Action Comics #5
| Cover Credits |
| Artist: Leo E. O'Mealia |
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Comic Title: Action Comics #5
Publisher: DC
(Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1938
Approx. On Sale Date:
September 6, 1938 Copyright Date August 25, 1938
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1938
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: Vincent A. Sullivan
| Pages | Feature | Note |
| FC | Cover | Leo O’Mealia (a) |
| IFC | Indicia; House Ad | Vincent A. Sullivan (ed), Detective Comics Inc.; New Adventure Comics (featuring Barry O’Neill) |
| 1 | Superman | by Siegel and Shuster |
| 2 | Superman | |
| 3 | Superman | |
| 4 | Superman | |
| 5 | Superman | |
| 6 | Superman | |
| 7 | Superman | |
| 8 | Superman | |
| 9 | Superman | |
| 10 | Filler | "Coyote Canyon Bill" by Schwab |
| 11 | Fact Feature | "Fantastic Facts" by Gep |
| 12 | Filler | "The Diddle Family" by R. Gustovich(sp?) |
| 13 | Filler | |
| 14 | Chuck Dawson | by Homer Fleming (B&W) |
| 15 | Chuck Dawson | |
| 16 | Chuck Dawson | |
| 17 | Chuck Dawson | |
| 18 | Chuck Dawson | |
| 19 | Chuck Dawson | |
| 20 | Pep Morgan | by Gene Baxter |
| 21 | Pep Morgan | |
| 22 | Pep Morgan | |
| 23 | Pep Morgan | |
| 24 | Phil the Floater | by Alger |
| 25 | Phil the Floater | |
| 26 | Phil the Floater | |
| 27 | Phil the Floater | |
| 28 | The Adventures of Marco Polo | by Sven Elven |
| 29 | The Adventures of Marco Polo | |
| 30 | The Adventures of Marco Polo | |
| 31 | The Adventures of Marco Polo | |
| 32 | Text Story | "Valley of the Past" by Richard Martin |
| 33 | Text Story | |
| 34 | Tex Thomson | by Bernard Baily |
| 35 | Tex Thomson | |
| 36 | Tex Thomson | |
| 37 | Tex Thomson | |
| 38 | Tex Thomson | |
| 39 | Tex Thomson | |
| 40 | Tex Thomson | |
| 41 | Tex Thomson | |
| 42 | Tex Thomson | |
| 43 | Tex Thomson | |
| 44 | Fact Feature | "Sportettes" |
| 45 | Text Feature | "World of Stamps" |
| 46 | Scoop Scanlon | by Will Ely (B&W) |
| 47 | Scoop Scanlon | |
| 48 | Scoop Scanlon | |
| 49 | Scoop Scanlon | |
| 50 | Scoop Scanlon | |
| 51 | Scoop Scanlon | |
| 52 | Zatara | "The Egyptian Wizard" by Fred Guardineer |
| 53 | Zatara | |
| 54 | Zatara | |
| 55 | Zatara | |
| 56 | Zatara | |
| 57 | Zatara | |
| 58 | Zatara | |
| 59 | Zatara | |
| 60 | Zatara | |
| 61 | Zatara | |
| 62 | Zatara | |
| 63 | Zatara | |
| 64 | Fact Feature | "Star-Light" by Sheldon Moldoff |
| IBC | House Ad | Contest |
| BC | Ad | Johnson Smith Co. (Novelties) |
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