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Issue: Action Comics #75
Publication Date: August 1944
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Issues: #75 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: 06/13/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (8 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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Aesop's Modern Fables

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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 #75 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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First Line: For spine-tingling action...
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Pages: 0.67
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Aesop's Modern Fables

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Johnny Aesop
First Line: Once upon a time there was a guy named Trigger Mike...
Synopsis: An escaped prisoner named Johnny Aesop, ribbed when he was younger about his last name, decides to commit crimes based on the ancient fables to gain wealth and notoriety.
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Pages: 12
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Wheaties
First Line: Why not? They helped give me the energy...
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The Baseball Barrage

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Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Hayfoot Henry
Character(s): Hayfoot Henry
First Line: In Sleepyside, where verse alone is spoken...
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Lighter Moments with Fresh Eveready Batteries
First Line: Don't worry, darling! There's nobody around!
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Blunderbuss Booty!

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Genres: adventure, superhero, western
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; The Dummy (villain); The Lash (villain); Robertson; Mrs. Robertson
First Line: From swiping to swapping - - that's The Dummy's plan...
Synopsis: The Vigilante and Stuff attend the parole board meeting for The Dummy, who claims he is rehabilitated. The Vigilante decides he ought to have another chance, providing he pays back the loot from the last robbery he committed. So, The Dummy opens up a swap shop and appears to be going straight. A thief calling himself The Lash breaks into the Robertson home and steals an old blunderbuss. He then continues to steal blunderbusses, and when Vigilante and Stuff give chase they find themselves near The Dummy's swap shop. They later pursue The Lash and find that he and The Dummy are in cahoots.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Chief Hot Foot
First Line: Me make-um over wigwam...
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Superman's Secret Message

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Feature(s): Supermen of America
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Money Talks

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Genres: adventure
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Frame Up in Fur!

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Genres: adventure, drama, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Baldy; Dwight
First Line: Congo Bill, out-rider of the world's hinterlands...
Synopsis: Working for the North Star Fur Company, Bill captures a gang of fur thieves working right under the police's nose.
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Feature(s): Popsicle
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The Sting of Death!

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Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Dick Pack; The Maharajah [Daggers Fanelli] (crook)
First Line: The hiss of swift and silent death lances down out of the sky...
Synopsis: Visiting his old friend Dick Pack, Zatara finds him in mortal fear of "The Sting of Death". To escape the curse a ransom of $50,000 is demanded. At the subsequent party one of the guests is a maharajah. Zatara unravels his turban to reveal a hive filled with angry robber wasps, their stings dipped in deadly cobra venom.
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Feature(s): Wheaties
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Joe Jam
Character(s): Joe Jam; Sugarpuss; Judy
First Line: Joe, is our credit good for two sodas?
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The Mysterious Blonde

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Adventures of "R. C." and Quickie; Royal Crown Cola
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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