52
| Cover Credits |
| Artist: Fred Ray |
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Comic Title: Action Comics #52
Publisher: DC
(Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1942
On Sale Date:
July 17, 1942 Newsstand Date July 17, 1942
Source: House Ad, Superman #18, Page 30
Copyright Date July 14, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
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
| Pages | Feature | Note |
| FC | Superman | Fred Ray (a?) |
| IFC | Text Feature; Indicia | "Good Books Worth Reading"; Detective Comics Inc. |
| 1 | Superman | "The Emperor of America" |
| 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 | Fact Feature | "Supermen of the U.S. Army" |
| 16 | Ad | Tootsie Roll |
| 17 | Vigilante | "Sing a Song of Six Guns" |
| 18 | Vigilante | |
| 19 | Vigilante | |
| 20 | Vigilante | |
| 21 | Vigilante | |
| 22 | Vigilante | |
| 23 | Vigilante | |
| 24 | Vigilante | |
| 25 | Vigilante | |
| 26 | Vigilante | |
| 27 | Vigilante | |
| 28 | Vigilante | |
| 29 | Filler; House Ad | "Private Pete" by Henry Boltinoff; Superman #18 |
| 30 | 3 Aces | "The Battle of a Thousand Years" |
| 31 | 3 Aces | |
| 32 | 3 Aces | |
| 33 | 3 Aces | |
| 34 | 3 Aces | |
| 35 | 3 Aces | |
| 36 | Americommandos | "The Case of the Stolen Spectacles" |
| 37 | Americommandos | |
| 38 | Americommandos | |
| 39 | Americommandos | |
| 40 | Americommandos | |
| 41 | Americommandos | |
| 42 | Americommandos | |
| 43 | Americommandos | |
| 44 | Text Story | "Wolf Hunt" by Tex Slade |
| 45 | Text Story | |
| 46 | Filler; House Ad | "Little Gertie"; World's Finest Comics #7 |
| 47 | Congo Bill | "The One-Man Army" |
| 48 | Congo Bill | |
| 49 | Congo Bill | |
| 50 | Congo Bill | |
| 51 | Congo Bill | |
| 52 | Congo Bill | |
| 53 | Filler; Ad | "Private Pete" by Henry Boltinoff; Prize Comics |
| 54 | Filler; House Ad | "Laffs" by Henry Boltinoff; Wonder Woman #1 |
| 55 | Zatara | "Crime on Ice" by Joseph Sulman |
| 56 | Zatara | |
| 57 | Zatara | |
| 58 | Zatara | |
| 59 | Zatara | |
| 60 | Zatara | |
| 61 | Zatara | |
| 62 | Zatara | |
| 63 | Zatara | |
| 64 | House Ad | Green Lantern, All-Flash, All-Star, Mutt & Jeff, Leading, Batman |
| IBC | Ad | Rolin Publishing Co. |
| BC | Ad | Book Give-Away Plan |
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