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Issue: Action Comics #185
Publication Date: October 1953
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Issues: #185 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: 08/26/1953
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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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane
First Line: What am I offered for this album of Superman photos?
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Pages: 1
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Superman's Million Dollar Photos!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Isaah Pendleton (villain)
First Line: Smile, Superman!
Synopsis: A meteor smashes through the window of the Superman photo exhibit at the Superman Hall of Trophies and destroys the vast collection of photos showing Superman in action. Isaah Pendleton offers $50 for every photo of Superman readers of the Planet send him. He then proceeds to set fire to them, al except the photo album he bought from Lois. Those 500 photos are now the only ones in existence and Pendleton auctions them to the highest bidder.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Wow! This looks like a good spot to park!
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Pages: 0.5
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Feature(s): Sky Bar
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Yippee! I'm a cowboy!
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Pages: 0.67
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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The Hidden City!

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Genres: adventure, drama, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Ernest Bigley; Cecil; Robert Black
First Line: I told you that Congo Bill would lead us to the hidden city!
Synopsis: Bill journeys to Tibet to inform a travel writer that his uncle has died and left him a million pounds.
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In Content Item: FlagCentury, The 100 Page Comic Monthly #11 published April 1957
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Pages: 5.67
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Genres: childrens
First Line: Now that we're at the North Pole...
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Includes a plug for polio research.
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Binky Says: "Give Your Pet All the Breaks!"

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Genres: opinion, teen
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Pages: 1
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The Cosmic Jigsaw Puzzle!

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Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Captain Brent Wood; Eldred Tharn (villain)
First Line: One of the puzzle's missing pieces is in that comet's tail!
Synopsis: Tommy hunts for the colossal weapon invented by the missing scientist Dr. Malden, but others with less altruistic motives are also after it.
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How to Find a Million Dollars

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Genres: non-fiction
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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 Coming Attractions

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The Treasure of Get-Rich Creek!

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Joyce Terrill; Mr. Deems (villain)
First Line: B - - but, Vig...There's not an ounce of gold in this worn-out creek!
Synopsis: Lawyer Deems forces Joyce Terrill under threat of bodily harm to sign away her claim to an inherited gold mine. But The Vigilante finds small sacks of gold dust which her uncle had left buried under a tree near a river bank. As she had signed under duress the claim is still hers.
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Disclose Notes: Art was previously credited to Bob Brown.
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Feature(s): Friendship Studios, Inc.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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