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Issue: Action Comics #72
Publication Date: May 1944
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Issues: #72 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: 03/14/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (8 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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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 #72 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Feature(s): The Weather Man
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Superman and the Super-Movers!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Mr. Grogan; Mr. Bixley; Oberleutnant Karl Brumer; Joe Drew; Mr. Sniggle
First Line: Lifting a bridge or a building and carrying it someplace...
Synopsis: Superman compares himself to construction workers and heavy crane operators as he helps the owners of "Super Movers" against a rival, who is trying to buy the owner out in order to use the business as a front for robbery.
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Pages: 12
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Feature(s): Wheaties
First Line: A guide tol' me she lost 'em in a Athens boarding house...
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Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Pvt. Pete
First Line: Well, what do you know - I'm assigned to K.P.!
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The Guns of Killer Haines!

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Genres: adventure, superhero, western
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Jabez Haines (villain); Skip Homan; Anne
First Line: Back in the eighties the name of Jabez "Killer" Haines struck terror...
Synopsis: Jabez Haines keeps his grandfather's name alive as a hero, when in reality he was quite a villain. The Prairie Troubadour is performing at a fund-raising dance when Stuff overhears a deputy tell the sheriff that the bank is being robbed. In his Vigilante guise he catches Haines at the bank, but lets him go. Later, he teaches Haines humility and shows him the errors of his ways.
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Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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The Perfect Double

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Genres: crime, humorous
Feature(s): Super-Sleuth McFooey
Character(s): Super-Sleuth McFooey
First Line: Hey, - McFooey...
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Be a Magician! Turn Waste Paper Into War Weapons!

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Genres: opinion, superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
Synopsis: Superman puts on a special show, for 100 pounds of waste paper as an admission price, to demonstrate to the kids how that much waste paper can be transformed into 115 cardboard boxes which can hold ten 20mm shells.
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Choose Your Weapons!

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Genres: adventure, drama, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; McGrath; Migli; Knight; Tegar
First Line: Modern weapons are powerful...
Synopsis: Bill makes a forced landing on a Pacific island, and together with a pair of US Army aviators, manages to drive a Japanese force off the island.
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Pages: 5.67
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Feature(s): Superman
First Line: Boy! Am I lucky!
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Pages: 0.33
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Out of Nowhere

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Genres: adventure
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Cargoes of Death!

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Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Americommando
Character(s): Americommando [Tex Thomson]; Admiral Numa (villain); Captain Saki (villain)
First Line: The harbor of Tokyo is tense with excitement!
Synopsis: Americommando is in Tokyo, disguised as a Nazi officer, where he destroys the Japanese convoy trying the run the Allied blockade,E
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Genres: opinion
First Line: Excellent statue of true friend of Japan!
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First Line: Look for this trademark!
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Editorial Advisory Board of the Superman DC Comics Magazines

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Superman's Secret Message

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Feature(s): Supermen of America
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Magic Knights!

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Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Merlin [Spider Slandon]; Bob Banton
First Line: Do you remember reading about Good King Arthur?
Synopsis: Merlin the Magician has apparently reappeared and established a new Camelot. Rich men are invited to pay for the privilege of sitting at the new Round Table. Zatara exposes the scam as that of Spider Slandon, who poses as Merlin.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Zatara states his powers are based on science and nothing more than hypnotism and illusion.
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Feature(s): Invention Company
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Feature(s): Let's Go to College
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Lighter Moments with Fresh Eveready Batteries
First Line: Tell the Mess Sergeant to look up the recipe for turtle soup.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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