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Action Comics (1938) - #57
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Whitney Ellsworth
Jack Schiff

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John Sikela
  

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Cover Date: February 1943
Cover Price: US $ 0.10

Issue Tagline: WORLD'S LARGEST SELLING COMIC MAGAZINE
Up pops
THE PRANKSTER
SUPERMAN'S
most puzzling foe...
in the fast and
screwball adventure
titled
"CRIME'S COMEDY KING"

Format: Color; Standard Comic Issue; 68 pages

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Reprinted/Collected in:
Superman: The Action Comics Archives (1998) HC vol. 04
Wanted, the World's Most Dangerous Villains (1972) #9

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