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Issue: Action Comics #92
Publication Date: January 1946
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Issues: #92 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: 11/13/1945
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Printed in U.S.A.

On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1945, New Series, Volume 40, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 703060. On-sale date of November 16 in ad in Sensation Comics #49.
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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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Superman at Work

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
Synopsis: Superman digs a huge hole in the ground while two workmen sit by and relax.
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board Superman DC Comic Magazines

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Genres: non-fiction
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Listing of members of the Editorial Advisory Board and DC comic titles. Page includes indicia.
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D Is for Donkey

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Genres: humorous
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Promotional advertisement for comics with the DC logo.
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The Average American!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Hammerhead Haines; Homer Jordan; Virgil Chumley
Synopsis: In an attempt to boost its circulation figures The Daily Planet organizes a contest to find The Average American. Someone enters Clark's name, and by an odd string of events, he actually wins.
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Genres: humorous, sports
Feature(s): Wheaties
First Line: Get that package out of sight!
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The Bengal Woman!

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Genres: adventure, drama, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Gunka; Brooks; the Bengal Woman
First Line: The mountain fastness of northern India...
Synopsis: Bill works to prevent a gang of thieves working for an Asian woman from raiding a medical supply convoy bound for China from India.
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Superman's Secret Message

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Feature(s): Supermen of America
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How Thom McAn Blitzed the "Bullet Proof Men"

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Feature(s): Thom McAn
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Volto from Mars; Grape-Nuts Flakes
First Line: Volto and Jimmy are flying over jungle...
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The Amazing Mr. Minute!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Saunders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Mr. Minute (villain)
First Line: Fantastic clocks chime the signals for fantastic crimes...
Synopsis: Mr. Minute commits a series of crimes involving clocks, but The Vigilante and Stuff eventually make sure he gets time.
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Smoke Signal

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Slats Marbery; Pop; Mr. Bailey (a milkman)
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Disclose Notes: The Who's Who gives Alton Black as a byline for Blackman.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Big pow wow of chiefs --Sign treaty!
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Feature(s): Fleers
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The Rainbow Plot!

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Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Hayfoot Henry
Character(s): Hayfoot Henry
First Line: It happens all the time each spring...
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Pages: 5
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Nat Holman

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Feature(s): Wheaties
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Daffy & Doodle
First Line: Gosh! Look at that poor gold fish!
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Feature(s): History's Mysteries; Smith Brothers Cough Drops
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Lowdown on a High Hat!

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Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult, superhero
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Bowler (villain)
Synopsis: Bowler thinks Zatara's magic resides in his top hat and makes several attempts to steal it. He finally gives them the hat and they wish for new clothes and a new car, whereupon convict striped uniforms and a police patrol wagon ap[ear.
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Daisy Play Guns Now Ready

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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Daisy Air Rifles from the Daisy Manufacturing Company of Plymouth, Michigan.
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I Shall Show You How to Learn Radio

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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): National Radio Institute
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Advertisement for booklet and program on radio building and repair from the National Radio Institute of Washington, D.C.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Lighter Moments; Eveready Batteries
Character(s): Clancy; unnamed solider; unnamed female native
First Line: Clancy, I think you done that on purpose!
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Advertisement with Lighter Moments gag cartoon for Eveready Batteries of the National Carbon Company, Inc.

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