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Issue: Action Comics #305
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 08/29/1963
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 20 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: There is no price on either the cover or in the indicia; however surrounding issues and contemporary issues were all 12 cents.

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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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Cover, Front
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Why Superman Needs a Secret Identity!

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superhero
Superman
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FlagShowcase Presents: Superman #4 published November 2008
 
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Play It Safe!

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non-fiction
a day in the life of a forest ranger (billed as a "true story from the records of the Minnesota Warden Service")
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inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly
Why Superman Needs a Secret Identity!

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superhero
Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Lex Luthor (villain); Lana Lang; Superboy; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Chief Parker; Superman Robots; Lois Lane; Ed Lacy (villain); Benny the Blaster (villain)
As Clark Kent is faced with a choice between saving his friends and protecting his secret identity, the reader is shown three different scenarios explaining why Superman needs to preserve that secret.
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FlagShowcase Presents: Superman #4 published November 2008
 
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imaginary stories within a framing story
Try a Tongue Teaser!

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Tootsie Roll
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Get these favorite, exciting and entertaining comics magazines...
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[untitled]

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Letters submitted by Gregory Feldman, Curtis Roemer, Louis B. Cohen, Gerald Leroux, Lana Fuller, and Otto Grange.
Fight Global Air Battles with Planes of All Nations

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Zenith Company
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The Flashiest News of the Year... A Giant Flash Annual!

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superhero
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house ad for Flash Annual (DC, 1963 series) #1
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Tootsie Roll Pop
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The Girl Who Hated Supergirl!

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superhero
Supergirl [Linda Danvers]; Karen Blair; Dick Malverne; Edna Danvers; Bill Blair; Zor-El (flashback); Allura (flashback); Superman (flashback); Dr. Blair (flashback)
Karen Blair hates Supergirl because she believes that the rocket that brought Supergirl to Earth caused an accident that killed her father and crippled her brother. Supergirl is finally able to prove that she was not responsible.
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FlagSuperman #7/1967 published April 1967
as Das Mädchen, das Supergirl hasste [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase Presents: Supergirl #2 published February 2008
as The Girl Who Hated Supergirl! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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John Forte added as artist/inker of some panels by Jim Walker.

Establishes the date of Supergirl's arrival on Earth as May 18th.
[untitled]

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Tootsie Roll Fudge
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[untitled]

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anthropomorphic, humorous, superhero
Super-Turtle
Ah - My super-vision sees a man in distress out in the desert!
Super-Turtle spots a man in distress out in the desert. He builds a long pipeline to bring water to him.
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Coming... Super-Attractions!

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Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane; Superboy; Adventure Comics
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Blast Off
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Task Force
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[untitled]

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100 Toy Soldiers
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104 Kings' Knights
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[untitled]

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Wallace Brown, Inc.
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Inside back cover.
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Revolutionary War Soldiers
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Back cover.

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