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Issue: Action Comics #140
Publication Date: January 1950
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Issues: #140 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/07/1949
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (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
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane
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Pages: 1
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Kodak
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Pages: 1
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Superman Becomes a Hermit!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; The Creeping Death (villainous plant)
First Line: It's no use, folks!
Synopsis: Superman tries to go somewhere and think, but the nosy busybodies from the Daily Planet won't let him.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn. Formerly credited to Bill Woolfolk.
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Feature(s): Bazooka
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Pages: 1
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Genres: humorous
First Line: C'mon, we'll call for Nelson!
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Pages: 0.5
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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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The Space Clown!

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Tim Tomorrow; Space Smuggler (villain)
First Line: We all know Colonel Tommy Tomorrow, of 1989...
Synopsis: Tommy gets drummed out of the Planeteers and takes up a career as a Space Clown.
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Pages: 8
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3 Smash Adventures

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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Superboy
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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 Texas Rangers

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Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, western
Character(s): Dan Parker; Col. John C. Hays; Samuel Colt; Captain Walker; General Taylor; General Winfield Scott; Sam Bass
First Line: It was 1835. The infant Republic of Texas sprawled under the blazing sun.
Synopsis: Incidents in the history of Texas.
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Pages: 4
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Superboy Says "Give Your Town a Present!"

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Subject Matter
Genres: opinion, superhero
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Pages: 1
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The Man Who Played Dead!

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Genres: adventure, drama, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; John Bledsoe [Edward Bledsoe]; Bad News Haley
First Line: an the strange ability to imitate death...
Synopsis: Explorer John Bledsoe concocts a scheme to defraud Congo Bill's employer, World Wide Insurance, by using a lama's trick of suspended animation and by inventing a twin brother.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Previously credited to Otto Binder. Binder's records printed in Alter Ego 147 do not include any Congo Bill stories
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Heavens Above!

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Art credits from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: So you let Mervyn date you, Gloria?
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Pages: 0.75
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Feature(s): Nestlé's Crunch
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Pages: 0.25
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The Seven Wonders of the West!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Ferd Russell; Debby Girtmon; her father
First Line: For days, taking time off for food and water and a little sleep...
Synopsis: Ferd Russell wants to marry Debby but her father has set impossible tasks he must complete before he will give his permission.
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Pages: 10
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Feature(s): Wilson Chemical Co.
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): National Radio Institute
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Daisy B-B Guns
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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