Action Comics #27
| Cover Credits |
| Artist: Paul Cassidy |
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Comic Title: Action Comics #27
Publisher: DC
(Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: August 1940
Approx. On Sale Date:
June 25, 1940 Copyright Date June 21, 1940
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1940
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 | Paul Cassidy (a?) |
| IFC | Indicia; House Ad | Detective Comics Inc.; All-Star Comics #1, Superman #5, Batman #1, Action #26 (23rd), Detective #41 (5th) |
| 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 | House Ad | Superman #6 - onsale July 10th |
| 16 | Pep Morgan | by Gene Baxter |
| 17 | Pep Morgan | |
| 18 | Pep Morgan | |
| 19 | Pep Morgan | |
| 20 | Pep Morgan | |
| 21 | Pep Morgan | |
| 22 | The Black Pirate | by Sheldon Moldoff |
| 23 | The Black Pirate | |
| 24 | The Black Pirate | |
| 25 | The Black Pirate | |
| 26 | Text Story | "No Greater Courage" by Ivan Dmytryk |
| 27 | Text Story | |
| 28 | Three Aces | by Chad |
| 29 | Three Aces | |
| 30 | Three Aces | |
| 31 | Three Aces | |
| 32 | Three Aces | |
| 33 | Three Aces | |
| 34 | Tex Thomson | "The Return of the Gorrah" 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 | Filler | "Tiny" |
| 45 | Text Feature | "Action Stamp Page" |
| 46 | Clip Carson | by Sheldon Moldoff |
| 47 | Clip Carson | |
| 48 | Clip Carson | |
| 49 | Clip Carson | |
| 50 | Clip Carson | |
| 51 | Clip Carson | |
| 52 | House Ad | Mutt and Jeff #2; Superman on the Radio |
| 53 | Filler | "Mr. Potts" by Bernard Baily |
| 54 | Zatara | "The Vanished Explorer" by Fred Guardineer |
| 55 | Zatara | |
| 56 | Zatara | |
| 57 | Zatara | |
| 58 | Zatara | |
| 59 | Zatara | |
| 60 | Zatara | |
| 61 | Zatara | |
| 62 | Zatara | |
| 63 | Zatara | |
| 64 | Zatara | |
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