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Issue: Superman Comics [ashcan] #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1939
 
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 1939
Volume: none
Pages: 12
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: none entered
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 2 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: An ashcan comic book that was produced to secure the trademark of the title.

One of the two known copies has "10¢" written in fountain pen on the front cover inside the price parallelogram.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Black and White Cover; Black and White Interior ?
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint Interior
Binding: Hand Stapled
Publishing Format: Ashcan
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #7 published December 1938
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Superman in the Slums

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Frankie Marello; Box-Ears; Nick; Pinky; Gimpy (villain)
First Line: Leaping over towering buildings...
Synopsis: Superman decides to get involved in a case involving wayward boys being used by a petty criminal, who uses the boys to steal items from wealthy people that he can sell for quick cash...all at their expense.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Wears red boots, "S" symbol is all yellow but is missing in a number of panels. Uses super-hearing for the first time.

By comparison with the signed story in Marvel Mystery Comics (Marvel, 1939 series) #3 (January 1940), much of the inking here is by Lauretta.

Not certain if interior art is in color or black and white.

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