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Issue: Action Comics #80
Publication Date: January 1945
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Issues: #80 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: 11/14/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Modified version of this issue released as Special Edition [U.S. Navy] (DC, 1944 series) #1 for U.S. Navy with simplified text.

The on sale date is from the publication date as reported to the U.S. Copyright Office in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 40, January-December 1945, Numbers 1-4. Class B periodical. Copyright registration #B 653420.
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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
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Mr. Mxyztplk
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In Content Item: FlagSpecial Edition, Action Comics #1 published November 1944
as Action Comics #80 [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #5 published May 2007
as Action Comics #80 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Superman; Batman; Boy Commandos
First Line: Only in a Superman DC Publication are found...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Mr. Mxyztplk Returns!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Mr. Mxyztplk
First Line: Do you remember that gnomish nuisance from an unknown dimension...
Synopsis: When unusual and weird things begin affecting Clark Kent, there is only one answer for it: that imp from another dimension has returned, and that means more headaches for the Man of Tomorrow!
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman #272 published February 1974
as Mr. Mxyztplk Returns! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSupermann #2/1975 published February 1975
as Mxyztplk kommer tilbake [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #5 published May 2007
as Mr. Mxyztplk Returns! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wheaties
First Line: First horse thievin'...
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Pages: 1
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The Riddle of the Reservoir!

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Horace Manton; Miggs Horgan
First Line: For Congo Bill, it's a case of no rest from the wicked...
Synopsis: Bill stumbles into a plot to cover the tracks of racketeers Manton and Horgan.
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Pages: 5.67
Disclose Notes: The story takes place in a city setting, not the jungle.
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Feature(s): The Big All-American Comic Book
First Line: All I can say is wow!
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Pages: 0.33
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Volto from Mars; Grape-Nuts Flakes
First Line: Gee, Professor, what is it?
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Grandpa Peters
Character(s): Grandpa Peters
First Line: Did you ever play baseball, Grandpa?
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The Pillager of the Parthenon!

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Genres: adventure, drama, western
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Jake Spencer; Sam Sarantaki; Jeff Guthrie; Dirty Dan
First Line: Out of the tiny nation of Greece...
Synopsis: Greek patriots smuggled out a quantity of gems, which they intend to sell to finance further activities. Reporter Jake Spencer apparently steals the gems, but he is being framed by Sam Sarantak.
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Pages: 10
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Casey the Cop
First Line: This sounds swell!
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Pages: 0.5
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Superman's Secret Message

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Feature(s): Supermen of America
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Pages: 0.5
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Escape by Night

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Second page in inside back cover.
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The Hair That Wasn't There!

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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Hayfoot Henry
Character(s): Hayfoot Henry
First Line: From the queer rhyming town of Sleepyside...
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Pages: 5
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wheaties
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Pages: 1
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Tumbling Timber!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Jack Rand; Jeff Lund; Zeb Carter
First Line: When a raging fire wipes out a forest...
Synopsis: Jack Rand contacts Zatara about mysterious happenings at his lumber camp. Zatara flies to the camp and witnesses logs which started at the head of a chute disappear before reaching the river. He starts to walk up the chute when an oncoming log forces him to jump. Trying again, he gets to a point where the rival camp of Zeb Carter can be seen, and his lake is full of logs. Zatara discovers a mechanism which lifts a portion of the chute so that the logs divert into Carter's lake, and he exposes a conspiracy between Carter and Rand's foreman Jeff Lund.
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Pages: 8
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Electric Football
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Lighter Moments with Fresh Eveready Batteries
First Line: It never fails...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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