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Issue: Action Comics #183
Publication Date: August 1953
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Issues: #183 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: 06/29/1953
Volume: none
Pages: 44
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (5 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 Perfect Plot to Kill Superman

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
First Line: They know these weapons can't destroy me...
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Pages: 1
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The Line of Stars

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The Perfect Plot to Kill Superman!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lex Luthor (villain); Lois Lane
First Line: Come ahead, Superman!
Synopsis: Luthor discovers that any bullet which has struck Superman's invulnerable body undergoes a spectroscopic alteration which veers it towards becoming Kryptonite. He collects tons of the metal and extracts the deadly substance, then challenges Superman to a duel.
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Mission of the Planet of Ice

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Genres: science fiction
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[untitled]

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Genres: childrens
First Line: Your turn to bat, Pud...
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Editorial Advisory Board

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The Stamp of Doom!

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Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Van Durling
First Line: There's a rough sketch of what the stamp will look like, Congo Bill!
Synopsis: A imposter replaces an artist commissioned to capture Bill's likeness for a new postage stamp and sabotages Bill's protection of an ivory caravan.
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A Sprint in Time Spikes Crime

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Genres: adventure
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Binky Shows "How to Spend a Summer Week!"

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Genres: opinion, teen
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The Showboat of Space!

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Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Dr. Kardak; Jon Vindley; Vul Keen; Joe King
First Line: That's the Show-boat of Space...
Synopsis: Dr. Kardak invents a device which nullifies gravitational pull. Various rare substances are required for its manufacture, and these are being stolen with alarming speed, occurring in the same vicinity of the travelling entertainment Show-boat rocket.
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[untitled]

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The Halls of Montezuma

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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: This new vault is ten inches thick
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In Content Item: FlagAction Comics #256 published September 1959
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #176 published April 1965
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Supermen of America

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The Jinx Saddle!

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Jeb Peters; Pancho (bandit)
First Line: Go through with the job, boys!
Synopsis: A horse saddle acquired a curse as a jinxed object when a notorious bandit is hanged sitting upon it. In the present day, some townsfolk believe it threw miner Jeb Peters to his death, but Vigilante proves the curse to be a fake by using it on his own steed.
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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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Junior Space Pilots on the Beam!

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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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