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Issue: Action Comics #113
Publication Date: October 1947
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Issues: #113 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: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/13/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 19 (7 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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Just an Ordinary Guy

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

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X Is for Unknown

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Just an Ordinary Guy!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Voinan (villain); Magnus Tubb (hair tonic manufacturer); Alexander Kraymore (bookkeeper); Mamie; John Paul Smith (pitchman); Henry
First Line: Perhaps you ,too, have at times wanted to be like Superman...
Synopsis: While others dream of having Superman's powers, Superman hypnotizes himself into believing he has no powers so that he can experience life as an ordinary man.
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Harry Brecheen

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Genres: sports
Character(s): Harry Brecheen
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The Man Who Was Always Late!

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Genres: adventure, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Charles Guppy; Percival Link (villain); Shifty (villain)
First Line: Charles Guppy is always late!
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Tops!

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Animal Antics; Leading Comics
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Skulduggery in the Subway!

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Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; unnamed blind protagonist; Butch (crook)
Synopsis: Bill and a blind man pursue thieves through the subway and urban streets.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Willy
Character(s): Willy
First Line: Oh, boy! What a dandy!
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Superman's Secret Message

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Feature(s): Supermen of America
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The Too-Fragrant Vagrant!

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Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Hayfoot Henry
Character(s): Hayfoot Henry
First Line: Hark to a ditty...
Synopsis: Hayfoot Henry encounters a man who once fell into a vat of perfume and who still carries around the odor. Caught trying to steal Ambergris, Henry places him in a jail cell, saying he will eventually lose the smell there.
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An Old Friend

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Gold Rush -- 1947!

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Dan Jeffers; Tote Todd
First Line: Old Tote Todd's greatest wish was to live...
Synopsis: Old prospector Tote Todd wants to relive his youth in a rip-roaring gold-rush town. With Tote only having a month to live, his old partner suggests to a group of friends (including Greg Sanders) a re-enactment of those old days in an old Western town, to give Tote a contented ending. All goes according to plan until a gang of crooks decide there is gold to be stolen and start shooting up the town. Tote, Stuff and The Vigilante pursue them to the gold mine and they are stopped. Tote succumbs to a heart attack never knowing about his terminal illness, and is buried on Boot Hill.
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The Case of the Box Car Bandit

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Feature(s): Plastic Crafters
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Genres: teen
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