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Issue: Action Comics #68
Publication Date: January 1944
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Issues: #68 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: 11/13/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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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Superman Meets Susie!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Susie Tompkins
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #4 published July 2005
as Action Comics #68 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Electric Football
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Superman Meets Susie!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Susie Tompkins (Lois Lane's niece); Lois Lane; Perry White; Hank Beaker; Tug Graff; Sparky Hahn; Beaker Beales
Synopsis: The wild stories that Susie relates to Lois and Clark pique the interest of Superman, who discovers one of her crazy stories happens to be true!
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #4 published July 2005
as Superman Meets Susie! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Story gives the impression this is Superman's first meeting with Susie, but she actually appeared in Action #59.
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You're Ready for Action!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Wheaties
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Imagine - I'm getting airplane instruction today!
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Pages: 1
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The Duke Goes to the Dogs!

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Duke Daggett (crook); Pierrepont Vanderhof; The Earl of Bullingthrow; Marshall Pettibone
First Line: That prize package of the underworld, Duke Daggett...
Synopsis: Stuff grooms his dog to enter into a big dog show, hoping to win the $10,000 prize. Gangster Duke Daggett has the same idea. Swanky contestants hand over entrance fees to the steward, and Daggett's gang decide to rob one of them at home. Stuff overhears them and tells Greg. That evening, as the crooks are holding guns on the Vanderhofs, Vigilante and Stuff interrupt. Much to everybody's surprise (except Stuff himself) Stuff's dog walks away with the first prize. They decide to donate the $10,000 to the Allied War Chest.
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Pages: 10
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First Line: Be sure to get these top favorites...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad featuring cover repros from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #20, Leading Comics (DC, 1941 series) #8, All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #18, Boy Commandos (DC, 1942 series) #5, Green Lantern (DC, 1941 series) #9, Mutt & Jeff (DC, 1939 series) #11, Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #7, and All-Flash (DC, 1941 series) #12.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Romeo, the Robot
First Line: Come down off that pole this minute...
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Pages: 4
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The Ancient Incas!

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Genres: adventure, drama, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill
First Line: On the snow-capped mountains of Peru...
Synopsis: Bill prevents lost Incan gold from making its way into German hands.
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Pages: 5.67
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Feature(s): Boy Commandos
First Line: Gosh...Y'read Boy Commandos...
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: House ad for Boy Commandos (DC, 1942 series) #5, with a partial cover repro.
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The Sea Snake

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Review of The Sea Snake by Stephen W. Meader, illustrated by Edward Shenton.
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Between Dishonor and Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Americommando
Character(s): Americommando [Tex Thomson]
First Line: In a war, a rash act can be almost as disastrous as treason!
Synopsis: Americommando is at Pacific base headquarters when a message comes through from the marines holding a strategic position on an island stronghold. A convoy is en route with supplies and reinforcements, but there is no way to contact the island. Americommando flies to deliver a message, but is shot from the skies and picked up by a Japanese battleship, which he manages to blow up.
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Pages: 7.67
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Feature(s): Leading Comics
First Line: Sure -- I know we're upside down!
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: House ad for Leading Comics (DC, 1941 series) #9, with partial cover repro.
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Bike-ology

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Feature(s): Bendix
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Pages: 0.5
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Laffs
First Line: I got hungry while I was painting it!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: 3 gags.
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Double Twist

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Includes Superman's Secret Message and the Editorial Advisory Board of the Superman DC Comic Magazines.
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The Pictures That Walked

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Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Arthur Arton (art forger)
First Line: Have you ever seen a portrait walking?
Synopsis: Zatara is helping to sell War Bonds at the City Art Museum rally. Afterwards, he notices something phony about Gainsborough's painting of The Blue Boy. Using magic, he gets the blue boy to tell that he is just a copy of the original. He then spots a pair of suspicious-looking characters with a swag sack, and has the original blue boy inside the sack tell of his pedigree. Many other paintings are also forgeries, and the characters tell Zatara the forger's name was Arton. They attack Arton in his own home, and the original paintings are restored to the museum.
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Pages: 8
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Feature(s): Muscle Power Co.
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Feature(s): National Radio Institute
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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