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Issue: Action Comics #64
Publication Date: September 1943
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Issues: #64 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/13/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (7 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; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Terrible Toyman

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; The Toyman [Winslow Percival Schott]
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #4 published July 2005
as Action Comics #64 [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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Credits corrected to match Siegel's records: Siegel and Shuster v. National Comics Publications, Inc. et al., case no. 1099 (Westchester Cty. Sup. Ct. 1947).
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Mounted Messenger by Cornelia Meigs

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Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Includes "Superman's Secret Message" and enrollment coupon for Supermen of America.
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The Terrible Toyman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; The Toyman [Winslow Percival Schott] (villain)
First Line: Children aren't the only ones who find fascination in toys!
Synopsis: The Toyman uses toys to commit two robberies, but after Superman foils his third robbery, the Toyman snatches Lois Lane and is about to kill her with poisonous dolls, when Superman discovers his hidden lair, frees Lois, and turns The Toyman over to the police.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #4 published July 2005
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman in the Forties #[nn] published December 2005
as The Terrible Toyman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Credits corrected to match Siegel's records for Action 66 based on credits from Siegel's records: Siegel and Shuster v. National Comics Publications, Inc. et al., case no. 1099 (Westchester Cty. Sup. Ct. 1947).
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First Line: Be sure to get these top favorites for the best in comics!
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The Treasure of Dead Man's Key!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff [Jimmy Leung]; Cinthy (introduction); Poison (villain); Chopper (villain)
First Line: A century after shipwrecked sea robbers perished on...
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Pages: 12
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): "Jitters" Jeep
First Line: Note: a jeep will get you anywhere
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Gift of Death

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Hendrick Van Horn; Kapitan Koch
First Line: For a long time after his visitor had...
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Are You "Pre-Flight" Material?

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Feature(s): Wheaties
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The Inquisitive Ostrich!

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Genres: jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Van'thelder [von Helder]
First Line: Nobody can guess what an ostrich will do...
Synopsis: Bill thwarts a plan by an ersatz ostrich farmer to capture a ship off the coast of South Africa.
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Pages: 6
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Peter, the Small!

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Genres: war
Feature(s): Americommando
Character(s): Americommando [Tex Thomson]; Peter Populis; Nazis (villains)
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Pages: 7.67
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Feature(s): Prize Comics; Headline Comics
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Quiet...Thugs at Work!

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Genres: occult
Character(s): Zatara
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Feature(s): Charles Atlas
Character(s): Charles Atlas (photograph)
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Metro Publications
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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