Object label
DC Comics · Comics · Action Comics · 1940
Action Comics #23
Action Comics · 1940
The first appearance of Superman's longtime nemesis and archrival Lex Luthor! Credited as "Luthor" and with a full head of red hair, this issue features a battle of brawn-versus-brains between the villain and the Man of Steel for the life of Lois Lane.
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Action Comics #23 belongs to a comics graph built around publisher, series, issue number, characters, creators like Bernard Baily, Chad Grothkopf, and Fred Guardineer, and story context. The important part is not just the issue record, but how it connects into runs, appearances, and adjacent covers.
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Action Comics #23 is a comics collectible connected to DC Comics and Action Comics. Useful collector signals include release year 1940, issue #23, and artist context from Jerry Siegel, Bernard Baily, and Fred Guardineer. Action Comics has 46 catalogued releases on GrailHub, making this page a route into completion, variants, and nearby objects.
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Collector notes
Action Comics #23 is a comics entry for issue #23 in Action Comics from 1940. GrailHub tracks publisher, series, issue number, cover date, creators, characters, and first appearances where that data is available.
DC Comics pages connect this issue back to its publisher, series, creators, and related issues. For comic collectors, those links matter because discovery often starts with a character, creative team, first appearance, or a run of issues rather than one isolated record.
Characters associated with this issue include Black Pirate, Clip Carson, Fog Fortune, George Taylor, Gunner Bill, and Lex Luthor.
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- Release span
- 1938-2001
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Quick facts
- Publisher
- DC Comics
- Series
- Action Comics
- Issue number
- #23
- Cover date
- Apr 1, 1940
- Characters
- Black Pirate, Clip Carson, Fog Fortune, George Taylor, Gunner Bill, Lex Luthor +6 more
- Creators
- Bernard Baily, Chad Grothkopf, Fred Guardineer, Gardner Fox, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster +2 more
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Data source
- Source
- Metron
- Source ID
- 34861
- Source URL
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