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Issue: Action Comics #136
Publication Date: September 1949
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Issues: #136 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: 07/13/1949
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Kodak
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Superman, Show-Off!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; the Mayor of Metropolis
First Line: Be sure to get a good picture of me!
Synopsis: When Metropolis is threatened by a giant meteor, Superman must make preparations without inciting a panic. To do so, he disguises his actions as motivated by a desire for publicity.
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Pages: 12
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Stan Musial

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Feature(s): Wheaties
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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: 0.5
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Feature(s): Pow Wow Smith; Detective Comics
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Pages: 0.5
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The Seven Wonders of Space!

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Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Lon Brett
First Line: Earth's history records that in ancient times...
Synopsis: Tommy is dishonorably discharged from the Planeteers when he has no explanation why his ship was destroyed. In company with reporter Lon Brett he sets off to chronicle the seven wonders of space. The seventh is elusive until Brett says they should describe it as an invisible planet. This provides Tommy with the reason his ship was destroyed and he is reinstated.
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Feature(s): Kellogg's Variety
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The Highwayman's Castle!

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Genres: jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Pistol Jack; Bad News Haley; Burton; Lady Wendover; Johnny Edwards; Lord Briarly
Synopsis: Bill exposes a false haunting of a castle.
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Pages: 6
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Hey, you - stop! What's the big rush?
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In Content Item: FlagAction Comics #278 published July 1961
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Pages: 0.67
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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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The Big-House Break!

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Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "Jack" Zatara]; the Prison Warden; Keeley (head guard); Bull Terill (convict), Ernie the Elephant (convict); Spider (convict)
First Line: Even Zatara, master magician, sometimes goes to jail...
Synopsis: Zatara is due to give a magic show in a prison, and foils a breakout by transforming some of the prisoners into animals.
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Feature(s): Bazooka
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Smokey, the Fire-Preventing Bear Comes to the Rescue of Peter Porkchops

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Genres: anthropomorphic, opinion
Character(s): Peter Porkchops; Wolfie
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Photographer of the West

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
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Pages: 2
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The Spur, the Handcuffs and the Branding Iron!

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Vigilante
Character(s): Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff; Jubal March; Hank March; Red March
First Line: Into the little town of Cottonwood Gulch come three men...
Synopsis: The Vigilante and Snuff show three brothers the error of their greedy ways.
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Pages: 8
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Romantic As an Arizona Sunset

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Feature(s): Romance Trail
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Follow the Danger Trail with Tomahawk

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Feature(s): Tomahawk; Star Spangled Comics
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Schwinn
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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