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Issue: Action Comics #117
Publication Date: February 1948
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Issues: #117 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/15/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 22 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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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Assets1
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A Superman Christmas Adventure

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Santa Claus
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In Content Item: FlagAction Comics #[117] published February 1948
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Comiquiz

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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Christmastown, U.S.A.!

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Mr. Osborne (first name unknown); Danny Osborne; Santa Claus (as costume only)
First Line: This is a story that really began on a Christmas Day over a hundred years ago...
Synopsis: Christmastown is flooded, but Superman helps turn the disaster into Central Valley's most amazing Christmas ever.
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In Content Item: FlagLimited Collectors' Edition #C-34 published February 1975
as Christmastown, U. S. A.! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
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"Chick" Davies

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Genres: sports
Character(s): Chick Davies
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[untitled]

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Genres: crime
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Pages: 1
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Birds Out of Hand!

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Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Betty Lane; Betty's mother
First Line: You've been told to be kind to our feathered friends...
Synopsis: Betty Lane takes in every bird she can, much to her mother's dismay. Zatara gives a show at Betty's school, and she asks him to speak to her mother. When they get to the Lane house all the birds have gone. Zatara takes Betty and her mother flying to demonstrate the positive effect that birds can have.
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[untitled]

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Little Ozzie
Character(s): Little Ozzie; Willie
First Line: Hi, Willie! Watcha got?
Synopsis: Ozzie meets his friend, who has a bag of peanuts, and suggests they play zoo. Ozzie will be the elephant and Willie the boy who feeds him peanuts.
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Roller Skate Facts

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Christmas in the Congo!

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Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Jimmy
First Line: Africa - you know it as a land of dark jungle and dazzling sunlight...
Synopsis: Bill creates a "real" Christmas for Jimmy, the son of a medical missionary stationed in the Congo.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Daffy & Doodle
First Line: You take the hammer, Daffy...
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Mickey Marvel

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A Singular Swap!

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Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Hayfoot Henry
Character(s): Hayfoot Henry; Rockport McGill
First Line: A mysterious event a difficult rhyme...
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Wait till I see Shorty...
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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The Eagle Screams "Thief!"

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A Lesson for the Teacher!

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid
First Line: Do you know the difference between a waddy and a bushwacker?
Synopsis: The Vigilante and Stuff rescue a young female teacher from the East when she is captured by the gang of the man whose trial she is due to give evidence at.
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[untitled]

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Genres: western
Feature(s): Western Comics
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Here, Mrs. Wiggins, let me give you a hand!
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Superman's Secret Message

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Feature(s): Supermen of America
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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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