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Issue: Action Comics #95
Publication Date: April 1946
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Issues: #95 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/12/1946
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 20 (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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The Laughing-Stock of Metropolis

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; The Prankster
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Editorial Advisory Board

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G Is for Gazelle

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The Laughing Stock of Metropolis!

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Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; also as Professor Hi Laryus]; Lois Lane; The Prankster (villain); Mayor Caldwell; Jimmy Olsen
First Line: What can make even a strong man quake with fear?
Synopsis: The Prankster sets out to make Superman the laughing stock of Metropolis. His antics include throwing custard pies in Superman's face and drawing a mustache on an official portrait. Superman retires from fighting crime and crooks run rampant. In disguise, Clark challenges The Prankster to the title of funniest man alive, during which he confesses to having been the cause of Superman losing face.
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First Line: I just called to tell you you're all out of Wheaties, Mother...
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The Legal Eagle!

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Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Hayfoot Henry
Character(s): Hayfoot Henry
First Line: A crime quickly solved by Henry the cop...
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Feature(s): Volto from Mars; Grape-Nuts Flakes
First Line: His strange magnetic powers save him from being torn to bits...
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The Burgling Bookman!

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Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Brainsworth (crook); Wilbert Walliston
First Line: "Reading maketh a full man"...
Synopsis: The Vigilante and Stuff foil the schemes of a book collector who rigs up his volumes with tricks. In one, for example, he affixes $100 bills to the pages, in another he hollows out the insides and places gas in the cavity.
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First Line: I'll take her if she can sing...
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New Fangled Hoosegow

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Upstream River Rats!

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Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Hollis; Leffridge; Dutch; Blackie
First Line: In the dank, danger-teeming Amazon headwaters...
Synopsis: Bill exposes a pair of treasure hunters trying to keep visitors away from their gold stream.
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Superman's Secret Message

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Byron Nelson

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First Line: Could I have a nice, big piece of pie, Mommy?
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Spotlight for Cinderella!

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Genres: adventure, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Julie Hunter; Jack Stone
First Line: You all know Grimm's old, old tale of the three wicked sisters and the poor but pretty Cinderella.
Synopsis: Alighting from a train in Hollywood, Zatara overhears a girl and her three step-sisters discussing a role in the movies. He visits his old friend Jack Stone, now a producer, and suggests a version of Cinderella using all four women.
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Feature(s): Illinois Merchandise Mart
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Cool Under Fire!

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Feature(s): Adventures of "R. C." and Quickie; Royal Crown Cola
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