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Issue: Action Comics #39
Publication Date: August 1941
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Issues: #39 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/20/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 31 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #3 published October 2001
as Action Comics #39 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Disclose Notes: Superman has a blue "S" on cape. Art credits verified by Fred Ray.
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Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Company
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The Radioactive Man

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Sgt. Casey; Perry White; District Attorney Tom Spaulding; May Bryson; The Ghost [Brett Bryson] (villain, introduction, death); Frank Chalmers (villain); Davis (villain)
First Line: Terrorizing the city, committing daring robberies -- the forces of the...
Synopsis: A disaster at Chalmers Laboratories involving radium kills Brett Bryson. His bosses are tried for negligence but acquitted. A hooded figure later robs a jewelry store, leaving a watchman dead of radium burns. Superman is implicated, and he must clear his name before Sgt. Casey arrests him.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #3 published October 2001
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Pages: 12
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Supermen of America

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Gags
First Line: How d'ya like the soup?
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): It's True
First Line: Commercial horticulturists now use tear gas...
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Feature(s): Yank and Doodle; Prize Comics
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The Jailed Star

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Pep Morgan; Jerry Hope; "Odds" Renaldi (villain); Monk (villain)
First Line: That was a beautiful drop, Pep.
Synopsis: When Midwest College's baseball team loses their pitcher, Jerry Hope, to a strain, Pep must stand in to pitch the game without any relief. Seeing an opportunity, "Odds" Renaldi and Monk, gamblers, make a plan to fix the game.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Laff Lines
Character(s): Jack
First Line: Take off the fur coat, Jack...
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The Winning Team!

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Feature(s): Batman
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Escape from the Palace

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Genres: historical
Character(s): The Black Pirate [Jon Valor]; Bonnie; Captain Don De Avila (villain)
First Line: Jon Valor, posing as Noah Scott, trader, has been...
Synopsis: Jon Valor, posing as Noah Scott, trader, has been invited to attend the royal ball as a guest of his friend, Captain Don De Avila. Unknown to the Black Pirate, De Avila has laid a trap to capture him once inside the palace walls, and so regain the favor of the King of Spain.
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Quiz
First Line: 1. What food do we get from the trunk of a palm tree?
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Feature(s): Facts
First Line: 90% of the world's iodine comes from Chile!
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A Peach of a Pair!

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Feature(s): All-Flash Quarterly; Mutt & Jeff
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The Medicine Thief

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Three Aces
Character(s): Three Aces [Fog Fortune; Gunner Bill; Whistler Will]; Douglas MacLean; Pierre La Salle (villain)
First Line: Must be the serum sled bound for...
Synopsis: Flying overhead, the Aces see the serum sled bound for Glencarren to help with an epidemic. As they pass, the sled-driver, Angus, is shot. In Glencarren, at Douglas MacLean's the Three Aces learn of the death and decide to intervene.
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Feature(s): Good Movies and Books
First Line: Here's a British spy picture that has everything: Plot and counter...
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Vs. the Fifth Columnists

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mr. America
Character(s): Mr. America [Tex Thomson]; Ed Blake; Doris Dare; The Leader (villain)
First Line: Through the night, a powerful, alert figure...
Synopsis: While on patrol, Mr. America spots some thugs kidnapping a man and stops them, although he is distracted by an explosion at the Mains Aircraft Factory. He manages to tear a piece of a thug's jacket away that bears an insignia. The man was Ed Blake, photographer, planted by the Globe newspaper at a spy camp but discovered. Mr. America decides to use the insignia to infiltrate the spy camp. There he meets Doris Dare, a reporter, who tells him that they must stop a package from being mailed.
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Get Your Man!

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Genres: western
Character(s): U.S. Marshal Craig Nolan; Deputy Marshall Claw Custer; Ed (villain)
First Line: "He's a dangerous man," said U.S. Marshal Craig Nolan to...
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Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Silly Willy
Character(s): Silly Willy
First Line: -A-hunting we will go!
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Different? Sure!

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Feature(s): Starman; Adventure Comics
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Genres: jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Joe Kent; un-named German captain (villain); an un-named British officer
First Line: The u-boat! -- deadly undersea raider --
Synopsis: In Cairo, Congo Bill consults with a British officer about a hidden submarine base from which u-boats are operating. The officer needs Congo Bill to help locate the base along the north African coast.
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I've Not Yet Begun to Fight!

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Genres: historical, informational, non-fiction
Character(s): John Paul Jones
First Line: This was the dramatic answer of Captain John Paul Jones when asked by the British if he had struck his colors...
Synopsis: Captain John Paul Jones replies to the British: "I've not yet begun to fight!"
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Hear Superman on the Radio!

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First Line: Listen to the thrilling adventures of the Man of Steel over the following stations:
Synopsis: The ad promotes 29 stations in the United States airing the Superman radio show, along with their sponsors. It also mentions there are 25 stations in Canada sponsored by Ogilvie Flour Mills Co., Ltd.
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Facts
First Line: 3/5th's of a second is the amount of time...
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The Justice Society of America Presents All Star Comics No. 6!

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Feature(s): All-Star Comics; The Justice Society of America
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The Zin Diamond

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Genres: adventure, occult
Character(s): Zatara; Queen of Patona; Ben (villain); Ab (villain); Captain Mulgram
First Line: How does he do it - pulling hundreds of...
Synopsis: Zatara performs in Patona, a far-off kingdom, winning the Queen's confidence. She asks him to help her get the Zin Diamond to the Capital Bank of America. Bem, an international jewel thief, plans to get rid of Zatara and steal the diamond.
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Pages: 9
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At the Top of the Field!

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Feature(s): Metro Publications
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Bike Tires Built Like Planes

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Feature(s): United States Rubber Company
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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