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Issue: Superman #17
Publication Date: October 1959
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Issues: #17 of 34 Issues
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Publisher: FlagChronicle Publications
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Indicia Publisher: Chronicle Publications
On Sale Date: (not set)
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Pages: 36
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Content Items: 17 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover & interior
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Plot to Destroy Superman!

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Genres: superhero
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Feature(s): Serg's Chocolate
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The Plot to Destroy Superman

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Genres: superhero
First Line: How would you like to see amazing inventions of tomorrow
Synopsis: Superman, Batman, Batwoman and Robin are scheduled to display crime-fighting inventions of the future at an exhibit of what future Gotham will be like. Lex Luthor, disguised as an inventor of one of the inventions, tries to have Superman disintegrated.
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Water: A Good Friend or Deadly Enemy -- Depending On You!

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Genres: opinion, sports
Feature(s): swimming
First Line: Come on, Sam, let's take a dip.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: What happened to you, Hy?
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Disclose Notes: 60% of the page is comic, 40% is an advertisement
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Prisoners of Amazon Asteroid

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: The interplanetary duties of Tommy Tomorrow have sent him from one end of the solar system to the other...
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Feature(s): A detective agency guide ad.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Gosh, Dad, the television set seems to be on the blink.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Pull Over!
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Safe Crackers

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Genres: non-fiction
First Line: The first safe was devised about 90 years ago and was locked with a key.
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Feature(s): M.Y. San Crackers
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The Too-Friendly Witnesses

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Genres: mystery
First Line: Charlie French hated cats, and Mr. Hoskins owned five of them.
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Alias Chief Magic Bow

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Princess Morning Moon; Chief Magic Bow (Flashback); Ch'Waka (Medicine Man)
First Line: Countless snows ago, he had ruled the tribe, a just and mighty chief...
Synopsis: Green Arrow and Speedy help an Indian tribe by posing as an ancient warrior, Chief Magic Bow, and performing various "magic" tricks with their special arrows.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Kosme the Cop (Retired)
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Disclose Notes: Comic strips signed by Malang. A search showed him to be Mauro Malang Santos.
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It's Fun to Learn!

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Genres: science and technology
First Line: This'll make a swell ball field for us if we can clear away all these rocks 'n everything.
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