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Issue: Action Comics #137
Publication Date: October 1949
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Issues: #137 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: 08/10/1949
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 23 (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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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane
First Line: Hold on, Superman! This looks like a job for Lois Lane!
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Feature(s): World's Finest Comics; Wonder Woman; Comic Cavalcade
First Line: Want action?
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Pages: 0.67
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The Man with the Charmed Life!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Percival Winters; "Flint" Martin (villain)
First Line: The colossal powers of Superman...
Synopsis: Superman saves the life of Percival Winters, a star witness against a mobster, on one hundred occasions. Winters is annoyed, as he believes a ring he wears bestows complete protection against danger. Superman proves it to be a fraud, but not before it passes to Lois Lane, who puts herself in reckless danger and has to be saved by Superman.
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Lou Boudreau

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Feature(s): Wheaties
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The Case of the 50 Year Old Clue

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream-Oil
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Tommy Tomorrow's Trip to Today!

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Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Colonel Tommy Tomorrow
First Line: Would you like to meet Colonel Tommy Tomorrow...
Synopsis: Tommy tests a recently invented time machine, which takes him forty years into the past of 1949, but no one believes he is from the future.
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Rescue from the Ravine

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Ray-o-Vac
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Genres: humorous
First Line: If a man has twenty-four apples...
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Feature(s): Superman Socks
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The Banquet of Sun Liu!

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Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Harivs Chapley; Sun Liu
First Line: Because the World-Wide Insurance Company insures the bones of a man dead half a million years...
Synopsis: Bill helps an anthropologist get a set of caveman bones out of China, despite interference from Japanese thugs left in China after the war.
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Mountain Rescue

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Bazooka the Atom Bubble Boy
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Superman's Secret Message

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Okay, you win -- We'll go to the costume ball as tramps!
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Movie Stars Are -- Human

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Genres: non-fiction
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Hmm -- I'll show them!
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Feature(s): Shoot-a-Top
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Follow the Danger Trail with Tomahawk

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Feature(s): Tomahawk; Star Spangled Comics
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The Headless Horseman Rides Again!

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Vigilante
Character(s): Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff; Dudley Farnay
First Line: Who doesn't recall Washington Irving's thrilling classic...
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Buzzy Says Stay in School - Give Yourself a Break!

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Genres: humorous, opinion, teen
Feature(s): Buzzy
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Feature(s): Rubber-for-Molds, Inc.
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Hollywood's Top Adventure Star!

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Feature(s): The Adventures of Alan Ladd
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Rope 'Em Both, Partner!

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Feature(s): Daisy B-B Guns
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