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Action Comics comic books issue 30

  • Issue #30
    Action Comics (1938 DC) 30
    Published Nov 1940 by DC.
    • INCOMPLETE. First three wraps and two center wraps missing, affects Superman, Three Aces (missing entirely), Tex Thomson, and Zatara stories.

    Cover by Joe Shuster. Superman faces off against the evil magic of Zolar in an untitled Superman story by Jerry Siegel and Jack Burnley (signed as Joe Shuster); 'Pep' Morgan by George Papp; "Three Aces" (script by Gardner F. Fox, pencils by Chad Grothkopf); "Jon Valor the Black Pirate" by Sheldon Moldoff; "Tex Thompson" (art by Bernard Baily); "Clip Carson" by Papp; Zatara the Master Magician and the "Mottled Death" (script by Fox, art by Joseph Sulman). Two page text piece, "Tall Timber" by Bert London. Filler: "Danny Dubb" (pencils by Stan Aschmeier), "Fantastic Facts (signed by Papp), and a book review, "The Royal Road to Romance," by Richard Halliburton. (Thanks to Grand Comics Database for much of the above information!) Full page ad for the Superman Radio Program, "The Return of the Yellow Mask." 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #30A
    Action Comics (2011 2nd Series) 30A

    Written by Greg Pak. Art and Cover by Aaron Kuder. Following the events of FOREVER EVIL, Superman confronts Lex Luthor - but the world has turned around for these two. The hero has become the villain and the villain the hero as forces beyond these two gather to destroy the Man of Steel, beginning with a dormant Doomsday who has crossed over from the Phantom Zone! Cover price $3.99.