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Issue: Action Comics #119
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Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 02/16/1948
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (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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Cover, Front
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Superman for a Day

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Superman
Superman
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FlagAction Comics #119 published May 1948
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Inks, formerly credited to Mortimer, look to be by regular Superman inker Stan Kaye.
Editorial Advisory Board

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Inside front cover.
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Want action???
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Inside front cover.
Superman for a Day!

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superhero
Superman
Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; The Helicopter Bandits (villains); Jim Banning (also spelled Blanning); Martin Grew
Believing that Superman is away on a mission, Lois has a plan to capture the Helicopter Bandits which involves having Clark impersonate Superman.
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FlagSuperman Super Library #32 published January 1967
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This is the first issue with no by-line credit to Siegel and Shuster. One of the rare issues in which Clark Kent actually changes to Superman in a phone booth.
Leo Johnson

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Wheaties
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Death on the Speedway

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adventure
Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream-Oil
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Treasure Trove!

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jungle
Congo Bill
Congo Bill; Count Narski (villain); Greg Whitney; Otto
Bill and his friend Greg are lured off course during a crossing of the Atlantic by marooned Nazi agents.
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The script for this story is credited as possibly "Writer S" by Martin O'Hearn.
Superman's Secret Message

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Supermen of America
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Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear with Invisible Light

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Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll
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Concert for Crime!

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occult
Zatara
Zatara; P. Piper; the Mayor of Oak City (villain)
P. Piper, who relaxes by playing his flute, cleaned out a bunch of crooks in Hicksville and has come to Oak City to repeat the process. This he achieves by luring crooks to steal his flaunted money, then gassing them. When he tries to collect the rewards he is cheated by the town politicians. He has a chance encounter with Zatara, who causes the flute to magically transform crooks into human sized rats. The incoming mayor then gives Piper his just reward.
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[untitled]

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Kellogg's Pep
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Mystery on the Mountain

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Ray-o-Vac
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[untitled]

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humorous
Cabbie Casey
Cabbie Casey; Moiph
Here I am back, Moiph...
Moiph sells Casey a cab with no rivets, each part being welded together to another. While driving his first fare of the day the car literally falls to pieces.
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Cooking with Gas

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crime
Unnamed escaped convict; Mrs. Garrick
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Sequence added by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
[untitled]

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Gang Busters
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The Birthday That Backfired!

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superhero
Vigilante
The Vigilante [Greg Saunders]; Stuff; The Rainbow Man (villain); Pop Gunn
The Vigilante rescues Stuff from the clutches of The Rainbow Man, and the delayed party for Stuff's birthday finally gets underway.
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The cruder inking style confirms the hand of Roussos.
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Western Comics
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[untitled]

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humorous
Say, Dad let me do it!
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[untitled]

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Johnson Smith & Company
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[untitled]

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Leave It to Binky
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Inside back cover.
[untitled]

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Daisy Air Rifles
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Back cover.

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