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Issue: Action Comics #184
Publication Date: September 1953
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Issues: #184 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: 07/29/1953
Volume: none
Pages: 44
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (6 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 Covered Wagon of Doom!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane
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Pages: 1
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The Covered Wagon of Doom!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Don Whitmore; John Lattison (villain)
First Line: A similar storm almost wrecked a covered wagon at this same spot exactly a hundred years ago!
Synopsis: Don Whitmore survives a plane wreck and decides to make a cross country journey in a covered wagon, as his ancestor once did.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Bill Woolfolk originally credited as writer, but this story does not appear in his records that he wrote it. John Broome identified as writer by Bob Hughes by textual comparison.
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Genres: childrens
First Line: How good are you with your bow and arrow, Pud?
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Pages: 0.5
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Disclose Notes: Includes a plug for polio research.
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Buzzy Asks: How Safe Is Your Driving?

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Genres: opinion, teen
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Pages: 1
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The Forgotten Man of the Jungle!

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Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Ajmer; Ahmed; Charley (chimpanzee); Jumbo (elephant)
First Line: All the word knows Congo Bill...
Synopsis: Bill exposes a pair of jewel thieves after the thieves prove that elephants do forget.
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Pages: 5.67
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Fresh Fish
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Let's go!
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Pages: 0.67
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Supermen of America

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Pages: 0.33
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The Holidays of Tomorrow!

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Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Captain Brent Wood; Jon Varrel (villain); Burt Knowlen (villain)
First Line: That isn't part of the comet day celebration! It's real!
Synopsis: Tommy and Brent visit various planets and watch the celebrations commemorating important events in their history, in the process foiling plans of criminals to steal during the pageants.
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In Content Item: FlagSuper Adventure Comic #98 [1'- Cover Price] published August 1958
as The Holidays of Tomorrow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5.67
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The Navy's All-Around Wizards

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Genres: non-fiction
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Reprint Notes: from All Hands, The Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Sequence, including art credits, added by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
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The Line of Stars Presents

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The Crime Rhymes!

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Shakes, the Underworld Poet (villain); Chip Chapman (villain); Blast Owens (villain)
First Line: More truth than poetry there...
Synopsis: During a meeting of a convict poetry club in a penitentiary, inmates knock out the guards and escape wearing their uniforms. They embark on a crime spree, spouting poetry, humiliating The Vigilante in the process by stealing his new Vig-cycle and gloating about it in rhyme.
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Feature(s): Lucky Song Parade Co.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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