Action Comics 23 

• 2025 
• 23 
• Black Pirate (Jon Valor) 

  + 10

  Clip CarsonPep MorganScoop ScanlonStargazerSticky-Mitt StimsonSuperman [DC]Tex ThomsonThree AcesUncle OttoZatara
• Action Comics Facsimile Edition [2022-2025] [USA] 

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Comic Books

Action Comics 23

Black Pirate (Jon Valor), Clip Carson, Pep Morgan, Scoop Scanlon, Stargazer, Sticky-Mitt Stimson, Superman [DC], Tex Thomson, Three Aces, Uncle Otto, Zatara

23

Baily, Bernard, Cole, Russell, Eisner, Will, Ely Jr., John William 'Bill', Grothkopf, Chad, Guardineer, Fred, Moldoff, Sheldon, Shuster, Joe

Cole, Russell, Eisner, Will, Fitch, Ken, Gardner, Fox, Siegel, Jerome

2025

Soft cover

First edition of a reissue

Coloured

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761941387147 00111

17.0 x 26.0 cm

Baily, Bernard, Cassidy, Paul, Cole, Russell, Eisner, Will, Ely Jr., John William 'Bill', Grothkopf, Chad, Guardineer, Fred, Moldoff, Sheldon

Facsimile reproduction of Action Comics (DC, 1937 series) #23 April 1940 issue (first appearance of Lex Luthor), including the cover, story, text pages, and advertisements from the original issue. Modern DC logo, barcode, and age rating have been added to the back cover. First mention of Daily Planet in comic book. This is the first story with Luthor. Superman asks "Who is Luthor?" The second Luthor story appeared in Superman #4 (cover date Spring 1940). Luthor says "We encounter each other once more". However Superman #4 may have gone on sale before this issue. In their copyright registration, Detective Comics, Inc. said Action Comics #23 was published Feb 23, 1940. An in-house ad said Superman #4 would go on sale Feb 15; the copyright registration said that it was published Jan 23. Officially, per DC Comics web site, Luthor's first appearance is in Action Comics #23. The Tex Thomson story has been heavily edited to remove the blackface character Gargantua T. Potts. The character's dialogue has either been eliminated (for example, panel 4 of story page 2) or in some cases altered and given to other characters (for example, the first word balloon on story page 1 has been changed from "Say Mr. Tex - w-what am dat knockin'?" to "Say Tex - w-what's knockin'?"). Panel 6 of story page 7 has been deleted entirely, and panels 4 and 5 of that story page have been moved to center them within the page.