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Issue: Action Comics #70
Publication Date: March 1944
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Issues: #70 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: 01/15/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #5 published May 2007
as Action Comics #70 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Submarine Sailor

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Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Superman Takes a Holiday!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; The Thinker
First Line: Metropolis is dismayed when Superman goes vacationing...
Synopsis: A new villain, the Thinker, continues to outwit the Man of Tomorrow...until Superman decides to leave for a vacation and allows Clark Kent to take over for him!
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Pages: 12
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Energy on the Alert!

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Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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Fight Paper Waste -- and Hang One on the Paper-Hanger of Berlin!

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Genres: opinion, superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
Synopsis: Superman encourages kids to help save waste paper to help the war effort.
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A Challenge from the Pyramids!

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Genres: adventure, superhero, western
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; John Elder; Lee Chin; Dr. Sanderson (villain)
First Line: Priceless treasures change hands...
Synopsis: A Ming vase is only the first in a string of robberies from curio shops. Stuff is concerned for his uncle, Lee Chin, and when he and Vigilante get to the shop they find a robbery already in progress. The crooks get away after knocking Vigilante out, but Stuff has found a key with an address stamped on it. This takes them to a warehouse on the docks, where they find the crooks getting ready to ship their loot across the bay. The ringleader is revealed to be Dr. Sanderson, Assistant Curator of Egyptology at the Fine Arts Museum.
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Feature(s): Wheaties
First Line: Butch ain't got de nerve to hit this new kid...
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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Vitamin Vic
Character(s): Vitamin Vic
First Line: A little high velocity yarn...
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First Line: Be sure to get these top favorites for the best in comics!
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The Forest Primeval!

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Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Lulan; Moro; Nogli; Rabu
First Line: Once, gigantic animals roamed the earth...
Synopsis: Bill becomes chief of a primitive tribe when he kills a surviving pre-historic pig.
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Feature(s): Superman; World's Finest Comics
First Line: Wow! Here's the best magazine in the world!
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Words Are Weapons!

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Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Americommando
Character(s): Americommando [Tex Thomson]; Ling Fo; Colonel Hakita
First Line: Deep in the heart of the conquered territories...
Synopsis: In Japanese-controlled China the resistance troops plan to blow up an airfield, but reinforcements are sent in before it can happen. Americommando is a prisoner. The village elder invites the Japanese base commander to a feast they have prepared in his honor. He asks to see Americommando and to tell him the Chinese are happy under Japanese rule. After he has left Americommando thinks on his last words, "a wise man examines the bench before he sits" and finds a dagger under his bench. Escaping, he joins forces with the freedom fighters and sets fire to the air base.
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Disclose Notes: owners: H Donenfeld; P. H. Sampliner
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The Fugitive

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Genres: crime
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Help Me Smash This Menace!

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Genres: opinion, superhero
Feature(s): Superman
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Clouds of Crime!

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Genres: fantasy, occult, superhero
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Professor Arla
First Line: Get under cover! Because it isn't raining rain...it's dripping crime!
Synopsis: Zatara is performing in a small town when he hears a jewelry store owner tell his assistant to get the gems into the vault as it looks like rain. Zatara wants to know the connection, and is told that every robbery in the past three months has occurred during a rain storm. The thieves then vanish without a trace. Walking on, Zatara interrupts a robbery by men who seem to have just appeared from nowhere. They take the elevator to the roof and disappear. Zatara uses magic to walk into the clouds and finds a floating island, which he causes to lands in front of the police station.
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Feature(s): Illinois Merchandise Mart
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Feature(s): Metro Publications
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Feature(s): American Seed Co.
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