Action Comics #179
| Cover Credits |
| Artist: J. Winslow Mortimer |
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Comic Title: Action Comics #179
Publisher: DC
(National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: April 1953
On Sale Date:
February 27, 1953 Newsstand Date February 27, 1953
Source: Newsdealer Magazine, V7 #12
Copyright Date February 25, 1953
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1953
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.
Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 40
Editor: Mort Weisinger
| Pages | Feature | Note |
| FC | Superman | Unsigned (a) |
| IFC | Ad | Space Squadron |
| 1 | Superman | "Super Manor" |
| 2 | Superman | |
| 3 | Superman | |
| 4 | Superman | |
| 5 | Superman | |
| 6 | Superman | |
| 7 | Superman | |
| 8 | Superman | |
| 9 | Superman | |
| 10 | Superman | |
| 11 | Superman | |
| 12 | Superman | |
| 13 | Fact Feature; Ad | "Quick Quiz"; Necco Wafers |
| 14 | Public Service Ad | Superman says: "People Are People" |
| 15 | Congo Bill | "I Mined for Diamonds and Death" |
| 16 | Congo Bill | |
| 17 | Congo Bill | |
| 18 | Congo Bill | |
| 19 | Congo Bill | |
| 20 | Congo Bill; Ad | Wildroot Cream-Oil |
| 21 | Ad; Text Feature | Dubble Bubble; Editorial Advisory Board |
| 22 | Filler; Text Feature | "Professor Eureka" by Henry Boltinoff; Supermen of America |
| 23 | Tommy Tomorrow | "The Secret of Adventure Moon" |
| 24 | Tommy Tomorrow | |
| 25 | Tommy Tomorrow | |
| 26 | Tommy Tomorrow | |
| 27 | Tommy Tomorrow | |
| 28 | Tommy Tomorrow; Ad | Superman on television |
| 29 | Text Story | "On Top of Your Head" by Eugenia Bedell |
| 30 | Text Story | "Coining a Phrase" |
| 31 | Vigilante | "Mountie for a Day" |
| 32 | Vigilante | |
| 33 | Vigilante | |
| 34 | Vigilante | |
| 35 | Vigilante | |
| 36 | Vigilante | |
| 37 | Vigilante | |
| 38 | Vigilante | |
| 39 | House Ad | Strange Adventures, Detective Comics |
| 40 | Ad | Art Instruction, Inc. |
| IBC | Ad | Motor Book |
| BC | Ad | Milky Way |
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