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Issue: Action Comics #77
Publication Date: October 1944
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Issues: #77 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: 08/12/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (7 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: Got a match, Superman?
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #5 published May 2007
as Action Comics #77 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Feature(s): Action Comics; Detective Comics; All Funny Comics
First Line: Want action?
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Headline Hoax!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Amos Amster; Thomas Todd; Joe; The Prankster
First Line: The Daily Planet prints a million newspapers a day, every one alike.
Synopsis: The Prankster disguises himself as a blind news dealer and manufactures Daily Planet headlines to con certain people so that he can make a profit off of them!
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #5 published May 2007
as The Headline Hoax! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Lighter Moments with Fresh Eveready Batteries
First Line: I'm sorry, Sirs!
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Pages: 1
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The Punctured Picture!

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Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Hayfoot Henry
Character(s): Hayfoot Henry
First Line: Only a person mean and mephitic...
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Pages: 5
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Feature(s): Wheaties
First Line: Mind if I join you?
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The Rainbow Man Sees Red!

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; The Rainbow Man (villain); Spike (convict); Egghead (convict)
First Line: You've met that slickest scoundrel in the spectrum of crime, The Rainbow Man...
Synopsis: The Rainbow Man, while in prison, fakes a debilitating illness. The warden calls in Vigilante to talk to him, but the villain is present in the room disguised as a doctor. Escaping, he then disguises himself as the Mystic Masked Marvel in the Royal Order of Scarlet Tanagars. At the climax of their parade through the streets, Rainbow Man demands the jeweled statue which is to be presented to their illustrious past president. His imperious manner prevails and he drives away with it. Vigilante sets a trap based on the realization that Rainbow Man is now colorblind.
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Pages: 10
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Clancy
First Line: That must have been put there to keep the kids off!
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Feature(s): Supermen of America
First Line: Are you a good American?
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Pages: 0.5
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Outsmarting a Saboteur!

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Adventures of "R. C." and Quickie; Royal Crown Cola
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Pages: 1
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The Leaping Leopard!

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Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Jack Blane; Farbach; Zollini
First Line: Congo Bill comes home after roaming the strange, far corners of the earth!
Synopsis: Bill exposes a jewel thief who has been disguising himself as a leopard, hoping that escaped circus animals will be blamed for his attacks.
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You Can Save His Life!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: opinion
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Pages: 0.33
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Terror's Victim

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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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wheaties
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Pages: 1
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The Pranks of Pan!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Pan; Jim Baker; Rocky Clark (crook)
First Line: In the olden days, Pan was supposed to live on Mount Olympus.
Synopsis: The ancient god Pan, in the human guise of a curio shop owner, lets Jim Baker have a rare old coin on approval. Little realizing that the coin will manifest anything he says - a chauffeur-driven car, a mansion, a ship - a scared Baker turns to Zatara for help. Pan outwits him, but Zatara prevails and by the magical power of the coin, turns Pan into steam and forever banishes him from the earth.
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Feature(s): X-acto
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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