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Issue: Action Comics #127
Publication Date: December 1948
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Issues: #127 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: 10/13/1948
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (6 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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Truth or Consequences

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Credits
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Ralph Edwards
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In Content Item: FlagAction Comics #127 published January 1949
as Truth or Consequences [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The two faces, at least, appear to be inked by someone other than Plastino.

The cover is the same as the story's splash panel.
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Can You Solve This Puzzle?

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Feature(s): Roadmaster
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Pages: 1
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Superman Takes the Consequences!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Ralph Edwards; Lois Lane
First Line: Everyone knows that Superman is the most truthful person in the world!
Synopsis: Superman appears on the radio program Truth or Consequences. His answers are truthful, as we have come to expect, but are rendered in such a way as to be obscure. When asked if he loves Lois Lane, for example, his response is so loud than none can understand; and when asked to reveal his secret identity he writes the answer on a blackboard so fast that it melts.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: With Ralph Edwards, featuring Superman on the popular contemporary Truth or Consequences radio program.

The splash panel is also used as the cover. The faces, at least, of all characters throughout the story appear to be inked by someone other than Plastino.
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Bobby Dodd

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Feature(s): Wheaties
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Old Nick Solves the Yacht Club Mystery in the Nick of Time

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Feature(s): Old Nick
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Pages: 1
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The Man Who Laughed at Scotland Yard!

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Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Cathy Hall; "Truthful" Smith
First Line: The fabulous "Truthful" Smith was as smart a crook as ever polished his fingertips on a safe!
Synopsis: Bill pursues a diamond thief.
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In Content Item: FlagCentury Comic #76 published January 1962
as The Man Who Laughed at Scotland Yard [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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The Interplanetary Aquarium

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Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Planeteers; Col. Tommy Tomorrow; Joan Gordy
First Line: The man of the future!
Synopsis: The year is 1988. Tommy Tomorrow recently graduated from Space Port with the rank of Colonel in the Planeteers. He is instructed to visit other planets in the solar system and bring back specimens of marine life, so that the giant aquarium can be expanded to an Interplanetary Aquarium. Joan Gordy of the Planetary Radio News accompanies Col. Tomorrow and his crew.
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In Content Item: Flag3-D Batman #[nn] published January 1966
as The Interplanetary Aquarium [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: (1) The character "Tommy Tomorrow" appeared earlier in fillers prophesying the future in Real Fact Comics #6, 8, and 13, although this is a different treatment of him.
(2) The events of Real Fact Comics #16 occur between page 2 panel 2 and page 2 panel 3 of the Tommy Tomorrow story in this issue.
(3) The creature which appears on page 6 is an obvious homage to Basil Wolverton.
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Feature(s): Erector
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On the page between page 5 and page 6 of the previous story sequence.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Wilson Chem. Co.
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Feature(s): Gene Autry Sweatshirt
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Pages: 0.5
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Feature(s): Adventures of Nip & Tuck; Smith Brothers Cough Drops
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Pages: 0.5
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Magic Music!

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Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Tommy Kane; Linda; Beep Muliins
First Line: Hold on to your high notes...
Synopsis: Tommy Kane self-finances publication of a song he has written, Beep Mullins gets him to sign a contract which curtails his rights to any profits. Zatara entertains at a musician's convention, where he animates various instruments and runs into Tommy, who explains the publishing situation. Zatara causes all manner of inanimate objects - the Statue of Liberty, civic hall clocks, statues in parks - to warble Tommy's song, which become a big hit.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Lionel Trains
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Yea, Bucko!

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Feature(s): B. F. Goodrich
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Pages: 0.5
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Wild Pitch

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Pages: 1.67
Disclose Notes: Sequence added by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
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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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El Boleadoro!

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Vigilante
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff; El Boleadoro [Señor Ramirez]
First Line: Long before he reached Argentina on his world tour...
Synopsis: The Singing Troubadour Greg Sanders is on a world tour. While in Argentina he foils the criminal career of El Boleadoro
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Hopkinson Harmonica Co.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Thom McAn
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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