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Cover: Curt Swan & Stan Kaye

Action Comics #243

Aug 1958 · DC · 0.10 USD

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Contains 7 stories

The Lady and the Lion

12 pp · Superhero

SupermanLois LaneCircePerry WhiteJimmy Olsen

Untitled Humor story

0.67 pp · Humor

Untitled Humor story

0.67 pp · Humor

The Puzzle of the Perilous Planetoid

6 pp · Science Fiction

Untitled Humor story

1 pp · Humor

Untitled Humor story

0.5 pp · Humor

The Five from the Future

6 pp · Jungle

ComicBooks.com Value

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Raw (VG) $49

CGC 9.0 · 1 in census $544*

CGC 8.5 · 4 in census $372*

CGC 8.0 · 6 in census $287

CGC 7.5 · 3 in census $228*

CGC 7.0 · 2 in census $191*

CGC 6.5 · 2 in census $160*

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CGC 6.0 · 2 in census $142*

CGC 5.5 · 1 in census $112*

CGC 5.0 · 2 in census $112*

CGC 4.5 · 1 in census $89*

CGC 4.0 · 2 in census $81

CGC 3.5 · 2 in census $73*

CGC 3.0 · 1 in census $57*

CGC 2.5 none in existence

CGC 2.0 none in existence

CGC 1.5 none in existence

CGC 1.0 · 1 in census $25*

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GD $24.99 FR $25 GD $35 VG $69 GD $71 VG $75 VERY GOOD $79 VG $85

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Full credits

writer Otto Binder

artist Wayne Boring

inker Stan Kaye

cover pencils Curt Swan

cover inks Stan Kaye

Reprints

↩ Reprints Big Town #2 (1951), Action Comics #160 (1951), Detective Comics #176 (1951)

Reprinted in Five-Score Comic Monthly #7 (1958), The Hundred Comic Monthly #26 (1958), Superman #137 (1958), Superman Annual #3 (1961), Superman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly #15 (1966), Colossal Comic #36 (1966), World's Finest Comics #156 (1966), Giant Superman Album #22 (1971), Batman #947 (1978), Superman in Action Comics #1 (1993), The Silver Age of Superman The Greatest Covers of Action Comics from the '50s to the '70s #[nn] (1995), Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives #1 (2004), Showcase Presents: Superman #1 (2005), Weird Tales and Fantasy #[nn] (2025), Super DC #7

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