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Issue: Action Comics #69
Publication Date: February 1944
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Issues: #69 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: 12/14/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (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
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; The Prankster
First Line: Needles and pins, needles and pins, when the Prankster meets Superman, trouble begins!
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #5 published May 2007
as Action Comics #69 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Books for Your Christmas List
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Pages: 0.67
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The Lost-and-Found Mystery!

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; G. Clamm; J. Roger; The Prankster
First Line: Needles and pins...
Synopsis: Clark and Lois are mystified by ads in the Daily Planet offering huge sums of money for the recovery of lost items. But Superman gets involved when Lois disappears, thanks to The Prankster!
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #5 published May 2007
as The Lost-and-Found Mystery! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
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Here's Get Up and Go

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Feature(s): Wheaties
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Pages: 1
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Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Pvt. Pete
First Line: Shh! There's a machine-gun unit out there giving us a lot of trouble!
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Pages: 1
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The Little Men Who Were There!

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Genres: adventure, superhero, western
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; The Dummy
First Line: A midget in stature, but a giant in criminal intellect...
Synopsis: The Vigilante battles The Dummy, who is using a shrinking ray to shrink himself and his gang in order to commit crimes.
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In Content Item: FlagWanted. The World's Most Dangerous Villains #3 published November 1972
as The Little Men Who Were There! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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First Line: Be sure to get these top favorites for the best in comics!
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Pages: 1
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The Rain Maker

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Vitamin Vic
Character(s): Vitamin Vic
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Pages: 4
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Kangaroo Capers!

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Genres: adventure, drama, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Nellie (kangaroo); Muggles
First Line: "Be kind to animals" is a good motto...
Synopsis: Bill battles Australian sheep rustlers.
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Pages: 5.67
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Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: --And, brother, that's what's helping us...
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Pages: 0.33
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Clancy the Cop
First Line: Boy - Was I a goat!
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Pages: 1
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Traitor's Bait!

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Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Americommando
Character(s): Americommando [Tex Thomson]; General Mao; Captain Ping; Colonel Kung
First Line: There is no rest for anyone until the enemy is destroyed!
Synopsis: Americommando stops at a little village on the India/China border for some rest, but there is none, as a man is being murdered down the hall. He is arrested on suspicion, but escapes and uncovers a plot to sell arms to the Japanese.
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Feature(s): Leading Comics
First Line: Sure -- I know we're upside down!
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Pages: 0.33
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Handy Andy
Character(s): Handy Andy
First Line: Howdy folks!
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Pages: 1
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Revenge, Rationed

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Pages: 2
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East Meets West!

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Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]
First Line: "East is East...and West is West..."
Synopsis: A group of eastern swamis visit America, but Zatara counters their evil spells with those of his own.
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Pages: 8
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Feature(s): The Weather Man
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Funk and Wagnalls New Standard Encyclopedia
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Captain Tootsie and the Secret Weapon!

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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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