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Issue: Action Comics #78
Publication Date: November 1944
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Issues: #78 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: 09/12/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (6 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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The Chef of Bohemia

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Sergei the chef
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #5 published May 2007
as Action Comics #78 [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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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
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The Chef of Bohemia!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Sergei; Biff Condor
First Line: He was a comic little fellow with a huge appetite for art...
Synopsis: Ex-pug Biff Condor, losing money from renting a spot in Little Bohemia to a small businessman in a prosperous nightclub area, seeks to oust the man any way possible in order to attract a newer tenant who will pay a higher rent.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #5 published May 2007
as The Chef of Bohemia! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Wheaties
First Line: He's polishing up on his Jap lingo...
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The Bloke Who Croaked the Oak!

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Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Hayfoot Henry
Character(s): Hayfoot Henry
First Line: What sight more glorious than an ancient tree...
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Fortified with Energy!

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Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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Portraits for Plunder!

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Genres: adventure, superhero, western
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Slammer and his mob (villains); Trigger Collins (villain); Barton Blaston
First Line: When ultra-modern paintings are pondered and praised...
Synopsis: The Vigilante and Stuff foil a series of robberies the blueprints for which are incorporated by a criminal artist mastermind into his works of modern art.
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First Line: An important message to the boys and girls of America!
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Superman's Secret Message

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Supermen of America
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Feature(s): Illinois Merchandise Mart
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Incident on Hill X

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Genres: adventure
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Pages: 1.67
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A Fortune in Feathers!

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Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Red; Midget Mayhew; Seminoles (Native American tribe)
First Line: When Congo Bill, thorn in thiefdom's side...
Synopsis: While on a timber survey of the Everglades, Bill runs into a group of poachers, illegally collecting rare bird feathers.
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Disclose Notes: We formerly credited this story to "writer D" who has now been identified by Martin O'Hearn as Whitney Ellsworth.
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Feature(s): Buzzy
First Line: Say, General...
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Feature(s): Wheaties
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Planes without Pilots!

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Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult, superhero
Feature(s): Zatara
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Mr. Rand
First Line: Despite all the ingenuity of the human brain...
Synopsis: Zatara uncovers a plot by the general manager and mechanics of Rand Aircraft to fly planes by remote control to a hidden location, where they break them into spare parts and sell them to other aircraft manufacturers.
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Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
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Not to Be Repeated!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Lighter Moments with Fresh Eveready Batteries
First Line: Your bawth is drawn, m'lord!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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