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Issue: Action Comics #56
Publication Date: January 1943
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Issues: #56 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/10/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 25 (10 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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Design for Doom

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #4 published July 2005
as Action Comics #56 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #4 published July 2005
as Back Cover [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]back cover; 1/4 page
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Children of the Sea

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Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Design for Doom!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Emil Loring (introduction)
Synopsis: An insane architect tries to destroy some of America's greatest historical structures so that they might not overshadow his creation of what he believes to be the world's tallest building.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #4 published July 2005
as Design for Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
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Supermen of America

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Robert L. Golay

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Supermen of the U.S. Army
Character(s): Robert L. Golay
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Laffs
First Line: Now stop me if you've heard this one!
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I Ask You!

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Feature(s): Superman
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Melody of Menace!

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Vigilante
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
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Pages: 12
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How Well Do You Know Our War Weapons?

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Feature(s): Bendix
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Clancy
First Line: Hey you - Pull over!
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War Hawks of Greenland

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): 3 Aces
Character(s): Three Aces [Fog Fortune; Gunner Bill; Whistler Will]
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The Man the Whole World Feared

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Genres: superhero, war
Feature(s): Americommando
Character(s): Americommando [Tex Thomson]; Fatman [Bob Daley]
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Pages: 8
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The Traitor

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Genres: adventure
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Don't Miss Your Favorites!

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The Game for Life

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Genres: jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Bullet; Koro
Synopsis: Bill uses a criminal gang's plan to dominate the natives with baseball against them.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Pvt. Pete
First Line: Private Pete - A whole crew of new hostesses just arrived...
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Letterer(s): typeset
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Lionel Trains
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Malta

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Feature(s): Stamps
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Silly Willy
Character(s): Silly Willy
First Line: Gosh! Someone's drowning...
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How Can They Do It??

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Feature(s): World's Finest Comics
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The Case of the Phoney Funny Man

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Genres: adventure, occult
Character(s): Zatara
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Pages: 9
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The Boy Commandos Are Here!

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Feature(s): Boy Commandos
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Wonders of Science Simplified
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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