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Issue: Action Comics #118
Publication Date: March 1948
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Issues: #118 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: 01/14/1948
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (7 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
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; two young boys
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In Content Item: FlagAction Comics #118 published March 1948
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Execution of Clark Kent!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Jerry Siegel]
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Elmo Botts; Slugger Maull (death); Big Al Strumm; Casey (police officer); Dr. Lagg
First Line: It's unthinkable, it's incredible - but it's true"
Synopsis: Clark Kent is arrested for murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair. But Clark's death is part of an elaborate ruse for Superman to help Lois get evidence against mobster Big Al Strumm.
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Pages: 12
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Daffy; Doodle
First Line: ...These new shoes look swell!
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Pages: 0.5
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Danny's Dream

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A Modern Noah's Ark!

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Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Janette Waleman; Noah Waleman; Allen Frisk
First Line: When a party of amateur hunters...
Synopsis: Bill exposes a real estate speculator's efforts to get control of zoo property.
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Pages: 5.67
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Superman's Secret Message

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Supermen of America
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Pages: 0.33
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Editorial Advisory Board

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The Light That Did Not Fail

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Bright Star Flashlight Battery
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Hermit for a Day!

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanno "John" Zatara]; Bill Towers
First Line: Do you ever get tired of your daily routine...
Synopsis: Zatara gives Bill Towers a taste of life without other people, when he deposits him on a remote tiny island.
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In Content Item: FlagClimax Color Comic #12 published January 1948
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Pages: 7
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Double Exposure

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Genres: crime
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Pages: 1
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An Oscar for Henry

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Hayfoot Henry
Character(s): Hayfoot Henry
First Line: In Sleepyside there was a fish...
Synopsis: Oscar the fish, an attraction in the window of a department store, is stolen. Henry eventually finds it hidden at a fishmongers.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The text is in rhyming couplets.

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement from the Wilson Chemical Company.
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The Blue-Ribbon Bandits!

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Hugh Lansdale; Doc Daley (crook)
First Line: "This little pig went to market..."
Synopsis: Stuff claims the runt of a pig litter before it is destroyed, and raises it to become a prizewinner at the county fair.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: There may be another penciler in addition to Roussos.
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Genres: western
Feature(s): Western Comics
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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American Boys Bill of Rights

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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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