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Issue: Action Comics #177
Publication Date: February 1953
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Issues: #177 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/24/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 44
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 23 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600, 700)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Anti-Superman Weapon

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; The General (villain)
First Line: You've destroyed all my secret weapons, Superman...
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Pages: 1
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Superboy Talks About... "The Holiday Spirit!"

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Genres: opinion, superhero
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Anti-Superman Weapon

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; The General; Perry White
First Line: But, "General"...Superman's crushing our newest weapons!
Synopsis: The General uses weapons designed by the Nazis but never completed to conduct daring robberies.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Pardon me. You look like a decent sort of chap...
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Tops in Comics!

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I Rode with the Outlaw Cameleers

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Genres: adventure, drama, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Miss Calhoun; Culgara; the cameleers
First Line: We are doomed!
Synopsis: Bill captures a group of caravan raiders by using kittens to frighten their camels.
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Genres: childrens
First Line: Poor Pud...
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Disclose Notes: Includes a plug for The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Everybody's going to this costume ball...
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Superman Is on Television!

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The Children from Space!

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Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Captain Brent Wood
First Line: No, you're firing our ray-cannon...
Synopsis: Tommy and Brent find a ship's lifeboat floating in space, containing four children abandoned by their parents. They claim to be from Zura, but no such planet is known. Thinking it a misremembering by the children, the Planeteers try a number of planets to no avail. The kids prove to be great scientific inventors and Tommy eventually tricks them into making a truth-confession machine. Under its influence their home world is revealed to be in another star system.
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Superman's Secret Message

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Feature(s): Supermen of America
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Peril at the South Pole

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Genres: non-fiction
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Disclose Notes: Art credits submitted by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Pete, run over and pick up three cases of eggs...
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Baker's 4 in 1 Instant Cocoa Mix
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Five Bandannas for Vigilante

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Black Diamond Gang; Big Ben Dyke (villain)
First Line: The bandanna is the cowboy's trademark...
Synopsis: Ambushed whilst he and Stuff are visiting some ancient cliff dwellings, Vigilante loses his bandanna. He is desperate to regain it before the outlaws see his true face.
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Disclose Notes: Keith Chandler: Inks were previously credited to Bob Brown, but there are a number of hands at work here, including (it appears) Russ Heath. Bails' Who's Who has Brown on pencils and 'some inks' on this feature.
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Draw Me!

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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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