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Issue: Action Comics #104
Publication Date: January 1947
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Issues: #104 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: 11/18/1946
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (6 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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Candytown, U.S.A.

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; the Prankster
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Feature(s): Kodak
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Candytown, U.S.A.

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Prankster; Superman [Clark Kent]; Daniel R. Sweetooth; Lois Lane
First Line: Creator of incredibly whacky crime plots...
Synopsis: The Prankster suggests to Sweetooth that he build a town made of candy and call it Candytown, but has plans to use bad candy to build it. He will then build a rival town made of good candy and call it Goodytown. On the opening day, Superman destroys Candytown, gathers up the bad ingredients and reboils them adding sugar. On catching up with The Prankster it is revealed that he himself was duped by one Wolfingham. Superman then returns him to jail, where he rejects and despises all candy.
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Disclose Notes: The Wolfingham who gyped The Prankster out of $5,000, though unseen in this story, is no doubt Superman's old foe J. Wilbur Wolfingham, who first appeared in Superman #26 (February 1944).
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Clark Shaughnessy

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Feature(s): Wheaties
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The Cross-Word Puzzle Quest!

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Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Hayfoot Henry
Character(s): Hayfoot Henry
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Feature(s): Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum
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Scallions for Scoundrels!

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Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Professor Cole
First Line: Ever hear of crooks trying to kill a man in order to steal a pair of onions?
Synopsis: Thieves steal a horticulturalist's valuable bulbs.
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Superman's Secret Message

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Feature(s): Supermen of America
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Feature(s): Lionel Trains
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Editorial Advisory Board

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O Is for Opposum

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Crossed Trails

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Marshal Vigilante

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Burley the banker; Jesse James (crook)
First Line: How would The Vigilante...
Synopsis: Greg and Stuff fall asleep in a diner and dream that they are back in the lawless West of the 1870s, where they foil counterfeiters, rustlers and crooked bankers.
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Feature(s): General Mills, Inc.
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The Perilous Penny Banks!

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Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Heister Hess (crook)
First Line: Ever hear the saying that a bad penny is sure to turn up?
Synopsis: Years earlier, Heister Hess had buried the proceeds of a robbery under a piece of waste ground. After serving his prison sentence he goes to retrieve it, only to find that an estate of houses has been built over it. He hits upon a plan to sell a penny bank to the young man who lives in one of them. The penny bank explodes, setting fire to the house. Fortunately Zatara is passing and magically extinguishes the flames. A short time later another penny bank explodes, setting fire to another one of the houses. Zatara again saves the day and then traces the cause of the fires back to the robber.
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Circus Candy Factory
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How Thom McAn Stopped the Forest Fire

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Thom McAn
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Red Ryder's Safety Message to Daisy Air Rifle Owners

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Feature(s): Daisy Manufacturing Company
Character(s): Red Ryder; Little Beaver; Willie
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How to Outbluff a Vicious Dog at Night!

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Feature(s): Eveready
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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